Episode Four of the new mixtape series: The Basic Moves Of…

We welcome Penelope for our fourth podcast. Originally from Paris but now living on the sunny coast just south of Lisbon, Penelope recently made her production debut on Tresydos records. Here she shares with us one hour of her personal soundworld, floating between tech-y disco-flavoured house and party electro in a signature clubby style. Spring is coming and the dancefloor waits in expectation – soon, we hope, we’ll be back together. Enjoy everyone! And thank you Pene for this hour of music <3 


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The Basic Moves Of ... PENELOPE

Wiggy flow...layers...The dark. A rare appearance from @phonotheque resident Kino who joins the series from Berlin. Commanding the room.

@kino-2

TASCAM DR-05

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Time for round 2! 

For the second podcast of our series An Affair with... we invited a good friend of the collective: Gamine. Get lost in this spooky selection by one of our favourite musical wizards 👽

Keep an eye on our socials as well because we have some exciting news coming up for the summer...

@gamine94

An Affair with Gamine

Que Sakamoto At Club der Visionaere Berlin Sep 2024
It Was Incredible CDV Debuit
Enjoyed A Lots 4 Hours Sets.
Thank You CDV All The Family For Make It Happen.
Big Love

Mastered By Noriyuki Takagi

Club der Visionaere Berlin 09 2024

spring break (live mix)

The 12 th episode is here, and it's a special one. 
For her first podcast, my close friend Lucie puts together a downtempo mix that moves through ambient textures, deep rhythms, and hypnotic beats. Blending ethereal sounds with subtle transitions, the set drifts between moody atmospheres and pulsing energy, creating a hazy, dreamlike journey. 

I'm very happy with the result and hope you gonna enjoy it, 
Welcome into the Dojo Lulu !! 🖤🖤
César 




The C-Fu's Dojo N°12 w/ Lucie

Release Date : May 2025

SAISEI founder Junki Inoue continues his vital archival work uncovering the riches of Japan’s distinctive electronic music scene and bringing them to new audiences around the world.
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HERO U.D.A. aka Hiroyoshi Udaka is not someone you can easily google, but he’s sure lived a life worth retelling. His story starts back in the late 80s when, inspired by the acid house emanating from the UK — during what was fondly christened the Second Summer of Love — he picked up DJing and made the move from Japan to London. Throughout the 90s he DJed at underground techno institutions like London’s The End, CLUB UK and Silver Fish, as well as at the infamous Tribal Gathering raves, periodically returning to Japan to support techno greats like Colin Dale, Mad Mike, Suburban Knight and D. Wynn on tour.
The tracks on this EP, previously unreleased except for one, were all recorded after Udaka moved back from London to Tokyo, between 2002 and 2005. Yet they sound strikingly modern, drawing on a rich range of sounds that have come back round again two decades later: broken beat, acid jazz, dub and breaks. Deceptively simple grooves are given depth by layers of textures and micro samples, for example the surface noise on ‘On The Way’ that glues together an otherwise sparse skeleton of dubby pads and body popping drums. ‘Mature Missile’, ‘So Good’ and ‘Night Driver’ employ raw broken beat templates with acid accents, whimsical melodies and vocal interjections for a playful mood. ‘Sin City’ takes a darker turn, off-key piano hits and plunging bass adding to the wonkiness. The EP closes with a wiggly vignette, ‘222AM’, reminiscent of early 00s contemporaries like Mouse On Mars. Now these hidden treasures from Udaka’s archive gain a new life on SAISEI.
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SAISEI is a Japanese word which translates to ‘reproduction’ and ‘to play’ (as in playing records). Japanese culture is widely known for its traditional nature just as much as it is for being forward into the future and this label’s concept does justice to exactly that. Having started digging for records as early as 16 years old, Junki Inoue delved into productions from 1990s Japan to uncover these native gems. SAISEI’s core concept is to recapture and reintroduce unique pieces of Japanese electronic music onto vinyl, to an audience it never reached before as most of this music was only released in Japan.

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For DIM325, we hand things over to Inner Lakes. Repping the underground of Northern Italy, the producer and DJ is an expert in crafting spiraling grooves that bend from deep and gritty to euphoric nostalgia, with nothing off-limits in between.

Here he draws together elements of techno, UK house and trance into 1 hour of big-system bangers and hypnotic deep-digs, including special edits from his dubplate collection as well as unreleased forthcoming material.

DIM325 - Inner Lakes

@esb-trax

ESB is back with a delicious new four tracker. Top shelf house cut.
200 copies pressed on black vinyl.
Don't sleep...

ESB • Sleeper [Sleeper 001 / WD 04]

Persona 002 - Balgi

The 40th episode of the podcast welcomes Berlin based DJ & Producer Tata with a deep, dubby and atmospheric mix. 
@tataberlin

Hypnotic Mindcast 40 | Tata

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