Heard Neel play this live on another set. Haven’t been the same since.

awesome techno stands out from the rest, just like it should.
awesome guy...

It started with an urge to play with sound, a DIY synth, and a desire to know more. After several years buried in books, manuals and patch cables, JakoJako was performing her first live sets around Berlin, and spending every spare penny on Eurorack modules. The passion became all consuming, and in 2017, she left her nursing career to work at the legendary Berlin synth shop Schneidersladen, where’s she’s been sharing her knowledge of tools and techniques with the city’s music makers ever since. 

Technique is no use without ideas to apply it to, and fortunately JakoJako has a natural supply. “When you hear a sound in the environment, say a car passing by, you don’t appreciate the complexity until you think how you might synthesise it.” She explains. “Then it becomes something abstract; a collection of modulated pitches and timbres. I love to listen to the world like this..”

Her approach may seem studious, but JakoJako uses this fluency in the language of sound to convey emotion, and each track is an experiment, with success based on the intensity of feeling it creates. Her debut EP “Aequilibration”, released in 2019 on Leisure System Records, showcased this explorative mindset, with four very different stylistic ideas tied together through emotive sound design, sharp production, and a strong sense of melody. 

The release was followed by a string of live gigs, performed with her modular system and Elektron boxes, including a release party at Berghain, playing a standout set alongside Ben UFO and Marie Davidson. 

With regular events disappearing in 2020, live music migrated online, finding a global audience in shared experience of isolation. After streaming a live set for HÖR Radio, she was invited to take part in an online event for Arté, hosted by Innervisions and United We Stream, alongside Amé and Frank Wiedermann. This led to a filmed live performance in her studio for Fact Magazine’s Patch Notes series, and an in-depth video feature for Electronic Beats, which together have over half a million views (and counting).

Offline, JakoJako has made good use of the time in her studio, producing tracks on compilations for B-Pitch Control and Figure Records, remixes for Crouds on Intumi, and most recently, for New Order on Mute Records. More solo work is in the pipeline too, including a new EP for Leisure System Records, due in mid  2021.

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Jako Jako

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Colombia loves techno, Colombia understands techno.

This is the full recording of my live set at Blackdance Bogota on December 10th 2022. This was the last set of the night, performed in front of what was one of the best crowds I have encountered in 2022. 

Many thanks to the organizers and audience for their effort and support - much love from me to you.

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Live at Blackdance Bogota

Live at Blackdance Bogota, Colombia, December 10 2022

Wata Igarashi B2b Kangding Ray - Dantz Point Athens (Greece)

Do you know that time when listening to music and you feel like you are part of a miraculous and yet incredibly beautiful swarm of insects? Or when a swarm of starlings perform their unusually astonishing formations in front of your inner eye?

Neel (@neel) is a true master in blending the sheer endless colours and shapes of techno and the energy level of his 3h set is so incredibly high that it’s very likely it gives you those fantasies.

Voices From The Lake

Neel // Nachtipod // Nachtiville 2024 (Chalet)

Next up in our series, we’re excited to welcome Mary Yuzovskaya, a DJ and producer whose surgical sense of the groove and love for minimal sound structures have become trademarks over the years. At the helm of her own record label, Monday Off, Mary puts in the same precision and effort she dishes out through all of her vinyl-only DJ sets. Stripped-back and highly cerebral, her style sits at the junction of heavily dubbed-out psychedelia, liquid abstraction and post-industrialism, and this mix doesn’t differ. Enter Yuzovskaya’s mazy new vinyl exclusive mix with crumbs of bread in your pocket and some red thread, for we’re yet to know where the labyrinth ends. But does it even have an end?

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Reclaim Your City

Reclaim Your City 626 | Mary Yuzovskaya

✈ To celebrate this new episode, we are proud and delighted to host such an iconic figure from the Dutch Techno scene : SANDRIEN.

Amsterdam’s Sandrien is known for her versatile take on techno. From deep and atmospheric to high-energy breaks and acid; her dynamic track selection has made her a dance floor favourite in her hometown and beyond. With over twenty years in the game, there are hardly any iconic clubs and festivals Sandrien has not played. She has graced the stages of Lowlands Festival, Awakenings, Dekmantel and Draaimolen in The Netherlands, Norway’s Monument, Rainbow Disco Club in Japan and the club booths of Berlin’s Berghain, Bassiani in Tbilisi, Basement NY, Tunnel Pereira and Womb in Tokyo.

In Amsterdam, she used to be a resident of De School and its predecessor Trouw. The latter was home to Sandrien’s own techno club nights ‘Imprint’, through which she hosted a variety of national and international artists including Ben Sims, DVS1, Marcel Dettman, Oscar Mulero, Peter van Hoesen and Rødhåd. In addition, she was one of the founders of the city’s long-running LGBTQIA+ event series IsBurning.

For years, Sandrien spent her weekdays working in Amsterdam’s renowned record stores Rush Hour and Killacutz. This speaks to the imagination of her incredible record collection and musical knowledge. Her extensive library is precisely why she’s a champion of playing longer DJ sets, during which she always manages to build a solid bridge between old-school techno, and adventurous fresh sounds. Sandrien’s experience and ability to adapt to any setting also shows in her love for playing back-to-back with other artists, including DJ Nobu, Ben Sims and Philippa Pacho.

Occasionally, she likes to give the more house-leaning part of her collection a spin; high energy and acidic basslines woven together by the same solid groove her techno sets are known for.

Enjoy and feel free to share! Love & Techno

Tracklist:

1. Casual Treatment - Remember Me (Tar Hallow)
2. Dave Alyan - Guest from the Future (Black Line Recordings)
3. Tiemoko Kone - The Past Is The Past (Drawner Records)
4. Sonic Wave Collective - Arise (Forest on Stasys Remix) (Arketip Discs)
5. Alderaan - Collision (PSYCHOSKUNK Recordings)
6. Freddy Fresh, DJ Slip, Dan Zamani, Tim Taylor - Iceberg (DJ Dextro 2024
Rework) (Missile Records)
7. Translate - Induccion al Sueno (EVOD)
8. Radar - XxxX (Logia Sound Collective)
9. 5O71 - Campfire (MZRRECORDS)
10. Augusto Taito - O1.2 (Tar Hallow)
11. Cassulle - Cuarta (Space Travel Records)
12. Slone - Prisoner (KYSH Records)
13. Pierce - Manticore (Schimmer Records)
14. STIPP - SDG
15. Sciahri x Hertz Collision - Echoes of the Void (Kontain Remix) (Clergy)
16. AgainstMe - My Very Best Regards (Evilgroove Records)
17. Muzmin - Yucca (Fusion of Thought)
18. KIKA (MD) - Lost Words (Evilgroove Records)
19. Feisfois - Intercrus (Timeless O'Clock)
20. Rawdecks - Blindsided (Diffuse Reality Records)
21. Peter Van Hoesen - Variables Edit 1 (Reclaim Your City)
22. Human Space Machine - Zehn (SoHaSo)
23. Priori - Sub Lux (Kalahari Oyster Cult)
24. Gustav Krach - I’ll Only Fly Away (Engörn)

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Interview

PARADOX PODCAST #181 -- SANDRIEN

Psyk @ UNFOLD 02-03-2025

For the past fifteen years, Rotterdam-based DJ and producer Benny Rodrigues alias ROD has been carving out a lane of his own in the realm of contemporary techno. Piling up one massive release after the other for the likes of Axis, Figure, Soma, Klockworks or his own record label, Rod20, the Dutch artist has been laying the foundation to a catalogue driven by thrill-seeking curiosity and a vibrant desire to bring techno into a whole new dimension, just as the pioneers did. That epic-sized vision and deeply innovative breath infuse both ROD’s studio productions and sets, and his RYC podcast vouches for that very ground-breaking, limit-busting take on the medium. Flush with galloping grooves, mind-altering distortions and heavy-duty analogue funk, the present mix is as much an ode to the early scene’s unfading visionary impulse as it is a future-ready manifesto for our age.

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Reclaim Your City 638 | ROD

Native Dust (extended) Stone of Power (remaster)

Lucifer

Recorded live at Kompass in Ghent - 29.02.2020

Kompass Rekording 001

Efdemin - Recorded live at Kompass

Nachtdigital - Festival solutions since 1998

"NACHTI" and "NACHTIVILLE" are two festivals made by the organizers of Nachtdigital.

Neel // Nachtipod // Nachtiville 2024 (Chalet)

Nachtdigital // NACHTI // Nachtiville

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