Lucas J. Hatzisavas has several different aliases but as Reptant (@reptant_the_lizard) since 2017, he has really excelled. The Melbourne-based reptilian has spread his electro sounds far and wide on always classy labels from Kalahari Oyster Cult to Trust to Craigie Knowes. His acid-laced machine sounds are often jammed out live before being edited into tracks. They are imaginative, bristle with energy and feed into an alien lizard narrative he's built around the project, not least with his debut album Return To Planet X'trapolis.

This week we're invited to peer through a window into that otherworldly universe with 60+ minutes of kinetic rhythms and cinematic sound designs. All shades of electro come up from sleazy and ghetto to sci-fi and smooth. Plenty of acid lines weave their way throughout as Reptant slithers from dark corners of the cosmos to strobe-lit dance floors amongst the stars.

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Dekmantel Podcast 423 - Reptant

No one like Hessle Audio's grandmaster could have better welcomed sound scouters on a 24-hour (mind)trip to the island of Spandau. Listen back to this testament of impeccable UK mastery, an impeccable selection of bass mentalism, groovy perreo and tribalism ✨ It's dance, it's jungle, it's drops of spiritual crystals: it's Ben UFO.

Ben UFO - Climate Of Fear - April '22

Next up in our mix series, we revisit  DJ Stingray 313's set from Saturday night at the cabin, an absolutely searing mix of electro, techno and contemporary bass music that had people exclaiming that their brains had been thoroughly melted in the best of ways.

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DJ Stingray 313 Live at Bass Coast 2024

Three sizzling hours from the mind behind one of the world's best labels, Kalahari Oyster Cult.

What you'll hear on this week's RA Podcast is the closing slot of 2024's Organik Festival—already a coveted moment. But as the sun dipped on Taiwan's north coast, something else was going on: Rey Colino was laying down quite possibly the set of his life.

We're big fans of Colino, AKA Colin Volvert, here at RA. Few do it better when it comes to the type of pacy, lysergic thumpers that have become synonymous with both Kalahari and the distro One Eye Witness. A quick glance over the Belgian label's impressive alumni confirms how deeply his work flows through contemporary clubs.

On RA.954, Volvert's sharp ear and swaggering DJ style are on full display. He locks in with many shades of his record bag, alongside a grip of new and forthcoming KOC cuts—some so fresh, the ink on the deal is barely even dry. We could go into the particulars, but it's best to just get stuck in: this one's a deep, deliriously effective trip.

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RA.954 Rey Colino

Recording of Detroit In Effect's set at Dekmantel Ten

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Detroit In Effect (live) at Dekmantel Ten

Live Recording by @byronyeates from La Noche (Berlin, 22 Feb 2025 at OHM)

BYRON YEATES Live at La Noche

My Show is a Love Letter to NYC and my Community here which was my home for over a decade.

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BASHKKA @ The Lot Radio 05-22-2025

132 BPM Breakbeat Electronica on the Dark and Mysterious tip, "CliffHanger" Available on Bandcamp @ https://undergrounddancemusic.bandcamp.com/album/cliffhanger

CliffHanger

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Live recording @ Maida Vale Studios for Benji B
Broadcast  on BBC Radio 1  05/05/2016

Paranoid London forthcoming album due for release in October 2017

BBC Radio 1 live session @ Maida Vale Studios 2016

Recorded Live on April 30th 2018 in Berlin.
Broadcast on BBC Radio 1 on June 9th 2018.

Tracklist

Intro
Maurizio - Domina (Carl Craig's Mind Mix) [M - 3]
Skatebård - Stalheim-Mix [Digitalo Enterprise]
The Plan - Red Shift [Submerge]
 Project Future - Ray-Gun-Omics [Capitol]
Dexter - Echo Park [Klakson]
Stingray313 - Armchair Psychiatrist [Naked Lunch]
Monika Ross - Ever After [Entity London]
Octave One - Empower [430 West]
Marcel Dettmann - Quicksand [Ostgut Ton]
Get Fucked - Dark & Dirty (Matthew B. Remix) [Eukahouse]
Yak - Zephyr [Le Chatroom]
Artist Formerly Known As P. P. - Ruffneck Chicken [White]
A.W.E.S.O.M.-O. - Excellence Of Execution [Zyntax Motorcity]
Pangaea - Cuba Vox [Unreleased]
Syclops - Spin Cycle [BubbleTease Communications]
Pure Science - The Art Of Being [B+Positive]
EGZR - Untitled [Wania]
W.V. - Nachschub (B) [Auftrieb]
Donato Dozzy - Cleo [Eerie]
Shackleton - Blood On My Hands [Skull Disco]
Optic Nerve - G-Man's Journey (Mystic Mix) [Puzzlebox]
The Experience - Tubes [Mystic]
Barker - Filter Bubbles [Ostgut Ton]
Chino Amobi - Law II [NON]
Bitstream - Step Retracing [Touchin Bass]
Call Super & Michael Smith - SE X Mi Cyaan Believe It
Embaci - Walk On May 5th [Discwoman]
Dianne Lynn - Forever My Sunset (MAN-D.A. Dub) [Flying]
Powder - Spray [Born Free]
Chez Damier - Help Myself [KMS]
SMX - Sleep [Whities Blue]
Terre Thaemlitz - Admit It's Killing You (DJ Sprinkles' Dead End) [Comatonse]
Maurizio - Domina (Carl Craig's Mind Mix) [M - 3]

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