Cracking set, cheers Hikari.  👌😁👍🙏

A live recording of my set from Mind Boggling Tunes 002 at Basing House on the 21st October 2022. 

This set gives a serious insight into some of my fave dirty psychedelic techno beats! 3hrs of journey techno that just keeps rolling and rolling. 

I think at one point I took out the wrong track! Ooooopsyy! But otherwise its badass!!

Sam Strutt @ Mind Boggling Tunes 002

Umloud - Alchemy Circle - Boom Festival 2023

Had the fattest time playing my tunes for the homies down in Melbourne! I hope you enjoy the recording of my set :) little sneak peak at a few new releases scheduled for the first half of the year. 

Set List:

One, Two - Audible Thought [Digital Structures]
Vibrations - Audible Thought [Techgnosis Records]
I.D - Audible Thought [Forthcoming on Digital Structures]
The Feeling - Audible Thought [Alpaka Muzik]
Wishful Thinking (2024 Edit) - Audible Thought [Forthcoming on Techgnosis Records]
New Flex - Audible Thought [Techgnosis Records]
I.D - Audible Thought [Forthcoming on Digital Stuctures]
Ego Death - Daniel Ladox, Murk Tenet (Audible Thought Remix) [Alpaka Muzilk]
I.D - Reuben Stroud & Audible Thought [Forthcoming on Zenon Records]
I.D - River & Audible Thought [Forthcoming on Techgnosis Records]
I.D - Audible Thought [Forthcoming on Techgnosis Records]

Capture's 4th Birthday 2024 - Audible Thought

This set was crafted for Summer Camp 2025 - Rhythm. Dani Boden’s (The event organizer) invitation to weave in tracks that moved us on our artistic journeys struck a deep chord with me. My rhythmic journey began in 2001, and by 2003 I was behind the decks, immersed in the high-energy world of Hard Trance and Hard House.

For this special set, I revisited that era—reviving signature sounds, samples, and energy that shaped my foundation as an artist. I mashed up elements from my early Hard Trance days with modern and older Progressive Psy Trance to create a bridge between past and present—a rhythmic story told through sound.

I played Saturday at midnight, taking over from Dave Irish who closed on 132 BPM Psy Tech, and setting the stage for Arcane who kicked off at 142 BPM. It was a transition zone—perfect for a journey.

This set is both a nod to where I come from and a celebration of where I’m headed. Some old, some new, all rhythm.

Thanks for listening and for supporting all the incredible artists whose tracks are featured throughout this set.

Tracklist
01. Sphera – Too Soon (Original Mix)
02. Groundbass – There Is a Light (Original Mix)
03. Sphera, Freedom Fighters – Better Future (Original Mix)
04. Durs, Who Knows? – Evergreen (Original Mix)
05. Symphonix – Certain Frequency
06. Emok, Gaudium, Phaxe, Martin Vice – Ost (Sighter Extended Remix)
07. Ritmo, Asgard – Dunes (Original Mix)
08. Jacob, Sorent – Pieces (Original Mix)
09. Durs – Creator (Original Mix)
10. Morten Granau – Spacelab (Original Mix)
11. Synthatic, Blazy – The Arrival (Original Mix)
12. Krama vs Tiësto – Gauavista for Strings (BONGI Mashup)
13. Osher & Orpheus vs Dumonde – Never Look Back at 1998 (BONGI Mashup)
14. Static Movement – Element of Freedom (Original Mix)
15. Hidden Space – Another Life
16. Kalki – Phoenix (Original Mix)
17. Antinomy – Flames (Original Mix)
18. Niels Van Gogh, ANNA (BR) – Pulverturm (ANNA Rework – Extended)
19. Formula None – Oracle (Original Mix)
20. Audiofire (UK) – Machine Minds (Original Mix)
21. Phaxe, Morten Granau – Long Story Short (Osher Remix)
22. Moonclipse – Dunya (Omiki & Terra Remix)
23. Neelix – Complication Remix (White Label)
24. Neelix, Caroline Harrison – Makeup (Blazy Remix)

Summer Camp: Rhythm 2025

Welcome to another Zadventure - this time to the darker side. 

I had the incredible opportunity to play a Zad Blue set to a packed dance floor at the 2025 Rabbits Eat Lettuce Festival on Saturday midnight in QLD, Australia. 

I hope you enjoy this journey through darker sounds of psy and bush prog techno. 

Feel free to leave a comment if you have any questions or feedback – I’d love to hear from you!

Leave a comment with the minute reference if you want the track ID, and I will message you. 

One Love.
Zad

Zad Blue Set - Rabbits Eat Lettuce Festival 2025

DJ set from Existance Festival 2025 - absolutely loved playing every bit of this one! Thankyou to all the dance floor inhabitants bringing the energy!!

Existance Festival 2025 DJ Set

AlpaKast 066 --> CUBEX [Switzerland] - 4-HOUR SET 

We’re proud to present an uncompromising 4-hour sonic odyssey from Cubex, recorded live at Bassdart — an underground gathering where raw energy meets deep frequencies.

This set captures the full essence of Cubex's signature sound: hypnotic grooves, relentless rhythms, and a masterful journey through psychedelic techno, industrial textures, and mind-bending sound design. From peak-time chaos to shadowy minimal pulses, this one’s a ride.

No edits. No overdubs. 100% live and in the moment.

🌀 Turn the lights off, press play, and disappear for 4 hours.
🧬 Only on the AlpaKa MuziK SoundCloud.

Follow Cubex at https://soundcloud.com/cubextechno

AlpaKast 066 --> CUBEX [Switzerland] - 4-HOUR SET

Recorded in memory of Noisily Festival which was held in the UK from 2011 to 2024. An annual gathering of colourful, crazy, wonderful people in an English woodland. Filled with adventure and surprises and powered by jaw-dropping sound and lights, Noisily Festival was a special place that will live long in the memory. This mix is inspired by the many artists heard and music performed there over many years, and winds its way from house through techno to progressive psy trance. 

Track list:

Intro (Hamish's Noisily Frequency Mash-Up)
Marsh, Nox Van - Come Together (Live from Natural Bridge State Park, Kentucky)
Michael Senna - All in Vain (Blond-ish Remix)
Emok & DJuma Soundsystem - Osuga
Wavers - Huwol
D-Nox & Beckers - Last Call
Oliver Koletski - They Can’t Hold Me Back
Brassica - Tears I Can Afford (Bicep Remix)
The Alexander - Her Crown (Atmos Remix)
Victor Ruiz & KALIL - Clouds and Star (Victor Ruiz Remix)
John Monkman - Ketosis
Township Rebellion - The Review
D-Nox & Beckers - Control (James Harcourt Remix)
Junior Reid & Yotto (One Blood)
Jos & Eli - Atomica (Yotto Remix)
James Monro - Rise
Oliver Koletski - Through the Darkness
Nicorus & Sawatzki - Dust to Dust (Unique Repeat Remix)
SQL - Undiscovered
Sasha & Super Flu (Sasha’s Daydream Mix) 
Vakabular - Proper Time
Freq - Strange Attractors (Green Lake Project Remix)
Ace Ventura - Presence
Protonica - Sojuz
Space Cat & Lish - Dark Horizons
Visua - Ibogaine
Animato & Gaudium - Heart Beat
Antinomy - State of Mind
Allaby - Black Sands
Liftshift & Cimi - Big Hookah (Multiphase Remix)
Emok, Martin Vice, Vini Vici - In & Out (Liquid Soul Remix) 
Altered State - LSD
Antinomy - Signs of Light
Infected Mushroom - Never Ever Land (LOUD Remix)
Ace Ventura - The Light
Outro

In Celebration of Noisily Festival

Wowweee - good vibes all around at Grow Hackney with Grassroots Grooves awesome event! 🔥

Have a listen to my set, feel the progression, soak up the tunes & let the music take you to all realms of imagination… 🌟

A massive thanks to all of the artists👇🏼

Bondarev, Dowden, Ruben Karapetyan, Alan Cerra, Stan Kolev & Matan Caspi, Innēr Sense, Rodrigo Lapena, R3cycle, Boundless, Vakabular, Vom Feisten, Daniel Neuland, NoNameLeft, Clap Codex, Luis M & HNGT, Kaufmann, Giancarlo Di Chiara, Droplex, Lampé, Junior, Greenwolve, Kreisel, Monococ 🙏🏼

Hikari - Grassroots Grooves Melodic Tech / Psytech Set 🌃 🌠

My set from the Psybercell stage at MauiWaui Festival last Summer, 2024. Recorded live and featuring some of my fave trance tracks. A real mix of retro, neo-retro and straight up bangers. 

A journey. Enjoy the ride. 



Sam Strutt LIVE @ MauiWaui Festival // Psybercell 2024

My set from the Funky Beach at Boom Festival 2025

One Million Toys @ Boom Festival's Funky Beach 2025 (20/07/2025)

Born in Somerset, corrupted in London! Hikari is an up-and-coming Psytrance DJ based in the UK.

He is drawn to the uncompromising beat, galactic power synths, spiritual melodic themes, and hypnotic groove that is so characteristic of Psytrance.

Having discovered Psytrance at the age of 18, travelling to major festivals and falling in love with both the beautiful music and the loving, energetic community it encompasses, his passion for Psy continues to grow.

Whether listening with an artist’s ear or dancing with a raver’s feet, Hikari has long felt an intimate relationship with the music, and so the natural progression was to find his way playing his favourite artists at his favourite events, delivering an epic and memorable selection of the most powerful tracks in the genre, with his unique and lively style of dancing.

Hikari longs to make a lasting impression in his DJ career, playing at respected venues across the UK and throughout the world 💙

Hikari - Grassroots Grooves Melodic Tech / Psytech Set 🌃 🌠

Hikari

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