Name: Atlantis 19 w/ aQa - Electro, Techno, Breakbeat - Operator Radio 27-03-2025 by aQa | Operating Modus in 'Atlantis' on Operator Radio
Duration: 57 min 33 s
Description: Everything that is unknown is part of the myth. Part nineteen.

Everything that is unknown is part of the myth.

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62*2: Ice crystals decorate the well-worn machines. There's a positive buzz in the air, as construction on the purple plane is progressing smoothly. I'm still getting used to my new form, but I feel like I can be of help.

A∞x - i.d.p.4 (NDJ000)

For the first episode of Atlantis we’re zooming into the underwater worlds of James Stinson and Gerald Donald, two of my absolute personal heroes whose music have seen a big amount of rereleases in the past months. A true blessing for whoever holds a connection with the Drexciyan Empire as some of their work became unaffordable. These reissued works form the base of this show, complemented by many other records, rereleases or not, old and new, that hold a link to Afro Futurism or songs I just love.

Sun Ra - Atlantis [Saturn Research]
Drexciya - Cascading Celestial Giants [Clone]
Drexciya - Aquatic Cataclysm [Tresor]
Stingray - Much Hate [WéMè Records]
Zwischenwelt - Materialization [Rephlex, Clone Aqualung]
Arpanet - Ionic Crystals [Rephlex]
Bitstream - Vic Twenty [Signal Recordings]
Facil - Tree Frog [Instinct Ambient & re:discovery records]
Yuki Matsumura - An [Omen Wapta]
Abstract Thought - Consequences of Cloning [Kombination Research, Clone Aquqlung]
Jack Peoples - Song 6 [Clone Aqualung Series]
Wladimir M. - Evil [Eevo Lute Muzique, Delsin] 
Scape One - Tears in Rain [Electro Records]
Maurizio - Ploy (UR Remix) [Maurizio]
Heinrich Mueller & The Exaltics - 3.26 Parallax Seconds [Solar One Music]
Quadratschulz - Ring The Bell (FAH Remix) [Shipwrec]
Kosmik Kommando - Sociosexual (De:Tuned)
Essit Muzique - De Theorie Van De Machinale Monotomie [DAP]
Transllusion - Power of the Third Brain [Tresor]
Drexciya - Species Of The Pod [Tresor]
Ufaze - J03 [Slow Process]
SolarX - Bionic Man [Hymen Records]
Stingray - Potential [Micron Audio]

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Atlantis 1 'A Drexciyan Revival' w/ aQa - Operator Radio 22-03-23

Everything that is unknown is part of the myth.

1st hour:
Spacetime Contiuüm - A Low Frequency Inversion Field [FAX]
James Holden - Common Land (Imagine This Is A High Dimensional Space Of All Possibilities [Border Community]
Electric Sheep - Tell Me The Truth [Heimelektro Ulm]
Animistic Beliefs - To Dream About Water [NAAFI]
Ryuichi Sakamoto  (Yellow Magic Orchestra) - Riot in Lagos [HTF Records]
Drexciya - Neon Falls [Submerge]
Erika - Opal Haze [Interdimensional Transmissions]
Shifted Phases – Dance Of The Celestial Druids [Tresor]
Legowelt - Dimensionless Moog SP [Axumisia Records]
Anthony Shake Shakir - Frictionalized [Rush Hour]
Scape One - Tears in Rain [Electro Records] 
Pollon–	Lonely Planet [Scopex/Tresor]

2nd hour:
Psychonautic Experiments - Samara (Hardwired Outlook) [Re-load Records]
Red Eye	- XI [Fine Audio Recordings]
Outline - Untitled [Metalbox]
Funk D'Void - Bad Coffee [Soma quality Recordings]
Essit Muzique - De Theorie Van De Machinale Monotomie [DAP]
Universal Indicator (Aphex Twin & Mike Dred) - One1 [Rephlex]
413 - 413 Anthem [Hybrid]
Alonzo - Unprofessional [Cultivated Electronics]
Fobos Hailey - Why [Resonance Moscow]
The Advent - Elektra Fix [Metalbox]
Mark Finnie - Fire Cooler [Bellboy Records]
Spinning Atoms - Summer School [Re-load Records]
Momec - Beneath Ground [FLASH]
Maccari - Escapism [Akashic Records]
Dietrich Schoenemann - Totality [Sondos]
StacEmp - Closer [Typeless]
Dirty Hospital - The General [Control Tower]
Univac - Object At 9 [Mindri]
Population One - Rush Hour (Rolando Remix) [Rush Hour]
Gene Hunt - Juno 106 [Contaminated Muzik]
The Advent - P Tek [Kombination Research]
Beverly Hills 808303 - A1 [Reference Analogue Audio]
LAG	 - Kontrola [Mord]
The Advent - Work Dat [Electrix Records]
Psychonautic Experiments - Cyclosis [Re-load Records]
Damon Wild & Tim Taylor - Bang the Acid (Claude Young's Vox Work Mix) [Missile Records]

Bi-monthly show on @operator-radio
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Atlantis 2 w/ aQa - Operator Radio 24-05-23

Everything that is unknown is part of the myth. Part three.

Aphex Twin - Blackbox Life Recorder 21f [Warp]
Schizophrenia - Schizophrenia [Tresor]
The Durutti Column - Grace [Les Disques Du Crépuscule]
Kraftwerk - Expo 2000 (Kling Klang Mix 2000) [EMI]
Glass Domain - Interlock [Clone]
Fentom - Mesotron [SoundUnbound Recordings] 
Orlando Voorn - Space Trap [Trust]
Radioactive Man - Goodnight Morton [R.G.C. Records]
Dave Olson & Scott Radke - Pablo [HiPass]
The Deacon - Soulsaver [Underground Resistance]
Lab Rat XL - Lab Rat 6 [Clone]
Intergalactic Gary - Industrial Model [Viewlexx]
Helena Hauff & The Exaltics - Creatura [Solar One]

Atlantis 3 w/ aQa - Operator Radio 12-07-23

Everything that is unknown is part of the myth. Part four.

Underground Resistance - Body And Soul (Nation 2 Nation) [UR]
Iasos - The Bubble Massage (Inter-Dimensional Music) [Unity Records] 
Larry Heard - Cosmogonic Myth (Alien) [Alleviated Records] 
Sun Electric - Love 2 Love (Ambient Dreams) [Music From Memory]
The KLF - 3 A.M. Somewhere Out Of Beaumont (Chill Out) [KLF Communications]
Woob - Wuub (1194) [EM:T] 
Ghostride The Drift - Untitled (Ghostride The Drift) [xpq?]
S.O.N.S. - Upside Down (The Escape) [S.O.N.S.] 
PLO Man - fig. 015 (anonymousmaterial) [Acting Press] 
Vulva - Wailing Vulvas (Birdwatch) [Rephlex]
Nathan Siter - e:ly (Bacteria) [Zhark]
Biosphere - Startoucher (Patashnik) [Apollo]
Luke Slater Love (The 7th Plain Collage Remix) (Love Remixes) [Mote-Evolver]
Robert Leiner - Out Of Control (Visions Of The Past) [Apollo]
Sandwell District - 7" Untitled	(Feed Forward) [PIAS, originally on Sandwell District]
Sandwell District - Immolare (Feed Forward) [PIAS, originally on Sandwell District]
Daniel Avery - Diminuendo (Patrick Russell Remix) (Song For Alpha Remixes: One) [Phantasy Sound]
The Exaltics - We Never Had A Chance (The 7th Planet) [Clone West Coast Series]
Orlando Voorn - Shockwave (Outerworld) [Trust]
Drexciya - Aqua Worm Hole (Journey Of The Deep Sea Dweller III) [Clone Classic Cuts]
BHMF - Mörkertal (Scandinavian Swords IIII: Atlas of Visions)

Atlantis 4 w/ aQa - Operator Radio 20-09-23

Everything that is unknown is part of the myth. Part five.

Zandvoort & Uilenbal - Safe Sailing for the Galleon Caladrius (Folk Triumfator) [Nightwind Records]
Wang Inc. - Fuga (MEDITERRANEO) [Random Note] 
Patrick Cowley - Journey Home (School Daze) [Dark Entries] 
Jon Hassell - Blues Nile (Vernal Equinox) [Lovely Music, Ltd.)
Skee Mask - South Mathematikz (Shred) [Ilian Tape]
Burial - Night Bus (Burial) [Hyperdub]
Freeform - Bubbled (Elastic Speakers) [Worm Interface]
Being - Being, Then. (Broxburn Funk) [Firecracker Recordings]
Masala - Lucid Dreams (Drop 7.3 - Lucid Dreams) [Materiali Sonori]
James Bernard - Mars Rain (Atmospherics) [Rising High Records]
Laura BCR - Contagious [Konstrukt] (unreleased)
Earthen Sea - Sea of Neptune (Mirage) [Lovers Rock]
Pachen’s Law - Magnifying Transmitter (Underground Wave Volume 4) [Walhalla Records]
Seer - Electrolytic (No Ressurection) [Spectral Sound]
Chemical Brothers - Fuck Up Beat (edit) (Exit Planet Dust) [Virgin]
Black Merlin - Manipulate (Manipulate) [Offen Music]
Zohar - Osh (OBJECT) [Zohar]
Randomer - Huh (Residents) [L.I.E.S.]
Helena Hauff - C45P (A Tape) [Handmade Birds]
Betonkunst & Palmbomen II - Bart’s Jam (Parallel B) [Dekmantel]
Anthony Rother - Hacker (Hacker) [Psi49net]
Onmensch - Orbit 27 (SCHENK 1) [ONDERWERELD]
Mark Finnie - Forcefield (Sunless) [Bellboy Records]
Robert Hood - Chase (Internal Empire) [Tresor]
Arnaud le Textier - Python (Axioms EP) [Children of Tomorrow]
Koenig Cylinders - 99.9 (John Selway 2002 remix) [Exacta.udio]
The Advent - Panther (Panther EP) [Kombination Research]

Atlantis 5 w/ aQa - Operator Radio 15-11-23

Defqon 1 Festival 2009 - Almeerderstrand Almere - 13-06-2009
From 11:00 hrs - 23:00 hrs, broadcasted live on ID&T Radio.

Line Up:

Red

11:00 - 12:00: Kamui 
12:00 - 13:00: Fausto
13:00 - 14:00: Isaac
14:00 - 15:00: Wildstylez
15:00 - 16:15: D-Block & S-te-Fan
16:15 - 17:15: Noisecontrollers 
17:15 - 17:45: Donkey Rollers
17:45 - 19:00: The Prophet
19:00 - 20:15: Technoboy
20:15 - 21:30: Alpha²
21:30 - 23:00: Headhunterz 

MC Ruffian

Blue

11:00 - 12:30: The Pitcher
12:30 - 14:00: Ivan Carsten & Stephanie
14:00 - 15:15: Coone
15:15 - 16:30: A-lusion & Scope DJ
16:30 - 17:30: Brennan Heart 
17:30 - 18:45: Davide Sonar
18:45 - 20:00: Dana
20:00 - 21:00: Frontliner
21:00 - 23:00: Tatanka & Zatox

MC DV8

Black

11:00 - 12:00: Consumer & Counterfeit 
12:00 - 13:00: Weapon X 
13:00 - 14:00: Inyoung 
14:00 - 15:00: Evil Activities
15:00 - 16:00: AniMe & Mad Dog 
16:00 - 17:15: Endymion 
17:15 - 18:30: Tha Playah 
18:30 - 19:45: Noize Suppressor
19:45 - 21:00: Nosferatu 
21:00 - 22:00: Promo
22:00 - 23:00: DaY-már

Grey

11:00 - 12:30: Gizmo 
12:30 - 14:00: Franky Jones & Yves Deruyter
14:00 - 15:15: Sequence & Ominous 
15:15 - 15:45: The Horrorist
15:45 - 17:00: Stanton
17:00 - 18:00: Buzz Fuzz & Panic 
18:00 - 19:30: Digital Boy 
19:30 - 20:45: Charly Lownoise & Mental Theo
20:45 - 21:45: The Viper 
21:45 - 22:45: Manu Le Malin

MC Alee

Brown

11:00 - 12:00: Jones & Sjoekoe
12:00 - 13:30: Ladyboy 
13:30 - 15:00: Instigator 
15:00 - 16:00: Demoniak
16:00 - 17:00: Ruthless 
17:00 - 18:00: Ronald-V
18:00 - 19:30: Qatja S
19:30 - 21:00: Guarana & Playboyz
21:00 - 22:00: Mystery

MC Villain

Green

13:15 - 14:15: Jan Liefhebber
14:15 - 15:15: Evan Forrest
15:15 - 16:30: Surgeon
16:30 - 17:00: Rude Awakening
17:00 - 18:15: Luna
18:15 - 19:15: Peaky Pounder
19:15 - 20:15: Amok
20:15 - 21:15: Mario Ranieri
21:15 - 22:15: Killswitch & Reset 

MC Dart

Orange

11:00 - 12:00: Charly & Nazzz
12:00 - 13:00: Randy Katana
13:00 - 14:15: Lisa Lashes
14:15 - 15:30: Ali Wilson
15:30 - 16:45: JOOP
16:45 - 18:00: Artento Divini
18:00 - 19:00: Mark Sherry
19:00 - 20:15: Audiowarp
20:15 - 21:30: Louk
21:30 - 22:30: FJ Project

MC Chucky

Silver

11:00 - 12:30: Mez
12:30 - 13:30: Matt Green
13:30 - 14:30: Deathmachine
14:30 - 15:00: The Teknoist
15:00 - 16:00: Unexist
16:00 - 17:15: The Outside Agency
17:15 - 18:45: Hellfish
18:45 - 19:30: The Destroyer 
19:30 - 20:45: Traffik
20:45 - 22:15: The DJ Producer 

MC Justice

Purple

11:00 - 12:00: The Mindplayer 
12:00 - 13:00: Atmozfears
13:00 - 14:00: Beat Providers
14:00 - 15:15: Ran-D 
15:15 - 16:30: Dailucia 
16:30 - 17:45: Psyko Punkz 
17:45 - 19:00: d'Stylerz 
19:00 - 20:15: B-Front 
20:15 - 21:30: Digital Punk 
21:30 - 23:00: Profyler 

MC Jeff

DJ Isaac Live @ Defqon 1, Almeerderstrand Almere 13-06-2009

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

Read more at ra.co/podcast/970

RA.970 upsammy

Los Angeles artist 1morning is one of the funkiest young producers in modern techno. His all-vinyl DJ sets and pumping productions on labels likes Character and Fixed Rhythms stand out. Enjoy!

ITPS112 1MORNING

Everything that is unknown is part of the myth. Part nineteen.

Atlantis 19 w/ aQa - Electro, Techno, Breakbeat - Operator Radio 27-03-2025

This mix is a sampler for an upcoming various artists album via Tresor x Limited Network coming early next year. With music from: 

5tr8tch
GiGi Galaxy
Sugar
JPWatts
Max Watts
Skee Mask

Available on SoundCloud and Apple Podcasts. Enjoy!

ITPS119 LIMITED NETWORK

Live recording at the Future Intel headquarters in The Hague. Streaming live every Thursday and Friday on YouTube and futureintelradio.com. For more info, visit our website.

Yasin Engwer ╚═ Future Intel x ESHU x Isotoop ═╗ 21 11 2025

A statement mix from the Dutch artist also known as A Made Up Sound, 2562 and ex_libris. 

What makes something sound like Dave Huismans? His music carries a signature you can't quite name, a tension which has defined every chapter of his career. And unlike most producers, he really does operate in phases. 

A man of many monikers, Huismans resurfaced this year after nearly a decade away with two new aliases, ex_libris and In Transit. His latest ventures, though sonically a world away from the work under his most recognised projects, share the same slipperiness, intricacy and disregard for tidy genre borders. 

"Naiveté and a lack of prejudice… a really wide-eyed type of open-mindedness," Huismans once told RBMA, recalling his youthful forays into dance music and that ethos is alive and well on RA.1015.

Huismans's second RA Mix is as equally thrilling as his first one 15 years ago, traversing a map of influences from Madlib and Gyrofield to Prince and Autechre.  There's no shortage of atmosphere (Losoul's "Sunbeams and the Rain" is one particular highlight), but the throughline is groove: soulful, vocal deep house into driving techy depths, walls of glitchy drums and frantic percussion into guitar funk. 

"I got carried away a bit," Huismans says of RA.1015 below. And that's no bad thing. It sounds like someone enjoying himself again, and perhaps, after letting a few old skins fall away, Huismans is ready to shift shape once more. And if it's anything like the last time, a lot of good music awaits. 

Find the tracklist and interview at ra.co/podcast/1034 
@2562amadeupsound

RA.1015 Dave Huismans

upsammy at Draaimolen Festival 2025

One of the defining producers of the 21st century steps up for a rare, era-spanning mix.

We've been in a reflective mood lately: mulling emergent icons, modern classic and the cyclical nature of trends. All things bend around eventually, but if you lived through the mid-'00s the first time, it felt tricky to envision some specifics of those interim years making a second splash. More fool us. Amongst many other things, dubstep is well and truly back.

This resurged appetite for low-end has been a central storyline in 2025. Clear tells were there in the form of Introspekt's Moving The Center and Tracey's "Sex Life," two major highlights of the past 12 months. Alternately, cup your ear to the tremors rumbling across the world and you'd find Mala packing up crowds with gusto. Which makes closing out the year with a mix from the man himself serendipitous.

The South Norwood-born sub sensei has held an anchor role in the movement since its earliest days. A little like what Upsetter was to Black Ark, the principles Mala, Coki and Loefah's DMZ laid down have been expanded on by Deep Medi, a label that has cultivated a loyal fandom who watch over the catalogue like a hawk. (Six years of frothy debate and knowing in-jokes between MEDi 99 and MEDi 100 paints a picture of both steep expectations and an affinity for gently ribbing their leader.)

But Mala's banner 2025 hasn't relied on the heads alone. The adrenaline of his fissuring basslines and barrel-chested vocals have drawn people into his orbit, and there are rarer qualities at play, too—like pacifism, winked at by the demilitarized name and reinforced on their all-time greatest tune; or contemplation, inked on flyers beseeching the crowd to meditate on bass weight.

In that spirit arrives a mix we've asked after for years. Subtitled The Listening Session, it's rare on two counts. Despite his enduring popularity, Mala is a conspicuous absence on most DJ series. (It's not that he doesn't enjoy recording, just gets spooked by the reaction.)

A nearly-three hour studio set—spaciously paced and laced with a combination of 2025 highlights, freshly-cut dubplates and some of the biggest anthems in the genre's history—is unheard of. No tracklist for now, on Mala's request. Soon come.

RA.1016 is the kind of document that jogs the memory back to when dubstep was a discrete enterprise, something you could only fleetingly access by, say, dialling into Youngsta on Sub FM, ripping 320s of "Circling" off long-forgotten blogs or hugging the back wall of Mass. Which, in service of thinking the evolution of 21st century electronic music, is pretty perfect really.  – Gabriel Szatan

Find the interview at ra.co/podcast/1035

@maladmz
@deep-medi-musik

RA.1016 Mala

31*9: I've completely lost my way in this rocky maze and to make matters worse, I've lost half of my tail. I don't understand, it's as if my most important point of orientation, Mount Nduja itself, is constantly shifting. And why do I keep hearing these clangorous sounds...?

Mammo - Type Null / Arcology (NDJ002)

Electronic waves ~

Previously as Operating Modus.

"Meet aQa, a Rotterdam-based DJ whose boundless approach to electronic music is both precise and dynamic. Rooted in a deep respect for the art of composing and using the element of water as his cornerstone, aQa’s sets flow seamlessly from atmospheric ambient and IDM to blistering 90’s electro and hard-edged Detroit techno that will shift any audience into top gear. 

With appearances at De School, Breakfast Club, Drift and HÖR Berlin, alongside his monthly Atlantis residency on Operator Radio, aQa has cemented himself as a strong voice in the depths of electronic music. His music draws from a deep well of influences, blending the forward-thinking ethos of artists like Brian Eno and Biosphere with the aquatic mythos of Drexciya and the raw energy of Underground Resistance, offering a sound that feels both timeless and forward-looking.

Whether helming the decks in intimate spaces or expansive festival stages, aQa’s performances are as fluid as they are ferocious. Operating at the crossroads of instinct and intention, aQa leaves a resonance that lingers long after the final track."

contact: info@maukerodermond.nl

Atlantis 19 w/ aQa - Electro, Techno, Breakbeat - Operator Radio 27-03-2025

aQa | Operating Modus

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