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Octave One - live from the Boiler Room X stage at Boiler Room Festival Berlin. Presented by Absolut.

Octave One | Boiler Room Festival Berlin: Boiler Room x Refuge Worldwide

RSO.LIVECAST [014—240119] is a live recording of Thump Out Traxx's Bours? and Bipolar Disorder's The Chronics during ULTRANOVA on the SUMME floor on January 19th, 2024.

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Bours? b2b The Chronics @ ULTRANOVA — RSO.LIVECAST 014—240119

Track: Es Ist Ein Gefühl
Artist(s): Xiorro
Label: PUIN 
Catalog: PC015
Format: Digital 
Genre: Electronic 
Style: Techno 
Release Date: 13/09/2024 
Buy: https://puin.bandcamp.com

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SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/xiorro
Instagram: https://instagram.com/xiorro_/
BandCamp: https://xiorro.bandcamp.com/

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SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/puin_collective 
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Bandcamp: https://puin.bandcamp.com

Mastering: Loïc Girod Mastering 
Artwork: Joeri van Orsouw

Es Ist Ein Gefühl

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Xiorro - Es Ist Ein Gefühl [PC015]

August 2024 || An event recording of Octoptic's barnstorming live UK debut at SET Vaults.

TASCAM DR-05X

Octoptic (Live) @ SET Vaults

On June 27, 2025, a long-dormant signal reactivates from Hamburg's hidden places: Helena Hauff and F#X return as Black Sites with R4 on Tresor Records—their first full-length album and the first release under the moniker since 2014. Like a hieroglyphic recently discovered and translated, R4 feels more like a long-awaited resumption than a comeback.

Recorded to tape with minimal editing or post-production the record is a classic example of the symbiotic relationship that can come from the interaction of human and machine. This punk ethos isn't invoked through distortion alone, but through method; in the album's breaking from the received wisdom of hardness tethered to speed as most of the tougher pieces are lower BPM and vice versa (with one notable exception in the mind-melting stomp of BLOKK).

Across ten tracks, Black Sites traverse a landscape where genre dissolves into intention. It migrates through electro's danceability, acid house's corrosion, and into the liminal realm of machine funk—a genre coined by Andrew Weatherall, which sounds like the results of technology dreaming of soul where the emphasis is on live execution, on immediacy over perfection—a sound forged in the act of creating, not polishing.

In a 2013 interview, around the time of the first Black Sites EP, Hauff was quoted as saying that she wants "things to fit together properly, but on another level, I really want them to make sense together." That principle animates R4: The album's form reveals itself in time, with each movement echoing and amplifying the others to create a synergistic whole.

From the opening crawl of C4 (a name that like the music foreshadows the explosions to come) to the end-of-the-night bliss of MOTHERJAM via the intense peaks of BLOKK, 707, and classic acid track 3D it's clear that R4 is a work made with serious intent; a refutation of a world where streaming has made the two-minute single the dominant musical form again. R4 demands immersion, not just attention. It is not a collection of tracks, but a singular, recursive experience: a mirror in which sound and listener repeatedly rediscover one another.

BANDCAMP

Black Sites - 707

TF2019 w/ Bambounou

Cultural commentator and stylist Ayishat Akanbi presented a key talk at Unsound Krakow 2019, including ten practical steps to help navigate the linguistic landmine of social media. As Ayishat explained: “The digital discourse that shapes our cultural landscape is a hotbed of conflict, shaming, one-upmanship, and misunderstanding. It’s hard to be an avid online user, without becoming disillusioned by the eagerness to see the worst in people. But I do believe we can use the Internet to further our understanding, and create multiple avenues for empathy if we are disciplined in our use."

Unsound Talk 05: How To Respond Instead of React in the Digital Age

Darwin's In Session Mix presents all the kaleidoscopic facets of her sets, beginning with multidimensional matrix-like space sounds and slowly moving into her groove of deep UK garage before floating into break beats and infectious dancefloor cuts. 

Water bubble textures and acidic noises make an appearance before she ends with jacking footwork beats, setting you in the middle of the jungle.

Here she showcases an array of sonic explorations, a focus that has made her one of the key guiding forces in the underground scene today.

More exclusive music

In Session: Darwin

A1 Carnival Soca (Antal edit)
B1 La Musique (Palms Trax edit)

La Differencia edits

Daniel Dimbas - La Musique (Palms Trax Edit)

Drip By Drip

Hydromantic - B2 - Drip By Drip (Snippet) - LIFE001

/// Energy in potential ///

London-based label and clubnight

Curated by flatcap and INGI
All artwork from Max M-K

Octoptic (Live) @ SET Vaults

ELASTICS