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Euphoric trance delights and proggy house tunes by Love On The Rocks member Alex Kassian. Carrying a firm nod to the early trance and dream house heydays, the Berlin local just clocked in two seriously good releases on Paramida’s label. Doing 90s-inspired, contemporary music the right way. We love to see it. With new material in the pipeline, waiting to be released on Pinchy & Friends, and a new record coming up on his Planet Sundae label, we caught up to hear the latest on developments.

Check out the interview with Alex here: https://oddysee.fm/podcasts/alex-kassian/

https://soundcloud.com/alexkassian 
https://soundcloud.com/planetsundae

Interview

Oddysee 024 | 'When We Dance Again' by Alex Kassian

Kyoto-born, Berlin-based DJ, producer and artist, Alex Kassian has become a firm favourite of ours over here at Phonica over the past couple of years. His sophisticated, lush and organic sounding productions have been picked up by labels such as Paramida’s Love On The Rocks and Alex Bradley’s Utopia Records in recent years. His most recent release, Leave Your Life, was released in 2021 via Pinchy & Friends, and we can safely say it was one of our most-played, and bestselling, records of the year.

Together with Hiroaki OBA, Alex is also one-half of Opal Sunn, who have been operating their own imprint Planet Sundae since 2017, through which they self-released a number of EPs, catching the attention of and support from dance music luminaries such as Andrew Weatherall and DJ Sprinkles.

Check out the full feature & interview over at offtherecord.net

Full Feature

Phonica Mix Series 93: Alex Kassian

Recording of Luca Lozano & Mr Ho's set at Dekmantel Ten

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Luca Lozano & Mr Ho at Dekmantel Ten

Live recording from Diega 2025. 

1:30am - 3am nestled by the riverbank on beautiful Taungurung country. Appreciation to Cinzia and the crew for letting me get into Psymon mode.

Mastered by Morgan Wright
Photo @chawks

Simon TK live at Diega 2025

@bennet_bb
This week's mix is from Bennet. With a unique selection through the spectrum of house he carefully approaches his sets with a deep sensitivity and groove-driven peaks. 

Bennet lets the amazing records breathe and create their own highlights. A spring morning where the windows hug the rising sun and the smoke creates suprising patterns.

Track Highlight
One track that stands out for me is ‘Inda’ by Comodo, an alias of Marco Carola. It’s a driving house tool that brings a celestial note to the dancefloor, but over and over subtly explodes in with its driving baseline and always transforms it into a naughty affair.

Bennet...IsBurning #165

Ryan Elliott playing house and techno.

https://www.instagram.com/ryan.r.elliott

@ryan-elliott



Faith Beat presents Ryan Elliott @ The Lot Radio 04-11-2025

A wildly exuberant moment in the oddest of timelines. One of my first gigs after a year of global Covid lockdowns. We needed this. A step back into the light. Thanks for the energy!

To re-live a dream is to live forever.

Much Love to all the dreamers out there - let's keep this thing alive!
Hunee

Ps. Thanks to all my friends sending me the most beautiful music - u know who u are! ❤️

Hunee - Live at Dekmantel Selectors 2021 - Beach Stage Closing

Agra ft. Deepak  - Gandhi’s Prayer (Dub)
Filippini - Listen To Your Heart (Instrumental)	
Chandra Simmons - We Can Dance (Manhattan Club)	
Maldwyn Pope - Altered State
Jean Jacques Gaston - Nadia
Annick Et Jean-Claude - Remember (Tracksuit Edit)
Vincent Fortuné - Bouc Emissaire (Tracksuit Edit)	
Articulat - Badaouiah
Ko Saba - Douga (Praktika Remix)	
Daniele Baldelli - Gandharva (Original Mix)	
The Soundstealers - Steal It An' Deal It (Sahara Dub Mix)
Elkie Brookes - Rising Cost Of Love (Prins Thomas Mix)
Herb Alpert - Red Hot
Bahia - Meu Amigo (Instrumental)	
Argentina - Let’s Play Sexy Games (Instrumental)
Double Face - Tengo La Sangre Caliente (Base Version)
Hugo Moolenaar - Big Man Cry
Caribbean Sextet - Caribbean Sextet_Gomez Edit
Optimo - Optimo (Mike Wilson Edits)
4X4 - Miss Doctor (Original Mix)
Shohjo-Tai & Red Bus St Project - Electric City
Aashid Himons - Gods & I (extended remaster)
Sha' D Underground Trax - Scalpel Track 01
Stevie B - In My Eyes (Radio Edit)
Larry Tee - What Am I Gonna Do? (MLiR Extended Edit)	
Combi - I’m Feeling Excite
Bastedos - Sit On Dub
Eiswolf - Der Hexer
Manouch-Ka - Diabolo (Instrumental)
Hi-Tension - Objects (Slam Jam Edit)
3 Winans Brothers & The Clark Sisters - Dance (Louie Vega Latin Soul Version)		
Lars Bartkuhn - Transcend	
Isolee - Mad Marauder	
Instant House - Awade (Vocal Part Three)
Mount Liberation Unlimited - Lord Of The Floor
Latin Force - Leyla (Deep Underground Dub)
Jonny Rock - Same As It Ever Was - Mashup One Acid a Life Time			
Isolee - Pisco
Theo Parrish & Carl Craig - Falling Up (Carl Craig 2013 Remaster)		
Pris - Vanity
Jump Source - Empathy Dub 1
Frequency - Panic Mode (1993 Version)
Frequency - Panic Mode (2020 Version)
Santiago Salazar - Arcade (SG Remix)

Hunee - Live at Dekmantel Selectors 2021 (Beach Stage Closing)

Jennifer Loveless steps up to the Phonica mix with a charged hour of sculpted house — poised between deep groove and melodic resonance. 
Born in Toronto and musically forged in Melbourne, she relocated to Australia in 2012 and quickly became a central figure in the country's underground electronic scene. Now based in Berlin, her fluid DJ style — steeped in queer dancefloor energy and late-night catharsis — has lit up some of the world’s most respected booths, from Panorama Bar and De School to Body Movements, Maricas/Mxricas, and Boiler Room’s Discwoman showcase in Sydney.
As a producer, her discography speaks in rhythms both personal and expansive. The debut Hard/Soft (Pure Space, 2020) blended meditative percussion and fragmented spoken word; 1.5m (Planet Euphorique) offered a pandemic-era pulse of emotional urgency. In 2021, the Water EP (Butter Sessions) landed with immersive, club-primed textures and was hailed by Resident Advisor as “career-defining.” Its 2022 follow-up Around the World expanded that sound with driving drums and psychedelic tones — its standout tracks appearing in DJ sets by Jayda G, D. Tiffany, and more.
Loveless’s mix here flows like her best sets: deep, intuitive, and full of movement. Sensual grooves fold into one another — not showy, just sharp. A warm, high-fidelity hour from a DJ who knows how to guide the floor from dusk to afterglow. We had a brief chat with Jennifer about the mix and what she has coming up:

Phonica Mix Series 133: Jennifer Loveless

Multisexual Mix #29 Nat Wendell

Brooklyn Safari

Stores & Download -li.sten.to/mark_taylor

Inner Motion

For Trushmix 123 we are very happy to have SVN back in the mix. Finally a new mix is recorded, and showcases the clubby and housey side of this unique talent.
Always busy recording new productions with or without partners in the now legendary Neues Deutschland studio, and always keeping a consistent flow of high sought after quality records on his and SW's label SUED. And playing live as Dresvn with good friend and partner Dresen.

Now it's time to highlight the DJ side of SVN. This mix shows SVN as a highly talented DJ with excellent track selection.  Over one hour of pure atmospheric vintage sounding house and electronic club tracks of the highest quality. Smoothly mixed and performed in the subtle, deep way, that we know from SVN productions.
This mix shows that SVN should be playing in clubs around the world and spreading the good vibes with style.

Enjoy this mix for real!

For bookings please contact 
svn(a)gmx.de

Trushmix.com

Trushmix 123: SVN

Really happy to have SVN step up for our latest mix.  We love SUED Records and the last SVN DJ mix on Trushmix has been on constant rotation at our office.  This is another quality mix of acid house and electronics.
Check the SVN and SW releases on Apollo
https://apollorecords.bandcamp.com/album/amb1805
https://apollorecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-album

RSMIX022 - SVN

TASCAM DR-40

2018-04-01 Live At Inner Varnika, Closing Set

As the year winds to long overdue a halt, we called on local Berlin DJ, Love On The Rocks favourite and all round class act @alexkassian to supply us with one of his finest blends, rewinding to the dawning age of early morning trance hypnotics and big outdoor breaks with splashes of dream house for the tired minds.

We linked up via the Internet to speak about Alex' latest musical endeavours, touching base on the @opalsunn collab and @planetsundae label he shares with likeminded studio head @hiroakioba.

Click here for our chat with Alex: melbournedeepcast.net/portfolio/alex-kassian

https://planetsundae.bandcamp.com/

@alexkassian
@opalsunn

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