An A-class selection of mind-bending techno by vinyl aficionado @playvlada.

More info: https://kioskradio.com/episode/2022-10-22/vlada

Vlada @ Kiosk Radio 22.10.2022

Exclusive mix by Vlada for t-mag

Full Tracklist:
Foundation - Le Bal De Grâce
Subject - Italian Summer
Bourbonese qualk - new jerusalem
incredible coop - flowers
Pascal comelade - promenade des anglais
Pedestral - Brown Brown
Linolium - Unit 25
No Unauthorized - J’Attends
Suzy Andrews - Teenage Iceage
Air Project - Rap Yourself
In Aeternam Vale - Gustave
M.A.L. - Seconde Valse
Classic Pearl - Pearl
Carmody - Vulcani
Modern Art - Confrontation
Fondation - Dérive
porn darsteller - brigitte
Cleaners From Venus - Soul Monday

t-mag hosts: VLADA

From the dark waters abyss to the moonlit world of @playvlada.

SpeLL: VLADA

@reptant_the_lizard live at floresta

foto: fofo.altinell

Reptant live at Floresta - Waking Life '24

@playvlada b2b @vaahzer

a snippet from our inaugural earth dog rave march 01 2025

ED0043: Vlada b2b Vaahzer @ Earth Dog March 01 2025

For the second episode of IREMTOURFM, erensu invites Vlada, the Berlin-based vinyl master renowned for weaving hypnotic, genre-fluid narratives. 

Recorded live at Transcendence 2025 in the mystic woods of Choja No Mori, Japan, this mix is a deep dive into sonic storytelling and a two hours of a soulful journey.

@playvlada

IREMTOURFM 02 - erensu invites Vlada @ Transcendence 2025

The German minimal DJ returns to the spotlight with two hours of artfully subtle house and techno.

There's an old German proverb that goes "Der stete Tropfen höhlt den Stein." Literally, it means a constant dripping wears away the stone, but the point isn't about force but patience: slow, steady repetition can leave the deepest mark. It's an apt metaphor for the career of Kosta Athanassiadis, better known as XDB.

Active since the early '90s, first as a DJ and then producer by the decade's end, Athanassiadis has built a career less on hype than persistence. His catalogue spans labels like Dial, Metrolux and Echocord, alongside a steady trickle of EPs and remixes that have quietly cemented his reputation as one of minimal house and techno's undersung heroes.

That patience carries into his sound and production ethos. Where many of his peers embraced software upgrades and new workflows, Athanassiadis has long stuck to Cubase, a handful of trusty instruments and 30-year-old speakers he claims to have run "hundreds of thousands of tunes" through. He also still prefers to use inexpensive, straightforward gear—what matters, he insists, is not the tools but the feel. The result is a sound that’s stripped back, direct and enduring.

Lately, Athanassiadis has found himself back in focus. With minimal enjoying fresh attention, his calendar has filled, and with it a run of back-to-back sets—most often alongside PLO Man, a regular sparring partner this year. True to form, though, you won't find that his style has changed much. Over 30 years after his first gig, you can rest assured you'll still find him playing with patience, carving out long arcs rather than sharp peaks.

His RA Mix captures him in a reflective mood. Running just over two hours, RA.1003 is a hushed yet absorbing affair, moving seamlessly from the delicate atmospherics of Valentino Mora and Caldera to the machine funk of Robert Hood, Solid Gold Playaz and Marcellus Pittman. There are left turns folded into XDB's patient narrative arc, too: John Carpenter's brooding scores here, DJ Sprinkles' melancholic work with Will Long on "Acid Trax N (Acid Dog)" there.

It's the sound of a DJ who has been quietly chiseling away for three decades, and who understands the value of persistence as much as restraint.

@xdb

Find the tracklist and interview at ra.co/podcast/1021

RA.1003 XDB

XDB & PLO Man at Waking Life 2025

Bandcamp

AWAKENES

Little mix I made sampling gaskin wax master

Gaskin x handgun

Next in our podcast series, we have the excellent Jane Fitz...

Beyond the A13 - music from the outer reaches of East London and Essex

Growing up on the edge of London, where the east end meets Essex, and industrial wasteland meets suburbia, my life was always reliant on four main arteries to get me to school, to work or to parties: the A13, the District Line, the London-Southend railway and the number 5 bus route. Running from the heart of London to the edges of the Thames estuary - I can’t imagine how much time I’ve spent on these trains, buses and roads looking out the window, at a landscape totally bereft of beauty, but to me, somehow always full of life and wonder.

This mix consists entirely of music that was either made or released within the areas touched or bordered by these transport links, between 1990-1997… from Canning Town, Grays, Stratford, Horndon, East Ham, Benfleet and other stops in between. Why dedicate a mix to this area? Because this is music from where I grew up, from when I was growing up. Most of it was ignored or overlooked or just forgotten - a mix of progressive house, trance, acid house, techno, breakbeat, tribal and deep house, all sounds that I like to combine when I’m DJing. It’s the sound of home…

Jane Fitz "Beyond The A13" Podcast for Furthur Electronix

Label started by Anil Lal, Jay Lal and (Majkel Graphic Designer.) Set to release acid based electronix on limited pressings of 200.