Out Of Focus Podcast Series

The fourteenth podcast. The first artist on the 2025 gathering lineup. When the idea for this podcast was first developed, showcasing Sardinian DJ's was always something we wanted to accomplish. There is a natural harmony between the environment here and this style of music. It is something that is difficult to articulate. The ambience lends itself to the hypnotic, organic, profound tones. The landscape mirrors the sheer, rugged, illusive elements of deep techno. The lapping sea emulates the constant, unerring yet unpredictable facets. 

One artist who in our minds captures the very essence of all of this; with consistently top quality releases, classy mixes and a genuine, friendly and approachable character, is Save Your Atoll, who we are thrilled to welcome to the Out Of Focus Podcast. 

We are also overjoyed to announce @SaveYourAtollofficial as the first name on our lineup for Out Of Focus Gathering 2025, an event that grants the opportunity to come and witness the harmony between this place and this music.

Today's mix is grounded in pace and energy. Rhythmic elements intertwine to invoke an unyielding urge to move. Ever present is the push and pull, the tension and release, poised expertly to give the listener relief at the exact moment you need it. Whatever mood you carry with you when you press play on this mix, I assure you will feel re-energised by the end.

SC: @SaveYourAtollofficial
IG: https://www.instagram.com/save_your_atoll
Bandcamp: https://saveyouratoll.bandcamp.com

Out Of Focus 2025 Gathering links
Site: https://2025.outoffocus.it
IG: https://www.instagram.com/_out_of.focus/

Out Of Focus 014 - Save Your Atoll

Berlin-based DJ Jesse G is known for her energetic, genre-spanning sets that surprise and delight crowds, her sound is a playful, wide-ranging medley of deep, metallic, trippy, groovy, jacking, and percussive techno, with diverse rhythms and a UK bass influence.

Her distinctive sound is also informed by an encyclopedic understanding of electronic music and from honing her craft over her nearly six years as an integral member of the staff at the hallowed Berlin record store, Hard Wax. In addition to having held down residencies at RSO Berlin and Tresor, she has played venues such as Berghain, De School, Open Ground, and Blitz Club; and graced festivals including ADE Het Weekend and Nachtiville.

Jesse shared some words about the mix:
“I wanted this mix to sound playful, energetic and organic with a few surprises here and then. It was also important to me to include many artists who inspired me in the last months - be it musically or / and also on a personal level, so this mix is also like a summary of my Summer and the past months.”

Dive in now to a masterclass of contemporary club music.

Follow:
https://soundcloud.com/jessegofficial
https://www.instagram.com/jesse_g/

MNMT 483 : Jesse G

The fifteenth. The next artist on the 2025 gathering lineup. Audio Cla, a DJ and producer based here in Sardinia, presents a mix to hypnotize and mesmerize from the very first moments until the last fading frequencies. Relentless in it's energy, a true torrent that keeps us locked in and listening, enraptured in Audio Cla's selections. Peaks and troughs take us through diverse shades of spellbinding sound, keeping the mind reeling and the feet firmly *off* the ground. 

We're also very excited to welcome Audio Cla to the 2025 edition of the Out Of Focus gathering and for him to share his vision with us and the mountainous Taccu of Osini in September. On the 27th of September we invite you all to this gathering celebrating a fusion of sound and nature, where both Sardinian and international sonic artists will share their unique perceptions of this place.

For more those wanting more of Audio Cla's signature hypnotic and deep textures, keep an eye out for his debut album, Termorestringente, which will be released very soon.

SC: @claudio-rosella-244416813
IG: https://www.instagram.com/audio.cla

Out Of Focus 2025 Gathering links
Site: https://2025.outoffocus.it
IG: https://www.instagram.com/_out_of.focus/

Out Of Focus 015 - Audio Cla

The sixteenth. An all vinyl mix and the third artist announced for the Out Of Focus 2025 gathering. 

One for getting lost in. Between the dissonance, the mystery and the cacophony, a pulsating energy provides a reliable constant. A mix showcasing the unrelenting yet contemplative shade of deep techno. Steeped in atmosphere and fluttering rhythms, a thoughtful arrangement of tracks selected for their unwavering energy. 

It is with great pleasure that we welcome O3SIDIAN to the Out Of Focus 2025 gathering. Join us in tacchu this September to witness a live Techno masterclass from the Sardinian born, Finland based artist.

SC: @03sidian
IG: https://www.instagram.com/03sidian/
BC: https://03sidian.bandcamp.com/

Tracklist
Lauri Saine - ritual/here at last
Feral - L’aube Rouge
Space Drum Meditation - Water Sirens
D-Leria - Apnea (Anthony Linnell Remix) 
Tauceti - Emeraude
Feral - Riad
Claudio PRC - Manifestazione
Alderaan - Transition
D-Leria - Filterbank
Shoal - Naik
Motion Symmetry - Inferno
Luigi Tozzi - Reptilian
Alexander Kowalski & Rebar - Dawn’s Embrace
Soramimi - Sinewy Glass Fingers

Out Of Focus 016 - 03SIDIAN

Ina Kacz's sound is a captivating fusion of tribal grooves, hypnotic rhythms with a slight touch of trance, drawing from a wide variety of influences. The French/Polish artist, now based in Tbilisi, crafts music that always retains an emotional touch at its core. 

Her latest EP releases October 8 on @qeone.

Ina's words about her DSS: "For this mix, I wanted to explore a different side of my selection, slower tempos, progressive and trancy touches, summery moods, and plenty of vocals. I recorded it with many of the tracks I played on the Horoom floor at Bassiani, Tbilisi, last June in mind."

@inakacz

DSS 116 | Ina Kacz

Situated in the pulsating center of Brussels' Marolles district, GIMIC is a bar and a radio station committed to fostering the lively electronic music culture of the city.
Transmitting sound waves from the heart of Brussels.

soundcloud : @11pmraar
instagram : www.instagram.com/raar_v/

Raär @ GIMIC - 03 September 2025

La Doti

La Doti (Original Mix)

Next up in our mix series is Atsushi Maeda - a cornerstone of Japan’s underground scene and one of the minds behind ‘rural festival’ and ‘428.soundwave’ in Thailand. With over a decade of dedication to deep, immersive techno, Atsushi has shaped not only dancefloors but the cultural landscape surrounding them, both in Tokyo and across the globe. Whether in Tokyo’s intimate clubs or on international stages, his sets are marked by precision, patience, and a mind-expanding musical narrative.

This mix is a live recording from rural 2025, capturing Atsushi in his right element: outdoors, surrounded by nature, guiding a devoted crowd into uncharted sonic terrain. Nestled between Erika and Oscar Mulero, starting at midnight, Atsushi weaved a dense and precise tapestry of hypnotic peak time techno. Focused yet expansive, it’s a set that embodies the Rural spirit.

@rural_jp

Ute Mix Series #111 | Atsushi Maeda

Cio D’Or hardly requires an introduction, having long stood as both a pillar of our scene and a source of inspiration for so many. Over the course of her singular and decades-spanning career, the Cologne-based artist has cultivated a universe of sound entirely her own, immediately recognizable yet endlessly evolving much like the work of her contemporaries and collaborators Mike Parker and Donato Dozzy. To experience Cio’s music is to follow a throughline that traces the complex history of contemporary techno in a single gesture, compelled by the vast unknown and the primordial familiar in equal measure. Recalling the blurred realism of Richter’s photo-paintings or the timeless intricacy of Bach’s fugues, Cio’s self-contained sonic world delicately reframes our own precious lifecycle, a reflection revealed through its elegant and subtractive minimalism.

In collaboration with our friends at Mostra, I’m honored to share a selection from Cio D’Or’s set performed at this year’s edition of the Barcelona-based festival, a sublime triumph from a scholar of sound.

@cio-d-or
@mostrabcn

Artwork by Camille Ferdinandus.

Sure Thing Mix 146: Cio D'Or

The seventeenth. An entry from Out Of Focus co-curator @picnic-it.

A mix both diverse and wandering, we depart with bouncy, organic infused electronica, lighter textures slowly intensifying as the palette develops. The middle of mix finds its stride in some deeper, darker, resonant tracks. Rolling and revolving, the senses blur as the cycle grips our auditory senses. Finally, the listener is pulled back out of the hypnotic haze, stronger sounds of storytelling return to the forefront to reassert the groove, with haunting vocals and strings bidding the listener a final farewell. 

Out Of Focus 017 - Picnic

• Crescent Textures #138 • fleika

Fleika grew up during the heyday of Prague’s rave culture, coming of age as a DJ in booths built for a single night only. The Czech techno renaissance shaped him, and the newly born club culture soon embraced him as one of its main protagonists.

Industrial ruins and modernist landmarks marked Fleika’s journey through the blooming nightlife, imbuing his craft with intuition and technical precision. His sets humbly showcase his ability to hijack the mind of a listener. He prefers a quiet dancefloor - no cheers, no chants - just a stomping crowd, locked in their own heads.

As an Ankali resident, he digs anything that kicks, melts, or makes the mind trip, but he thrives most when diving into the vast depths of hypnotic and psychedelic techno - as deep as it gets.

fleika:
▫️ SC: https://soundcloud.com/fleika
▫️ IG: https://www.instagram.com/fleikafleikafleika/
▫️ FB: https://www.facebook.com/fffleika/

• Crescent Textures #138 • fleika

Emerging as one of the UK’s most exciting underground talents, Dave K continues to push boundaries with his Traxsource number 1 “Darker Minds”—a driving, atmospheric cut that blends hypnotic grooves with a darker edge of house.

Darker Minds (Original Mix)

Barcelona based aeternae comes as a welcome addition to our series for episode 487.

He enters the fold with an inviting session featuring hypnotic energies throughout.

Follow:

www.instagram.com/_aeternae_/
https://soundcloud.com/aeternae-music

MNMT 487 : aeternae

FOREVER

The eighteenth. This weeks entry coming from the talented @nemsb, who's crafted a genre-warping one and half hour journey through their vision of sonic space.

This twisting, morphing mix leads the us gently into an array of diverse soundscapes; each track presenting a unique motif, a new surprise around each corner rounded. Vocals pieces are dispersed elegantly throughout, never overpowering, instead deepening the palette of the mix, outlining the established vision with dashes of strong defining color.

After riding the line somewhere between dub and deep techno, with moments of detroit infused energy throughout the mix, the final tracks deliver some darker textures as we feel like the lights darken and we become fully immersed, lost in the finished canvas.

SC: https://soundcloud.com/nemsb
IG: https://www.instagram.com/nemsbmusic/

Out Of Focus 018 - Nems-B

A sound collective with the deeper, introspective shades of dance music at its core.

Welcoming artists who share a passion for hypnotic, mesmeric, reflective styles of music.

If you'd like to submit a mix to the podcast series, please send your submission to outofocusoof@gmail.com

Out Of Focus 016 - 03SIDIAN

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