Split Second (live take)

Ciao tutti ~ was back on NTS Radio for a new episode ~ à la carte this spring 🌸

🌑 Cosmic update ~ Taurus New Moon bringing grounded new beginnings ~ time to nurture what truly supports us, emotionally, spiritually & financially.

✨🌀 Guest mix by the legendary Efdemin aka Phillip Sollmann ~ a deep, raw, hypnotic journey with pulsing textures and hidden vocal whispers ~ a techno ritual blooming just in time for spring spirits 🦋💌
He’s been a big inspiration to me from day one, and I’m so honoured to welcome him onto the show this month 🥰🙏 Grazie mille Efdemin 💫

Link in the usual spot 🖇️
Artwork by @mete.fyi

~ with love & gratitude ~
GiGi 🧜‍♀️

NTS RADIO GiGi FM PRESENTS EFDEMIN APRIL 2025

Over the past few years, German DJ Marie Montexier has built and cemented her reputation as one of the finest groove merchants around, gracing the stages of the most highly-regarded clubs and festivals out there including Berghain, Fabric, De School and more. Her eclectic selections tap into the broadest spectrum of rhythms and influences, from tribal-informed electronics to straight out surgical indus-minded payload onto breaksy delicacies, propulsive house NRG and jagged funk from outer-space. Highly infectious, here goes an all vinyl mix fusing wild dynamics with deadeye DJing accuracy, oozing unclouded raving joy and out-and-out confidence. A no-miss delivery from a DJ in full possession of her art. 

soundcloud.com/mariemontexier

Reclaim Your City 650 | Marie Montexier

Recorded at SOUNDIT Plaza in Barcelona on 5 April 2025.

“IF THIS ISNT RA MIX OF THE DAY WE’LL STOP PRESSING PLAY 🤪"

Blasha b2b Allatt b2b Steffi b2b Virginia @ SOUNDIT Plaza (Barcelona)

"Designing clubs is about understanding psychology." The famed architects talk about bringing emotions, durability and hidden logic into era-defining nightlife spaces.

How do you design the world's best clubs? Studio Karhard, the architecture firm started by Thomas Karsten and his wife, Alexandra Erhard, in 2003, know exactly which ingredients go into a successful nightlife space. The Berlin-based duo are the visionaries behind Berghain and ∄ in Kyiv, as well as a number of private residences, businesses and smaller venues around the world. Their specialty, they say, is salvaging forgotten spaces and resurrecting them to serve a new purpose.

In this RA Exchange, Karsten talks about first coming across the building that's now Berghain and working tirelessly with engineers and city planners to preserve its neoclassical facade. As he explains, creating a memorable atmosphere goes beyond just designing for aesthetics. There are countless hidden design features that serve to make venues like Berghain comfortable.

But according to Karsten, Studio Karhard's masterpiece is ∄, which they began designing in 2018. He describes the special experience of first visiting the abandoned brewery—which was then in extreme disrepair—and bringing the lessons they took away from building Berghain to make this Ukrainian space their most successful project yet.

This episode takes a look under the hood of the psychology, anthropology and emotional study that inform the venues that have shaped underground electronic music culture. Listen to it in full. -Chloe Lula

EX.775 Studio Karhard (Berghain, K41)

Nuremberg’s Agy3na is up next in the Podcast roster with a call to explore his singular and nostalgic beats. The German selector got his break on his city’s dancefloors, and added experience as curator and organiser for a number of parties as part of a local promoter collective. Alongside his nighttime ventures, the fledgling talent has also been hard at work pursuing parallel studies in psychology and cognitive science, adding another layer to a varied set of inputs that has made his contributions to music all the more distinctive. There’s another layer too, his experience of blackness in Germany has brought him in contact with the world of Afrofuturism and the promise it brings, soundtracked now by a developing voice that packs a punch with its playful take on electro, house and 90s club culture. It’s music for the future, an aesthetic that plays with melody, percussion and fine-tuned technique to offer up a fresh take on old genres. In his new stomping ground of Leipzig, Dennis Höpfel blends music with research work and is sure to give the city something new and much needed. From set to set his thrashing rhythms have shown a sensitivity and awareness that’s deeply personal, a way of connecting with the world around him and giving something back. Bassiani Podcast 269 is one you don’t want to miss, an hour long studio mix loaded with rubbery basslines straight from the astral plane, Agy3na’s blazing a trail ahead and no-one’s going to stop him.

@agy3na

Bassiani invites AGY3NA / Podcast #269

Opening for schick.standort 23/08/25 @amp-muenster

Live set from 08/23/25 at the club Jasna 1. T9 party. Play time from 23:00-00:30. Opening set.
Vinyl + Cdj.
Genres:
House 
Tech house
Trance

SLOWMODE /T9 @ JASNA 1 (OPENING SET)

Live recording from my closing set @ Pawnshop, Taipei (July 2025)

Artwork: Event flyer

Blue Hour @ Pawnshop, Taipei (4hr closing set)

Tbilisi stalwart BMI brings his esoteric sound to Zenaari’s Podcast series for this next instalment. The Georgian DJ is a heavy-hitting talent on home turf, frequently stalking the capital’s venues and actively involved in several cutting-edge collectives and projects like Substract, Octachoron, Fear Pollution, 3 Suli, and Soulvent. His fluid, ever-mutating sound is smart and expansive techno that’s plugged into a wide scope of references from the outer fringes of experimental music, tying them neatly together and offering a reflective take on contemporary electronics that challenges and rewards its listeners. Clocking in at 62 minutes, this episode offers a glimpse of the inner workings of BMI’s mind: sounds that click, shift and refract, not a one out of place and coming together in a fuzzy, echoing whole. Forward-looking, resourceful and teeming with Tbilisi energy, Zenaari Mix 019 is a taste of BMI’s innovative sound, a fresh and stirring addition to the Zenaari Podcast roster.

@bmi_ghostnote

1.  The Beneficiaries - Metallic Stars
2.  Kirk Degiorgio - The Stars, Your Makers
3.  Hanker - Ringing Waves
4.  Dold - Unidentified Frequency Oscillator
5.  FU-5 - Izar
6.  Allen - Empty Space
7.  Translate - Magnetic Emissions
8.  Dopplereffekt - Dimension 11
9.  Monolake - Error
10.  30drop - Fading Whispers
11.   Error Channel - Vemion Pulsa
12.  Jamie Bissmire - Subteranium
13.  Ear to Ear - Live Recordings D
14.  Hugo Rolan - Entorno Hostil
15.  Jeff Mills -  Arriving [The Crystal Universe]
16.  Oisel - Entropia
17.  ASC - Dying Star
18.  Pianeti Sintetici - Matrice
19.  Evod, Vincenzo Saetta, Ernesto Bolognini - Tre San
20.  Aleksi Perälä - FI3AC2410009
21.  SØS Gunver Ryberg - We tumble on the edges
22.  Ø - Loihdittu
23.  Drexciya - Habitat 'O' Negative
24.  Franck Vigroux - Styx
25.  Ryoji Ikeda - ultratronics 05
26.  Echelon - Signals Reaching Earth
27.  Marcelo Antonio - Ultimo en la fila

Zenaari Mix 019 - BMI

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Split Second (live take)

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