Follow the artist : @youngerthanme
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HF: Why did you choose to edit this track?  
YTM: Because if you think,  it's very difficult to imagine an edit of Madonna not cheesy 

HF: What is your relationship with the art of edit ? 
YTM: I love it and you know :) Insomnia from Faithless , Baby D-Let me Be Your Fantasy , Snap! - Believe The Hype , Hypnosis - Pulstar ecc 

HF: What are your expectations for the future?  
YTM : Back to my life again .. as soon as possible!

HF: What are you working on ? 
YTM: a new album coming up!

HF: What do you dream to do as an artist ?  
YTM: Can I say again "back to normal"

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Madonna - Vogue (Younger Than Me Edit) #51 - Free download

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Follow the artist @tech-supportuk

1. Who are you ?
I am Ned aka. Tech Support, based in London, UK.

2. How did you discover this track ?
I was going through a discogs rabbit hole when I found it, it was very easy to find but quite underrated.

3. Why do you choose to edit it ?
There are some parts I really like about the song, but overall I found the structure to be quite messy, and at points a little jarring, so I cut out the parts I didn't like and beefed up the good bits!

4. What are your next plans?
My next release is my track 'Idyll Illusion' on Semi Delicious alongside Demi Requisimo, Baby Rollen, Harry Oscillate & Gallegos, out 26.11.21!

Angels Program - Morning In Tokyo (Tech Support Edit) #55 - Free download

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Follow the artist @omri-smadar

> Who are you ? 
Omri Smadar, a producer / dj / musician. I Live in Tel Aviv

> How did you discover this track ? 
The original track is from a classic record by Matti Casspi, one of Israel's most prolific and known artists. He was influenced by Brazilian music, and in 1978 he recorded an album of hebrew covers of brazilian music, called Eretz Tropit Yaffa ("Pais Tropical" in Portuguese) 
I chose to re edit one of the lesser known gems from this album.

> Why do you choose to edit it ? 
I was drone to the latin percussive groove & the vocals and simple lyrics. I felt this is such a feel-good track that can work really well on the floor.

> What are your upcoming plans?
Looking forward to the release of Adama - EP on Hard Fist in March 22!

Mati Casspi - Elohim (Omri Smadar Remix) [Hard Fist Rephrase Collection 57]

By @thomassjackson & @theusmago
Release date: February 3rd
Pre-order: https://hardfist.bandcamp.com/album/thomass-jackson-theus-mago-el-venao

Artwork: Léo Marsal

PREMIERE: Thomass Jackson & Theus Mago - Don Palenque [HARD FIST]

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HRDF: Who are you ?
K: My name is Khemir, Dj/Producer from Tunisia . 

HRDF: How did you discover this track ?
K: In fact, my dear father showed it to me, he has it on cassette. He has always been a big fan of the 80s Arabic music especially with Funk and Raï music.

HRDF: Why do you choose to edit it?

K: I liked the track, and I decided to make a dancefloor version out of it! It makes my heart melt when I see people from different cultures dancing to forgotten north African gems.

HRDF: What are your upcoming plans?
K: Do it or die trying!

Cheb Kada - Rani Mellite (Khemir “Italo Raï” Edit) #60 - Free download

By @joelewandowski
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HRDF: Who are you ?
L: Joe Lewandowski but you know me better under my other alias Robert Lewandowski

HRDF: How did you discover this track ?
L: I discovered it pretty young and for me it was a shock. I only understood sex and it was pretty shocking to hear something that outrageous on TV. 

HRDF: Why do you choose to edit it ?
L: I usually work on more underground tracks but I wanted to work on a massive hit for  this one and turn it into a space weird erotica track.

HRDF: What are your upcoming plans ?
L: Working on my new live for this summer and trying to win the Ballon D'or next year.

George Michael - I Want Your Sex (Lewandowski Edit) #64 - Free download

18th release signed by @fargodevianti & @nvongold
Remix by @jennifercardini & @damon-jee
Artwork: Léo Marsal
Vinyl + digital pre-order → hardfist.bandcamp.com/

The Mexican duo is all about low-tempo, dark disco and anxious lyrics, mixing guitars, synthesizers, and voodoo rhythms. Together they create a psychedelic journey into haunted vocals, hypnotic percussion landscapes, oriental dreams, with an avant-garde rock flavor.

Jennifer Cardini and Damon Jee brought a powerful remix influenced by Detroit's electro and breakbeat roots. Once mixed with the trippy sounds of the original version, it opens a fresh new door into the field of “dancefloor killer” music

PREMIERE: Fargo Devianti & Vongold - Taste Of Butter (Jennifer Cardini & Damon Jee Remix)

by @antakaatweed & @oltrefuturo
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Alice Deejay - Better Off Alone (A-Tweed X Oltrefuturo Edit) #66 - Free download

By @leonoroficial
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Chimo Bayo - Asi Me Gusta A Mi (Leonor Edit) #67 - Free download

By @gaelgaelmusic
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HRDF: Who are you ?
GG: Gael Juárez aka Gael Gael, DJ and producer from the city of Puebla, Mexico.

HRDF: How did you discover this track ?
GG: I have always been passionate about music and, one day while exploring Discogs, I came across this song that seemed quite avant garde for it to be from 83.

HRDF: Why do you choose to edit it ?
GG: Because I like the mix of genres combined within the track which are some musical references that I like like hip hop/electronic music. The melodies mainly seemed fascinating to me so I decided to take the most interesting parts and imagine editing it in my style to give it more dynamics for the dance floor.

HRDF: What are your upcoming plans ?
GG: Working on original music for upcoming releases and keep making edits... I love edits! Stay tuned.

Twilight 22 - Electric Kingdom (Gael Gael edit) #69 - Free download

By @dacou
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HRDF: Who are you?
D: I am Dacou, a DJ/producer based out of Toronto. 

HRDF: How did you discover this track?
D: I saw a local ad in Toronto for somebody wanting to get rid of some old Arabic cassette tapes, so naturally I was curious. Turns out it was an elderly gentleman who had them, and they had belonged to a lady from Egypt who he was in love with over thirty years ago. Unfortunately things didn’t work out between them and she went back home, leaving their love unfulfilled. He never saw her again and these tapes were all that were left of her, but in his old age he felt it was right to pass them on. This tape was amongst them. 

HRDF: Why do you choose to edit it?
D: After discovering this song and coming to know it was in fact a love song, a declaration of love - I thought it was a fitting ode to the gentleman who had given me the tapes, while serving as modern dance-floor friendly refresher of a great Algerian Raï track. 

HRDF: What are your upcoming plans? 
D: To keep digging for gems and dropping betters!

Djalti - Ghir N'Ti (Dacou Edit) #70 - Free download

By @pedro-b-2
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HRDF: Who are you?
P: Music lover. Dj. Producer. Brazilian. Living in France. Always looking for the sun =)

HRDF: How did you discover this track?
P: I heard it in another song also as a sample. It really got me somehow trapped into it, and it makes me want to do my own version. 

HRDF: Why did you choose to edit it?
P: The song chose me. Kidding...hehe. Well, it has been a while that I wanted to do something special to HardFist, it finally matched perfectly with the vibes I wanted to put in this edit. 

HRDF: What are your upcoming plans?
P: Well. Right now I'm touring between Colombia and Ivory Coast, so kind of living the dream of sharing music with people.  Until the end of the year, I still (fortunately) have some gigs.
I'm releasing a 8 tracks EP with two remixes of two of my fav artists at the end of January  for Cracki Records. 
In February/Mars will be doing some release parties in France. I'm really looking forward to it.

Uttam Singh - Le Gayi (Pedro Bertho Edit) #73 - Free download

Episode #27
Nobody Is Perfect on Mutant Radio every two month. 
Special guest : Martin Noise & Cisco, heads of Playground records.
https://playgroundrecordsmusic.bandcamp.com/

Nobody Is Perfect #27 - Cornelius Doctor invites Martin Noise & Cisco (Playground records)

Closing of a 10 years residency at Terminal Club in our home town Lyon.

TASCAM DR-40X

Hard Fist all night long - 7h mix (Tushen Raï, Warum & Neskeh)

Minimal and percussive, Green Anarchy opens a hidden door to a hypnotic vortex. A-Tweed reimagines Goa trance through a modern lens, blending an addictive melodic acid line with a dubby, pulsating groove. A mental trip built for the dancefloor — where tension, trance, and release merge into one.

About Hard Fist Single Club : 
Some nights don’t need an explanation — they just need a pulse. With the Hard Fist Single Club, the label sets its compass toward the dancefloor’s magnetic north: one single, every month, no rules attached.
No borders, no BPM ceiling, no genre dogma. Just bangers — wild, shapeshifting, and gloriously unclassifiable. From acid house mirages to trance odysseys, from bouncy house delirium to dub-stained techno and EBM rituals, each track is a dispatch from the edge of the club continuum.
Hard Fist isn’t chasing trends — it’s bending timelines. Every release is a new territory, a new ritual, a new way to sweat the spirit clean.
Because dance music, in its truest form, isn’t about fitting in — it’s about breaking free.
One single at a time.


#1 Hard Fist Single Club : A-Tweed - Green Anarchy

Some records are answers to questions no one asked out loud. With Where is Acid Eric, Cornelius Doctor & Tushen Raï deliver a psychedelic missive from a parallel timeline — a time-traveling tribute to Goa’s golden age, filtered through their unmistakable signature.

Returning to their home base Hard Fist, the duo steps into new territory with this release, and yet, it feels like they’ve been heading here all along. This isn’t a retro-fetishist trip, nor a copy-paste homage. It’s a reimagination — of a sound, a space, and most of all, a spirit.

The EP is rooted in the mythic nights of late-80s and early-90s Disco Valley, where British acid house collided with Indian hedonism, where freedom wasn’t a pose but a necessity, and where dancefloors became temporary utopias. But in the hands of Cornelius Doctor & Tushen Raï, this past gets warped, stretched and reanimated with 2025’s tools and sensitivities.

Across three extended tracks, the duo summons a sound that’s dense yet breathable, tribal yet precise, nostalgic yet futuristic.
They weave Goa’s swirling trance lines with broken rhythms, analog squelches, and post-industrial textures. The acid lines are sharp, but never cliché — more mantra than gimmick. Voices float in and out like half-remembered chants. Basslines slide, hypnotize, and then vanish in a cloud of smoke. It's not a flashback. It's a vision.

The title, Where is Acid Eric, feels like a lost broadcast — part question, part invocation. Eric is a symbol. IS Eric a ghost ? The true legend of a forgotten raver on a dusty Anjuna morning. What matters is the search. The longing. The dance.

Hard Fist, true to its form, continues to blur the lines between ritual and rave, tradition and invention. And with this record, Cornelius Doctor & Tushen Raï don’t just revive a genre — they reconnect with an ideal: dance music as exploration, as transcendence, as resistance.

One foot in the dust, one foot in the cosmos. The answer isn’t important. The trip is.


HRDF025 - Where Is Acid Eric ?

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Cornelius Doctor & Tushen Rai - Meet Acid Eric

Mas Alla is a masterclass in tension and release. Driven by sharp analog percussion and a heavy, magnetic bassline, Bawrut plays with silence like a magician — holding the crowd in suspension before unleashing a euphoric, floor-shaking explosion. A haunting child’s voice cuts through the haze, turning confusion into communion. A true end-of-year banger built to ignite every dancefloor.

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#2 Hard Fist Single Club : Bawrut - Mas Alla

We are launching a new serie of edits: the RePhrase Collection - free download

For the first one, we are very proud to introduce this track by Romain FX - the first one of many to come <3

For the occasion, we asked Romain FX 5 (hard) questions:

HF: How did you find this track, any particular reason why you chose this one to edit?
Romain: I found this track in a jazz specialised record shop in Hong Kong with a bunch of other middle eastern influenced records, it couldn’t have been more random to be honest but that’s the beauty of digging for records.
I’ve tried playing it out but i felt it was just missing a little push to make it a bit nastier, to make people go nuts on the dancefloor, so a couple of weird samples, an acid bassline & some touch up later... it became mayhem material (I think).

HF: What would you do if you weren’t making music?
Romain: In my coffin sleeping for eternity.

HF: Any favourite place in town?
Romain: Toilets are my favourite place they are the only place where you can truly be yourself and alone. I came up with my beat ideas taking a dump... everybody knows that but nobody wants to admit it.

HF: What is your favourite saying?
Romain: “Common sense is not that common”

HF: Do you fear karma?
Romain: I live by it, so I don’t fear it.
“You reap what you sow” is another good expression

Sons Of Abudhabi - Sheik Ahmed AlJafar(RFX Dark Edit) #1 - Free download

Co-founder of the Palestinian "Arabs Do It Better" collective, artistic director of the late Anna Loulou Bar in Jaffa, Marwan Hawash is a prolific Dj and a militant for freedom and love on the dancefloor. Regular of slow psychedelic grooves, for his very first edit, he takes the opposite side and proposes a very clubby version of this rare disco rock classic by the french duo Orient Express. 
Hard Fist is proud to release the first track of this talented artist and very good friend of the collective.

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Orient Express - Abdullah Dollar (Marwan "Arabs Do It Better" Hawash edit)#7 - Free download

Finzy Kontini - Cha Cha Cha (Roe Deers Loud Mix)#8 - Free download

"And here we are
Half past three in the morning
I can't get no sleep"

Faithless - Insomnia (Younger Than Me never sleep Edit)#12 - Free download

Wendy Carlos & Rachel Elkin - The Shining Main Theme (Skelesys panic Edit) #14 - Free download

Yvana – Allez Viens (Hysteric heady Edit)#15 - Free download

Criminal Element Orchestra - Do You Like It (Curses evil Edit)#16 - Free download

Tagliabue: "Original track is an electronic piece of music from 1995’s album, full of exotic influences. I found it when I was digging some new sounds from the past years and I really loved it. Later, I decided to re-work on it and I thought about an alternative version. I use to spin slow music (at wrong speed, from 45 to 33 rpm) and the result is a new “slow-tempo” track inspired by Afro-Cosmic and Progressive scenario of the 90’s in Italy."

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G.E.N.E. - Childrens - Green (Tagliabue 'Tribal Italia' Rework)#18 - Free download

HQ DOWNLOAD AVAILABLE ON HARD FIST BANDCAMP. 
Edit by : @6uling 

We had a chat with Guling, Indonisian producer that we met two years ago.

HRDF: how did you discover that track?

Guling: This edit is a tribute to the orignal tracks Bom Nuklir by legendary Indonesian islamic girlband called Nasida Ria, to keep rephrase their message about spreading peace & love to each other, making health therapy by using organic products, rather than having a nuclear power that maybe be a potential to annihilate everyone.
Nasida Ria is very familiar to most Indonesian people, it is played anywhere on TV and radio during Ramadan fasting month.
There was a legendary "Qasidah" girlband in Indonesia. Qasidah was a genre that blends pop music with arabic and muslim culture.

HRDF: why did you choose it for an edit?

Guling: I choose it because most of Indonesian youth were shamed to listen to their music. It wasn't cool, more like a kitsch taste for them. But I want to keep rephrasing their message in today's context, and also to keep bangin' it into the dancefloor hahaha!

HRDF: what do the song's lyrics mean exactly?

Guling: They tell us to keep spreading love to each other,  by planting more plants to save the world or create a medication therapy by using it as an alternative way. Instead of provoking nuclear war.

I think the message works for today's situation. We're not facing a nuclear threat, missiles or something like that anymore. We are facing a virus that can kill anyone.  
In the end, although we facing this shitty situation - we can't go out, we can't make plans, no gig, all tour cancelled - we still need to spread love. To me, it also means that it's time to give rest to mother earth, as it is also said in the song.

Nasida Ria - Bom Nuklir (Gu Ling "Hemat 'NRG" Edit)#26 - Free download

Gilad Kahana - Africa Sheli (N.O.Y & Oded Gafni "Trippy" Remix)
Cornelius Doctor - Mama Gets High
Niv Ast & Rina - Staccato Sentimento
Kincaid - Sequoia Paranoia
Radial Gaze - Hiko Hiko
Omar Joesoef - Track's name not found 
Balam - Danza Hua Hua
Mytron & Ofofo - Comp Driver
Fabio Fabio - La Chimera
Fringe Society - I Have A Heart For Stray Dogs

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Premiere: Gilad Kahana - Africa Sheli (N.O.Y & Oded Gafni "Trippy" Remix)

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Simone - رقه = Rekka (Cheb Runner Acid Edit) #27 - Free download

HQ download available on our Bandcamp page ✊🏽

Follow the artist: Fabrizio Mammarella ⚡️
SC : @mammarella
FB : @fabmammarella
IG : @fabriziomammarella

HF: How did you discover this track?
FM: I was doing research over the lockdown, I was looking for proto techno releases from '88 to '91 and I've found this track on discogs.
It's a german production from '88 released on the amazing ZYX records. 

HF: Can you tell us more about the rework?
FM: The original track contains the famous speech by Martin Luther King "I have a dream" but I've decided to cut it and give more space to the instrumental parts and extend the acid elements. I think it's more effective on the dancefloor now.

Free download!

Out of the Ordinary - The Dream (Fabrizio Mammarella "Hectic"  Edit)#33 - Free download

Follow the artist @mytronmusic
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The story behind the edit: 
"Discogs is king!
I found the tune about two years ago when it was re-issued by Frigio records.
The combination of sounds and vocals just made it perfect for me.
So I made an edit to play it at Razzmatazz."

TodoTodo - Autogas (Mytron edit) #45 - Free download

The story behind the edit:
@aaronmaple first discovered Amira Saqati through a mixtape he was listening to via Soundcloud last fall. He remembers quickly browsing Amira Saqati's discography after the discovery and enjoying many songs from it. Hel Aeynik's vocals and melody got him right away. 
Aaron Maple version is a dancefloor oriented version with more groove to play at peak time. He recorded new drums and a new bassline. And he reorganized the structure and played with samples but kept vocals in the core element of the song.

Amira Saqati - Hel Aeynik (Aaron Maple Edit) #42 - Free download

Creative offspring of the musical fantasies of @Tushen_Rai and @CorneliusDoctor, Hard Fist brings together a passionate, supportive and activist party scene. Celebrating a globalized - but far from rootless - dancefloor where Turkish psychedelia, Lithuanian cold wave, Central African percussion and Indonesian polyphonic chants blend, Hard Fist crosses time and borders with a singular attachment to the folk music of trance, the kind that marks spiritual gatherings and festive rituals. Shaping the technological meeting of man and machine, the Hard Fist sound brings the experience as much on the dancefloor as in the calm of a Bedouin tent, always off the beaten track, with a free heart and clenched fists.

The label has been releasing collective records with artists such as Bawrut, Balam, A-Tweed, Omri Smadar, Matias Aguayo, Fantastic Twins, Philou Louzolo, Deena Abdelwahed, Curses, Dengue Dengue Dengue, Martin Noise, J.A.K.A.M., Omar Joesoef, MR TC, Pletnev, Anastasia Zems, John Parsey, Errortica, The Juan MacLean, Khidja, Roe Deers, Cosmo Vitelli, Ground, Sascha Funke, Fargo Devianti & Vongold, Daniel Monaco, Fringe Society, Elfenberg, Timothy Clerkin, A-Tweed, Ko Shin Moon, Lokier, Pletnev, nICo, Strapontin, Simple Symmetry, Que Sakamoto, Kubebe, Jonathan Kusum, Kaan Duzarat, Los Ninos Del Parque, Feller, Mekine U Teksi, Bab, Linja, Lion's Drum, Mishell, Ayma, Kincaid, Balam, Juan To Tree, Mytron & Ofofo, Niv Ast, Damon Jee, Thomass Jackson, Rina, Fabio Me Llaman Soltero, Hipless, N.O.Y, Oded Gafni, Radial Gaze, Fabio Fabio, Omar Joesoef, Da Iguana, Neskeh, Warum and all artists that collaborated to our edit series Re-Phrase Collection...

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