Ho ho ho, the mystery-shrouded Rrose - named after Marcel Duchamp’s eponymous persona, punches in right on cue for Xmas with an absolute monster of a two-hour jaunt into their exquisitely twisted headspace. Having served up some of the finest techno slabs of the past decade through the likes of Sandwell District, Stroboscopic Artefacts and now their own dedicated imprint, Eaux, Rrose steps in the series with a bonkers mix of dusty techno hustle-and-bustle, neatly alternating sequences of pumping 4x4 aerobatics, searing, noise-adjacent outbursts and eerie melodies to hypnotic effect. A constant balancing act of raw power and haunting score, Rrose’s RYC mix takes us on a deep and fascinating trip into genre-unbound territories, where only abandon and wildness reign supreme. Happy EOY celebrations, y’all! See you in 2024. 

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01. Free Free Palestine! (chant)
02. Habits of Hate - Limelight Roles - Electronic Explorations
03. Ø [Phase] - module overload pt 1 - Cosmic
04. Regis - Cold Water - Downwards
05. Wata Igarashi - Haziest Just Before The Dawn (Svreca Remix1) - Bitta
06. Ma Sha - Are They Back - CEE
07. JK Flesh - Empty Words (Rrose remix) - KR3 (upcoming)
08. Metapattern - Assimilation - Mord
09. RS Tangent - Bovine Overbite - Trilogy Tapes
10. Bookworms - Bluephoria
11. CAIV - Shamanfreude - Tresor
12. Dj Deeon - Off - Dance Mania
13. Nikos - Metaturnal - Flippen Disks
14. Priori & Al Wootton - Leniency - Trule
15. Mad Zach - Tunnel Snare
16. CAIV - Ötzi - Tresor
17. Bias - Rest Energy - Diffuse Reality
18. Conceptual - 200 camels and a hot desert - Conceptual
19. Quelza - My Eyes Are Closed - Newrhythmic
20. Altinbas - Spoken Word - Token
21. WTCHCRFT - Shake It (Nikki Nair’s Shook Mix)
22. Azu Tiwaline - Blowing Flow - IOT
23. Rrose vs Octo Octa - unreleased
24. Rrose vs Speedy J - unreleased
25. Carrier - Fathom - Felt
26. Rrose vs Polygonia - unreleased
27. Rrose vs Polygonia - unreleased
28. Pocopo - Segre - AEDI
29. Tsimtsum - Konvoi
30. A4 - Optical Device - Faut Section
31. Mad Zach - Strangeloop
32. Skee mask - Cylo - Ilian Tape
33. Bas Dobbelaer - HSS-01 - Trule
34. Fergus Sweetland - Gangalang - Illegal Alien
35. Trolley Route - A Transcendence Of The Individual - Semantica
36. Al Wootton - Russell - Trule
37. Ruman - Three Butts Are Enough - Warm Up
38. Notzing - Molniya - Warm Up
39. Maurizio - Eleye - M1
40. Ladan - Knives - Sublunar
41. Potter Natalizia Zen / PNZ -  Magari - Ecstatic
42. Tony Conrad - Four Violins (Table of the Elements, 1964)
43. Cheryl E. Leonard - Frozen Over

Reclaim Your City  

Reclaim Your City 571 | Rrose

An electronic music duo from Macedonia, currently based in Skopje. The name Binary Thoughts may speak for itself, but there is a much deeper meaning embedded within.
The ancestral way of thinking has always been 'binary'. To understand nature and all its phenomena, we made a world of oppositions (day/night, sun/moon, male/female). Where the law of "all or nothing” rules, there is no in-between. But the reality is indeed always more complex and more interconnected than what our 'perception' of the world suggests.
This perception beyond this “all or nothing” connected Ana Bogatinovska and Jovana Gjorgievska. At first strangers to each other, they met at a music festival in their native country; And after a long discussion about electronic music, they've decided to do a project that will connect their somewhat different but similar taste in electronic music.
Their melancholic, delicate and hypnotic sounds use 'binary thinking' as a motor to press on to a third term or a higher category that represents a transcending reconciliation or unity: where thesis and antithesis are always harnessed to yield a synthesis. Where seemingly opposite or contrary forces may actually be complementary: Yin and Yang.
Currently, they are exploring the vast horizons of deep and hypnotic soundscapes, intending to create their unique blend of creativity to start releasing their music.

@binarythoughts

[09] Focus: Binary Thoughts

Live recording from Acquario in Masada, Milan 30.11.24

Photo by Valeria G

Yogg at Acquario, Milan 30.11.2024

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Luigi Tozzi (live) - Upclose 2025

Electric Indigo, DJ, composer, musician has performed in 46 countries across Europe, Asia, and the Americas. She represents an intelligent and distinguished interpretation of techno and electronic music. In 1998 she founded the transnational female:pressure network for which she received an Honorary Mention at Prix Ars Electronic in 2009. The Republic of Austria awarded her with the Kunstpreis Musik in 2020. Kirchmayr creates music for concert spaces and clubs, and occasionally for stage plays and short films. In her compositions and live performances, she emphasizes the spatial placement and precise structures of subtly elaborated sounds, often generated with granular synthesis. She premiered her works at festivals like Wien Modern, Musikprotokoll, CTM or Heroines of Sound and composed for Klangforum Wien. Her debut album “5 1 1 5 9 3” came out on Imbalance Computer Music, followed by "Ferrum" on Editions Mego in 2020. With her new audiovisual concert, Electric Indigo combines her music with a distinct love for colors and abstract forms. She is currently working on her third solo album.

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01. Electric Indigo - ferrum 6 [Editions Mego 271]
02. Lewis Fautzi - Constant Proportions [Faut Section 066]
03. Carrier - Slow Punctures [Carrier CRRR003]
04. Electric Indigo - Vienna Percussion [Art Bei Ton VA006]
05. Sigvard - Void Resonance [EvilGroove 010]
06. ANFS - Sintagi [Renegade Methodz 20]
07. Drucal - Nuevo Comienzo [Virescence M-01]
08. Sap - Calibando [Alchemista 022]
09. Bill Youngman - Slider [Blank Code LTD017]
10. Lewis Fautzi - Parallel Paths [Faut Section 066]
11. Ketzaal - Magnolia [Edit Select 233D]
12. Kessell - Hidden Echoes [PoleGroup 077]
13. Zvrra - Anion [HELLHEAVEN 02]
14. Exit To Tomorrow - Lebanon [Tar Hallow 032]
15. Mukuna - Nguya [OMOB 002]
16. Zvrra - Wooden Rain Tool QEONE 014[]
17. Paula Koski - Mem Wrap [Soma 683D]
18. DJ Doomscroll - Doomscroll [Fever AM 15]
19. Barker - Difference and Repetition [Smalltown Supersound 434LP]
20. RNGD - Kontrol [Edit Select 234D]
21. Ikari - Cuatro Tiempos [Inguma 026]
22. Nadia Struiwigh - Echoing Glade [The Third Room 016]
23. Lady Starlight & Jon Hester - Bat [Participation 008]
24. Commodo x Gantz - Left Hand Path [Ilian Tape X038]
25. Nastia Reigel - If So Then [Falling Ethics 021]
26. Oscar Mulero - La Loma [Falling Ethics 025]
27. Impérieux - Fena [Hessle Audio 048]
28. Metapattern - Kinabalu [Mord CAS009]
29. Stef Mendesidis - Spectral Transmission [Exaiter 01]
30. Broken English Club - Prisoner [Dekmantel UFO 15]
31. Hemka - Cryonis [Nerudo 002]
32. Tensal - Aczio [Void+1 020D]
33. Dynamic Forces - Radiant [ARTS CORE027]
34. Low End Activist - Airdrop  09 (Cortina Outro) [Low End Activism 005]
35. NVST - Backseat Queen (Boss Version) [OMOB 002]
36. Zvrra - Qualion [HELLHEAVEN 02]
37. Hemka - Rave Against The Machine [Noise Manifesto 10.2]
38. Kai Galactic - Engage [Registros Siderales 001]
39. Hemka - Fragrance [Mutual Rytm 020]
40. Catnapp - the way back (feat. Modeselektor) [Monkeytown 120]
41. Monolake - Prime Lundy [Imbalance ML-036]
42. Carré - Clicked [Tempa 120]
43. Claudio PRC - Kāla [Delsin 161dsr]
44. Carré - Faded Form [Tempa 120|
45. JakoJako - Kumquat [Mute STUMM513]

DifferentSound invites Electric Indigo / Podcast #337

Andy Martin | Vault Sessions, TILLATEC | 28 JUNE 2025

@philippapacho is like a musical Swiss knife: she has exactly the right tool for every occasion, from warm-ups to peak time to wonky afters. It was a long residency at Under Bron in her native Stockholm that equipped her with those skills, and since moving to Berlin, she's gone on to make her mark across Europe playing all forms of techno. Late last year, Pacho launched her own label Phorum Records as a further extension of her sound, and she also curates tracks and parties under the Positive Source banner.

This August, Pacho joins us at Amsterdamse Bos for Dekmantel 2025 but first serves up this deeply cerebral trip into Millsian techno. It's a high-speed selection of sleek and synth-laced sounds rich in narrative, be that mind-melting urgency, more dark and moody undercurrents or a sense of cosmic unknown. Utterly timeless and effortless classic, this is techno in its most futuristic form. 

Dekmantel Mix 493 - Philippa Pacho

Sandrien @ CS Radio - 07/04/2025

The French techno and IDM producer shares a “fluid, open and evolving” mix 

Dazed Mix: Quelza

Bassiani Podcast 272 brings together two techno heavy-hitters for a three-hour bout of heady, rolling grooves. In one corner comes Georgian mainstay and grassroots agitator NDRX, a formative member of Tbilisi's techno contingent. His early efforts in expanding the city's nightlife offerings helped drive radical change, and shaped the decades since. His mission further translated into the founding of Stare at DJ (2012), and 11th Floor (2015). Both are vehicles for the gathering and promotion of local talent without which, Georgia today would look much different. In the other corner comes Dustin Zahn, a midwestern champion for tribal rhythms and pulsating hypnotism. Heavily armed with a flurry of references including the brain-melting IDM of the late 90s and iconoclastic beats, Dustin founded Enemy Records in 2004. In recent years, he has made appearances on labels like Blueprint, Token, and Rekids. He also hosts the Trainwrecks Podcast, an outlet for intimate face-to-face chats with industry peers. This storied duo are a menacing match, a b2b pairing that manifests the adrenaline-fueled techno native to both their sounds and whips up a sum greater than both its parts. This latest number is a bout of fevered techno havoc devised by two sonic confrères, an auditory onslaught of hammering loops recorded live at Bassiani's season closing night.

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@dustin-zahn

Bassiani invites Ndrx b2b Dustin Zahn / Podcast #272

R-N 123 . TRACK LIST :

1 . Athem
2 . Mojave
3 . Odd Sympathy
4 . Pruitt Igoe . ( or version )
5 . Or
6 . Mirrors
7 . Coracoid Process
8 . En Amaryllis Jour
9 . Lea vaila Scheme
10 . Monsters
11 . La Belle

CREDITS	

All tracks written and produced by Kangding Ray
Voices and lyrics on Pruitt Igoe, Coracoid Process and Odd Sympathy by Magne Mostue.
Voices on Athem and Monsters by Rose Tizane Merrill.
Words on Monsters freely pirated from « T.A.Z, the temporay autonomous zone, ontological anarchy, poetic terrorism » by Hakim Bey . ( anti-copyright, 1985, 1991 ) Available at www.autonomedia.org
Progressive keys on Or by Ben Frost
Drums on Coracoid Process and Or performed by Yacine Djeradi
Percussions on Odd Sympathy performed by Achille Farese
Salamander Modular synth for Monsters wired by Matia Simovich
Mastered by Andreas « Lupo » Lubich at Dubplates & Mastering Berlin
©2010 . raster-noton . r-n 123

Press text :	

After the Pruitt Igoe E.P, Kangding Ray returns with his third album for raster-noton, pushing further his explorations on the edge of digital and analog sounds. With OR, Kangding Ray continues to blur the borders between experimental and bass music, and brings his signature sound to another level, somewhere at the darkest fringe of club culture.
With the massive metallic beats of « athem », the frightening distorded waves of « Mojave », the elevated groove of « Odd Sympathy », the modulated guitar walls of « Leavaila Scheme », or the low-bitrate Everest of « La Belle », KR creates deep atmospheres, loaded with echoes of collapsing economies, dysfunctional political systems, and corporate alienation.In an abstract manner, OR depicts the desillusions of modern civilizations, while initiating a positive reflection on crisis as a creative state.
OR (« gold » in french), as the only chemical element that seems to keep its value for eternity, refers to the cult of endless consumption and the absurdity of fluctuating currency valuations, while in english, as a logical operator or grammatical conjunction, OR represents the possibility of another choice, an « inclusive disjunction » which suggests that there might be another answer, a different path to follow.
Noticeable inputs have been provided by Ben Frost, who composed a keyboard line for « Or », Rose Tizane Merrill who lend her voice to the anarchist poem « Monsters », and Magne Mostue who wrote the words and sang on « Coracoid Process » as well as the vocal version of the prophetic electronic mantra « Pruitt Igoe ».

07 Coracoid Process

From his early releases on the legendary german imprint raster-noton, to his more recent output aimed at the club, Kangding Ray managed to trace a singular trajectory, navigating the unexplored territories between experimental music and dance music.

Through his consistency as both Live performer and DJ, and a number of critically acclaimed releases, Kangding Ray showed his ability to keep a genuine artistic approach, while slowly crafting a unique universe, equally focused on emotional response and visceral impact.

Kangding Ray’s music tests boundaries, evolving constantly in its exploration of texture and rhythms, while talking equally to the body and the mind.
From his past as architect, Kangding Ray kept a multidisciplinary approach to art, applying his craft in diverse artistic fields such as visual arts, film scores, audiovisual installations and dance performances.