As @rrose1921, Seth Horvitz explores techno’s deep, psychedelic veins. The Californian artist’s latest album, ‘Please Touch’, expands on the ecological aura that’s coursed through their recent output. 

Alongside a mix of ‘90s tracks to celebrate 30 years of DJing, he speaks to Liam Cagney about creation as an act of discovery, the influence of microtonal composers, performing in drag, and the dancefloor's taste for ever-faster techno

Interview & tracklist: https://djmag.com/cue-rrose-interview-eaux-sutekh

Tracklist & interview

On Cue: Rrose

@dj-red

www.wakinglife.pt
19 - 24 June 2024

📸 studio legein

Dj Red at Floresta - Waking Life '23

Back in the day, drums were used as signals for festivities and war because their sounds travelled the furthest. Azu Tiwaline has long understood that. A master in the dark arts of percussion, she makes deep and profound percussive music that seems to communicate forgotten rituals from centuries past. Her sound is dense, as if pulled from the depths of the Sahara desert in Tunisia, yet still feels spacious thanks to polyrhythmic contortions and sparse, elegant melodies.

Her productions largely fall into the confines of percussive techno, but unlike the genre's springier variants, her dubby textures and psychedelic rhythms command seriousness and move with immensity. Her Livity Sound debut, the Magnetic Service EP from 2020, connected Amazigh music with dub and techno and is a masterclass in restraint and hypnosis. Her latest release, The Fifth Dream, continues to showcase her skills in balancing light and dark tones using field recordings from her home in Tunisia's El Djerid desert, minimal ambient techno and haunting notes.

Mirroring her discography, this RA Podcast features plenty of twisted rhythms, trippy techno and straightforward club cuts. Created for movement rather than hypnosis, these selections show off a different side of her drum palette—perky breaks and syncopated kicks—wrapped in her usual weighty atmospheres.

@azu-tiwaline

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/906

RA podcast

RA.906 Azu Tiwaline

This time I share with you a calm winter journey routed in the slower BPM range of 103. I recorded it for the lovely Mix series hosted by my friend @templerat on the chinese radio station 百会 BAIHUI.

I felt it was the right moment to dive into the more relaxed side of my musical explorations. After all the fast groovy dance sessions at all sorts of places this year, it's great to dive into the profound deep side of things to get some new inspirations 🪸
Never forget that each tempo has it's own shiny moments, it's great to explore all of them 💓

Have fun listening, I hope you enjoy.

xx

百会 BAIHUI: 你吃了梅 Ni Chi Le Mei w/ Polygonia

Aired on Swedish Radio in 2023 for the 10th anniversary of the label. Produced by Andreas Tilliander and Mats Almegård.

Elektroniskt I P2 w/ Northern Electronics 10 Years

https://soundcloud.com/lonefront
Lonefront, aka Ross Hutchens, is a producer, DJ and live performer based in Minneapolis. His sets focus on extradimensional techno, which is also charcacteristic of the music released on his label, Uncoiled. 
https://soundcloud.com/uncoiled

RND 125 - Lonefront

Regis and Function's first mix in over 10 years is a unique paean to Silent Servant, heavy on unreleased material.

When it came time for RA to compile our Albums of the 2010s, one record with a tauntingly limited availability of 500 copies was never in doubt: Sandwell District's era-defining 'Feed-Forward'. Encompassing Karl O'Connor (Regis), Peter Sutton (Female), David Sumner (Function) and Juan Mendez (Silent Servant), Sandwell District had the underground in a vice grip for over a decade.

The collective imploded in 2013, with Sumner and O'Connor's relationship appearing beyond repair. And yet, an unlikely second phase is here, featuring imminent comeback LP 'End Beginnings' and their return to the RA Podcast after 16 years. In 2023, the trio of Function, Regis and Silent Servant had been performing and laying down new material before the latter's shock death last January. It's in the shadow of loss that this unique mix was forged.

Founded in 2002 as a spiritual sister to seminal Downwards, Sandwell truly began to hit its straps in the late '00s, as shadow-stalking cuts sliced through clubland orthodoxy like a switchblade. In parallel, the label's artwork—a noir recombination of Burroughs cut-ups, DIY zines and arthouse amour that Silent Servant made his own—helped fortify a movement which placed an aesthetic premium on grit, grain and sadism.

By the early 2010s, this fixation on the dark arts had utterly permeated the mood inside techno's masonic temples. Labels like Blackest Ever Black, Stroboscopic Artefacts, Avian and Modern Love were in their pomp, razorwire legends like Severed Heads and Chris & Cosey benefited from second winds, and it was briefly a jailable offence to not have a press photo in black and white. 'Feed-Forward' was the exceptional coronating statement.

RA.978 features a stack of unheard recordings from each of the trio, as well as close allies Stefanie Parnow and Tropic of Cancer, while also gathering many of Silent Servant's all-time favourite songs, including Psychic TV, Grace Jones and Galaxie 500. It's a strikingly vulnerable listen, one without many parallels on the Podcast. We're glad to run it. – Gabriel Szatan

Read more and find the tracklist here: ra.co/podcast/978
Read our new feature with Sandwell District here: https://ra.co/features/4426

RA.978 Sandwell District

Bambi - 27 Mars 2025

deep dive, the Brussels-based collective devoted to deep and hypnotic tunes, invites Konduku to the wooden shack in the park. He is a master of polyrhythms, curious time signatures and rhythmic pulse. Dive deep into Konduku's ability to blend & layer sounds. 

https://soundcloud.com/deepdivebrussels

deep dive w/ Konduku @ Kiosk Radio 05.04.2025

A feeling that i was meant to be here

Another ambient and electronic experiment with the Teenage Engineering OP-XY. Great device!

Timeless

post-genre love ~ diversity in sound.

Label head at @qeone
Label head at @iorecs
Resident at @blitzclub
Part of @lyderlyderlyder
Part of @harmony-rec


Booking & General requests (Management):  laura@onboardmusic.net
Press contact: chanel@dawncreative.agency
Promo Gifts: promo [at] polygonia-creations.com

百会 BAIHUI: 你吃了梅 Ni Chi Le Mei w/ Polygonia

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