Deep House Top chart July 25

Electricity snakes and crackles through the transformers, conduits, stepdowns, and laid lines of modern civilization. Channelled into the walls and drawn out through the outlet, its essential power arrives in a labyrinth of transistors, resistors, and soldered pathways, a nest of interlocked components. And through the subtle tweaking of potentiometers among finely tuned electronics this current is harnessed, leashed, convinced, cajoled into undeniably kinetic techno.

The latest EP of tracks from Berlin’s Torvvo feels like sticking your tongue in the wall socket. Sizzling with all the lethal, awesome power of an elemental force, these five tracks capture the elusive, unrepeatable magic of program synthesis. The subtle dialing in of knobs and the serpentine patching of controlled voltage give the heady synth lines and brain-tickling noise sweeps a once-in-a-lifetime quality - they cannot be recalled, so thank goodness these sounds were being recorded.

From the moment one of “Latch” - the EP’s opener and one of two tracks named for synthesizer functions - we ride a wave of voltage. It kicks off with a buzz that ricochets between the speakers before locking into a deep, undulating hi-hat groove, exactly the type of track that ASMR tingles you into your second wind of dancing. “Relay” follows” with an ever-morphing, insistent 16-beat bassline that calls to mind techno’s Italo ancestors. On the third track, Torvvo pulls the rug just a bit with a sultrier BPM and a stuttering kick-snare pattern that never quite repeats in a predictable pattern as the upper freqs of the hi-hats dissipate into steam, mushroom music. EP highlight “Shuddering on the Substrate” displays some true mastery of primetime-ready techno with a swift, driving drum pattern sprinting under a triplet synth pattern that filters deliciously in and out of the ether. By the time the closing track comes along it feels like something of a victory lap, another unrelenting modular tour de force - crispy, corporeal, & chugging.

Torvvo (also known as Tom Holroyd, originally of Pittsburgh) is intimately familiar with electromancy, having served for some time now as one of the folks behind beautiful synth module makers Verbos Electronics (Mark Verbos, founder of the company, is also a Bunker artist). Holroyd’s work in demonstrating, repairing, and understanding the flow of voltage through electronic components rewards him a deep, intuitive knowledge - he works beyond manuals, patching by vibe, letting the beautiful serendipities bubble up between his computer running CV-optimized DAW Bitwig and the warmed-up modules cooing in his studio.

Both god and ghosts run free in the machines - the tiniest adjustment of a parameter, a shift in the local weather, whether or not the operator is wearing any jewelry, the most minute factor can profoundly alter the lassoed voltage running through the precision synthesizer modules of a eurorack system. With “Substratum” Tom Holroyd proves undeniably that he is one of our finest ghost hunters, communing with the alternating current, cracking open the dance floor.

Mastered by Tim Xavier at Manmade Mastering 
Artwork by Andrew Charles Edman
Liner Notes by Ben Seretan


Torvvo - Relay

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⁍ Artists: @angfaw9
⁍ Track: Nayra (Original Mix)
⁍ Label: @transmit-recordings
⁍ Release Date: 13/6/2025

Angelo Raguso / FAW9

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Transimit Recordings

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PREMIERE: Angelo Raguso, FAW9 - Nayra (Original Mix) [Transmit Recordings]

Blacklauren - the techno nom de guerre of Brooklyn’s Lesly Remy Jr. - works far beyond the reach of polite musical resolution. Enormous and pounding, these five tracks revel in what classically-minded listeners would consider dissonance - close intervals and flat fifths are expressed repetitively and hypnotically by whirling, searing synthesizers over undeniably kinetic drum programming. Harmonic ratios that less daring composers or improvisers would only ever use in the approach to resolution - or indeed would historically be considered demonic by early churches - are instead here the entire basis of these works. You are not permitted the safety of a return to a tonic chord, you are not permitted the boneheaded anticipation of a drop on the one, you are instead invited to savor the discomfort, everything progressing at a mechanical, unyielding techno sprint.

The result is a fascinating, disorienting space that ultimately works towards liberating the body. In the throbbing, unfamiliar harmonic churn of these body-rattling tracks something sublime bubbles up. Call it psychedelic, call it mesmerizing, call it mental, call it what you wish - but out amid the chug of the kick, as the unresolved melodies and clusters flutter unflinchingly, this freedom from resolution kicks you out of the airplane: it’s thrilling, it’s terrifying, it’s coming at you fast.

His work on these tracks can be described as devotional - with monastic dedication he makes certain to fire up Ableton and make some kind of sound every single day, hitting the YouTube tutorial dojo often or calling on fellow masters of dissonance Wata Igarashi or Linear System for expert guidance. He has also been a devotional fan of The Bunker New York, regularly attending our parties since 2010, appearing on several lineups and a pair of podcasts since then. Within the infinite universe of the DAW, he’s locked down a very particular set of instruments and presets, making great use of Reaktor’s realistic emulations of classic synthesizers. So his sonic signature is consistent, recognizable from track to track and also lovingly connected to the legacy of techno, plus the recordings are electric and alive. That’s the beautiful thing about going back to the same well again and again - you drink deeper with each dip.

Remy is also the founder of Nyabinghi Electronic Music, a fascinating label that arcwelds together the primal - like the pounding rhythms of Haitian Vodou, familiar to Blacklauren’s ears from his origins in Port-au-Prince - and the future - the various sonic technologies of the last fifty years, deployed precisely. Electrified into artistic ownership by the available time and inspiring swell of summer 2020’s Black Lives Matter actions, Remy makes explicit the label’s efforts to excavate the ceremonial aspects of techno and the futuristic summonings of African diasporic religious and cultural practices. In line with other tremendous futurists like the music and writings of DeForrest Brown, Jr. or the graffiti-as-starship designs of RAMM:ΣLL:ZΣΣ, Blacklauren’s work with the label and on this release sounds like sirens that are ever-approaching, doppler bending as they continually arrive - we’re here in the emergency but still we jubilate.

... full liner notes at thebunkerny.com

Mastered by Tim Xavier at Manmade Mastering
Artwork by Andrew Charles Edman
Liner Notes by Ben Seretan


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Deep House Top chart July 25

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