Wata Igarashi (Drone)

東京出身、DJ・プロデューサー、DRONE主宰。
ディープテクノサウンドをベースに、アンダーグラウンドエレクトロニックミュージックの最深部を探求する。
ロンドン、マドリッドで過ごした幼少期やギターリストとしての活動を経て、彼の創りだす深いサウンドスケープの核心には、情動を揺さぶる波動が潜在する。
これまで、Gynoid Audio、 Sienna Obscureなどから作品を発表。最新作はMariana Waxより今年6月にTr_nch、Mike Parkerとのスプリット12"としてリリースされた"Valve"。

-Track List 

1. Excerpts From: Digah's Stomp/Lenox Avenue Blues/Stompin' The Bug/Messin' Around With The Blues (Edit) / David Lynch & Alan R. Splet
2. Water World / Jurgen Muller
3. Pale Skin / Covered In Sand
4, Dipper / Jan Janelik
5. City Nightlights / Relapxych.0
6. Phytoplankton (Rossella Remix) / Electric indigo & Irradiation
7. Rytumtraks 0020.2 / Albert Van Abbe
8. Astra / Etapp Kyle
9. Quasi-calligraphic 09 / Eduardo De La Calle
10. Untiled / Wata Igarashi (unreleased)
11. 531 KHz (Kab & Minilogue Mix) / Voices From The Lake
12. Repetition / Sttaffan Linzatti
13. Passage17.3 / Reeko
14. Russian Gold & Blood Diamonds / Covered In Sand
15. Signals Dub (Edit-Select Remix) / Edit Select
16. Kar / Claudio PRC
17. Scold / Chasing Voices
18. Untiled / Wata Igarashi (unreleased)
19. Excerpts From: Digah's Stomp/Lenox Avenue Blues/Stompin' The Bug/Messin' Around With The Blues / David Lynch & Alan R. Splet

-このミックスの収録場所を教えて下さい。

夜中、自宅スタジオ。

-このミックスのコンセプトなどがあれば教えてください。 

ここ数ヶ月自分がいろんなシチュエーションで使って来たトラックでストーリーを作ってみました。


-最近の活動を教えてください。

曲作ってます！　新アシッドレーベルAcid Worxに一曲remixを作ったのと、その他いくつかリリースが年末～年明け頃にある予定です。
Jelomu(Sound Garden)とのユニット、DRONEでのトラック制作も進行中です。
11月には毎年行っているバリ島ウブドで行われるBali Deepというアートイベントに作品を出しています。ウブドの神秘的な雰囲気をディープなアンビエントトラックと映像（by Paradise Jam)で表現し、プロジェクターで映像を森や寺などの建築物に投影します。

Clubberia Podcast

CB 185 - Wata Igarashi

Settle is one of the founding members of the Locked Groove collective in Brooklyn, and developed her characteristic sound on that dancefloor. A versatile DJ, her sets often span techno, house, and breaks. In this mix, she hones in on her dub influences, gradually building from downtempo rhythms to stripped-back dancefloor grooves. The sensual, atmospheric journey was recorded during an opening and is perfect for home listening.

Shot by Jaesa Acton
Mastered by Manny Catechis

official rebrand mix series: Settle - dub techno set

Here's my set from Freerotation, Baskerville Hall, Wales on 22nd July 2011.
Classic UK (acid) house party feeling, great lineup and open minded crowd.

Chon Joltrane - Psalm
Om Unit - Prawn Cocktail
Instra:mental - Pyramid
Dead Letter Drop 1
Emmanuel Jal - Kuar (Olof Dreijer remix)
Skudge - Overture (Substance remix)
Coil - The Snow
Instra:mental - Vicodin (Skudge Warehouse mix)
Coil - The Snow (Jack Dangers remix)
Brother From Another Planet - Planet Earth
Mace - Headstrong (John Selway remix)
Rob Glennon - Modunation
Marcel Fengler - Thwack (L.B. Dub Corp remix)
DJ Pierre - What Iz House Muzik
Robert Hood - Acrylic
Russ Gabriel - El Juan
Sbjekt - Objekt tool
Cub - CU1
Swarm Intelligence - Fighting Talk VIP
Aphex Twin - Phloam
Ozka - Phantomz (Aubrey remix)
Steve Poindexter - Computer Madness
RSD - Sugar Plumb instrumental
The Martian - Search You Feelings
R-A-G - Rage
Emptyset - All Together Lost (Ben Klock's Glowing Clap mix)
K Alexi - Drug Test
Boris Noiz - Inceptive Point
Lone - Explorers
Kraftwerk - Tour De France (version)
Ruskin &amp; Broom - Mas
Thomas Bangalter - What To Do

Surgeon at Freerotation 22nd July 2011

The Dekmantel favourite kicks off 2025 in an exploratory mood.

Since her breakout in 2017, Thessa Thorsing has built an enviable CV: a debut release on Nous'klaer Audio, an album on Dekmantel and a residency at former Amsterdam clubbing institution De School. Over these years, she's honed a singular sound, navigating wild variations in tempo and mood that dance along the edges of techno, IDM and drum & bass (we could list many more, but you know the drill).

Her creative arc has seen her delve into ever more abstract concepts, such as 2024's ambient-leaning album, Strange Meridians, exploring the interplay between synthetic and natural textures through drumless experimentations. As she explained in her 2018 RA Breaking Through profile, "I just want to hear the weirdness in the music."

Thorsing's RA Podcast showcases exactly why she's one of the most  consistently adventurous names in dance music. Describing it as "a mix with a narrative," the former landscape architecture student flexes her ability to build sonic environments, beginning in a landscape more akin to a swamp than a club.

Across 90 minutes, she moves through numerous layered terrains, exploring everything from Skee Mask's lucid, beatless techno to the piercing acid of Mike Parker. Unfolding with a restless sense of curiosity, RA.970 captures an artist challenging the boundaries of electronic music, ever upward.

@upsammy

Read more at ra.co/podcast/970

RA.970 upsammy

Donato Dozzy has long been a revered figure in the global electronic music scene, known for his rare ability to craft hypnotic soundscapes that linger in the mind. Whether in contemporary clubs or classical settings, his sets consistently conjure deep moods and immersive atmospheres.

With this being his first mix release in over 5 years, we’re treated to an early insight into what he’ll bring to Continuum on February 1st. 

RA tickets: https://ra.co/events/2051095

051 - Donato Dozzy - fabric podcast

Another Barker masterclass.

Sam Barker asks more from techno. The artist known simply as Barker is one of electronic music's most consistently conscientious and curious producers, challenging listeners to question the norms we accept about our shared culture—whether it's the music that fills the room, the process behind it, or the purpose of the space itself.

British-born yet based in Berlin since 2007, Barker forged a connection to many of the city's leading institutions, including Ostgut Ton, and over the course of a long and fruitful relationship, he carved out one of the more singular paths on the club and label's roster.

Not one for orthodoxy, Barker challenged four-to-the-floor techno framework in favor of melodic experimentation. By decentering or completely stripping away the typical trappings of kick drums and claps, his productions are both light and immersive, buoyant in low-end presence and shimmering in weightless space.

Six years after Utility, his sophomore album Stochastic Drift arrives this month. Shaped by pandemic-driven reinvention, it burrows deeper into harmonic twists and freeform drift. "At some point I became conscious of the process," he wrote of his latest album. "The only thing you can do is embrace the uncertainty and see every change as a potential positive.”

Consider his RA Podcast another sequel. Like his much-beloved 2019 mix for FACT, it's a collage of live recordings and a fitting expression of the artist's own internal spring. RA.982 radiates wide-eyed optimism: percussion cloaked in foggy, swirling pads and trance-like chords, neatly synched in synthetic glimmers. 

All in all, it's an hour of music crafted for contemplation, collective euphoria, or heads-down epiphany—or for that matter, any moment, really, its emotive depth seemingly endless.

@voltek

Find the tracklist and Q&A at ra.co/podcast/982

RA.982 Barker

Bo Sound  -  Minimal Psy Goa - 30.08 -

Monolith Maze

For this performance The Transcendence Orchestra were-
Anthony Child- Buchla Music Easel, Electro Harmonix 45000 
Strymon blueSky.
Daniel Bean- Korg Mono/Poly, Strymon DIG.

Photograph by Cathrin Queins.

Freerotation 2017

The Transcendence Orchestra live at Freerotation 8th July 2017

Lou Karsh aka Reptant in the mix! The reptillian producer has churned out one hour of techy goods ahead of his first appearance on Butter Sessions. Dig your claws into the sound of one Australia's rising stars and be sure to check his live / dj sets!

Reptant's remix for Current Obsession (BSR027) drops Feb 14. Check it here: https://buttersessions.bandcamp.com/album/xxx

www.buttersessions.com

Butter Mix #88 - Reptant

"The week prior to creating this set, I decorated my space and placed my mind inside the powerful and quite honestly life-changing memories I hold of No Way Back; the curiosity, the cavern-like environment, the audio experimentation and boundary crossing evoking responses that vary from wandering honestly and freely inside one's thoughts to the complete obliteration of said thoughts and letting the wisdom of the body perform its work on us.  My intention with this ambient set (all of my sets..) was to create currents, gradually, with just enough whispers and fragments to be subtle guides and invitations for you to imbue the sounds with your own meaning, to add your own messages and experience to the currents.  If there was ever any lesson to myself about how incomplete my work feels without this crucial element, it was the necessity this year to communicate from a distance, via video instead of a real-time space.  And how it felt most complete again when we gathered together virtually in the live stream, being curious, being supportive and present, sharing psychedelic gifs, chatting, laughing and crying!  So there it was - it happened, we connected and transcended the medium.  I will always hold this year's event dear to me for reminding us of what we still have.   Infinite gratitude towards Interdimensional Transmissions and The Bunker New York for being such enablers, to the dedication and brilliance of the artists (and the humbleness in their brilliance) and you!"
— Antenes @antenes

video: https://youtu.be/RqknDAjOuqY

Interdimensional Transmissions Podcast

Podcast

IT.podcast.s09e13: Antenes at No Way Back Streaming From Beyond 2020

UK electronic music performer and recording artist. 
Bookings: michael.matuschek@triangleagency.com