friday at sustain-release 2021, 12-2am. thank you karen nicole for the photo :)

thank you @sustain-release-nyc

livwutang @ Sustain-Release Year 7

live at @sustain-release-nyc 2021, main stage saturday night 1-2:30am
thanx to everyone involved, big energy!! <3

dj fart in the club @ sustain-release year 7 (2021)

(tracklist below) 

This is part 1 of 3 of the recording from my set at Nowadays Nonstop on April 7, 2024.

I played from 9am-3pm, between JASSS and Bearcat, and it was one of the most creatively fulfilling sets I can remember playing – one of those sets where the audience, environment, atmosphere, tech setup, phase of the moon, whatever, all somehow lined up for a full 6 hours. And happily, the recording is maybe my favorite I’ve managed to capture to date. Huge thanks to Kristin for inviting me and to everyone who was there that morning.


TRACKLIST – PART 1 – 9am – 11am

Moritz Von Oswald – Opaco
La Fe – Alta
Xcor – transmission
Levl – Nullpunkt #4
DB1 – B5
Es.Tereo – Temple of Ra
Skeptical, dBridge – Poor & Poverty
Last Life – Hope Killer
Metrist – GMFGR
Fracture & Deft – I Just
Reeko – Rooted
Massive Attack – Inertia Creeps (Floating On Dubwise)
Overlook – Phantom
Scotch Rolex and Shackleton – The Eleventh Voyage
Cortex of Light – Key Hall Mix
Sote – Kangaroo Court
Meo & Steve – Global Village (Funk Version)
Ali – Abyadh Aswad
Kalua feat. Dj Brahms – Brain
Hysterical Love Project – Boyracer
Scorn – Exodus
El Alfa, El Mayor Clasico, Chael Produciendo – Galapin
Osheyack & Nahash – Bait (Florentino Remix)
Material – Reality Dub
Golden Bug – Tokoyo No Kuni (Wolf Müller Remix)
Tammo Hesselink – Work Work Work
Robo-Gnostic – Ghost Rider
Sea Of Disillusions – Voodoo Heaven
Om – Brother That (Tribal Om Acid Remix)
Mosca – Thin That Blood Down
Timeblind – Come Back Wicked (Original Mix)
Pluralist – Body
Einstürzende Neubauten – Yü-gung (Fütter mein Ego)
Piezo – Skinner
Hypna feat. Warrior Queen – Rolling Deep
Kouslin – Michael
Siu Mata – Vaalbara
TEACHI feat. カクマクシャカ – Esther
vromb – emphase
Two Dogs in a House – Dogs DJ Tool
Neon – Voices
The Knife – We Share Our Mothers's Health
Unknown Artist – Spider Crab [Sacred Stones 01]
Ssiege – Drama Lover


Artwork by Brodie Kaman

Live at Nowadays 7 April 2024

Live at Nowadays 7 April 2024 - Part 1

Another Barker masterclass.

Sam Barker asks more from techno. The artist known simply as Barker is one of electronic music's most consistently conscientious and curious producers, challenging listeners to question the norms we accept about our shared culture—whether it's the music that fills the room, the process behind it, or the purpose of the space itself.

British-born yet based in Berlin since 2007, Barker forged a connection to many of the city's leading institutions, including Ostgut Ton, and over the course of a long and fruitful relationship, he carved out one of the more singular paths on the club and label's roster.

Not one for orthodoxy, Barker challenged four-to-the-floor techno framework in favor of melodic experimentation. By decentering or completely stripping away the typical trappings of kick drums and claps, his productions are both light and immersive, buoyant in low-end presence and shimmering in weightless space.

Six years after Utility, his sophomore album Stochastic Drift arrives this month. Shaped by pandemic-driven reinvention, it burrows deeper into harmonic twists and freeform drift. "At some point I became conscious of the process," he wrote of his latest album. "The only thing you can do is embrace the uncertainty and see every change as a potential positive.”

Consider his RA Podcast another sequel. Like his much-beloved 2019 mix for FACT, it's a collage of live recordings and a fitting expression of the artist's own internal spring. RA.982 radiates wide-eyed optimism: percussion cloaked in foggy, swirling pads and trance-like chords, neatly synched in synthetic glimmers. 

All in all, it's an hour of music crafted for contemplation, collective euphoria, or heads-down epiphany—or for that matter, any moment, really, its emotive depth seemingly endless.

@voltek

Find the tracklist and Q&A at ra.co/podcast/982

RA.982 Barker

Tripped-out excursions through percussive club music with the Nowadays resident.

Ayesha Chugh, AKA Ayesha, makes club music that activates the body. The Brooklyn-based artist has spent the last few years carving out a distinct lane in modern club music. Her fusion of dubstep, techno and essential '90s rave elements into dynamite club tools that test and support dancers in equal measure. This time though, for her RA Podcast, Chugh purposefully tilts in a "more colorful wonky direction."

Since first turning heads with releases on labels like Fever AM and Kindergarten Records, she’s continued to refine a sound that feels both playful and punishing, marked by writhing basslines, rumbling drums and an innate ability to make bodies move. Her productions capture a kind of kinetic precision—tracks that are slippery yet forceful, balancing psychedelic textures with dubstep-like physicality and club-focused power. As Andrew Ryce wrote of her debut, Rhythm is Memory, her skill is "full of textures that wrap around the otherwise thudding, sub-heavy kick drums." After a serious accident in 2024 stopped her in her tracks, this year marks a full return to global touring with a new vantage point on life and the sound she seeks to push.

RA.983, clocking in at nearly two and a half hours, finds Chugh flexing that club muscle once again. Offering a tour through global club music both old and new, it's based around a set at her home base Nowadays this February. It's a patient but relentless ride: from deep, tunneling psytrance, progressive techno and slippery electro before really turning on the gas at the half mark, moving into slanted UK techno territory.

As she explains in the Q&A, it's a carefully curated selection of tracks that probes "what we perceive as tasteful." It's a mix that speaks to her deep knowledge of dance music’s lineage—and her intuitive ability to push it forward.

@aye5ha
Find the interview and tracklist at ra.co/podcast/983

RA.983 Ayesha

My set (with crowd noise) from the Grove Saturday Night 1-3am, after Djrum, before Identified Patient. 

Out to all the sexy witches of the forest, thank you to everytone there + entire crew @sustain-release-nyc :)

<3 Mastered by the best @wordcolour

CCL @ Sustain-Release Year Ten

I’m sharing my set from @nowadaysnyc from February, closing out the Sunday evening of the Nonstop party after Ayesha's crazy set. This was one of my favourite moments DJing ever I think. Pure synergy in one of my favourite places to play in the world.

The first track is something new from me, keep your eyes peeled more info soon. 👀

Theres a load of genre hopping over the four hours but everything felt quite natural and seamless, taking things from peak time bass music down to a soft house music landing with a few twists and turns along the way.

Beautiful and affirming moment dancefloor moments are not to be taken for granted! Much love to everyone who danced.

Batu @ Nowadays Nonstop - NYC [16th Feb 2025]

(lip) service edt. 5 Maara

I Wish (Extended Mix)

Freerotation Festival (a.k.a. the highlight of every year a.k.a. the four best dancefloors on the planet) was on top form this year – it's always a total joy to play and spend the weekend there and I'm really happy to share the recording of my set. I was playing second-to-last on Sunday night in Room 1, between XDB and Sebastian Mullaert, so I figured I'd leave out the drastic tempo shifts and just have A LOAD OF FUN keeping the party going instead, maybe coaxing out a couple of end-of-festival tears in the process.

If you were there then millions of thanks to you, there's no bunch of people I'd rather play to (or hang out with) and I've spent the last 3 days wishing I could go back. Hope you've managed to get through the last few days without almost weeping at the coffee machine. (I've had no such luck.)

And, obv, thanks as ever to Steevio and Suzybee for having me :)))

x

TL:

Liaisons D - He Chilled Out (Remix)
Subculture - Dreams (Tribal Life Remix)
Frankie Bones - When The Bass Drops (edit)
Neil Landstrumm - Snowdawn
Arttu - Walking On A Fine Line (feat Roberto Q. Ingram)
Objekt - Theme From Q
Digital Domain - I Need Relief
JLin - Hatshepsut
Atom TM - LTBCYB
Dynamo Dreesen, SVN, AMUS - Untitled (Acido 20)
Aleksi Perälä - UK74R1513080
XY0815 - Tool Matter
ERP - Vox Automaton
Miss Modular - Earplug
Shake - March Into Darkness
DJ Skull - The Drum
Frankie Bones - Pure Ecstasy
Woody McBride - Dr J
Run DMC vs Jason Nevins - It’s Like That (edit)
Truss & Sync 24 - Tri-gate
Versalife - QU_AD
Function - Untitled
EQD005B
Oliver Ho - Magic
Rhythm & Sound w/ Jah Cotton - Dem Never Know (Sleeparchive Remix)
Reinhold Friedl - KORE performed by Zeitkratzer

Live At Freerotation 2017 (DJ set)

It's impossible to talk about the sound of DjRUM without using the word cinematic. Whatever he does, it has a feeling of grand importance, widescreen elegance and moving emotion that elevates it way above a dance floor soundtrack. Throughout the course of his career, the UK artist has drawn on downtempo, blurred the lines between drum & bass and dubstep and always imbued his music with spoken words snippets, piano and chamber instruments. His Portrait With Firewood album was a real high-water mark in 2018, and last year his latest outing on R&S once again managed to draw on every aspect of electronic music and come up with something all his own. 

His mix for us this week is a perfect ethereal rave that finds plenty of beauty in the sparse rhythms he draws on from the worlds of garage, techno and drum & bass. There is a delicacy and elegance throughout, even when the beats hit hard and fast as they do at the overdriven and manic mid point. The amen breaks come thick and fast after that, but eventually melt away to propulsive ambient soundscapes that suspend you in time and space. Blissful.

Dekmantel Podcast

Dekmantel Podcast 267 - Djrum

Adventures in machine music built to make subs rattle and feet wiggle; a convoluted mess of elektrology and teknology, 3-step, bass-core, post windmill, proto-minimal wankstep, gondola, shithouse, acid wonk, ambient gabber, no more, no less.

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