@sputnik_one blends bubbling techno, buoyant bass and depth-charge dancehall in his exhilarating Fresh Kicks mix.

The @woozydublin resident has made an impact in recent with his hyperkinetic club productions, which have become regular fixtures in DJ sets by the likes of Ben UFO, Batu and CCL. In his Fresh Kicks interview, he chats to Eoin Murray about balancing groove with emotion, his recent @wisdomteeth-uk EP, and the influence of Fela Kuti on his music

Interview: https://djmag.com/features/fresh-kicks-sputnik-one

Fresh Kicks 165: Sputnik One

Skee Mask is one of dance music's greatest crossover stories of the past decade, with new albums greeted with the attention usually reserved for an Aphex Twin or a Caribou. ("Loved seeing this on r/indieheads," said one Reddit user, on the release of the 2021 LP Pool.) It's not hard to understand why: albums like Compro, he blends well-worn dance music tropes with incredible, detailed soundscapes and spine-tingling melodies. And on his 12-inches, he brings that sensibility to the dance floor, with an approach probably best described as articulate. Even on his most ambient of tracks, everything is in its right place. Along with founders the Zenker Brothers, his music outlines everything that makes Munich outfit Ilian Tape one of the best techno labels going.

On the decks, it's kind of a different story. It might surprise you if you only know his albums, but Skee Mask is an incredible DJ, balancing his predilection for hip-hop and UK-informed sounds with laser-focused techno. He can adapt to all sorts of situations—there's an incredible recording of him DJing with four of the best grime and drum & bass MCs in the business—and on his RA Podcast he focuses on the techno side of things, with nearly two hours of pacey techno and creative mixing, with dips into acid, electro, garage and more. It's a party-starting mix from a genuine star, perfect for getting through the holiday doldrums or pre-gaming your NYE plans. Like Skee Mask's best records, it's something to enjoy in any number of settings.

@skeemask-music

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/864

RA podcast

RA.864 Skee Mask

Recording of Buttechno's set at Dekmantel Festival 2023.

Dekmantel Festival 2023

Buttechno (live) at Dekmantel Festival 2023

(tracklist below)

This is part 3 of 3 of the recording from my set at Nowadays Nonstop on April 7, 2024.

I played from 9am-3pm, between JASSS and Bearcat, and it was one of the most creatively fulfilling sets I can remember playing – one of those sets where the audience, environment, atmosphere, tech setup, phase of the moon, whatever, all somehow lined up for a full 6 hours. And happily, the recording is maybe my favorite I’ve managed to capture to date. Huge thanks to Kristin for inviting me and to everyone who was there that morning.


TRACKLIST – PART 3  – 1pm – 3pm

DubGuy – Not Massive
EDM – Chaos Engineer (Tom Mix)
Osheyack & Nahash – Temperance
Oyubi – Taiko160
Low End Activist – Look Up
Sun People – Tell Me Something
Holsten – Odlum
DJ Die – Reincarnations
Krust – Vibration
John Rolodex & Jungle Drummer – Serve No Kings
Type – Hummer
Homemade Weapons – Lingchi (with Artilect)
Kiril & Was A Be – This!
Xsetra – Testudo
Halogenix – Jump Suit
Instra:mental – Shine
Mike Parker – Radioactive Fire
Sam KDC – Decimate
69db – Night Life
NPLGNN – Sirens Steppa
Anna Funk Damage – Tom You Was A Good Player
CAN – Oh Yeah
Balil – Parasight
Coil – The Snow (Answers Come In Dreams II)
Plastique de Reve – Your Future
Head High – Break Away
Studio X – Los Kings del Mambo
Jamie Anderson, Solid Groove, Jesse Rose, No Comment – You Know Beats
Clara!, SKY H1, Pearson Sound – Gotas
Al Wootton – Vitus
Dope Module – We Bring It
Doubt – Brain Zap (Drums)
The Chemical Brothers – Hey Boy Hey Girl (Extended Version)
Actress – Gershwin
Dawl – Break It Down
BFC – Galaxy
Renegade Soundwave – The Phantom
BANDULU – Guidance
Autolux – Plantlife


Artwork by Brodie Kaman

Live at Nowadays 7 April 2024

Live at Nowadays 7 April 2024 - Part 3

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

a freestyle i did with a few layered tracks & fx. it was manic. 

manic #2

A rare DJ mix from one of electronic music's chief practitioners.

RA.276 Alva Noto

Italian queen of synth Caterina Barbier gives us an insight into her music which is mainly based on repetition and minimalism in composition. Forget time and space with her powerful mix! 

For more information and the full tracklist head to: https://i-d.vice.com/de_de/article/i-dj-caterina-barbieri

i-DJ: caterina barbieri

Boiler Room x Modern Love w/ Demdike Stare, Rainer Veil, G.H & Andy Stott.

[Broadcast on 14th August 2012]

Tracklist & video at http://boilerroom.tv

Andy Stott live in the Boiler Room

The Berghain series on Ostgut Ton returns with volume 09 mixed and compiled by Berghain resident Vatican Shadow aka Dominick Fernow. Download this mix as a free 24-bit 48 khz .WAV file (1.49 GB) by clicking "… More" >> Download

Liner notes, full credits and extended artwork:
http://ostgut.de/ton/record/238

13 exclusive tracks, vocals and loops from this mix are out now on double-12" vinyl EP:
http://ostgut.de/ton/record/237 [O-TON 119]

Berghain 09 | Tracklist:
1. Genesis Breyer P-Orridge | One Being, One Orientation, One Power [00:00]
2. Rosa Damask | Our Heroes Are Leaving Us, Our Heroes Are Gone [00:00]
3. Steve Moore | Fever Dream [00:00]
4. Benestrophe | H.I.V. (Test Positive) [00:52]
5. Genesis Breyer P-Orridge | One Being, One Orientation, One Power [01:03]
6. Genesis Breyer P-Orridge | One Being, One Orientation, One Power [01:53]
7. Genesis Breyer P-Orridge | Phone Calls 1980/1981 (excerpt) [03:36]
8. Dustmite | Tracing [03:36]
9. Solitary Dancer | Emails 2 Myself (Out-Of-Office-Version) [03:52]
10. Genesis Breyer P-Orridge | Phone Calls 1980/1981 (excerpt) [04:35]
11. Miles | Status Narcissism [04:35]
12. Genesis Breyer P-Orridge | NY Porn (excerpt) [05:18]
13. Genesis Breyer P-Orridge | Phone Calls 1980/1981 (excerpt) [07:35]
14. Bloom Offering | Linger [07:36]
15. U.S. Hard | Club Diagram [08:32]
16. Genesis Breyer P-Orridge | Nomad (excerpt) [09:00]
17. Traversable Wormhole | Traversing Through The Asteroid Belt [09:03]
18. Bronze Age | Modal Ingenuity [09:26]
19. Genesis Breyer P-Orridge | NY Porn (excerpt) [10:00]
20. Merzbow | Loop 2 [12:46]
21. Genesis Breyer P-Orridge | NY Porn (excerpt) [14:44]
22. Navicon Torture Technologies | Love's Executioner [15:07]
23. Silent Servant | The Strange Attractor [15:37]
24. Alberich | Werkstatt [17:08]
25. Genesis Breyer P-Orridge | NY Porn (excerpt) [19:14]
26. Leæther Strip | Dreaming (Two Track Demo 1984) [19:48]
27. Volvox | Becoming  [19:48]
28. Front Line Assembly | Eye On You (Orphx Remix) [21:50]
29. Tomohiko Sagae | Danger Signal (Death Abyss All You Need Is Kill Remix) [22:37]
30. Genesis Breyer P-Orridge | Nomad (excerpt) [23:32]
31. Genesis Breyer P-Orridge | Phone Calls 1980/1981 (excerpt) [23:33]
32. Ancient Methods | White Flames  [25:33]
33. Genesis Breyer P-Orridge | Phone Calls 1980/1981 (excerpt) [25:46]
34. Barker & Baumecker | Buttcracker [25:46]
35. Identified Patient | Vrouwe Fataal [26:35]
36. Genesis Breyer P-Orridge | NY Porn (excerpt) [29:00]
37. JK Flesh | Decontrol [29:46]
38. Genesis Breyer P-Orridge | Phone Calls 1980/1981 (excerpt) [29:54]
39. Western Versions | Española Nights / West Side Lights [30:16]
40. Identified Patient | The Female Medical College Of Pennsylvania [30:51]
41. Certain Creatures | Pleasure Principle / Repulsion [31:52]
42. Surgeon | Set Two [32:39]
43. Genesis Breyer P-Orridge | Nomad (excerpt) [34:16]
44. Genesis Breyer P-Orridge | NY Porn (excerpt) [35:06]
45. Cleanser | Repeat, Transform [35:44]
46. Los Angeles Death Cult | El Culto De Los Angeles De La Muerte [35:44]
47. Genesis Breyer P-Orridge | Nomad (excerpt) [37:34]
48. F.U.S.E. | Substance Abuse [37:46]
49. Ron Morelli | Mill Basin [39:44]
50. Genesis Breyer P-Orridge | NY Porn (excerpt) [39:46]
51. Alfredo Mazzilli | Njord [41:22]
52. Ron Morelli | Colts Neck [43:38]
53. Regis | It’s A Man’s World [45:42]
54. Fugal | Oil Panes / First Descent [45:59]
55. Shackleton | Massacre [48:46]
56. Genesis Breyer P-Orridge | Nomad (excerpt) [49:07]
57. Genesis Breyer P-Orridge | NY Porn (excerpt) [49:07]
58. Guilt | Cult Leader Of My Youth [50:00]
59. Pinch & Shackleton | Rooms Within A Room [51:24]
60. Løt.te | Tunnel Under The Base Station [52:20]
61. Genesis Breyer P-Orridge | Voodoo (excerpt) [52:27]
62. Militia | Anarchist Movement For Collectiv And Direct Action [53:02]
63. Zegiest | La Sagrada [54:07]
64. Genesis Breyer P-Orridge | Voodoo (excerpt) [55:35]
65. Guilt Attendant | Broken (Free) [56:40]
66. Identified Patient | M.G.D. (cr) [58:16]
67. Merzbow | Loop 3 [58:35]
68. Niamh O’Connor | Ah Bernie [59:36]
69. Genesis Breyer P-Orridge | NY Porn (excerpt) [60:00]
70. Dopplereffekt | Hyperelliptic Surfaces [60:58]
71. Genesis Breyer P-Orridge | Voodoo (excerpt) [61:06]
72. Arkady | NKVD (Løt.te Remix) [61:34]
73. Clay Rendering | Once In The Well [61:52]
74. Pain Station | Turning Point [62:06]
75. Genesis Breyer P-Orridge | Ritual Music [64:02]
76. Ireen Amnes | My Mind Is Broken [64:22]
77. Richard Ramirez | How To Direct Your Anger [64:50]
78. Bastard Noise / Christian Renou | Evipan Natrium [68:02]
79. Merzbow | Loop 1 [68:15]
80. Prurient | God Is The Truth, The Way, And The Light [70:59]
81. Militia | Light And Truth [71:17]
82. Ugandan Methods | Prurient | Venom Timetables [73:17]
83. Militia | Black Wolves Music (Dedicated To The Animal Liberation Front) [74:03]
84. Lussuria | Three Knocks [74:50]
85. Merzbow | Loop 4 [76:33]
86. Function & Vatican Shadow | The Nemesis Flower [77:23]
87. Genesis Breyer P-Orridge | One Being, One Orientation, One Power [77:44]
88. Retrograde Youth | Dark Desire [79:47]
89. Virile Games | Black Iron Prison [80:52]
90. Genesis Breyer P-Orridge | One Being, One Orientation, One Power [85:39]

Mixed and compiled by Vatican Shadow, http://ostgut.de/booking/vatican-shadow

This compilation: Ostgut Ton 2019 | OSTGUTMIX05
Photography: Sven Marquardt | Layout: Yusuf Etiman

Berghain 09 | Vatican Shadow

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