What a serious pleasure it is to welcome Aurora Halal and DJ G! Without doubt two of the classiest operators in the NYC dance scene, Aurora and Gareth are some of the people behind parties like Mutual Dreaming, Sustain-Release and Nowadays, and are two of our favourite DJs in the biz. 

Joining us for their first mix together since the height of the 2020 lockdowns, where their combined palates seemed to gel effortlessly across the downtempo and d'n'b spectrum for the wonderful Juanita's series, their follow up offering remains cosmic at its core, but with dance floors back in full swing we're hit with a high octane amalgamation of souped-up alien techno, mysterious atmospheres and wonky futuristic breaks, ever progressing with blends of the surgical variety. Strap yourself in, this one's a mind trip!  

Click here for our chat with Aurora and G: melbournedeepcast.net/portfolio/aurora-halal-&-dj-g/

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MDC.273 Aurora Halal & DJ G

Lychee (@lycheefrut) & I had a lovely time joining May's Nowadays Nonstop with an extended back-to-back, and I'm glad we're able to revisit the moment.

We wanted this set to be as fun as possible while distinctly ourselves, and I love that you can hear a bit of both of us in the recording, dancing side-by-side in one of our favorite venues and building steadily toward a euphoria of our own.

Recorded live at Nowadays (@nowadaysnyc), 28 May 2022, 10PM - 2AM. With much love & thanks to the Nowadays staff and all the dancers. Illustration by Sofia Hjortberg.

Lychee & Aaron J - Live at Nowadays, May '22

As we edge nearer to our 100th mix, we seek to Berlin for textural techno melodies from dutch producer and DJ Konduku aka Ruben Üvez. Having graced some of our favorite labels like Donato Dozzy's Spazio Disponibile, Nous'Klaer, Delsin, Midgar and more, Üvez has become a maestro in layering UK techno stylings with a European flavour, finding that perfect balance between space and drums. 
His wisdom in also finding tracks of this style have become an integral part of his DJ sets being incorporated beautifully to the point of losing yourself even in the more relentless parts. A journey to say the least that very few can put you on, displaying Üvez's approach that could be comparable to that of modern greats like Batu and Donato Dozzy. And that is what Konduku has done here on Phonica 99. Recorded live from a Midgar party in Berlin recently that transports you to that time and moment so alluringly, we have a chat to Üvez more about the concept and where his head was at during this set.

Phonica Mix Series 99: Konduku

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Here is Batu’s set from Tresor 313, the opening night of Return to the Source on Saturday May 28, 2022. This year was a legendary year in every way, so we celebrate the relaunch of our podcast series with this equally epic set from Batu, closing the main room directly after Underground Resistance’s world debut of their Wavejumpers project.

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IT.podcast.s11e17: Batu at Tresor 313

My daytime set at The Great Beyond festival in Minnesota. Recorded July 31, 2022.

Ctrled - Original Mix - Jun Yamabe
Arrival (Original Mix) - Trench
Dropping Faces (Original Mix) - Vernon Felicity
Action (DJ Tools Vol. 2) - Random Access
Taxi in L.A. (Original Mix) - Thomas Liewood
Boxcutter (Original Mix) - Rennie Foster
Is It On My Face - Green Velvet
Rat Race (Original Mix) - Cozmic Spore
Vibration (Original Mix) - Blenk
Ginster 2000 (Original Mix) - Strobe
Critical Flow (Danny Wabbit Remix) - DJ Prim
Whacked - Ibi
Invisible Guest - Chontane
Song And Dance Part 2 - Organ Grinda
Low Force - Mark Williams
The Vibe (Original Mix) - DJ Bone
Guns Of The Stone (Hans Bouffmyhre Remix) - MAL_HOMBRE
Sometimes I Feel Like feat. Ron Trent (Original Mix) - Chez Damier
To Not Exist (Original Mix) - Setaoc Mass
Ladies Night (Blimp Remix) - Digital Primate
Invasion (Original Mix) - Trunkline
Forbidden City (Original Mix) - Jeremy P Caulfield
Sharp (Original Mix) - Arnaud Le Texier
326 purple edit
Gravity (Original Mix) - Emiliano Cassano
Prefix (Original Mix) - Ben Klock, Fadi Mohem
Seduction - Punisher
This Is A Track (Inland Edit) - Purveyors Of Fine Funk
Resist - Front Line Assembly
Snub - BROKEN ENGLISH CLUB - DEATH & LEISURE
Televised (Original Mix) - Cleric, KMYLE
8am In Salford (Original Mix) - AEIT
Friction (Original Mix) - Marc Faenger
Ejected (Original Mix) - Dustin Zahn
Demanding (Don Williams Mix 1) - Mark Broom

@ The Great Beyond 2022

Erika has always explored the eerier corners of her native Detroit. She captures the empty space and late-night mood of the city in music that is deep and dark. For many years she has been a key behind-the-scenes figure who runs the well-regarded Interdimensional Transmissions label and has hosted plenty of her own parties. Her productions - either solo or with Brendan M. Gillen as Ectomorph - are rooted in techno and electro but explore everything from hard-edged grooves to spaced-out soundscapes. Erika also runs an educational platform for workshops, masterclasses and courses that help bring on the next generation. 

This week's mix draws on all that experience across 75 blistering minutes. It's electro from the off with haunting spaces, booming bass and elastic rhythms setting the scene for what becomes a storied selection. There are gritty and grimy warehouse sounds as well as slippery sci-fi workouts and plenty in between, all threaded together with the control of DJ who knows exactly where she wants to take you.

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Dekmantel Podcast 407 - Erika

Further information and tracklist: https://bleep.com/features/bleep-mix-249--full-efx

“It's super sludgy psychedelic, ruff & raw in some parts broken and moving around 118 -120 bpm max. This is the anti peak time mix” - Anthony Parasole (@the-corner_brooklyn)

Bleep Mix #249 - FULL EFX

As part of RA2122, our ongoing celebration of 21 years of club culture, we'll be featuring some of our favourite DJs from around the world, highlighting the parties or clubs most important to their lives in dance music. 

The first time we featured DJ Nobu on the RA Podcast, over ten years ago, we called him "one of Japan's best DJs." In hindsight, i think we can all agree that the country qualifier is no longer necessary: he's one of the world's best DJs, bar none. An absolute master at curating and mixing techno, Nobu has helped to inspire a Japanese school of techno that is psychedelic, hypnotic and often very pretty, without losing the genre's oomph or edge. And he's more popular than ever around the world, playing some of the best parties and clubs in pretty much any country or city you could name.

But DJ Nobu's roots and heart are close to home. Frustrated with techno in the Japanese capitol, he created his own party in his neighbouring hometown, Chiba, where nightlife was less pretentious and the vibe was a little looser. Future Terror quickly became known as one of Japan's premiere techno parties, and paved the way not only for Nobu himself, but many other Japanese DJs who Nobu and his later partner Haruka gave the chance to shine. The party also recently celebrated its landmark 20th anniversary with its first-ever party in London.

This mix is a direct tribute and encapsulation of Future Terror, what Nobu calls a "condensed story" of the series focusing on the more outré elements at the fore—an "awareness of techno" with plenty of more leftfield tracks thrown in. What follows might be a little gentler than you'd expect from Nobu, but it's all top-tier techno mixed with an expert hand.

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RA.855 DJ Nobu

XDB is Kosta Athanassiadis – German by birth and in residence, with Greek parentage. He started djing in the early 90s and still plays vinyl only. Over the years his music was released on labels like Dolly, Harbour City Sorrow and Sistrum. In 2006 he started the record label Metrolux. There’s a refreshing lack of gimmickry to his approach – keeping it low-key allows him to be judged solely on the basis of talent. Enjoy!

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Donato Dozzy played an immaculate, mind-bending two hours of ambient, hip-hop, acid, techno, drum & bass and lots more at our Alternate Cuts party in Manchester with Absolut and Meat Free.

Alternate Cuts: Donato Dozzy (No Boundaries Set)

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