As we begin to notice those first flickers of Fall, it beckons a new phase of reflection. A meditation on the power of silence. Those spaces between the notes which can often be more important than the notes themselves. Our next guest understands this power well and has utilized it throughout his almost 30-year career to astonishing effect. 

Rolando, at this point, should need little introduction. A former member of Underground Resistance, he has since gone on to start his own R3 imprint and hold residencies at both Berghain and Rex Club in Paris. His music has deep roots in Detroit where he grew up, permeating through his lifeblood as an artist. Normally known for his inclination towards building and maintaining an infectious groove, he uses that same skill here but without the pummeling presence of the kick drum. Rather, he guides us along with percussive pads and ethereal musings in this special 2-hour edition of UNRUSH.

Thanks a lot to https://soundcloud.com/rolando000

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rolando000
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/djrolando_/

Cover artwork by Irakli Kiziria
Words by Nathan Levenson

Tracklist:

Lorelle Meets The Obsolete - El Derrumbe - Registros el Derrumbe
Leonidis & Hobbes - Space Symphony - Hobbes Music
Woods - Dawn - Delirio
Terrence Dixon - Small Discovery - 30 D Records
1derl& - Left With Memories - Processed
Barker - E7 E5 - Ostgut
D Leria - Reborn - Delirio
Wanderwelle - Fractured Memories - Unrush
Dinamite - If You Become - Newrhythmic
Monoder - Stop Beating Heart - Kontakt
Phil Kieran - Endless Suspension - Resist AV
Roberto Bosco - Enhancement - Kontakt
Nihad Tule - Home - Sloboda
Iori - Inversion - Oktave
Staffan Linzatti - Before - Chronicle
Azu Tiwaline & Al Wotton - Last Scene - Livity Sound
Claude Young - Cryosleep Dreams - Fountain Music
Victor Santana - Solar Probes - Subsist
Planetary Assault Systems - Interlude 6 - Ostgut
Simone Giudice - Selva - Delirio
Jonas Kopp - 528 Hz - Tresor
Lorenzo Fortino - Crespino Del Lamone - 
Marcelus - Astral - Tresor
Artefakt & Claudio PRC - Distant Light - De Stijl
A Sagittariun - Sundial - Elastic Dreams
Greenman   - Fisherman - Skudge
Andres Zacco - Leit - Cabrera
Skee Mask - Ozone - Ilian Tape
JakoJako - Amygdala - Bigamo
Suso Saiz - Anti Stress For Babies and Families - Music From Memory
Hiroshi Watanabe - A Day of Rain (ambient dub mix) - Unknown Season
Flying Lotus - Auntie's Harp - Late Night Tales
Louis Haiman - Going Home - Indigo Aera
John Beltran - Thank Goodness  I Found You(ambient mix) - Seventh Sign
Future Beat Alliance - Birth(Claude Young remix) - Reward System
Marcel Dettmann - Let's Do It (Rolando remix) K7

069 - Unrushed by Rolando

@kimkenis is the next artist to feature on the Above Below mix series. Hailing from Belgium, Kim has made appearances at festivals across Europe including Waking Life and Doel. It is our pleasure to welcome her to the Above Below family. 

The mix fuses numerous styles including Dub, Dub Techno, Deep Techno and House, exploring the intricate areas that these genres can venture to. Percussive, melodic and atmospheric elements flow throughout. Kim's seamless DJ style, combines these components with ease. 

The tone has been set and we look forward to hearing more this June.

Kim Kenis | Above Below

Paryìa's release event for "Extracted Soil" took place at Hartware Medienkunstverein on April 27th. The event premiered the EP's music video, featured a listening performance by Marie Montexier, and a live set by A2iCE & BO3. Merchandise made from the installation's fabric and the EP's vinyl were available for sale, reflecting the artists' commitment to sustainability. The event successfully blended sound, art, and physical elements, showcasing Paryìa's penchant for experimentation and breaking conventions.

Listen to Marie Montexier's listening set that was recorded.

Extracted Soil

Marie Montexier - Live Recording - Paryìa004 Release Event

@kaspermarott delivers an end of the night/start of the morning set.

https://www.instagram.com/kaspermarott/

Kasper Marott @ Drift Radio 29-06-23

2 hour excerpt of a DJ set by HRO on Wednesday, 2023.02.08 at the exclusive album listening session with Donato Dozzy. Weaving through the peripheries of techno, house and UK while keeping it strictly psychedelic.

HRO Invites Donato Dozzy [Excerpt] 2023.02.08 at Bar Theo

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Influences - Laura BCR - 16 Nov 2023

This weeks mix comes from Berlin based producer, dj and jazz pianist YYARD (@yyard_music). We first stumbled upon YYARD’s producti ons through his beautiful release ‘Immanence’ on the @qeone.rec compilation LANDSCAPES . JUNGLE . shimmer.

“This vinyl mix came about very naturally. It’s a fusion of playful UK-oriented rhythms and fluffy breakbeat and techno moments, combining different grooves that I feel at home with. It always matters to me to let the music sound warm and maintain a certain easiness when i’m playing. So i guess that’s what it is about. Enjoy!”

Osmura w/ YYARD 08

En la edición 74 de You Play I Write, comparto en exclusiva el set de DOC (@doc_sounds).

Read & Play: www.vanitydust.ninja/doc

Read & Play

DOC @ LAUT (Barcelona · 11.2023)

Streaming from Amsterdam's Radio Radio: this is RRFM.NL w/ @jpenfant & @wata

RRFM • Psychedelic Romance w/ JP Enfant & Wata Igarashi • 03-07-24

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blurer is a peripheral study exploring ways to perceive our surroundings beyond any focal point. The poetic text where the winds are coming from, invites contributing artists and musicians to collectively explore a world that has become unfamiliar yet again. Inspired by the moment Alice tumbles into Wonderland, it asks what it means to unlearn, relearn, and navigate within a world anew. Like Alice, this conceptual mixtape delves into places, things, and feelings that have been overlooked, ignored or seen as a backdrop. The text, tracks, and sounds of this compilation take us on an explorative journey—not to arrive somewhere, but to sense that what lies within the blur has always already been in the here:now.
(Lisa Walder, 2025)

Most music is used as a form of abstract translation. To unblur the personal, we abstract it and transform and transport it through familiar sounds. Through abstraction, the motives are essentialized to their core. In this, minimalism becomes a prioritisation. A blur can be more flexible. The reduction of elements could be optimistic or protective.
What this release does is observe the peripheral, to look for emotionality or personality within it, but also to create atmospheres that appear peripheral, yet are again included in the general blur.
When hearing the sounds of blurer, the focus of the compositions fluctuates and directs the listener’s perception to certain points within, not only to hear what seems essential but also to draw closer attention to the peripheral. Throughout the whole release, the procedures are very different. Some moments are vivid, almost narrative. There are deconstructed references to find, in both energetic and quiet forms. Occasionally, we pass by rearing, foggy drone walls or prancing, twirling, or scurrying melodies carried around, on synths or guitar strings. Blurer seems to harbor atmospheres of comfort in the cold, loops of spiraling memories or expressions of disorientation, that scamper around on the acoustic foundation created by the 19 artists.
(Elia Brülhart, 2025) 

Assembled by Periphery Serpentine
Commissioned Text by Lisa Walder
Mastered & Cut by Isabel Schröer
Artwork & Design by Dimitri Erhard

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As an electronic music artist, @petervanhoesen needs little introduction.

A techno veteran renowned for his innovation and creativity, Peter has spent his career balancing the cerebral and the physical, in line with his ethos of producing ‘mental body music’. Most recently, his musical inspiration has come from the halcyon days of the Belgian electronic music scene in the 1990s. This new focus was the result of a period of self-reflection for Peter, in which he determined that the mental side was starting to outweigh the physical in both his own music and within segments of the wider techno scene. To bring the balance back, he started the Center 91 label, and upped the urgency, groove and BPMs of his world-spanning DJ sets.

Patterns of Perception 50 is a snapshot of Peter’s refreshed, idyllic vision of techno, an intricate tapestry of visceral psychedelia and compelling rhythms. It perfectly captures and illustrates the balance of mind and body music that has been the cornerstone of his work to date.

Read our full interview with Peter here: https://patternsofperception.tumblr.com/post/184904221864/a-chat-with-peter-van-hoesen

Links:
@petervanhoesen
www.facebook.com/petervanhoesenofficial/
twitter.com/petervanhoesen
www.instagram.com/petervanhoesen/

www.t2x.eu/
@time_to_express
www.facebook.com/timetoexpress

Read our interview

Patterns of Perception 50 - Peter Van Hoesen

https://www.lb-agency.net/artists/marie-montexier