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For episode 60 of our FRiends and Family, I'm happy to have a pillar of the US underground @djmitchsmith . Mitch lives in Denver, vis a vis Florida. He's a real Florida dance music enthusiast and has shown me so much of the IDM-miami-bass-techy-housey fusion that the state has gifted to the world of dance music. He djs alongside @wngdu (see FRiends and Family Ep. 21) in Denver as Loudmen. They've brought @billconverse, @jonnyfromspace, DJ Fitness, and others into Denver, and they have huge plans (can't reveal yet) for Denver this summer. So if you're in the area...TIP!

At TGB last year, we had a conversation about the importance of sexy groove. This has it all. Acid, hand drums, psychedelic vocal fuckery, basslines, touch of breaks....come onnnnnnnn, tap in! 

DJ Spun Acid Experience - DJ Spun & Dyhan Moller (@therealdjspun @stillmusic)
Norgan - Hazed
Peyote (Hard Mix) - Anatolian Weapons (@anatolianweapons)
Chasing Away The Night - Gesloten Cirkel (@gesloten-cirkel)
Sub-Urban Pt 2 - Witchman vs Jammin Unit
Intoxication - Psychick Warriors Ov Gaia
Tüdeldub (quadratschultz bleep Remix @quadratschulz) - Jacques Palminger & Viktor Marek (@jacquespalminger-music @viktor-marek) 
It's (Not) Just An 808 (Warehouse Mix) - The Loose Control Band (@therealdjspun @spacetime-continuum )
I Am Sitting In A Version (Re-Edit) - Flexitone
Untitled - Ro 70 Meets Move D (@ro70-music @move-d) 
Here's Your Chance Now Dance (3-D Mix) - DJ Reckless Ron
Loving Your Mind - Mono Junk (@mono-junk)
Mondo Hehe - Lutto Lento (@luttolento)
Cazbot - Alphonse
nubJa - SW. (@sw-sc) 
We Gave You Life - Lab Technicians (@labtechnicians)
Feel The Joy - Lockgroove
Moody - Eddie Richards (@eddie-richards)
Microton - DJ Fitness

Mitch Smith: FRiends and Family Ep. 60

Over two decades of unfaltering devotion to production and DJing, dishing out some of the finest slices of opulently textured techno along the way, Tokyo-based maestro DJ Sodeyama has been honing a sound signature both intricately hypnotic and boundary-pushing. Blending delicate melodic strains of electronics ranging from deep, ambient music to verbed-out, atmospheric techno, often laced with hints of jazz and soulful discoid expressions, his productions and mixes combine the satiny elegance of loungey daydream with that of more rugged, deep-diving dubs a la Basic Channel. From light to shade, and vice-versa, DJ Sodeyama builds pieces of music where the ever-changing lighting and shifting angles swath you in an oddly comforting headspace. A most fascinating trip for the body and soul.

soundcloud.com/arparecords

Reclaim Your City 637 | DJ Sodeyama

The podcast series of PEEL starts with Cseil selecting sounds for an introspective journey: an invitation to look within.

https://soundcloud.com/cseil

PEEL #001 ~ Cseil

For episode 61, we have OKC close scene co-conspirator @crkdjw. I met Garrett when he came to one of our Critical Mess parties a while back. I didn't know who he was, but I just saw the way he was dancing and really listening to the music that he knew what was up. While trying to not make too eager of moves, I went up and told him we gotta chop it up. 

When I think of the most exciting DJs in OKC right now, Garrett is always there in my mind. He has an appetite for brain-scratchy sounds, drummy techno, with a dose of minimal inflections...and there's always excitement selection-wise given his broad taste in music outside of the dance floor. What we're all about! He's been really exercising some restraint lately, and this mix shows where he's been at in his bag lately. Excellent music, enjoy!

Track List: 
Dew Drop Refraction - Squash and Biscuit
I Killed Picasso - @ike-yard
Test - Baby Ford
Upside Down (Instrumental) - @polygonia
Back To The Start - Herbert
Heal Yourself And Move - @theoparrish
I Am Running All My Drum Machines At Once
And Dancing - @massimilianopagliara
Lies (Watch Your Lift) - @losoul-official
Machinik 28 (Machinik plane) - @studio-of-scott-grooves
Love & Passion - @patrickcowley
Keep Rockin’ (Thumping House Mix) - Love
From San Francisco
Dreamscape 500 - @unitmoebius
Boire Comme Un Trou pt1&2 (Re-edit) -
@cherrystones
Snake Charmer - Ectomorph
Jack it up - @huey-mnemonic
Turner’s House - LB Dub Corp (@luke-slater)
Still Buggin’ - @daniel-bell
Raverd (Dub Version) - Virginia (@ostgutton-official)
Route 505 - C.L.A.W.S. (@dematorikibuhile)
Technic Electric - @anthony-rother

Crooked Jaw: FRiends and Family Ep. 61

Psyk is a key player in Spanish techno, an acclaimed talent with firm emphasis on deep, repetitive loops. He has become synonymous with high-quality, trippy and smart as a tack rhythms. For the last two decades since he started out on Madrid’s clandestine rave beat, he’s developed and advanced a sound to near perfection: raw and technically agile, pelagic echoes from the abyss that have shifted with their changing times. 2011 saw him launch the widely renowned Non Series, a platform releasing the work of similar vein artists like DJ Nobu, Architectural, Neel, Nastia Reigel, Tauceti, Blawan, Luigi Tozzi, Function and Rrose, generating buzz and ardent following. His own releases on labels like Mote Evolver, Semantica and Tresor, intermittent forays on his own label under the alias Maan, as well as his co-project Second Skin (est. 2022) alongside fellow Madrileño Oscar Mulero have been slowly gaining traction in a contemporary music landscape replete with talent. Though the rate of productions is decelerating his touring schedule marches forward at full tilt, adding recent Bassiani dates to those at a list of must-play venues like Fabric, Berghain, Fuse, Tresor and Amsterdam’s shuttered DeSchool. His expert drones and algorithmic beat patterns are in a process of continuing evolution and whatever comes next is sure to be even better than his already outstanding catalogue of work. Bassiani Podcast 258 is an 80-minute expedition into a murky world of Psyk’s design, sweeping and purist techno from this heavyweight selector. 

@psyk

Bassiani invites Psyk / Podcast #258

For episode 62, we have @yaxofficial from Adelaide, AU. He has invited many FRiends of ours to take part in his techno mix series Yax Invites...seriously impressive series with #229 just coming out this week! Techno for techno lovers here. Enough said, track list below!

Track List:
1	@cerrot  - Gradual07
2	@mental-availability - Recognition and Recall
3	@ignez_smv - Awakening
4	@ninom4lo - Dffrent
5	@benjamindamage - Hydra
6	@nedbennett - Engineered Movement
7	@mptrn- Strain
8	@technosbnc - Chorofobia
9	@the-miller-1 - Compact (@mamwadi remix)
10	@warnung- you talk
11	@mental-availability - unreleased
12	@carilekebusch - Olydig
13	@technosbnc - Crevicing
14	@mathys_lenne - Blind
15	@dxrvo - Piano Mercy
16	Max Watts (@limitednetwork) - Dixon (@charlie-conway Mix)
17	@aints-music - Wisdom
18	@kussmusic, @sicion-techno- Ego Death
19	@neonaarm - The Present is a Gift
20	@roberthood - Radio Active
21	@@technosbnc - Sorge
22	@mental-availability - unreleased
23	@jonas-kopp, @oliverrosemann - Mindwave Convergence
24	@exos - Everyday
25	@jonas-kopp, @oliverrosemann - Syncing Frequencies
26	@neonaarm - Deleterater
27	Dolph (@kargoelektronik) - Fuji Speedway (Bonus)

Yax: FRiends and Family Ep. 62

The 168th guest of KHIDI’s podcast series is Oscar Mulero, highlighting his musical versatility with a genre-defying mix. A legendary Spanish DJ, producer, and KHIDI resident, Mulero is the founder of the iconic Warm Up Recordings and PoleGroup Records. With a career as enduring and transformative as electronic music itself, he has remained a pivotal figure in the scene since the late 1980s. Always attuned to the shifting currents of sound, Oscar Mulero continues to shape and inspire the global techno landscape

@oscarmulero

KHIDI Podcast 168: Oscar Mulero

Great initiative to let djs play there own music so here is my set. Many many unreleased tracks hope you enjoy it!

tracklist

Unreleased
G
Voyage
Smith
Unreleased
Dumans
Insolate - The Day Will Come (Deniro Remix)
DhundredX
Unreleased
Unreleased
Unreleased
The Penal Colony a1
Marco Bailey - Smooth Drive (Deniro Rework)
MPC Tracks b1
Unreleased
Uncertain - Difference (Deniro Remix)
Unreleased
Gharial
Nuno Dos Santos - Frontside Disaster (Deniro Remix)
Silhouette
Penance
Unreleased
Unreleased
Unreleased
Unreleased
Aadja - Interaction Sphere Deniro remix
Atavism
Don Dino
Coachella
Organezized
Unreleased

The following series was founded to acknowledge producers for their influence on shaping the sound in the electronic music genre while simultaneously showcasing the distinctive musical style of each artist, featuring both released and unreleased music in an all-original podcast format.

K92 aims to reintroduce a sense of mystery surrounding artists by bringing back the focus on the music itself and creating a blank slate for listeners to develop their own interpretations. As a result, the sets on this platform do not include any press photographs or biographies. Instead, each set has been personally signed by the artist to complete their signature sound.

Deniro @ Radion The Sound Of (K92label)

Wrapping up July with a ballistic transmission, Berghain and Khidi resident Hayden Payne aka Phase Fatale punches in with two hours of genre-busting material, ebbing and flowing between surgical rhythmic assault and shape-shifting oneirism. Responsible for a handful of memorable platters on the likes of OSTGUT TON, Jealous God and his own imprint, BITE, Payne delivers a masterclass in laser-like DJing and ambient-scaping, pushing back the limits of techno as a vessel for emotional introspection and wordless communication. Taking us on a captivating ride across slow-evolving, finessed sonic reliefs, mind-expanding grooves and machine-told musings of the soul, Phase Fatale dazzles and subjugates. True to his ever high-flying standards and impeccable touch, a mix that shall leave you gobsmacked. Don’t sleep.

soundcloud.com/phasefatale

Reclaim Your City 654 | Phase Fatale

For episode 63, I am very excited and honored to have a special mix by Oklahoma City major head Stin from @chatpile . This is just over an hour of a musical history of all shades of underground freak rock/punk/metal from Oklahoma City. Beginning in the 70s and ending with our current moment. As someone who stepped into this chronology as a fan and fellow noise-maker in the late 00s/early 10s, I personally found it invigorating to understand on a deeper sonic level where the sounds were coming from that we were all making. Today you will hear people talk about the loss of regional sound identities, but I’m hoping that the act of drawing from the ghosts of your local alternative spheres has not completely died out. After listening to the mix, it seems like those connections you find with the roots of a scene happen in many different ways and are often unconscious. For example, playing in bands with people slightly older than you, finding the same records at the local shops, attending gigs together and soaking up the same influences. There are bands, people, and labels mentioned in here that make up the core of my music-loving DNA. There were so many older freaks who were taking care of me as a teenager while I was out on a school night at The Conservatory (legendary OKC venue) catching music from around the world at wildly cheap door costs. And then I imagine that happening to those who were older than me when they were kids…a beautiful freaky cycle. 

I can’t mention enough how much Stin is a pillar of our local music scene in OKC. He ran a tape label called Nerd Party, which he mentions. @dusthousestudio is where I and so many people in the City recorded our records (Chat Pile still records there!). I wouldn’t have seen so many awesome bands that came through OKC in the 00s and 10s, if it weren’t for Stin and his friends nudging me to go. The Speed Falkon tape that he put out (he plays a track off of it) is one of my all-time favorite OKC underground installments. I played that tape OUT. And I just checked…it’s not even listed on Discogs. There are some real delights here that you won’t hear outside of Stin’s bedroom. Truly honored to have him open up his media collection to us with this Okie curatorial lens and for the bits and bobs shared in between the music. I hope you enjoy, and since he says he’s down, we will definitely be inviting him for another episode of specialties. But first, sit back and enjoy the sounds of the OKC underground as selected by Stin! 

Tracklist:
Debris - “Witness” - S/T - 1975
Defenestration - “Cars in Trees” - Dali Does Windows - 1987  
@flaminglips- “Right Now” - Telepathic Surgery - 1989
Stin Speaks
Syringe -  “On the Other Side” - S/T Single - 1996
Microlight Sound - “Eyes Bleed Silver” - S/T Single - 1996
Stin Speaks
Subsanity - “Human is Shit” - Human is Shit EP - 1997
Dominant Minority - “Fuel for the Machine” - The Years of Defiance - 1997
@traindodge - “The Buzzard” - About Tomorrow’s Milage - 1999
Stin Speaks
Gravity Propulsion System - “What Can I Say” - Get Destroy - 2005
Speed Falkon - “Fantasy” - No emotion - 2006
No Man’s Slave - “Tooth Decay” - I Resign/No Man’s Slave Split 7” - 2010
I Resign - “No Prospect” - Final Songs 7” -  2010
Stin Speaks
CHUD - “Handsome Vampires Live” - CHUD S/T 7” - 2012
Glow God - “Man Down” - House of Distractions - 2013
Found Footage - “Lovers Down” - As Far As Far -  2014
American Hate - “Pissing” - Our Love is Real - 2017
Stin Speaks
W/OE - “No Cure” - Without Empathy - 2019
The Tooth - “Hatred’s Wings” - Cascade Effect - 2021
Peeling Flesh - “Make A Move” - Slamaholics Vol. 2 - 2023
Free 4 All - “Pain 4 Ever” - Volume 4 - 2025 
Stin Speaks
@chatpile - “Cut” - Brothers in Christ Split EP w/ Nerver - 2023

Stin from Chat Pile: FRiends and Family Ep. 63

After making a strong impression at "rural presents New Acao" in Atami, the Spanish techno master Oscar Mulero returned to the rural stage for the closing set on the third day of the festival this year, and once again pulling the floor into a deep groove universe. As a prelude to the release of the live recording of 2025, we are pleased to share it with you. We hope you enjoy this solid techno set, filled with pure techno pleasure in every direction.

熱海で行われた〈rural presents New Acao〉でも鮮烈な印象を残したスパニッシュテクノの雄 Oscar Mulero が今年は3日目のクロージングセットのために rural の舞台へと舞い戻り、再びフロアを深いグルーヴの渦へと引きずりこみました。2025年のライブレコーディングの第一弾として、まずはこのセットから皆さまと共有できることを嬉しく思います。純粋なテクノの快楽性があらゆる方向から詰め込まれた、揺るぎのないテクノセットをお楽しみください。

Oscar Mulero at rural 2025

For episode 64 of FRiends and Family, we have long-time listener, first time caller Language Models (@t1ck). Language Models is a raver and fan of Fixed Rhythms who lives in Milwaukee, WI doing DJ stuff at Cactus Club and teaching stuff at UWM.

With this vinyl mix, clocking in a little under 2 hours, LM takes it into lots of zones. Twists and turns exploring a surplus of possibilities with touches of honest cynicism and a couple reorienting deconstructions. Lots of questions posed, and lots of hope. 

I love music. You love music. Throw it on....

1. Iori – Vortex
2. MRSK – Twirl
3. Rabit – Hex
4. Color Plus (@colorplus) – Medical MF
5. Shiva – Work It Out (Morales Club Mix)
6. Doc Sleep (@docsleep) – Geospatial
7. Lützenkirchen (@lutzenkirchen) – 3 Tage Wach
8. Obstructor (@obstructor7) – Meursault
9. Henry Chow (@henrychow) – Piece Of Me
10. Blake Baxter (@blakebaxter) – Sexuality
11. Sylvester – Sex (Ian Levine Remix)
12. Steffi & Rosati (@dolly-records) – Minor Slider
13. Technasia (@technasia) – Cyclone (Tempest)
14. Biochip C – Acid Frogs
15. Autokinetic (@autokinetic) – Wakeword
16. Casual Treatment (@casual-treatment) – Living Cells
17. Sd Laika (@sd-laika) – Meshes
18. Phreax – Lindup Skinup
19. Treega – Fire Flare
20. DJ Pirna (@djpirna) – Cosmic G-String
21. Anastasia Kristensen (@anastasiakristensen) – Volshebno (Stretched)
22. Vilamar – Vilamar 04
23. JLIN (@jlinnarlei) – Embryo
24. Maara (@maara) – Scissor Me Timbers
25. Polygonia (@polygonia)– Never Have I Seen
26. Pessimist (@pessimist) – Ridge Racer Revolution
27. Chris Korda (@chris_korda) – Baby Batter Bingo
28. Phoebe – Estou Perdido
29. GiGi FM (@gigi-fm) – Awakening The World’s Heart
30. Ricardo Villalobos (@ricardo-villalobos-28) – 909 Track
31. Lonefront (@lonefront) – 56 (ft. Decoder @iamdecoder)
32. SU01 (@su01unitedsonicplanet) – No Force No Light
33. Surgeon (@dynamic-tension) – BDF-521
34. VTSS (@vtss) – Sensor 150
35. Dig-it & Ricardo Garduno – Get Going
36. Summer Skool – Tribaltone (Smokin Jesus RMX)
37. Salar Ansari (@salaransari) – Cyber Daze
38. GRRL X Made Of Oak (@grrl-music @madeofoak) – Chord Thing
39. Wata Igarashi (@wata) – Interweave
40. X -Altera (@x-altera) – Entry

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