love this one so much. Any legends know what it may be?

To keep the Bonanza cauldron bubbling, we are thrilled to drop the full 3 hours of XDB's glorious Sunday morning slot from Bonanza back in March. 

Anyone who has heard XDB knows that these after-hours moments are where he shines brightest, and this is on full display for Rio 005, as he weaves his way effortlessly through the deepest of deep house, ambient techno, electro, acid and tech house. The music XDB plays is always hard to put your finger on, but is consistently interwoven with a certain intangible feeling and emotion. For many this was an absolute highlight of the festival, so we couldn't be happier to share this with you as the 5th instalment of our mix series.

Rio 005 - XDB (recorded live at Bonanza 2024)

@edward live at outro lado

The first track is an unofficial remix of Dimension 5 - Network. Check out the artist if you don't know them already :)

foto: coletivo.negativo

Edward live at Outro Lado - Waking Life '24

flower sown by @rinobxl

recording of dj rino's live set at fleurs de bruxelles in august 2024, held at abbaye de forest.
04.08.24

FDB013 | DJ Rino

recorded at the infamous garage room of horst arts & music club on a sweaty sunday afternoon

edouard hauki @ horst club - garage

We’re thrilled to share the next Planet Paradigm Podcast, delivered by Dresden. Recorded live at Planet Paradigm 2025, where they played the Forest Stage. The duo, consisting of Manfredas & Ivan Smagghe, treated us to their signature sound: a mix of new tracks, nostalgic minimal grooves, and psychedelic layers that pulled us all into another dimension. Now it’s time to dive back in. Enjoy the ride!

Dresden live at Planet Paradigm 2025

The German minimal DJ returns to the spotlight with two hours of artfully subtle house and techno.

There's an old German proverb that goes "Der stete Tropfen höhlt den Stein." Literally, it means a constant dripping wears away the stone, but the point isn't about force but patience: slow, steady repetition can leave the deepest mark. It's an apt metaphor for the career of Kosta Athanassiadis, better known as XDB.

Active since the early '90s, first as a DJ and then producer by the decade's end, Athanassiadis has built a career less on hype than persistence. His catalogue spans labels like Dial, Metrolux and Echocord, alongside a steady trickle of EPs and remixes that have quietly cemented his reputation as one of minimal house and techno's undersung heroes.

That patience carries into his sound and production ethos. Where many of his peers embraced software upgrades and new workflows, Athanassiadis has long stuck to Cubase, a handful of trusty instruments and 30-year-old speakers he claims to have run "hundreds of thousands of tunes" through. He also still prefers to use inexpensive, straightforward gear—what matters, he insists, is not the tools but the feel. The result is a sound that’s stripped back, direct and enduring.

Lately, Athanassiadis has found himself back in focus. With minimal enjoying fresh attention, his calendar has filled, and with it a run of back-to-back sets—most often alongside PLO Man, a regular sparring partner this year. True to form, though, you won't find that his style has changed much. Over 30 years after his first gig, you can rest assured you'll still find him playing with patience, carving out long arcs rather than sharp peaks.

His RA Mix captures him in a reflective mood. Running just over two hours, RA.1003 is a hushed yet absorbing affair, moving seamlessly from the delicate atmospherics of Valentino Mora and Caldera to the machine funk of Robert Hood, Solid Gold Playaz and Marcellus Pittman. There are left turns folded into XDB's patient narrative arc, too: John Carpenter's brooding scores here, DJ Sprinkles' melancholic work with Will Long on "Acid Trax N (Acid Dog)" there.

It's the sound of a DJ who has been quietly chiseling away for three decades, and who understands the value of persistence as much as restraint.

@xdb

Find the tracklist and interview at ra.co/podcast/1021

RA.1003 XDB

Recorded live in London at the Tate Modern.

https://soundcloud.com/loaszala

photo: ming_yes_

Outercast 17 | Loa Szala

live recorded at mihn, hong kong 28/06/23
1/2 of 7 hrs set for vg+

Magico @ Mihn, Hong Kong 28/06/2023

This week, I delved into the Grain Delay filter of Ableton‘s Live 12. While the difference from last week again seems minimal, Grain Delay offers quite different possibilities compared to Filter Delay. I must admit that I haven't spent enough time exploring the full potential of the filter. In WAV52 | 45, I have only used the filter in seven out of ten track bars. However, most of my time is spent composing music. This weeks scale is C Super Locrian. And it seems that this scale is particularly used in jazz and fusion music for improvisation and composing.

WAV52 | 45

the second part of the live recording of Jane Fitz b2b XDB all night at the Pickle Factory, London Nov 30 2018

Jane Fitz & Xdb b2b Nov 30 2018 Pt2

Nicolas Lutz MOJ mixes 27 L'after di Tune mix NUT Records

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Nicolas Lutz MOJ mixes 27 L'after di Tune mix NUT Records

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