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Spontaneous, raw and intense, @oguz808 recanted how this two hour recording came to be at the tail end of some days awake from an exhausting schedule. Created in the company of close friends at his home in Amsterdam just over a year ago, the mix tracks a decade of selections all the way from his nascent years frequenting the likes of London's Corsica Studios to hidden gem discoveries that he collected either on the road, alone in the studio or in the many overlooked liminal zones between. 

Despite the blur of where such tracks were found, this set is sharp, definitive and earnest - a melodic and emotive showcase demonstrating the sheer panoramic scope of his musical knowledge. Another side to an illuminary figure in the hard techno scene, he has specially gifted this intimate private recording from his hard drive today for public consumption.

No tracklist was known or recovered.

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OGUZ (Classic & Leftfield Techno, Groove, Rave, Industrial) | OUTOFCHARACTER #007

Departing from her usual techno blueprint, STEYA guides us through an hour exploring warmer, groove-led fringes of the house music spectrum for episode eight. Built around tightly-programmed drums, chord-driven movement and classic vocal engineering, the mix highlights a side of her taste rooted in a more gentle type of bounce, syncopation and levity rather than the known intensity of her sets in the club.

From the analog glow of Omar-S and Basic Channel’s dubby Round Two alias to Deetron’s high-definition synth work and Adryiano’s jackin’ structures, the Berlin-based artist takes an uplifting detour from her accustomed sound, and prompts a joyful look at another part of her extended home catalogue.

Across sixty minutes of functional and floor-tested selections, STEYA leans into rhythmic clarity, low-end discipline and the kind of melodic detailing that defines house in its most enduring form. Tuck in.

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Tracklist:

01. Omar S feat John FM - Second Life
02. Round Two feat. Andy Caine - New Day
03. Aquarius Heaven + Cali Lanauze - Just Like Magic
04. Tal Fussman - Release (Deetron Remix)
05. Filip Grönlund - In Full Colour
06. Timmy P - Zonked
07. Josh Butler + Manoova - Disco Daze
08. Adryiano - The Sturdy Track
09. Deetron - Dr. Melonball
10. James Alexandr feat. Penelope - Playing With Knives
11. CASSIMM - I’ll Take You There
12. DJ Minx + Hilit Kolet - Spin, Sin, Slay
13. Matt Tolfrey + Frank Storm - What To Say (DJ Deeon Remix)
14. Dusky - Careless

STEYA (Deep House, Progressive House, Chicago House) | OUTOFCHARACTER #008

For episode nine, ANNĒ recalibrates into a more placid region of her musical world with a hybrid CDJ and vinyl mix, tumbling through ambient openings, modular flourishes and break-leaning electronica. Early selections from Planetary Assault Systems and Jeff Mills adjust the camera to a cinematic, minimal terrain before repositioning into analogue-tilted IDM and Detroit futurism from Aphex Twin, Adlas and Underground Resistance.

Hints of house warm the palette and quieten external chatter via Kerri Chandler’s rework of Nina Simone, the effortless groove of LADYMONIX, and melodic moments from Volpe to Dying & Barakat. It’s a soft, detailed blend built for the in-between hours: slow, protracted mornings, delicate afternoons, and undisturbed evenings when the calendar is empty and alarms are finally switched off. 

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Tracklist:
1. Sound of Cassete (recorded)
2. Planetary Assault Systems - Interlude 1 (12”)
3. Jeff Mills - AX-009F (Segment 3) (Original Mix)
4. Stephen Mahoney - Untitled A3
5. Jeff Mills - Descending Eiffel Stairs (Original Mix)
6. Volpe - Finding Something To Live For
7. Dying & Barakat - No Place In Time
8. Adlas - Arrival By Air
9. Jeff Mills - The Phonetic World (Original Mix)
10. Nina Simone -Westwind (Kerri Chandler Remix)
11. ICYKOF - Bring it back
12. Jeff Mills - Just Like A (Vernacular Objects)
13. Mad Mike - Hi-Tech Dreams (Original Mix)
14. LADYMONIX - Move My Bodynew
15. Mike Ellison – Covalence EP (Underground Resistance – UR-094) 12" - Acapella
16. IM KELLAR - kings valley
17. Aphex Twin - Analogue Bubblebath (Original Mix)
18. Alarico - Tenzo
19. Aphex Twin - pretend analog (Manchester 20.09.2019)
20. Adlas - Celestial Mechanics
21. Dold - 22-333-99

ANNĒ (House, Breakbeat, Soft Electronica) | OUTOFCHARACTER #009

Nørbak joins the OUTOFCHARACTER archives with a dark, dreamy shift in temperament. Rather than driving toward pressure or release, episode ten settles into weight, patience and negative space, drawing on a deeper, dub-inflected register of techno to reframe his sound at a lower density. Tracks from Reeko, Private Press and Malin Genie arrive unhurried, built on subtle movement, blurred edges and a careful balance between motion and restraint.

As the mix develops, depth becomes the organising force. Echoed percussion, rolling subs and long-form arrangement take precedence, with Oscar Mulero, Fadi Mohem and Adriana Lopez shaping a sense of slow, intentional assembly rather than linear progression. This is one hour of Nørbak focusing inward, highlighting textures and tempos that rarely surface in his regular sets but which remain fundamental to his musical language.

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Tracklist:

1. Reeko - Segmento 5
2 .Private_Press - Risky
3. Malin Genie - Mastodon
4. Zadig - Dark Nebula
5. Oscar Mulero - Rotar
6. Biemsix - Clear
7. Fadi Mohem - Submerge
8. Architectural - Temptation
9. Pjotr G & Dubiosity - Poisoning The Well
10. Adriana Lopez – Estructura
11. Möd3rn - Mist
12. Reeko - Star Phases
13. Tarker - Technique
14. Bambounou - The Traitor

Nørbak (Dub Techno, Deep Techno) | OUTOFCHARACTER #010

For episode eleven, Marcel Fengler approaches his OUTOFCHARACTER entry as a personal retrospective. Drawing a direct line back to his formative years playing hip hop at private parties in the 1990s, the mix finds its anchor in the shadowed, textural world of labels such as Ninja Tune and Mo’ Wax, with initial selections from DJ Krush, Vex’d and Bonobo setting a reflective tone, and the implementation of memory as the guiding pace for this hour-long recording.

The Berlin-based artist’s touchstones are re-contextualised through a contemporary lens as the set evolves. Massive Attack and Radiohead sit alongside darker, more abstract club forms from Gesloten Cirkel, Pessimist and pdqb, while moments of melodic warmth surface through Earth Trax before evaporating into Brian Eno’s ambient conclusion. A concise and sentimental tribute to the shades of music that have inspired him throughout his extraordinary career, Marcel offers his memories to the series like a journal finally permitted to be opened.

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Tracklist:

1. Shlømo - Hadal Skin (Telefon Tel Aviv Dub Remix) 
2. Vex’d - Fallen
3. Een - Goed Moment
4. Bonobo - Kiara
5. DJ Krush feat. Esthero - Final Home (Vocal Version)
6. Neotropic feat. Shorti - Memories
7. Massive Attack feat. Mos Def - I Against I
8. Wraz. - In The Gutter
9. Cavüm - Anno1123
10. Shokh - Vanditerion
11. Gesloten Cirkel - Submit-X
12. In Half Light & Ossa Di Mare - Tallnyet (Pessimist Remix)
13. Ryuichi Sakamoto - Anger
14. Radiohead - Idioteque
15. Earth Trax - Your Fading Other
16. pdqb - 10000 Gauß
17. Soft Boi feat. Nastychong - Fais Moi La Guerre
18. Brian Eno - An Ending (Ascent)

Marcel Fengler (Dubstep, Trip-Hop, Experimental) | OUTOFCHARACTER #011

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