My Chart - May 2017

Mattias El Mansouri at Dark Skies, Horst Arts & Music 2025

"Summer of Solstice 3055: 

I’d just returned from a long stint working the orbital docks, preparing to settle back into the life cycle routine that was Valkor Zenith. The last thing I expected was to reconnect with three old friends from my days at the Echo House orphanage. Sora had slipped back from exile on Neoterra Prime. Rion had fled the undercity of Crysalis after a grav-bike race gone bad. And Omrin, who I hadn’t seen or heard of in more than a decade, had shown up out of nowhere as if no time had passed with a stolen data map and a proposition: we’d go find the Dream Beacon.

We’d grown up with the story. A myth, really. Some ancient alien relic buried deep in the sand sea, spoken of in hushed tones in level D bars and back-alley data centres. The promise was simple, if you could reactivate its signal with your own transmission, you’d be granted your most longed-for dreams and unimaginable wealth. No one had ever found it.

I’m still not entirely sure what made us set off and follow Omrin so blindly that summer. Maybe it was grief, maybe hope. Or just that need to move, to do anything but sit still. Each of us were adrift in our own orbit of longing and loss, and somehow, we collided again, drawn together like shards of a broken constellation.

We had left the neon haze of Valkor Zenith behind at sunset, riding the wide stretches of plasma rail to the outer edges as the city lights faded behind us. Nights were lit by twin moons and we passed the time listening to old mixes we’d recorded in our youth, our playlists humming through our comms as we hurtled across other-worldly landscapes at 200mph. In the two months that followed, we would laugh in the ruins of the Oblivion Cradle, party with rogue miners in bioluminescent fungi caverns, feel the cold rush of air as our bikes skimmed the ridges of the Halcyon Scar, be chased by Karn bike gangs through synth-storms, and save a lone settler named Joyce trapped in a dust pocket whilst traversing the Ash Spires. 

As we hurtled towards the promise of the Dream Beacon, I often wondered, was the beacon even real? And if it was, what would I even upload as my transmission? Maybe one of those old mixes we used to make. I’m sure all these questions flickered across all our minds, unspoken. But that summer, deep down, none of it really mattered. I would’ve followed those three anywhere..."

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Distant Signals 077: Villella

space•cast 026 is a live set by Monophonik recorded at a space•lab x Androgyne party at the mighty Macadam in Nantes. People who were there still talk about this set and we thought it was well overdue to release it into the wild. 

Monophonik's modular live set is fast becoming one of the must-see things in this corner of electronic music - it's a jaw-dropping experience packed with groove, intensity and psychedelia. 

Strap yourself in!

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space•cast 026 - Monophonik Live at Macadam, Nantes

Under the Priori (@priori-ties) moniker, Québecois musician Francis Latreille has established himself as a crucial voice in underground techno — as a producer, DJ, and live artist. Across a sprawling discography that includes four full-length albums, several EPs, and a host of collaborative projects, he has crafted a sound that is richly textured and genre-defying.

Priori’s work spans the full spectrum of techno, from introspective and meditative passages to driving, dancefloor-oriented momentum. His productions blend elements of ambient, dub, IDM, and tech house, navigating fluidly between nature and technology with a signature sense of unresolved tension. Fractal-like rhythms, crystalline textures, and meticulous sound design define his sonic world — intricate, vibrant, and emotionally resonant.

Beyond his solo output, Priori is also an accomplished mixing engineer, having collaborated with artists such as james K, Bambii, Maara, Ex-Terrestrial, Roza Terenzi, and D.Tiffany. As a co-founder of both NAFF and Jump Source Studio, his influence continues to shape the contours of underground electronic music across Canada and Europe.

PURE Guest.087 Priori

Psychedelic adventures from all over the musical universe.

Nog Zone w/ Anthony Child: 5th August '25

Nearly the full 2hr excerpt from my recent set in Toronto at the Ritual Recall party. The sun peaking through the blinders, room temp on fire (literally - it was hot!), and a crowd full of friends/familiar faces. Pure bliss.

Its a bit sassy, a bit house, a bit prog, a bit techy, and everything else in between. Thanks to all of the producers for the music and the friends who passed tunes along the way. 

Love <3 

TASTE THE RAINBOW - Recorded at Ritual Recall // Toronto

Live hardware set performed on the Meta Ta Physika stage at The Great Beyond 2025

Artwork:
Designer: Stewart Armstrong
Instagram: @stewart_armstrong_

Gear used:
Digitakt 2 (2x)
Digitone 1
Analog Heat +fx
SSL SiX
Faderfox UC4 and PC4 controllers

Sounds:
Arp 2600
Oberheim Xpander
Oberheim SEMs
Human Comparator Syncussion
Roland Juno 2
Roland SH-101
Roland TR-909

Autokinetic - Live at The Great Beyond 2025

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Wildeburg Festival
July 12, 2025 - Bud x Kas
Kraggenburg, Netherlands
www.wildeburg.nl

Mattias El Mansouri - Wildeburg 2025

One of the enduring powerhouses of our era returns for RA.1000 with a riotous mix.

When Helena Hauff made her first RA Podcast appearance back in 2013, she was on the eve of releasing her debut production on Actress' Werkdiscs imprint. In the 12 years that have elapsed, she's become not just a household name within electronic music, but the kind of rare talent that lives in seclusion from industry tumultt.

(Hauff, enviously, has never even owned a smartphone.)

Her calling card continues to be her penchant for rough and ready EBM, electro and new wave. Her unique ability is creating a singular listening experience from disparate or out-of-favour tracks, with a raw immediacy that functions as a redress to over-choreographed modern DJing.

Her outsider approach is on show once again for RA.1000. Threaded together by strobe-lit DIY electronica, old-school acid house and corrosive machine funk that chews up the ear, the nearly two-hour set raises the bar once again.

In the sci-fi themed first half, Hauff drops two Cybotron tracks, nodding to Juan Atkins' blueprint for electro. You'll also hear "Riot" by Underground Resistance, the definitive mission statement for a world ablaze. This is musical anarchism, executed to the highest degree.

Find the tracklist and interview at ra.co/podcast/1017. Listen to all RA.1000 mixes, as well as the complete history of the RA Podcast, at https://1000.ra.co

RA.1000 Helena Hauff

https://soundcloud.com/trancesettersofwestphalia live recording @ YAGA'25 Off the Map Duskwood Stage

Trancesetters of Westphalia @ YAGA'25 Off the Map

Rothmans are back with their first release of 2016 and who better to bring in the new year than italian electropsycho's DJ Rocca & Daniele Baldelli. Of course this record would have to pay tribute to an Italian great and who better than 1982 world cup hero Marco Tardelli ?! First up on the EP is a synth-funk journey called Kratos. Rocca goes full on here and doesn't hold back as he takes us on a journey of Synth wizardry and classic Italo beats. Up next is an another original from Rocca called Fonk 400 another track that could have been plucked starigt out of the golden age of Italo Disco , again Rocca is pulling no punches here. The EP is rounded off in spectacular fashion , just like Marco Tardelli's Famous world cup final celebration we have nothing short of genius with Daniele Baldelli's Electropsychomix of Kratos premiered here ! Baldelli doing what he does best and taking us too another level yet again. After 2015 being their strongest year to date Rothmans look like they are gonna start the new season just as they ended the last - top of the league baby !

PREMIERE : DJ Rocca - Kratos (Daniele Baldelli Electropsychomix)

Madou - Changing

Aus release more music than pretty much any other label on earth, which is great if you, like us here at THUMP, are really into club-ready house music that comes in as many flavours as those new fizzy drink machines you get at places like Five Guys. You know the ones we mean; the contraptions that let you rot your teeth in an amazing array of ways. The modern world is brilliant! 

Their latest 12" sees imprint-owner Will Saul working alongside long term label favourite Komon on the fantastically lithe "Harmonise," a rollocking roller that's more suited to greenhouses than warehouses. 

The B-side sees a pair of big, big remixes. The first comes from Juju & Jordash who take things down a slightly more acidic path, leading us to imagine what exactly would happen if one was to feed a venus fly trap a tab or seven of good, strong acid? Presumably very little, really, but don't EVER deny yourself that kind of flight of fantasy. Plants on drugs...imagine!

Moving swiftly on, the other remix comes from one of the classiest men on the circuit—Mr. Nick Höppner. As you'd expect from a man whose productions and DJ sets redefine the idea of "chic, sleek, European house and techno," he's turned in a reworking so effortlessly cool that repeated exposure has the potential to freeze you to your own sofa. We reckon it's worth the risk.

Harmonsie

Komon & Will Saul - Harmonise (Nick Höppner Remix)

Edit specialist and dj extraordinaire Jonny Rock revisits ORM's Muj Sampion, recently reissued by Little Beat Different. This one will be a surefire dancefloor favourite in many discotheques around the world!

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Phonica Premiere: ORM - Muj Sampion (Jonny Rock Extended Edit) [LITTLE BEAT DIFFERENT]

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Phonica Premiere: ORM - Muj Sampion (Jonny Rock Extended Edit) [LITTLE BEAT DIFFERENT]

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