Coucou dear Nachtiville friends and family, long time no see, huh?! Well, we were busy winding down the festival, neatly tucking our sweet, sweet memories of you into storage alongside the countless power cables and light installations. 

To help you freshen up your memories of this outstanding 2nd edition, this week sees the start of our weekly Nachtipod series with live recordings from your favourite DJ's. We kick things off with Aurora Halal @itsallhalal, who played a fantastic closing set at THE TANGLE Sunday night. Enjoy!

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Aurora Halal // Nachtipod // Nachtiville 2024 (The Tangle)

Living, breathing, banging techno from an artist defining the highly-textured new frontier of the sound in 2024.

Lindsey Wang, AKA Polygonia, has an amorphous style you could call organic—or, better yet, harmonious. She interweaves unfamiliar elements with a mercurial touch. Wang can make something completely otherworldly sound totally, well, natural. It's made her a fixture everywhere from Munich's BLITZ to major festivals like Sustain-Release and Draaimolen.

Unsurprisingly, Wang is not one to be pinned down. Be it the sound design-anchored side project Lyder, her own label QEONE, or co-producing an album's worth of experimental percussion alongside jazz drummer Simon Popp, it's fair to say her personal output matches the feverish energy of her mixes. There's multidisciplinary, and then there's Wang: Poly-disciplinary, you might say.

Wang's entry into the RA Podcast series is no different, another stellar emphasis of her artistry. RA.955 is a voyage into wild variations of texture, rhythm and feeling, guided along by the principle of endless metamorphosis. Supple driving grooves meet crinkled surfaces, scuttling hi-hats meet chattering sonics, and good luck keeping hold of a consistent drum pattern for long. Behold a living organism raised by the club and the great outdoors in equal measure.

@polygonia

Read more at ra.co/podcast/955

RA Podcast

RA.955 Polygonia

An influential figure in electronic music, Steffi delivers a mix that captures her genre-blending style, balancing hypnotic rhythms and deep basslines. 

Known for her work with labels like Ostgut Ton, Klakson, and Candy Mountain, Steffi crafts an immersive sonic journey.

She joins us at the club on 9th November.

Tickets: https://ra.co/events/1963068

048 - Steffi - fabric podcast

The 10 year celebration continues with a hybrid live recorded set from German dab hand Vril. Much of his work, like the metaphysical and culturally seminal substance from which he took the name, is heavy on duality, hard and gentle, vibrating with machinelike power and shot through with a raw and often tender emotion. It’s a calculation that has yielded some of the most unforgettable sounds of recent times, 2018’s heavy-hitting Anima Mundi or last year’s Animist have lost none of their soul-stirring resonance, and his purist techno reaches far beyond his published work. Live and in flow state, he carries just as strong a charge, a frothing, fulgurant techno that invokes awe and measures in colossal proportions. Leave aside collabs with Rødhåd and Sebastian Mullaert for Circle of Live, though the magic’s there too. It’s an arcane and ghostly sound that burrows into the soul and leaves its mark, and in his scores of fans and 51 toured countries, it has. For Bassiani Podcast 237 the haunting power of his work finds form in 92 minutes of visceral techno that rolls from crystalline form to brooding storm. The sound of a new world dawning just beyond our current horizon.

@vril_01

Bassiani invites .VRIL [hybrid live] / Podcast #237

"I guess I could just say that my B2B with Clarisa at Draaimolen was memorable for many reasons. For one, it was my first time playing an EU festival, so that was huge. Also, Clarisa and I have been friends for years, so the fact that we both got to share in playing this beloved festival was really special. It all really seemed to click!" - Juana

Clarisa Kimskii b2b Juana at Draaimolen Festival 2024

Breaking in our waves with a special two-hour round of genre-busting floor hoodoo, here comes Luxemburg-via-Germany’s one and only Ogazón. Nimbly walking the tightrope between sensuous house folds and more rugged, up-for-the-jugular techno on a deep, dubby tip, Ogazón treats us to a high-end vinyl workout flush with immersive, cinematic motion and proper low-slung club-oriented extrapolations. The result is a mix that swings the pendulum between sheer blazing functionality and an escapist mindset, sparking off the inextinguible will to go out and rave your night away from the daily hassle, and you can trust Ogazón for she certainly knows how to teleport dancers to a whole cozier, comely dimension in the twinkling of an eye. Merry Xmas to all!

soundcloud.com/ogazon

Reclaim Your City

Reclaim Your City 623 | Ogazón

Luxembourg’s Ogazón (of Nathalie Ogazón Faber) followed her studies to the Netherlands and fell deep down the rabbit hole of Amsterdam nightlife, Trouw she recounts as transformative. Enough so that she followed that thread starting in the mid 2010s as neophyte DJ before upping sticks for Berlin a few years later. There, her passion for digging and upbeat outlook landed her in Ryan Elliot’s sights, a partnership that’s taken B2B form on more than a few occasions and led to further work with fellow blue chipper Marcel Dettmann (she signed to his agency in 2023). These days Ogazón’s sound is spreading to the pace of its rapid tempo, and her schedule’s all the more punishing for it. Dekmantel, Awakenings, DGTL, Berghain, Robert Johnson, the list gets longer. Refusing trivial categorisations, her work pivots between groovy house and austere techno, bringing together various influences (the ambient inclinations of Sofia Coppola she also cites) and keeping her vision broad. For Bassiani Podcast 241 she errs on the side of techno, delivering a profound two-hour mix that marches unrepentantly forward, zipping from ascetic track to track and building an atmosphere thick with subtle detail. This is deep, utilitarian techno for unsettled times and Ogazón leads the way.

@ogazon

Bassiani invites Ogazón / Podcast #241

Red Alert

Joutro mundo - Energia VS  Tim tama  - Augury RmX

The music Aurora Halal creates is informed by many different disciplines. She is a producer, but also a videographer and visual artist who has worked on films about modular synth godfather Morton Subotnick amongst others. She is also the force behind Brooklyn’s Mutual Dreaming party series as well as the Sustain-Release festival. In just a couple of years she has cooked up an expressive and experimental techno sound—solo and with the likes of Ital—on labels such as Lovers Rock and her own Mutal Dreaming Recordings. Oppressive and foggy, her distorted, imperfect sounds made up of heavy drums and scurrying synths have taken her to plenty of remarkable live gigs all over the world. Now she steps up to our mix series with equal aplomb.

Dekmantel Podcast

Dekmantel Podcast 106 - Aurora Halal

Recorded live at Corsica Studios in London, October 2019 at the @MakeMelondon party with DJ Sprinkles, Courtesy and Forest Drive West.

Aired June 26, 2020 on RA's Club Quarantane: https://www.facebook.com/events/s/club-quarantane/584081548881954/

live at Club Quarantane

Aurora Halal ~ Club Quarantäne (Live at Corsica Studios 2019)

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Aurora Halal // Nachtipod // Nachtiville 2024 (The Tangle)

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