@hernancattaneo B2B @djnickwarren recorded at Loveland Festival in Sloterpark, Amsterdam on Sunday 14 August 2022


UPCOMING LOVELAND EVENTS

• Loveland ADE: loveland.nl/ade/program
• Loveland van Oranje 2023: more info soon
• 909 Festival 2023: more info soon
• Loveland Festival 2023: more info soon

Hernan Cattaneo B2B Nick Warren | Loveland Festival 2022 | LL180

Neel B2B Wata Igarashi [21.11.24]

The producer best known as Huerco S. accompanies One Day, our record of the year, with two hours of minimal and dub introspections.

This summer, Kansas-raised DJ and producer Brian Leeds released One Day under his revived Loidis alias. Enamoured with the restrained, loopy sounds of early '00s dance music, the album’s eight tracks linger in the air, luxuriating in dubbed-out chords, swung beats and sub vibrations. It's our favourite record of 2024 for a reason. 

It's a sound he's coined, in his typically teasing fashion, "dub mnml emo tech." All winks aside, it’s no wonder One Day became the soothing balm we all needed. In a scene overwhelmed by hard and fast trends, the softer—and Leeds might argue, more sincere—stylings of minimal and dub techno enjoyed a welcome second wind. 

Not only was One Day one of our favourites of the year (more on that this week), but it also inspired us to break our usual no-repeats rule, inviting Leeds back to the RA Podcast under a different alias after his 2019 turn as Huerco S. 

"The prevailing trends in dance music are more and more maximalist," Leeds noted. "I missed restraint, subtlety, and sensuality." Clocking in at just under two hours, RA.965 embodies that ethos in spades.

@huerco_s

Read more at ra.co/podcast/965

RA.965 Loidis

At Varden, the fusion of nature and music becomes reality, and Detroit-based artist Erika made it her playground. The Monument Family moved as one, a sea of smiling faces and dancing bodies flowing in sync, like waves in an ocean. Carried by her deep, hypnotic, and atmospheric sounds.

Dancers look on with childlike awe at the projections on the surrounding trees around Varden, painted by light in all of the colors of the rainbow. Smoke is suddenly coming in from the side, taking the shape of fog you can see over water sometimes. Time moved in slow motion, and all that could penetrate the fog was laser beams. It felt like being inside a lightning storm in a cloud. The ultimate synaesthesia vortex unfolding right before our eyes.  

Erika’s music felt alive, creating moments where the boundaries between nature, technology, and human connection blurred. As if the trees Varden was built with helped her to fine-tune the sound. Those who danced that night weren’t just hearing techno, they became one with it under the stars.

Tune in now for Erika’s set closing the Varden stage on Saturday night of Monument Festival 2024.

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Monument Festival 2024 : Erika

A lesson in rhythm from a former De School resident.

When it comes to minimalist dance music, Ruben Üvez, AKA Konduku, is one of the best in the game right now. With a masterful and ever-shapeshifting understanding of rhythm, the Berlin-based artist crafts sublime dance music with a staunchly leftfield bent. Don't just take our word for it: how many DJs, after all, can claim to have moved De School to a puddle of tears?

Musically, Üvez is hard to pin down. He's often billed as a techno artist, but actually you'll find his sound sits outside of the genre's many conventions. With an outsider's curiosity, he leans into diverse moods, tempos and genres, though one throughline is always how he arranges his drums. Whether it be deep, Nobu-core techno such as 2023's Hayal EP or UK beat science á la Peverelist on 2019's  Gegek, he leads with rhythm across his DJing and production. The end product is a hypnotic, one-of-a-kind sound that hits the body before the brain has time to catch up. In short, it slaps.

As Üvez's RA Podcast demonstrates, he's got a serious knack for crafting and selecting tunes that can  deeply captivate a dance floor. Clocking in at just over 90 minutes, RA.967 is an excursion through a timeless sound, packed with long, layered blends, flick-of-the-wrist transitions, locked grooves and spine-tingling atmospherics. In 2020, we called Ruben Üvez one of techno's brightest new talents. This mix sees him ascending to a seat at the top table.

@kondukukonduku

Read more at ra.co/podcast/967

RA.967 Konduku

Palms Trax at the Earthling stage on Sunday night at Houghton 2024.

@palmstrax

Recorded at Houghton - Palms Trax (2024)

There was a slight delay to the second part of our December special but it was worth the wait! We’re starting this year how we mean to carry on and who better to kickstart our 2025 than local talent, Jeneva!

Having spent some time abroad in Madrid and building a name for herself as a DJ there, she’s back in the UK and bringing her unique musical style to the capital. We love her take on techno with her trademark style of blending the dark and hypnotic with groove to take listeners on a journey through sound. 

Fresh off the back of her Snooze debut, we’re pleased to share this high energy mix, packed with groove and mixed with elegance. With a history of studying classical music, Jeneva carefully curates her mixes in an intricate manner with her sets building intensity as she sets the scene, before immersing you in relentless rhythms! 

She’s growing as an artist in the local underground scene and we are sure she is going to establish herself as a regular figure here. Be sure to follow her journey! 

Instagram - jeneva.leech
SoundCloud - jeneva-leech

FRAGMENT 004 - JENEVA

An hour to give you a glimpse of my opening set at Unfold @ Fold in London on March 2 - 2025. Great memory! Thank you all for dancing.

opening Unfold, London - 02.03.25

This has been an exciting week as we unveiled the line for our event on 10th May! We hope to see as many of you there as possible but in the meantime, we are continuing our podcast series where we aim to show off more upcoming talent and finetune the range of sound that defines our vision. 
 
Up next, we are pleased to present to you, Psykoterapi 🤩
 
She’s a rising star from the underground scene in Stockholm and is definitely an artist to watch out for! Over the past couple of years, she has honed her craft and shaped her unique sound which has ultimately established her as prominent name in the local scene and earnt her a residency at Spektrum. 

Psykoterapi’s style can best be described as spellbinding, immersive, driving and hypnotic. She creates a building energy that keeps listeners engaged in a trance-like state from start to finish. This mix is no different as she subtly builds the intensity taking you from a psychedelic state of comfort to losing control of your body as you move to the rhythm. We look forward to following her journey and hope you all do too.

FRAGMENT 007 - PSYKOTERAPI

Âme b2b RØDHÅD @ DGTL Barcelona - Part 1

First in a series of mixes from Jarvus. 
Tracklist:
Seahawks- Islands (Captain Sunshine & The Valley People Mix)
Suzanne Kraft- Two Chord Wake
Seahawks- Didn’t know I was Lost
Visible Cloaks, Motion Graphics- Terrazzo
Bullion- My Lar
Seahawks- Escape Hatch
Seahawks- Love on a Mountain Top
Suzanne Kraft- Flatiron
Steve Hauschildt- Same River Twice
Seahawks- Safe Harbour (Cassini Division Sea Caves Mix)
Huerco S.- The Sacred Dance
Pacifika- Sweet (Quiet Village mix)
Loops of Your Heart- Broken Bow

Non State Mix 01- Jarvus

Music label. 

Jarvus - Farasan out 1st March 2023. Debut album from Jarvus out now on Non State Records.