Prog Explorations 1

A two hour exert of my three hour DJ set, 1-4am, at an incredible event I played in 2023, CODA, by Ratherlost x Pax Romana @ Lofi, Amsterdam for their ADE event. I played in between Naone & Spekki Webu <3

 hope you enjoy! x Kia

@kia-sydney

ani/live Thirty Six: Kia @ CODA, Amsterdam

Recorded live from our FOLD takeover with Transmissions, this one comes courtesy of softi who opened Room 2 with a two hour set we simply couldn’t keep to ourselves. Weaving through glitchy, swamp-soaked textures and deep, hypnotic rhythms, she laid down a trippy journey that set the perfect tone for the night ahead. Dial in and drift!

@jazz_brown

Harmony Rec. podcast | softi

“Een van de weinige sets waarbij ik vooraf misselijkmakend nerveus was. Ik heb hier maanden naar uitgeleefd en toen ik er stond, met minder dan 3 uur slaap en een all nighter in m’n benen van de nacht ervoor, wist ik gelijk wat en hoe ik moest doen. Het publiek voelde het perfect aan en dit maakte bij iedereen emoties los. Ik heb een klein traantje gelaten op de dansvloer”

Naim Abu @Morning Mesh A Brand New Day 01.01.25 | Mesh Nijmegen

"Designing clubs is about understanding psychology." The famed architects talk about bringing emotions, durability and hidden logic into era-defining nightlife spaces.

How do you design the world's best clubs? Studio Karhard, the architecture firm started by Thomas Karsten and his wife, Alexandra Erhard, in 2003, know exactly which ingredients go into a successful nightlife space. The Berlin-based duo are the visionaries behind Berghain and ∄ in Kyiv, as well as a number of private residences, businesses and smaller venues around the world. Their specialty, they say, is salvaging forgotten spaces and resurrecting them to serve a new purpose.

In this RA Exchange, Karsten talks about first coming across the building that's now Berghain and working tirelessly with engineers and city planners to preserve its neoclassical facade. As he explains, creating a memorable atmosphere goes beyond just designing for aesthetics. There are countless hidden design features that serve to make venues like Berghain comfortable.

But according to Karsten, Studio Karhard's masterpiece is ∄, which they began designing in 2018. He describes the special experience of first visiting the abandoned brewery—which was then in extreme disrepair—and bringing the lessons they took away from building Berghain to make this Ukrainian space their most successful project yet.

This episode takes a look under the hood of the psychology, anthropology and emotional study that inform the venues that have shaped underground electronic music culture. Listen to it in full. -Chloe Lula

EX.775 Studio Karhard (Berghain, K41)

QKY003 invites @R.E.D Bristols deep techno sweetheart and @Redwaxlabel boss to explore her sexc special textures in this mix 

Tracklist:

Gi Gi - Palm Slick
CTAFAD - Ednless
Mia Grobelny - Swoon (Shonky Remix)
Priori & Al Wooton - Leniency 
Electric Data Processing - Dancing in the Woods 
IN2STELLAR - Euro Possum
TAMA - Capsule 
Greenman - Fastlane
DJ Beluga92 - Post Dymon
Vibrasphere - Mental Bleeding
Antoine - Straight 
Birtish- Sunshine Science 
Alan Backdrop - Conciousness Mirror 
Jörmungandr - Skogsrä 
Kineta - Extensions
DJ Beluga92 - Reflected Lines 
Jeku - Frostbite (Dub Mix)
Curved Light - Cecilia

QKY003: R.E.D

For #180, and in conjunction with his brand new Animalia EP that is officially out today - here's Sub Basics, UK based producer, with a mix made up of 100% of his own productions.

Tom aka Sub Basics has been humbly putting music into the world via Temple of Sound , Modern Hypnosis and more, for the last few years.  Personally, when I first discovered his tunes a while back, it was a no brainer to work with him on an EP. His  music somehow sits at the perfect junction of so many different genres, moods and styles I enjoy. A versatile and prolific producer. Super happy to welcome him to the Animalia family.

Thanks so much Tom.

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Animix One Hundred & Eighty: Sub Basics

Season 9 Episode 11 - 09.03.25

Milwaukee-based Moorhaus graces the program this month with a dialed-in exploration into acid. Midwest grooves skate the edge of house and electro, an infectious hour of pure party. Let your body rock!

@moorhaus

Kajunga Program SE.9 EP.11 - Moorhaus

@annieelew

"The environment: these tracks bring me to a very quiet & calm part of my day, in a space where I don’t have to do anything but listen. I am in a sunlit room, the light is poured over the rug where I’m lying down and it’s so still I can see the dust particles in the air. These are moments of peace, nostalgia, and anxiety: thoughts can enter at their own pace & they can exist in the past, present, and future (I acknowledge, slightly anxiously, about how this time is already in the past)

The thought: music that moves me is both comforting and discomforting - its ethereal and mysterious, distant and haunting, but at the same time all familiar (like when u dream about something that feels real but you know its not…but was it?)

Some of these tracks are to get me into that state, pretty much the first half of the playlist (to be chilled). Then I’m able to wander into uncharted territory with last nine and that’s where a lot of my inspiration comes from when I produce. 

…there's an inherent ambiguity in human nature and I feel like the more you try to make sense of the unknown, the harder it is to see how beautiful (and enticing) the ambiguity is… a lot of that  ambiguity is explained to me through music…"



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ATA042 with Annie Lew: ambience of a warm room

This October I had the honour of playing the closing set at Zhaodai Beijing during my China Tour; The tour was an full experience which took off with a 7 gig journey in 8days and this is the only live recording I have. Enjoy!

DJ set at Zhaodai - 2025 (recorded live)

XDB & PLO Man at Waking Life 2025

Nerang based DJ from Eora :~)
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