i was the 666th listener!  great podcast.

tech 6.17

On June 27, 2025, a long-dormant signal reactivates from Hamburg's hidden places: Helena Hauff and F#X return as Black Sites with R4 on Tresor Records—their first full-length album and the first release under the moniker since 2014. Like a hieroglyphic recently discovered and translated, R4 feels more like a long-awaited resumption than a comeback.

Recorded to tape with minimal editing or post-production the record is a classic example of the symbiotic relationship that can come from the interaction of human and machine. This punk ethos isn't invoked through distortion alone, but through method; in the album's breaking from the received wisdom of hardness tethered to speed as most of the tougher pieces are lower BPM and vice versa (with one notable exception in the mind-melting stomp of BLOKK).

Across ten tracks, Black Sites traverse a landscape where genre dissolves into intention. It migrates through electro's danceability, acid house's corrosion, and into the liminal realm of machine funk—a genre coined by Andrew Weatherall, which sounds like the results of technology dreaming of soul where the emphasis is on live execution, on immediacy over perfection—a sound forged in the act of creating, not polishing.

In a 2013 interview, around the time of the first Black Sites EP, Hauff was quoted as saying that she wants "things to fit together properly, but on another level, I really want them to make sense together." That principle animates R4: The album's form reveals itself in time, with each movement echoing and amplifying the others to create a synergistic whole.

From the opening crawl of C4 (a name that like the music foreshadows the explosions to come) to the end-of-the-night bliss of MOTHERJAM via the intense peaks of BLOKK, 707, and classic acid track 3D it's clear that R4 is a work made with serious intent; a refutation of a world where streaming has made the two-minute single the dominant musical form again. R4 demands immersion, not just attention. It is not a collection of tracks, but a singular, recursive experience: a mirror in which sound and listener repeatedly rediscover one another.

BANDCAMP

Black Sites - C4

Symvolia is a producer and DJ from northern Italy, whose project stems from a desire to explore inner worlds through sound. His productions and DJ sets move between industrial, experimental and ritual atmospheres, creating soundscapes that recall archaic memories and suspended states of consciousness. Each performance is conceived as an intimate and transformative experience, capable of leading the listener on a profound journey to discover the true self.

@symvolia
www.instagram.com/symvolia
www.symvolia.bandcamp.com

TEOCHAO PODCAST #089 - Symvolia

My set for Logia collective's 4 year anniversary at Phi garden
Pic by @by.rue_b

Ehud @ Phi Garden - Logia 4 year anniversary | 01\08\25 1:00-3:00

Toki Fuko - Bad Trigger 
Reflection Code [ANNV06 / Annulled Music]

Produced by Sergey Korotaev aka Toki Fuko
Mastered by Neel at  EnissLab Studio
Artwork by A i T
Released by Annulled Music from Seville, Spain
Release Date: September 10th, 2025
Format - Vinyl and Digital

 "Reflection Code" is an EP that delves into the multifaceted aspects of human reflection through a collection of immersive musical compositions, each inviting the listener on a unique sonic journey. The EP invites listeners to explore their inner reflections and connect with each composition on a profound level, creating a unique auditory landscape that lingers long after the music ends.
Toki Fuko music can be described as mechanical signals are structured in a hypnotic substance. Their constant musical experimentation actor perceives as an analysis of the surrounding world.

Toki Fuko (Moscow, Russia)
https://soundcloud.com/tokifuko
https://www.facebook.com/tokifukoofficial
https://www.instagram.com/tokifuko

Annulled Music
https://soundcloud.com/annulled_music
https://www.facebook.com/annulled.music
https://annulledmusic.bandcamp.com

Oslated.
http://www.oslated.com

Reflection Code

Bad Trigger

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Roi - Electro Podcast Vol.II

A modular exploration from Erik Jabari, captured live at New Faces, June 11, 2025.

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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/erik_jabari/ 
Resident Advisor: https://ra.co/dj/erikjabari
Soundcloud: @user-406461266

Photo credit: Marie Staggat: www.marie-staggat.com/
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About Tresor Berlin
At midnight, on March 13th 1991, a basement door opened at Leipziger Strasse 126, Berlin. Through this door, many passed, on their way to defining new terrains in electronic music. There they found a dance floor in the vaults of a closed-down department store, with a unique sound bound to dense fog, building night after night a history that was also a vision of the future.

This history has seen in Jeff Mills’ first sets on three turntables, Underground Resistance's first live appearances in Europe, grandiose Tresor Park parties, to various chapters of the Loveparade with Sven Väth in the 90s and since then countless generation-spanning parties. These moments represent the highlights of infinite personal clubbing experiences. It is the manifestation of the Berlin spirit, emerging from its considerable strife. This history is not without its complications - from temporary closure by the authorities and several raids in the early years to closure and demolition of the old location in 2005. What followed was years of wandering in exile and, finally, resurrection in the new home in Kraftwerk Berlin.

These stories, conversations and shared experiences within our walls forge a resilience that drives towards a shared ideal, the Tresor sound: community, resistance, and the world to come. This was observed in the newly re-unified German youth, who danced and celebrated together from the club’s inception, and into the present day through ongoing community work in Detroit.

To those that have danced before, and to those that will dance in the future: the light at the end of the long Tresor tunnel is a signal. A flicker amidst the fog. This is our future. This is our place.

Erik Jabari (Live Modular Set) | Live at Tresor - 11.05.25

TRACKLIST

Save your Atoll_Orange light on Seville
Wala_Swirl
Van der Meer_Oddworld
Torc_Silver & Exact
Stephen Disario_Truffles
GCOD_Nevertheless
Inherent Stasis_As simple as obvious
Judy_Larrosa
Kastil_restore the flood
Interakt_Convective
Aliasing_Extension
Dog on Acid_tTmebound

MIX AUGUST 2025

Deetron presents Soulmate - Code

A1. Code
A2. The Visitor
B1. Cloud Woman
B2. Worlds Combine

Original Dat Funk Spears on 180g heavyweight vinyl.

Written & produced by Deetron
Mastered by Tangible Air
Artwork by Bettina Zenker

p&c Ilian Tape 2025

IT073 DEETRON PRESENTS SOULMATE - CODE

2025年9月4日 19:30-21:00 JST 

Eva Falt & ka.za 
https://instagram.com/ka.za__

#electronic #dub-techno

エヴァ・ファルト＆カ・ザはプラハを拠点とするDJであり、ディープで催眠的なテクノと、プラハおよび国際的な活気あるシーン構築への献身で知られるコレクティブ「ヴェルトラウム」の創設者である。

Eva Falt & ka.za are Prague-based DJs and founders of Weltraum collective known for their deep hypnotic techno and dedication to building a vibrant scene both in Prague and internationally

Room 303 ・三○三号室 
https://instagram.com/room303radio

@ WPÜ HOTEL SHINJUKU 
https://www.instagram.com/wpu_shinjuku

Eva Falt&ka.za ｜2025年9月4日｜#electronic #dub-techno

The twenty fourth transmission from RYC comes courtesy of not one, but two artists we greatly admire. Joining forces on a split truly like no other, Japanese maestro Wata Igarashi and Munich’s own multi-faceted genius Polygonia step up with the magnetic ‘Cross Passage’ - a four-track journey at the junction of their respective universes, teleporting us straight to a propulsive, mind-expanding headspace as we’re invited to explore sonic territories still uncharted and harmonics yet unravelled.

The collaborative A-side begins with the dynamic title-track, ‘Cross Passage’, a proactively future-facing number packing the kind of utopian drive that used to define the original techno sound. A highly cinematic narrative boasting Detroit-style vision and epic breath, ‘Cross Passage’ builds bridges between hi-tech elation and organic integration, transcending mere functionality to push back and expand the limits of techno as a deep communication vessel between the individual and the mass. Firing off like a binary script gone astray, ‘Fibre Axis’ takes us on a further bumpy ride across shape-shifting interfaces and blurred-out digital scapes, via abrupt pixel landslides and fractured 3D renderings.

Side-B finds each producer dishing out a slice of his/her own musical idiom. Polygonia strikes first with the pulsating ‘Voltage Blues’ - a mesmeric roller cut from pure eerie synth algebra, boundary-pushing abstraction and surgical but experimental-leaning rhythmic assault. The result is a piece of cutting-edge techno hoodoo, ready to take on clubs with utmost abrasive swagger. Sniping a hail of rainbow-like analogue synth outpour, Wata Igarashi’s solo contribution ’The Tunnel Dreams’ rounds off the journey on a fiercely nonconformist note. Merging a hard-hitting main swing with 8-bit-esque audio pointillism and brooding bass undertones, the Japanese producer cuts a path of antigravitational abandon and relentless rush towards absolving euphoria, which shall leave all in the room levitating somewhere between sheer daze and love-thirsty XTC.

*Clad in the sleekest cover art courtesy of designer Atact, RYCL024 is pressed to red & white marbled vinyl for you, fancy platter collectors and picky audio-visual aesthetes alike.

Written & Produced by Wata Igarashi & Polygonia
Distributed by Clone Distribution Rotterdam
Mastering by Artefacts Mastering Berlin
Artwork & Design by Atact.uk
Cat. no. RYCL024 – All Rights Reserved
℗ & © Reclaim Your City 2025
www.reclaimyourcity.bandcamp.com


Cross Passage

Order

RYCL024 - Wata Igarashi - The Tunnel Dreams

Grounded podcast number 90 welcomes spanish DJ, 'LoKKoTRONN' who has been residing in New York City since the early 2000's. During his time there he struck up a bond with Jason T, who make up the dynamic 'Dos Lokos' duo. 

Together in 2011, they established the acclaimed Erratic emblem, curating exclusive techno events and running their own podcast series which has seen plenty of our favourite artists appear as guests over the 150+ episodes that have spanned across the last 6 years. 

Since its inception, Nico has been constantly refining and expanding his techno palette rendering the genre inextricable from his way of life and sensibility towards the arts and electronic music as a whole. His style when behind the decks can be characterised as a blend between melodic, acid bass lines layered with poignant, driving rhythms that penetrate equally the mind as they do the body. This mix is titled 'Medulla Oblongata'.

https://soundcloud.com/erraticnyc
www.facebook.com/ErraticNYC

GRND 90: LoKKoTRONN (Erratic)

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Podcast from Jonas Kopp (@jonas-kopp) for Trax Magazine.

Interview => on.traxmag.com/iDDV

INTERVIEW

TRAX.215 JONAS KOPP

Dj set recorded live for streaming at Dommune Tokyo.
http://www.dommune.com/

Zadig Dj set at Dommune Tokyo 23-05-2017

Dear listeners, we were waiting for this one so long! 

This time we host Ayarcana - Italian DJ and producer.

Anthony is an artist with unprecedented rawness in his tracks and mixes.
His style is charakterized by harsh industrial textures and huge stomping kicks. 
You can find his releases on such great labels as Pls.uk, Parachute Records, South London Analouge Material. 

Uncompromising, heavy, massive set!
Enjoy!


Explore more:

FB: https://www.facebook.com/ayarcanamusic/

SC: https://soundcloud.com/ayarcana

RA: https://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/ayarcana

booking@paktbooking.com

Lost In Ether | Podcast #63 | Ayarcana

contact: michaljablonski@lostinether.pl
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"Ether, or æther, was the mysterious substance once thought to suffuse the universe and be the medium that propagated light (and radio waves once they were discovered). Before that, it was the material that suffused the realm of the Gods. So, to say that something is in the ether means that it is something being communicated from place to place; it has no precise location, just as a radio broadcast can be heard from many different places. "

* Lost In Ether 
Here you can find personal visions and expressions of alternative electronic music represented by artists invited to show their own ways to explore sounds which are embraced into one wave of sound - podcast recorded for "Lost in Ether".
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Running by Dorota Smyk and @MichalJablonski

Lost In Ether | Podcast #63 | Ayarcana

Lost In Ether

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