Is that Parsons on the extremely complex piano part?

This week's podcast is a beguiling tale of electro, told by Italian-born, London-based producer and DJ Mariiin. Now a household name in the capital, both solo and playing along frequent DJ partner Bobby, Marinella's sophisticated take on dance music always hits the spot.

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Matthew Dexter - Live at Butik Festival 2025

Moving to London from his native Trieste and then later to Germany in 2016, Matthias has been an instrumental player in Berlin’s nightlife for the past decade as the head of Superluminal. The label and long-running party series is a lab for minimal techno, a breeding ground for new ideas where he’ll famously play a primary synthesis of his own productions and white whale records. These releases and sets are marked by a cross-pollination of house, techno and electro; heaving frequencies that roll along at steady clip. In April of this year (and coinciding with Superluminal’s 9th birthday) he also released his debut album The Edge of Night, a nine-track opus that spans the realms of experimental and more dancefloor-configured terrain, a further exploration of the tonal landscapes he’s been treading since his early days as budding musician: profound, unvacilating techno that binds together disparate sounds in new and elegant form.  Bassiani Podcast 288 brings forth Matthias’ self-reflective strain of sound once more for a 71-minute studio mix: tribal, psychedelic rhythms from liminal lands, Matthias’ rattling percussions and heady sonics at the top of their game.

@matthias-superluminal

Bassiani invites Matthias / Podcast #288

The London-via-Bilbao DJ marks 15 years of Cartulis with two hours of punchy techno and electro, recorded live at FOLD.

When you think of London label and party Cartulis, dark, muscular electro and tough tech house spring to mind. But the name is more revealing than it first appears: in founder Unai Trotti's native Bilbao dialect, cartulis translates to "nerd." Like any labour of love, the project is driven by a deep, obsessive dedication, centred around sound, mood and community. 

Recorded at Cartulis' 15th anniversary party this autumn, RA.1017 captures why Trotti is such a compelling DJ. Playing only vinyl, he has a deft ability to balance functional club pressure with more leftfield selections, and as he outlines in his Q&A below, it comes from a belief in creative limitation, committing to a finite set of records and trusting instinct over abundance. 

Across the two hours, there are plenty of big, physical tracks built for the dance floor, but also some genuinely strange, confrontational stretches. Around the 15-minute mark, church bells ring out as a gothic female vocal looms overhead—David Lynch, if he needed an electro soundtrack. It's the kind of material you only hear at parties where dancers feel truly at ease, unafraid of the weird. That's Cartulis.

@unai-trotti
@cartulisday 
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RA.1017 Unai Trotti

O.BEE - Live From Dimensions 25'

first 2hs Jane , after 2hs Miki , final part around 3hs B2B

Jane Fitz • Miki _Pickle Factory_ London_19.10.2019

Jane Fitz b2b Paquita Gordon - Live at Butik Festival 2025

Francesco Farfa  - Live at Butik Festival 2025

Miki the Dolphin @dj-miki live dj set recorded from K70A's M.A.D. Bali August 2024

Miki - [ K70A - BALI - 2024 ]

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From the bright overcast diversity of San Francisco's Mission district comes Grand Lodge, a band steeped in the local quirky psychedelic underground roots of the Bay Area, yet with a unique and mysterious sound all it's own. After spending a few years finding their sound, while playing local legendary S.F. clubs like Hotel Utah, Red Devil Lounge, Make-Out Room, and Cafe Du Nord, Grand Lodge recorded their debut E.P., which is the culmination of the first exciting phase of this promising new indie rock band.

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