“Observatory” by Sungate is OpenLab’s new addition to their eclectic show schedule. The two hours radio show will explore the broad spectrum of electronic music that influences and shapes Sungate’s sound, by discovering their guest's and label founders  -Moy Santana and Hakk- musical tastes. Each episode will be illustrated by a unique piece of art by Abel Fdez, the artist behind Sungate’s visual universe.

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The Dekmantel favourite kicks off 2025 in an exploratory mood.

Since her breakout in 2017, Thessa Thorsing has built an enviable CV: a debut release on Nous'klaer Audio, an album on Dekmantel and a residency at former Amsterdam clubbing institution De School. Over these years, she's honed a singular sound, navigating wild variations in tempo and mood that dance along the edges of techno, IDM and drum & bass (we could list many more, but you know the drill).

Her creative arc has seen her delve into ever more abstract concepts, such as 2024's ambient-leaning album, Strange Meridians, exploring the interplay between synthetic and natural textures through drumless experimentations. As she explained in her 2018 RA Breaking Through profile, "I just want to hear the weirdness in the music."

Thorsing's RA Podcast showcases exactly why she's one of the most  consistently adventurous names in dance music. Describing it as "a mix with a narrative," the former landscape architecture student flexes her ability to build sonic environments, beginning in a landscape more akin to a swamp than a club.

Across 90 minutes, she moves through numerous layered terrains, exploring everything from Skee Mask's lucid, beatless techno to the piercing acid of Mike Parker. Unfolding with a restless sense of curiosity, RA.970 captures an artist challenging the boundaries of electronic music, ever upward.

@upsammy

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RA.970 upsammy

"A space where the pulse of the city merges with sounds dancing between serenity and eruption, like a fractured dream in suspended time. Here, waves of bass envelop you, while rhythms twist free from the bounds of time and space, leaving you adrift in a sonic universe that refuses to be entirely predictable."

Warm, emotive, and explorative - a set of characteristics that make up the enchanting vision of Zara (@zaraolsen), one of the most exciting talents hailing from the Australian scene. Whether it’s IDM, drum and bass, or techno, the Kinesis label-head fuses it all with an enigmatic sense of delicacy. Her distinctive sound on the crossroads of the calm and the energetic resulted in releases on labels such as Animalia, Salt Mines, and Pure Space. Her sets have been turning heads within the international electronic music scene, playing at places like De School, Tresor, and Donato Dozzy’s Spazio Disponsible label showcase. Harmonizing the ethereal and the ominous - Zara takes a gentle yet firm grip on minds and souls on and off the dancefloor.

Mostra (@mostrabcn) is an independent, small-format festival of avant-garde and experimental electronic music which emerged by the end of 2021 as a counterpoint to the macro-festivals and the overcrowded, commercial and impersonal offerings of other large events held in Barcelona. Mostra will be celebrating its fourth edition from 17 to 20 April in 2025.

HOCast #223 x Mostra - Zara

softi’s first show celebrates her 3rd EP on label, mix series & party Cozi.

For the first hour, expect a full 100% production from herself, followed by a guest mix by Tommy Basics - also known as Sub Basics, Boss of dub influenced label ‘Temple of sound’.

Expect his groovier, minimal and tech-house side of his productions and selections.

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We present you DSS 104, brought to you by Caldera.

Since 2012, Caldera has been creating a unique and personal blend of techno and bass music with a love for detail and a dedicated sounddesign that immerses listeners into imaginary worlds.
His experiments with drums and rhythms result in grooves that represent a new and fresh way of looking at dance music while exploring a deeper side of it and leaving bpm restrictions behind.
Caldera's creations have found a home on labels such as Berlin's Nummer Music, Chicago's Kimochi Sound and Bristol's Pressure Dome while his Loop LF moniker has previously been a mainstay on London based Well
Steet Records.

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DSS 104 | Caldera

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Welcome to episode number 100 of Observatory by Sungate
Forward-thinking bass specialist Pugilist celebrates our century show with a very special mix comprised of unreleased material and a mixture of sub-warping past and future classics.
Sungate co-founder Moy Santana closes off on hour two with a blend of spiraling, genre-unbound, glitch heavy dance numbers
A special thank you for being with us for these 100 shows, looking forward to the 100 to come, as always with many special guests!
Art and animation by Abel Fernandez

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Observatory 100 - Sungate [with Pugilist & Moy Santana]

Another Barker masterclass.

Sam Barker asks more from techno. The artist known simply as Barker is one of electronic music's most consistently conscientious and curious producers, challenging listeners to question the norms we accept about our shared culture—whether it's the music that fills the room, the process behind it, or the purpose of the space itself.

British-born yet based in Berlin since 2007, Barker forged a connection to many of the city's leading institutions, including Ostgut Ton, and over the course of a long and fruitful relationship, he carved out one of the more singular paths on the club and label's roster.

Not one for orthodoxy, Barker challenged four-to-the-floor techno framework in favor of melodic experimentation. By decentering or completely stripping away the typical trappings of kick drums and claps, his productions are both light and immersive, buoyant in low-end presence and shimmering in weightless space.

Six years after Utility, his sophomore album Stochastic Drift arrives this month. Shaped by pandemic-driven reinvention, it burrows deeper into harmonic twists and freeform drift. "At some point I became conscious of the process," he wrote of his latest album. "The only thing you can do is embrace the uncertainty and see every change as a potential positive.”

Consider his RA Podcast another sequel. Like his much-beloved 2019 mix for FACT, it's a collage of live recordings and a fitting expression of the artist's own internal spring. RA.982 radiates wide-eyed optimism: percussion cloaked in foggy, swirling pads and trance-like chords, neatly synched in synthetic glimmers. 

All in all, it's an hour of music crafted for contemplation, collective euphoria, or heads-down epiphany—or for that matter, any moment, really, its emotive depth seemingly endless.

@voltek

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RA.982 Barker

With Mostra Festival just over a week away, we’re wrapping up our editorial run with a conversation and a mix from Peter Van Hoesen. His work has always sat slightly outside the frame: techno, ambient, experimental, but never quite typical of any. Instead of chasing momentum, he’s built a practice around attention to sound, to context, and to the possibilities of performance.

At Mostra, he’ll step into a rare DJ role, playing a drum & bass set shaped by years of quietly following the genre’s more experimental edges. In this exchange with Griff and Zach, he reflects on what still draws him to that sound, how his relationship to playing out has shifted, and why intention matters more than ever. The mix he’s shared alongside the interview follows that same line — precise, considered, and wide open. A final entry before we gather next Thursday at Fabra i Coats in Barcelona.

The interview: https://www.delayed.nyc/delayed-blog/artist-of-the-moment-peter-van-hoesen-delayed-x-mostra

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Following the release of their second album last year, Adam Winchester and Laurie Osborne return as Wrecked Lightship on Peak Oil with their latest album 'Drained Strands', opening the hallowed doors of their submarine to all types of distorted fantasies.

As the name suggests, @wreckedlightship carries fractured memories of vessels forgotten in vast expanses, from the sea and beyond. The weight of their work conjures images of desolate landscapes beyond human reach, yet their invitation into this sonic vision becomes a ticket to inhabit the very space of extraterrestrials.

'Drained Strands' withholds a kind of extraordinary beauty that is more often felt than heard. This combined performance unit of solo acts Appleblim & Wedge exists in an untethered vortex - one built from scattered electronics and bruised hearts. All of this culminates in IA MIX 392, a studio mix where heavy scores of bass and a plethora of textures, some borrowed and some unheard, bubble together in a melting pot of comfort and disorder.

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IA MIX 392 Wrecked Lightship

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🔭 Welcome to episode number 107 of Observatory by Sungate Records
☄️ For this edition, Italian producer and deep techno master Dino Sabatini delivers a hypnotic and immersive session, blending atmospheric textures and layered rhythms.
🛸 Sungate co-founder Moy Santana takes over for the second hour, exploring a sophisticated selection of deep, spatial and low-end frequencies that bridge techno and leftfield electronica.
🎨 Art and animation by Abel Fernandez

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Observatory 107 - Sungate [Dino Sabatini & Moy Santana]

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Welcome to episode number 108 of Observatory by Sungate Records

Opening this edition, Anastasiia Slustska sets the tone with a slow-burning, dub-influenced set. Spacious, textural, and deliberately paced, her selection draws from the outer edges of techno and ambient, at the soundsystem meeting point.

In the second hour, resident Fran Domingo (Hakk) picks up the thread and gradually tightens the focus. His mix builds tension through ambient sounds, charred breakbeat, chugging electro, and lisergic chants of the rave continuum.

Art and animation by Abel Fernandez

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Observatory 108 – Sungate [with Anastasiia Slutska & Hakk]

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Welcome to episode number 109 of Observatory by Sungate
For this edition, Colombian artist Launaea delivers a set built on nuance and atmosphere. With a careful blend of muted percussion, jellied textures, and slick rhythm, we delve into an hour of close listening.
In the second hour, resident Moy Santana takes over with a fluid, tightly woven selection. His mix leans into deep grooves and refined energy, maintaining the mood while opening new spaces along the way.
Art and animation by Abel Fernandez

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Observatory 109 - Sungate [with Launaea & Moy Santana]

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Welcome to episode number 110 of Observatory by Sungate
On this occasion, Notte Infinita opens with an impeccable selection representative of his trademark sound. Elegant, fast-paced, and soaked in a bubbly veil of digital slick.
Hour two, resident Moy Santana takes over with a meditative and ever-growing collection of dancefloor heat. A selection of old and new that also features our latest outing on Sungate by Raytek.
Art and animation by Abel Fernández

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Observatory 110 – Sungate [with Notte Infinita & Moy Santana]

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TECHNO ID #6

Skrillex - techno ID #6

Game Awareness

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Welcome to episode number 111 of Observatory by Sungate on openlabradio
Lisa Mizuno takes no shortcuts for this edition. some of the glitchiest and darkest we’ve ever encountered on our show, we are treated to an impecable selection at the event-horizon of dance music.
For our shows solstice, resident Moy Santana takes over with militant drumwork, cavernous atmosphere, and a well tempered balance of bleeps and snaps, culminating with a forthcoming track on our label.

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Observatory 111 – Sungate [with Lisa Mizuno & Moy Santana]

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