Picking up where they left off, Reclaim Your City draw first blood in 2020 with 'Liquid Shards' - a split 12" epic courtesy of Den Haag's TAPE co-founder Deniro and Brighton's new sensation Rene Wise. On the menu of this masterclass in no-bullshit techno that moves in between plural states of consciousness, the two producers harness a double pair of laser-accurate rollers that pack some serious punch, trimmed, shaped and polished for optimum impact on the dance floor. 

Taking the helm of the A-side, Deniro steps up with a duo of streamlined techno bullets that delve smack dab the cream of '90s atmospheric and dubbed-out tech territories. Whilst zoned out opener 'Shards' cracks the mirror into an infinity of glassy textured synth splinters and solar-powered sub-bass moves, sure to lift off any crowd through some intensive, stamina-testing deus-ex-machina, pared-down banger 'Static' lets out the playful bassy bounce and bleep-laden engineering do the talk for a straight out bone-crushing workout that quietly engulfs everything in its wake. 

Flip it over and here's Rene Wise running the hoodoo down in truly massive 4x4 sensei fashion. Pulling out a nasty cavalcade of intestinally disquieting 909 kicks out the deepest blue, alongside mazy networks of verbed-out drums and heavily altered synthetic samples, 'Liquid Dancer' sets the boiler to eleven from the Baltic to Hawaii, which is no good news say the oceanographers. Bringing up the rear to this quartet of steady shooting havoc wreakers, 'Juggler' is no ancillary DJ tool but a much apt and functional floor squasher in its own right. Just let the pressure rise, people lose their shit a bit and throw these into the melee as a memo of how good techno is when done with such sentient genius. 

*Record comes pressed to a trichromatic marbled vinyl, folded in some neat cover art. 

A1 written & produced by Deniro
A2 written & produced by Deniro
B1 written & produced by Rene Wise
B2 written & produced by Rene Wise
Distributed by Clone Distribution Rotterdam 
Artwork & Design by Enchilada
Cat. no. RYCL012 – All Rights Reserved 
℗ & © Reclaim Your City 2020
www.reclaimyourcity.bandcamp.com

Deniro & Rene Wise | Liquid Shards [RYCL012]

Locked and loaded, here comes the next salvo in RYC’s line of action. Going by the name “Heimat” - the German word for “homeland”, this eighteenth number in our catalogue breaks in a new series that will set the focus on exciting new names with a vision. Zeitgeisty by nature, the approach chosen for these VAs is to document state-of-the-art productions from lesser known and emerging figures, whose skills and talent we firmly believe in. An extension of our creed that techno is there to push boundaries and not reiterate the same bland assertions over and over, ad nauseam, “Heimat” shall form a shelter for top-of-the-range material and that exclusively, regardless of the producer’s fame, level of fashionability and/or market-friendliness.

Summoned on that debut platter are names you may have heard through our channels already, and some you haven’t. Drawing first blood, Brazilian talent Marcal gets the wrecking-ball swinging at fierce rate. Engineering an inch-perfect balance between Amazonian suavity and cutting-edge industrialism, the Goiânia-based whiz treats us to a mind-altering maelstrom of rainforest techno, leaving no room for improvisation whether on the rhythmic side or in terms of sound design. An absolute crusher. Another Brazilian completes the A-side, in the person of Nicolas Vogler. His track “Lost in Paradiso” is everything a mental techno pumper should be: nose-diving drum assaults, pools of lavish textures to sink your brain within, spiralling synth motifs. Epic, truly.

Mysterious on-the-rise producer Hurdslenk takes over the flip with a mammoth of a fast-paced churner, designed at nothing but sweeping legs by the dozen. True to the early 00s hi-NRG strain of techno, Hurdslenk fractures his way into the system with a proper bomb of a tune, hovering the cursor halfway Birmingham-style sonic aggression and made in Rotterdam warehouse-obliteration. Final word goes to mould.audio’s Ruben Ganev, an artist who knows all too well how to fly you off to the zone with a mere kick and surgically processed machine hoodoo with a purpose. Laser-precise and full-bodied, “Scattered” is the paragon of a masterful hypnotic ride, steering us smack-dab the middle of a weirdly claustrophobic dream with the right amount of daze-inducing envelopes and fuel-efficient percussive power.

“Heimat” comes pressed to a 100% orange transparent vinyl, and clad in a pristine, matt varnished package to please your eyes and ears in equal measure.

A1 written & produced by Marcal
A2 written & produced by Nicolas Vogler
B1 written & produced by Hurdslenk
B2 written & produced by Ruben Ganev
Distributed by Clone Distribution Rotterdam
Artwork & Design by Jillem
Cat. no. RYCL018 – All Rights Reserved
℗ & © Reclaim Your City 2023
www.reclaimyourcity.bandcamp.com

Heimat | Reclaim Your City [RYCL018]

Handing over the controls to well-known figure of the German and Georgian electronic scenes in the persons of .VRIL and HVL, our next installment finds the pair laying down a quintet of hybrid electro and techno weapons that sends us straight back to the heyday of Rephlex and like-minded visionary ventures. All in that stark contrast between ethereal spaciousness and steely, martial rhythms out the industrial spectrum, ‘Far Field’ takes us on a voyage across the board, from breaks-heavy machine stunts to washed-out tapestries, via EBM-laced detours and junglistic maneuvers. Investigating the nexus zone between dance functionality and limitless escapology, it extrapolates both artists’ blends to further immersive, hypnotic effect. 

Taking over the A side, .VRIL gets the ball rolling with ‘Lost Together’, which sets the tone on a low-slung, nostalgia-drenched note; combining the syncopated swagger of downtempo techno with ambient-oid stasis and static-filled opacity. Like watching an all-metal sun sinking past the blazing skyline. Revving up the engines, ‘Fnord’ feat. RÆYN conjures up a way more muscular arsenal of big-room-ready wares, from aggro snare salvos to anthemic synth kinetics, through that replicant-hunting kinda vibe. One to have the Saturn rings go hula hoop, with all woofers and brains in the vicinity melting in XTC. Shutting the A side off, ‘We Believe’ returns to a lighter, more vaporous mindset but sure implements that signature heavy swing of .VRIL, flush with textured kicks and FX-soaked arps. True monster prog swell. 

Flip it over and there’s HVL dishing out a textbook example of his vortical electronic furls with the title-track, ‘Far Field’ - an oneiric drift that slowly rises from its heavy-lidded slumber, ascending towards bleepin’ n bloopin’ experimental effervescence as bars fly by. A number bound to hack your body and mind into two distinct facets, and while one dances its way frantically across the ever buzzing space/time continuum, the other shall reach a state of healing calm and transcending ubiquity. Smoothly shuttling us off to the upper layers of the ionosphere, ‘Lancet Mxi’ clenches it on a trippy note, taxiing us midway zero-G UK bass territories and eerie ambient abstraction. HVL’s total, widescreen vision at its most unhindered, all set at expanding your mind to yet uncharted horizons of sound and closing the gap between two distant, estranged galaxies. A fractured headspace to both dance and dream to.

*Dressed in a fine piece of artwork courtesy of Daniel M. Diaz, 'RYCL021' comes pressed on 180g audiophile black vinyl for optimal playing and listening experience.

A1 written & produced by .VRIL
A2 written & produced by .VRIL & RÆYN
A3 written & produced by .VRIL
B1 written & produced by HVL
B2 written & produced by HVL
Distributed by Clone Distribution Rotterdam               
Artwork & Design by Daniel M. Diaz
Cat. no. RYCL021 – All Rights Reserved
℗ & © Reclaim Your City 2024
www.reclaimyourcity.bandcamp.com

.VRIL & HVL | Far Field [RYCL021]

Continuing his exploration of intricate techno systems, their effect and direct perimeter of action, Peter Van Hoesen turns in his newest four-track piece, ‘Prime Directive’: a fascinating dive into the artist’s shape-shifting headspace and inner creative chaos.

Fuelled on a furnace-hot mix of abstract-leaning immersion and hi-octane rhythmic thrust, ‘Prime Directive’ looks at contemporary techno from the angle of experimentation and intuitive abandon. The result comes in the form of four distinct movements, each carving out their own logic and associated behaviour out an endless pool of potentialities. Here comes chaology unfolding in all its unadulterated, visceral glory.

‘Definition by Absence’ breaks the trip in to the sound of a faux-random symphony: its train-like swing and fiery bass seesaw coalesce through an elliptic fluttering of sorts, iterative and not, patterns moving in and out of synchronicity as Van Hoesen applies more or less pressure on both ends. All in gusty in-your-face-ness, ‘Variables Edit 1’ whirls and swirls like an ominous vengeance of nature; Its puncturing kicks and whistling menace set against stellar winds and rabid machinery on the prowl for its next victim.

An even more unsettling piece of disjointedly arrhythmic, anti-club music for the dance floor, ‘Prime Directive’ will have you zoning out like a bad dream, flush with metronome-faced monsters and molten clocks hanging from dead trees. ‘Morphology’ could be PVH’s attempt at giving his concepts a carnal carcass to hold onto. Here, rhythm becomes somewhat less erratic, offering his 360-degree vision more melodic surface and actual room for dispersion. One to keep the boundaries pushed and status-quo challenged, this is techno at its most entrancingly bold and fearless.

*This new monster four-track classic-in-the-making from Peter Van Hoesen comes draped in a fine piece of artwork courtesy of Atact, and pressed in 180g audiophile quality so you get to experience the Belgian master's chiselled sound design in all its glory.

Written & Produced by Peter Van Hoesen
Distributed by Clone Distribution Rotterdam
Mastering by Peter Van Hoesen
Artwork & Design by Atact.uk
Cat. no. RYCL023 – All Rights Reserved
℗ & © Reclaim Your City 2025
www.reclaimyourcity.bandcamp.com

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Peter Van Hoesen | Prime Directive [RYCL023]

A few months after our successful Saüle debut, here we go again for a second round of genre-busting, boundary-pushing sonic exploration. Embracing the Idea of techno as a means of transcending our condition, both as conscious and subconscious beings, this series offers a platform for artists to express themselves with enhanced scope and purpose. For this second installment which will take place on 5 June, RYC invites a trio of musicians who’ve been pushing the envelope of techno and electronics to a broader extent. A name synonymous with bold dynamics and cutting-edge approach, London-based producer Jin Synth will take us on a mind-bending ride down her intricate rhythmic algebra and layers of hypnotic, otherworldly sonics. A jack-of-all-trades whose hybrid, unhindered vision for music has driven to all ends of the techno spectrum, the one and only DJ Pete will join us for a hectic parade of breaks-laden, bass-heavy weapons and dubbed-out tangents. Chief explorer of lushly textured folds and immersive cinematic arcs, dub techno maestro Magna Pia will take over the decks for one of those moments on the dance floor when functional innovation fuses with multi-sensory exaltation. 

Thursday 05.06.2025 | Start 22:00
Am Wriezener Bahnhof - 10234 Berlin
www.berghain.berlin/en/event/79284/

Reclaim Your City x Säule | 05.06.2025

Good friend and KEY bossman Freddy K steps up to the plate with the 454th transmission of our Rinse show. Having debuted in the realm of techno music around the same time we did, Freddy naturally bears a similar genotype to that of RYC’s. Traveling back and forth the many roots and shoots of electronic music, his set is an ode to the reigning diversity that binds us as a scene. From trippy grooves set to beam you up to unknown dimensions to full-fledged hard-hitting tools, via unexpected detours across further atmospheric sonics, Freddy has us hanging to each bar’s end like a crime novel head eagerly anticipating his favourite author’s next plot twist.    

soundcloud.com/freddy_k_berlin

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Reclaim Your City 454 | Freddy K

500 podcasts in and counting is a thing to contemplate, and we are forever grateful for the amazing lot of people supporting RYC in any way - from tuning in our weekly show to buying our releases (bonus cheers to those who do both), y’all are the reason why we’re doing it, so shout outs! Such a crucial milestone in our development was to be celebrated proper, and we’re chuffed to bits to welcome a longtime hero of ours in the series, Rødhad, to steer us into absolute bliss! True to his exploratory approach, moving the cursor elegantly from hi-intensity 4x4 traction to chiselled ambient techno spans, through hybrid entrancers and inch-perfectly engineered plot twists, the Dystopian and WSNWG spearhead has us tip-toeing the edge between big-room trouble and the most intense Martini effect. Cast off, trip out, elevate. 

soundcloud.com/rodhad

01. Scuba - All I Think About Is Death (Radio Slave Atmos) - Hotflush Recordings   
02. Donato Dozzy - K7 - Further Records  
03. Reeko - Miracle - Pole Group 
04. Deluka - Arcade - No Signal
05. ORBE - Agovox - ORB012
06. Paul Ritch - Cruise Control - Illegal Alien   
07. Clotur - Echo Chamber - Counterchange 
08. CNCPT - Exit - Olympian  
09. Hemissi - Aztec - Blank Code 
10. Augusto Taito - Agnostic - Children Of Tomorrow   
11. Rene Wise - Tizer - SK_eleven   
12. Flits - Small - Drawner Records   
13. Fadi Mohem & Rødhåd - 210407.2 - WSNWG008 
14. Psyk - Out Of Sight - Non Series   
15. Yotam Avni - Panic - Second State  
16. Rødhåd - Wise Saying Feat. Sara Clarke - WSNWG (Back To Zero)
17. Linear System - Static Position - Illegal Alien    
18. DJ Dextro, A. Paul - Escorbuto - Disturb •  
19. Ignez - Boot - Unknown 
20. Paula Cazenave - Sleep Paralysis - Symbolism
21. S-File - Get Down! - GND Records
22. Marcal - Never Wrote This - Enemy Records    
23. Alarico - Lost in Time - Mutual Rytm
24. Red Rooms - Drift - Planet Rhythm   
25. Kaiser & Matrixxman - Distress Signal - KSR009   
26. SAMA - Kill The Heat - Unknown  
27. A.Morgan - Geisha - Self-released   
28. Anika Kunst - Detox - Symbolism  
29. Rødhåd - Alternation - WSNWG (Back To Zero)     
30. Egotot - Shaku - SYXT  
31. Klint - Molecularized - Truncate
32. Svarog - Dubwise (Gabriel D'Or & Bordoy Remix) - Selected Records
33. Ricardo Garduno - Groove Bender - Illegal Alien
34. Ø [Phase] - Intensity Fluctuations (Setaoc Mass remix) - Modwerks
35. Regent - Efficient - ARTS
36. FaceFace - Amazonia (Rene Wise Remix) - Unknown
37. Arkan - Tribute To Victo - Canticle Records 
38. Sterac - Light In The Darkness - Token
39. JakoJako & Rødhåd - PASSERI FLOOR MIX - WSNWG009 
40. JakoJako & Rødhåd - PASSERI - WSNWG009

Reclaim Your City 500 | Rødhåd

An increasingly potent driving force in today’s techno environment, Georgia has through its key clubs Bassiani, Khidi and Mtkvarze, helped Tbilisi and its surroundings shape into of the most intriguing and reliable hotspots for emerging DJs and producers. One of its most talented heralds and a surefire groove rider at that, Yanamaste graces us with a choice two hours of the entrancingly deep and bumpy 4x4 epics he’s been laying down for INNSIGNN, Lyree and Khidi in recent times. Paced-up and animal to the core, his vision sweeps an extra wide range of shades and reliefs, nimbly moving the cursor from classic Berlin-inspired blends to full-fledged magmatic trance, via Birmingham-style projections and a solid dose of folk-infused harmonics. Raw yet technical, organic with a hint of hypermodern hoodoo to it, Yanamaste’s sound is the definition of hardware techno with soul, cut to ram-raid and elevate in equal measure. 

soundcloud.com/yanamaste14

Reclaim Your City 529 | Yanamaste

Heimat

RYCL018 - Ruben Ganev - Scattered

RYCL018 - Hurdslenk - Runabout

Locked and loaded, here comes the next salvo in RYC’s line of action. Going by the name “Heimat” - the German word for “homeland”, this eighteenth number in our catalogue breaks in a new series that will set the focus on exciting new names with a vision. Zeitgeisty by nature, the approach chosen for these VAs is to document state-of-the-art productions from lesser known and emerging figures, whose skills and talent we firmly believe in. An extension of our creed that techno is there to push boundaries and not reiterate the same bland assertions over and over, ad nauseam, “Heimat” shall form a shelter for top-of-the-range material and that exclusively, regardless of the producer’s fame, level of fashionability and/or market-friendliness.

Summoned on that debut platter are names you may have heard through our channels already, and some you haven’t. Drawing first blood, Brazilian talent Marcal gets the wrecking-ball swinging at fierce rate. Engineering an inch-perfect balance between Amazonian suavity and cutting-edge industrialism, the Goiânia-based whiz treats us to a mind-altering maelstrom of rainforest techno, leaving no room for improvisation whether on the rhythmic side or in terms of sound design. An absolute crusher. Another Brazilian completes the A-side, in the person of Nicolas Vogler. His track “Lost in Paradiso” is everything a mental techno pumper should be: nose-diving drum assaults, pools of lavish textures to sink your brain within, spiralling synth motifs. Epic, truly.

Mysterious on-the-rise producer Hurdslenk takes over the flip with a mammoth of a fast-paced churner, designed at nothing but sweeping legs by the dozen. True to the early 00s hi-NRG strain of techno, Hurdslenk fractures his way into the system with a proper bomb of a tune, hovering the cursor halfway Birmingham-style sonic aggression and made in Rotterdam warehouse-obliteration. Final word goes to mould.audio’s Ruben Ganev, an artist who knows all too well how to fly you off to the zone with a mere kick and surgically processed machine hoodoo with a purpose. Laser-precise and full-bodied, “Scattered” is the paragon of a masterful hypnotic ride, steering us smack-dab the middle of a weirdly claustrophobic dream with the right amount of daze-inducing envelopes and fuel-efficient percussive power.

“Heimat” comes pressed to a 100% orange transparent vinyl, and clad in a pristine, matt varnished package to please your eyes and ears in equal measure.

A1 written & produced by Marcal
A2 written & produced by Nicolas Vogler
B1 written & produced by Hurdslenk
B2 written & produced by Ruben Ganev
Distributed by Clone Distribution Rotterdam
Artwork & Design by Jillem
Cat. no. RYCL018 – All Rights Reserved
 ℗ & © Reclaim Your City 2023
www.reclaimyourcity.bandcamp.com

RYCL018 - Nicolas Vogler - Lost In Paradiso

RYCL018 - Marcal - Magic Equation

Ho ho ho, the mystery-shrouded Rrose - named after Marcel Duchamp’s eponymous persona, punches in right on cue for Xmas with an absolute monster of a two-hour jaunt into their exquisitely twisted headspace. Having served up some of the finest techno slabs of the past decade through the likes of Sandwell District, Stroboscopic Artefacts and now their own dedicated imprint, Eaux, Rrose steps in the series with a bonkers mix of dusty techno hustle-and-bustle, neatly alternating sequences of pumping 4x4 aerobatics, searing, noise-adjacent outbursts and eerie melodies to hypnotic effect. A constant balancing act of raw power and haunting score, Rrose’s RYC mix takes us on a deep and fascinating trip into genre-unbound territories, where only abandon and wildness reign supreme. Happy EOY celebrations, y’all! See you in 2024. 

soundcloud.com/rrose1921

01. Free Free Palestine! (chant)
02. Habits of Hate - Limelight Roles - Electronic Explorations
03. Ø [Phase] - module overload pt 1 - Cosmic
04. Regis - Cold Water - Downwards
05. Wata Igarashi - Haziest Just Before The Dawn (Svreca Remix1) - Bitta
06. Ma Sha - Are They Back - CEE
07. JK Flesh - Empty Words (Rrose remix) - KR3 (upcoming)
08. Metapattern - Assimilation - Mord
09. RS Tangent - Bovine Overbite - Trilogy Tapes
10. Bookworms - Bluephoria
11. CAIV - Shamanfreude - Tresor
12. Dj Deeon - Off - Dance Mania
13. Nikos - Metaturnal - Flippen Disks
14. Priori & Al Wootton - Leniency - Trule
15. Mad Zach - Tunnel Snare
16. CAIV - Ötzi - Tresor
17. Bias - Rest Energy - Diffuse Reality
18. Conceptual - 200 camels and a hot desert - Conceptual
19. Quelza - My Eyes Are Closed - Newrhythmic
20. Altinbas - Spoken Word - Token
21. WTCHCRFT - Shake It (Nikki Nair’s Shook Mix)
22. Azu Tiwaline - Blowing Flow - IOT
23. Rrose vs Octo Octa - unreleased
24. Rrose vs Speedy J - unreleased
25. Carrier - Fathom - Felt
26. Rrose vs Polygonia - unreleased
27. Rrose vs Polygonia - unreleased
28. Pocopo - Segre - AEDI
29. Tsimtsum - Konvoi
30. A4 - Optical Device - Faut Section
31. Mad Zach - Strangeloop
32. Skee mask - Cylo - Ilian Tape
33. Bas Dobbelaer - HSS-01 - Trule
34. Fergus Sweetland - Gangalang - Illegal Alien
35. Trolley Route - A Transcendence Of The Individual - Semantica
36. Al Wootton - Russell - Trule
37. Ruman - Three Butts Are Enough - Warm Up
38. Notzing - Molniya - Warm Up
39. Maurizio - Eleye - M1
40. Ladan - Knives - Sublunar
41. Potter Natalizia Zen / PNZ -  Magari - Ecstatic
42. Tony Conrad - Four Violins (Table of the Elements, 1964)
43. Cheryl E. Leonard - Frozen Over

Reclaim Your City 571 | Rrose

Born in Sweden but operating out of Berlin, Philippa Pacho has been making waves in the scene as of late, notably amassing a stream of incendiary performances at some of the world’s finest (and most demanding) clubs, including Bassiani and Fuse. Herald of a fast-paced, no-surrender type of DJing, all eyes set on bringing crowds to a simmer thru and thru, Philippa muscles her way across various techno sub-genres and rhythms with conviction and poise, alternatively pushing classic Detroit-influenced material, Nordic minimalism and more Continental European-informed expressions, as she harnesses the very best of these through uncompromising selections with a pristine mixing technique. Shockwave incoming. 
 
soundcloud.com/philippapacho

Reclaim Your City 587 | Philippa Pacho

Far Field

RYCL021 - HVL - Lancet Mxi

RYCL021 - HVL - Far Field

RYCL021 - .VRIL - We Believe

RYCL021 - .VRIL - Fnord (feat. RÆYN)

RYCL021 - .VRIL - Lost Together

A surefire provider of deep, complex weapons for the dance floor and beyond, French-born, Berlin-based artist Kangding Ray has been minting some of the most strikingly unique techno records in recent memory. His body of work for some of the most reputed record labels out there, including Raster Noton, Stroboscopic Artefacts and his own outlet, ara, cuts an introspective path, halfway modular-leaning escapology and beat-driven abstraction. From his background in architecture, his musical approach retains that fondness for structure and the creation, or re-creation of space, both as an actual object and a mental projection. Immerse yourself into KR's minutely designed headspace with this two-hour deep and intimate audio dive. 

soundcloud.com/kangding-ray

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Reclaim Your City 602 | Kangding Ray

Breaking in our waves with a special two-hour round of genre-busting floor hoodoo, here comes Luxemburg-via-Germany’s one and only Ogazón. Nimbly walking the tightrope between sensuous house folds and more rugged, up-for-the-jugular techno on a deep, dubby tip, Ogazón treats us to a high-end vinyl workout flush with immersive, cinematic motion and proper low-slung club-oriented extrapolations. The result is a mix that swings the pendulum between sheer blazing functionality and an escapist mindset, sparking off the inextinguible will to go out and rave your night away from the daily hassle, and you can trust Ogazón for she certainly knows how to teleport dancers to a whole cozier, comely dimension in the twinkling of an eye. Merry Xmas to all!

soundcloud.com/ogazon

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Reclaim Your City 623 | Ogazón

A much (duly) rated exponent of the Dutch techno sound within and well beyond its borders, Eerste Communie co-founder and resident MARRØN clocks in with a vibrant two-hour trip into his constantly minimal, yet untiringly expansive imaginarium. Through a chiselled selection of cuts both surgical and eerie - combining the haunting nature of deep, texturally lavish dubs with that of clinically arranged dance floor-destroyers, he has us swaying in a state of spooky stasis, zoning out further and further into trance-like abandon as the groove etches deeper. Boasting a signature both paced-up and uncompromisingly stripped down to its atomic nucleus, MARRØN serves up a masterly crafted piece of soul-searching engineering.

soundcloud.com/marron-official

Reclaim Your City 624 | MARRØN

Kicking off 2025 in the best company as Tokyo-born, Amsterdam-based don Wata Igarashi takes over with a masterclass in pulsating futuristic techno and widescreen sonics. Through a flurry of top-of-the-range releases for the likes of Dekmantel, Kompakt, Figure and his own imprint, WIP, the Japanese producer has been cementing his position as a true innovator of techno music. His unparalleled knack for crafting big-room-ready tunes that engineer a complex cocktail of cutting-edge elegance, modular intuitivity and hi-impact punch has logically made him a much sought-after talent in the scene. Not departing from that polymathic approach, his RYC mix, recorded at the PURE G event at FINAL Taipei on December 7, treats us to a storm of shape-shifting grooves and brutalist fractals of sound. Beware, high voltage.

soundcloud.com/wata

Reclaim Your City 625 | Wata Igarashi

Next up in our series, we’re excited to welcome Mary Yuzovskaya, a DJ and producer whose surgical sense of the groove and love for minimal sound structures have become trademarks over the years. At the helm of her own record label, Monday Off, Mary puts in the same precision and effort she dishes out through all of her vinyl-only DJ sets. Stripped-back and highly cerebral, her style sits at the junction of heavily dubbed-out psychedelia, liquid abstraction and post-industrialism, and this mix doesn’t differ. Enter Yuzovskaya’s mazy new vinyl exclusive mix with crumbs of bread in your pocket and some red thread, for we’re yet to know where the labyrinth ends. But does it even have an end?

soundcloud.com/bananamilk

Reclaim Your City 626 | Mary Yuzovskaya

Psychotherapist by day, mind-hacker by night, here comes Leipzig’s Vincent Neumann with two hours of widely versatile techno and electronics. All in jagged dynamics and hi-NRG propulsion, Neumann’s mix is an ode to old-school raving, back when the DJ’s name was of no importance but the flow of the music itself was all that mattered, or when the true spirit of techno rhymed with riotous communion and a new horizon of possibilities, not some ultra fast-fashion side issue. The result is a fiery jaunt across some of those balls-out anthems old and new that got people converging from all around the country onto secret places, eager to let the socio-political frustration of their age out, regardless of how the norm thought of them. A manifesto-like set to play out loud and share around.

soundcloud.com/vincent-neumann

Reclaim Your City 627 | Vincent Neumann

Responsible for a handful of head-turning releases via the likes of MORD, Hayes and Float Records this past couple of years, on-the-rise techno producer Mathys Lenne clocks in our series with a mindtrip that’ll knock your socks off. Championing a sound both deep-diving, rugged and hi-intensity thru and thru, the Frenchman treats us to a storm of steely firepower and post-apocalyptic brainwaves. His mix of cerebral wares and shape-shifting, industrial-informed machine talk takes us straight back to the heyday of raving, when the sound we all love was not just a merchandise, but meant a whole new perspective on the world as we knew it.

soundcloud.com/mathys_lenne

Reclaim Your City 629 | Mathys Lenne

More than just MORD boss and a direct neighbour, both musically and geographically speaking, Bas Mooy is a longstanding friend to us, as well as a figure we truly look up to. Whether found pushing back the boundaries of the techno sound through his vanguard-minded imprint or teleporting dance floors to the 4th dimension with no turning back, Bas holds on to his quality-driven methods to deliver music and moments that transcend both time and space. Up with three hours of sprawling techno heat that runs the gamut from proper big-room artillery to abstract-leaning bravura, through strapping peak-time nemesis and dystopian raw power, here goes Mooy with the wildest instance of his 360 vision when it comes to blazing new paths and setting future directions for the genre. Weapon of mass instruction.

soundcloud.com/bas-mooy

Reclaim Your City 630 | Bas Mooy

Back in the series with a special hour-and-a-half-long live set, fellow RYC alum Arthur Robert graces us with a mix that best exemplifies his cosmonautical approach to production, flush with alien-engineered sounds and sci-fi-indebted atmospheres. Like traversing a dynamic hall of mirrors and prisms, distorting our cognitive scope to hypnotic effect, Robert’s mix is a maze of fast swiveling grooves and bubbling, modular-like reflections. If you like your techno both hi-velocity and uncompromisingly trippy, Robert’s blends extrapolate the finest of galloping techno and outer-spacey poetics, birthing the kind of transporting narrative that’ll sooth your nerves from the daily heartbreak we’ve come to process as an integral part of our lives.

soundcloud.com/arthurrobert

Reclaim Your City 631 | Arthur Robert Live

For some time now, Irish DJ and producer Sunil Sharpe has been honing (no pun intended) his skills as a formidable floor destroyer, putting out a string of memorable burners for the likes of Works The Long Nights, BPitch, MORD or his own imprint, Earwiggle. Delivering his implacable two-hour missive through blends of breaks-laden rhythms, frenzied machine talk and murky, weatherbeaten ambiences, Sunil Sharpe boggles the mind and knocks senses askew, not letting loose on his astonished prey - understand the odd raver bracing themselves for the blast incoming. Unless they’ve already bashed their skull in the system’s facade and got to taste the visceral high of sound flowing through their body. You think it’s an image, but the man is a literalist.  

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Reclaim Your City 632 | Sunil Sharpe

Blasting his way into our series this week, Dutch producer Robin Kampschoer revs up the engines and lifts us off to higher spheres of consciousness through two hours of chiselled post-industrial sound engineering. Exploring the confines of techno, somewhere at the junction of proper raw, steely rhythms and further elevated ambience-scaping, the RKM boss and STOOR alum swings the pendulum betwixt full-blown warehouse-ready assault and inward-gazing escapism effortlessly. Elegantly brutalist, his approach is both one of nuance and impact, exalting and pensive in equal measure, never flinching in its quest for the sweet spot between raging horsepower and nostalgia-soaked harmonics.  

soundcloud.com/rkampschoer

Reclaim Your City 634 | Robin Kampschoer

Having made a name for himself through a string of choice releases for the likes of Nous’klaer and Delsin, Dutch producer Konduku has been turning heads with his ever innovative take on the techno medium. Pushing for new directions, Konduku’s been laying down intriguing blends of dubbed-out, Afro-infused grooves and plural strains of abstract-leaning, breaks-friendly hybrids. The present mix showcases the breadth of his influences and essential components, extrapolating techno’s genre-transcending nature through a fine mix of heavily verbed-out electronics and shape-shifting buildup, never quite going where you’d expect it, rather seeking the excitement of suspenseful arcs and unsuspected developments. Bold as it should.

soundcloud.com/kondukukonduku

Reclaim Your City 635 | Konduku

Prime Directive

RYCL023 - Peter Van Hoesen - Morphology

RYCL023 - Peter Van Hoesen - Prime Directive

RYCL023 - Peter Van Hoesen - Variables Edit 1

Continuing his exploration of intricate techno systems, their effect and direct perimeter of action, Peter Van Hoesen turns in his newest four-track piece, ‘Prime Directive’: a fascinating dive into the artist’s shape-shifting headspace and inner creative chaos.

Fuelled on a furnace-hot mix of abstract-leaning immersion and hi-octane rhythmic thrust, ‘Prime Directive’ looks at contemporary techno from the angle of experimentation and intuitive abandon. The result comes in the form of four distinct movements, each carving out their own logic and associated behaviour out an endless pool of potentialities. Here comes chaology unfolding in all its unadulterated, visceral glory.

‘Definition by Absence’ breaks the trip in to the sound of a faux-random symphony: its train-like swing and fiery bass seesaw coalesce through an elliptic fluttering of sorts, iterative and not, patterns moving in and out of synchronicity as Van Hoesen applies more or less pressure on both ends. All in gusty in-your-face-ness, ‘Variables Edit 1’ whirls and swirls like an ominous vengeance of nature; Its puncturing kicks and whistling menace set against stellar winds and rabid machinery on the prowl for its next victim.

An even more unsettling piece of disjointedly arrhythmic, anti-club music for the dance floor, ‘Prime Directive’ will have you zoning out like a bad dream, flush with metronome-faced monsters and molten clocks hanging from dead trees. ‘Morphology’ could be PVH’s attempt at giving his concepts a carnal carcass to hold onto. Here, rhythm becomes somewhat less erratic, offering his 360-degree vision more melodic surface and actual room for dispersion. One to keep the boundaries pushed and status-quo challenged, this is techno at its most entrancingly bold and fearless.

*This new monster four-track classic-in-the-making from Peter Van Hoesen comes draped in a fine piece of artwork courtesy of Atact, and pressed in 180g audiophile quality so you get to experience the Belgian master's chiselled sound design in all its glory.

Written & Produced by Peter Van Hoesen
Distributed by Clone Distribution Rotterdam
Mastering by Peter Van Hoesen
Artwork & Design by Atact.uk 
Cat. no. RYCL023 – All Rights Reserved 
℗ & © Reclaim Your City 2025
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RYCL023 - Peter Van Hoesen - Definition by Absence

Lacking no oomph, the mixes of Amsterdam’s one and only Mary Lake tick all the boxes of a quality hi-NRG set. Boasting a definite knack for those volatile hotchpotches of big-room-ready jack and a surgical DJing skillset, Mary treats us to a frantic whirlwind of paced-up machine funk and absolutely imparable industrial-inflected maneuvers. Cranking the heat one notch up with every bar, the Dutch DJ certainly knows how to bring dance floors to a simmer and keep crowds under her spell through wave after wave of an uncompromising floor-destroying exposé. No-surrender, adrenaline-stacked ripper of a mix thru and thru, consider yourselves warned for the tumultuous ride ahead. Hectic.

soundcloud.com/marylakeworld

Reclaim Your City 636 | Mary Lake

Over two decades of unfaltering devotion to production and DJing, dishing out some of the finest slices of opulently textured techno along the way, Tokyo-based maestro DJ Sodeyama has been honing a sound signature both intricately hypnotic and boundary-pushing. Blending delicate melodic strains of electronics ranging from deep, ambient music to verbed-out, atmospheric techno, often laced with hints of jazz and soulful discoid expressions, his productions and mixes combine the satiny elegance of loungey daydream with that of more rugged, deep-diving dubs a la Basic Channel. From light to shade, and vice-versa, DJ Sodeyama builds pieces of music where the ever-changing lighting and shifting angles swath you in an oddly comforting headspace. A most fascinating trip for the body and soul.

soundcloud.com/arparecords

Reclaim Your City 637 | DJ Sodeyama

For the past fifteen years, Rotterdam-based DJ and producer Benny Rodrigues alias ROD has been carving out a lane of his own in the realm of contemporary techno. Piling up one massive release after the other for the likes of Axis, Figure, Soma, Klockworks or his own record label, Rod20, the Dutch artist has been laying the foundation to a catalogue driven by thrill-seeking curiosity and a vibrant desire to bring techno into a whole new dimension, just as the pioneers did. That epic-sized vision and deeply innovative breath infuse both ROD’s studio productions and sets, and his RYC podcast vouches for that very ground-breaking, limit-busting take on the medium. Flush with galloping grooves, mind-altering distortions and heavy-duty analogue funk, the present mix is as much an ode to the early scene’s unfading visionary impulse as it is a future-ready manifesto for our age.

soundcloud.com/rodmalmok


Reclaim Your City 638 | ROD

Hailing from Amsterdam, Bastienne has been making waves with her impeccably laid-down mixes and carefully curated selections. Through chiselled, laser-precise sets that showcase the breadth of her scope and minutely woven floor narratives, Bastienne moves the cursor from straight pumping house jack in Detroit fashion to Birmingham-style techno hybrids, via rowdy electronics and forward-pushing dubs. The result is a propulsive journey across techno music in the broadest sense of the term, with all its sister genres, sub-divisions and offshoots taking center stage by turn as Bastienne ensures the cocktail blends in just nicely. No-nonsense, all-out dance floor-destroyer ahead. 

soundcloud.com/bastienne115

Reclaim Your City 639 | Bastienne

Six-time turntablism champ turned sleek tech groove-provider, Japanese DJ and producer DJ HI-C has had many lives before settling as a merchant of stripped-back, zen-like ambiences and mesmeric club rhythms. Elegant and dynamic, his productions sit halfway deeply organic, atmospheric blends and a further steely, hi-velocity strain of techno. Mind-bending by nature, his mixes open a wide window into a pulsating headspace, rife with ebullient bass drive and obsessive loops, constantly pushing the envelope of danceable material as we know it. Tailored to emphasize the impact of a limited number of components rather than drowning his listener under an avalanche of sonic stimuli, HI-C unleashes a storm of painstakingly textured layers and ripping melodic stabs. Bringing together minimalism with soul is an art, and HI-C is an absolute master at that. 

soundcloud.com/djhi-c-kireek


Reclaim Your City 640 | DJ HI-C

Taking over the RYC waves this week, Tokyo’s finest Mari Sakurai punches in with a helluva 2-hour treat by way of introduction. Working her way in the gap betwixt post-industrial opacity and heavy-duty brutalism, Mari has been slowly but surely making a name for herself with uncompromising sets spanning everything from cool-handed big room pound to mazy abstraction and other bursts of mind-altering sonics from way deep. Known for cutting a path of destruction with every of her mixes, her RYC offering doesn’t depart from such intentions, and we’re invited to a smorgasbord of claustrophobic hi-tech onslaughts and a string of purely exhilarating, apex-seeking momentums. Hi-voltage shockwave due for impact imminently. 

soundcloud.com/marisakurai


Reclaim Your City 641 | Mari Sakurai

A true driving force both within and beyond the South-American techno ecosystem, Zisko graces us with two hours of clinically laid down big-room punch and genre-unbound, off-kilter rhythms on steroid. Championing a sound both highly intense and surgically precise, the Argentinian DJ and producer has us surfing a rogue wave of frenzied analogue funk, sci-fi-informed industrial pound and proto-electroid impulsions. Not one for the faint-hearted, Zisko’s mix is galloping techno at its most eruptively driving and merciless, bound for heavy-duty, mid-set apexes and hi-impact mosh pits down the basement. Total smasher beware, this one’s cut from the heaviest alloy.

soundcloud.com/ziskomusic

Reclaim Your City 642 | Zisko

French-born, Tbilisi-based Ina Kacz is a DJ and producer whose vision far exceeds the limitations of a genre, including one as multi-faceted as techno. Her shape-shifting sets span a wide spectrum of styles and sub-divisions, flourishing somewhere at the junction of acid-drenched cycloramas, chiselled ambient breaks, twilight dubs and chrome-coated industrialism. With her exquisitely fine touch and impeccable understanding of the groove, the French artist pulls out a two-hour jaunt into her pulsating headspace, packed to the rafters with streamlined style collision, inch-perfectly engineered plot twists and hair-raising momentums. 

soundcloud.com/inakacz

Reclaim Your City 643 | Ina Kacz

A few months after our successful Saüle debut, here we go again for a second round of genre-busting, boundary-pushing sonic exploration. Embracing the Idea of techno as a means of transcending our condition, both as conscious and subconscious beings, this series offers a platform for artists to express themselves with enhanced scope and purpose. For this second installment which will take place on 5 June, RYC invites a trio of musicians who’ve been pushing the envelope of techno and electronics to a broader extent. A name synonymous with bold dynamics and cutting-edge approach, London-based producer Jin Synth will take us on a mind-bending ride down her intricate rhythmic algebra and layers of hypnotic, otherworldly sonics. A jack-of-all-trades whose hybrid, unhindered vision for music has driven to all ends of the techno spectrum, the one and only DJ Pete will join us for a hectic parade of breaks-laden, bass-heavy weapons and dubbed-out tangents. Chief explorer of lushly textured folds and immersive cinematic arcs, dub techno maestro Magna Pia will take over the decks for one of those moments on the dance floor when functional innovation fuses with multi-sensory exaltation. 

Thursday 05.06.2025 | Start 22:00
Am Wriezener Bahnhof - 10234 Berlin
www.berghain.berlin/en/event/79284/

Tracklist:
01. Cio d´Or - Magnetfluss - Prologue Music
02. Milton Bradley - Uncontrollable Desire - Do Not Resist The Beat!
03. Mike Parker - FWD (Donato Dozzy Remix) - Prologue Music
04. Luigi Tozzi - Uterus - Hypnus Records
05. Shifted - Cold Light (Sektor B) - Avian
06. Dino Sabatini - Dryalus - Outis Music
07. Cassegrain - Shahmaran - Arcing Seas
08. Rrose - 23 Lashes - Eaux
09. Donato Dozzy & Mike Parker - Stegosauria - Spazio Disponibile
10. Polar Inertia - Vertical Ice - DEMENT3D
11. Abdulla Rashim - Ador Tracers - Northern Electronics
12. Claudio PRC - Manifestazione - Delsin Records
13. Silent Servant - Untitled (Regis Edit) - Sandwell District

Reclaim Your City x Säule | Magna Pia

A few months after our successful Saüle debut, here we go again for a second round of genre-busting, boundary-pushing sonic exploration. Embracing the Idea of techno as a means of transcending our condition, both as conscious and subconscious beings, this series offers a platform for artists to express themselves with enhanced scope and purpose. For this second installment which will take place on 5 June, RYC invites a trio of musicians who’ve been pushing the envelope of techno and electronics to a broader extent. A name synonymous with bold dynamics and cutting-edge approach, London-based producer Jin Synth will take us on a mind-bending ride down her intricate rhythmic algebra and layers of hypnotic, otherworldly sonics. A jack-of-all-trades whose hybrid, unhindered vision for music has driven to all ends of the techno spectrum, the one and only DJ Pete will join us for a hectic parade of breaks-laden, bass-heavy weapons and dubbed-out tangents. Chief explorer of lushly textured folds and immersive cinematic arcs, dub techno maestro Magna Pia will take over the decks for one of those moments on the dance floor when functional innovation fuses with multi-sensory exaltation. 

Thursday 05.06.2025 | Start 22:00
Am Wriezener Bahnhof - 10234 Berlin
www.berghain.berlin/en/event/79284/

Tracklist:
01. Kate Carr - The Darkness Of Riverbeds - Rivertones
02. Marco Shuttle - Tombak Healer - Incienso
03. Zadig - Kuro & Shiro - Rhythm Büro
04. Zemög - Yuyo - Circular Limited
05. Jin Synth - Cold In Microdoze - Semantica Records
06. Modvs - PL2 - Hypnus Records
07. Efdemin - There Will Be Singing (DJ Koze Remix) - Dial
08. Justine Perry - Apparition - On Board Music
09. Paula Koski - Something Else - On Board Music
10. Yant - Moving - Reclaim Your City
11. Antigone - Blank Slate - Reclaim Your City
12. Abstract Division - Fluctuations - Dynamic Reflection
13. Mathieu Bonnafous - Le Bras Du Glacier - Forms of Minutiae

Reclaim Your City x Säule | Jin Synth

A few months after our successful Saüle debut, here we go again for a second round of genre-busting, boundary-pushing sonic exploration. Embracing the Idea of techno as a means of transcending our condition, both as conscious and subconscious beings, this series offers a platform for artists to express themselves with enhanced scope and purpose. For this second installment which will take place on 5 June, RYC invites a trio of musicians who’ve been pushing the envelope of techno and electronics to a broader extent. A name synonymous with bold dynamics and cutting-edge approach, London-based producer Jin Synth will take us on a mind-bending ride down her intricate rhythmic algebra and layers of hypnotic, otherworldly sonics. A jack-of-all-trades whose hybrid, unhindered vision for music has driven to all ends of the techno spectrum, the one and only DJ Pete will join us for a hectic parade of breaks-laden, bass-heavy weapons and dubbed-out tangents. Chief explorer of lushly textured folds and immersive cinematic arcs, dub techno maestro Magna Pia will take over the decks for one of those moments on the dance floor when functional innovation fuses with multi-sensory exaltation. 

Thursday 05.06.2025 | Start 22:00
Am Wriezener Bahnhof - 10234 Berlin
www.berghain.berlin/en/event/79284/

Tracklist:
01. Leon Switch - Overlook - Chestplate
02. Zygos - Bete Noire - Circle Vision
03. Thelem - Shottaz - Artikal Music
04. Laksa - Wonda - RE:LAX
05. Ipman - Single Motion - Unknown
06. Biome - Cromos - Tempa
07. Manni Dee - Sister Nobody - Osiris Music UK
08. Substance & Vainqueur - Emerge 1 (British Murder Boys Remix) - Scion Versions
09. Female - Back Lash (Female Edit) - RSB
10. Cressida - Cat‘s Claw - Shaw Cuts
11. Sleeper & District - The Risk - Osiris Music UK
12. Jack Sparrow - The Chase - Tectonic
13. Fret - Rhino Patch - L.I.E.S. Records

Reclaim Your City x Säule | DJ Pete

A well-known alum of acclaimed record labels such as Hayes, Klockworks, Fuse, Blueprint, Soma et al., Lisbon-based DJ and producer Temudo clocks in with a mix showcasing the breadth of his vista and smooth mixing skillset. Up with a choice selection of unbending warehouse percussion, laser-guided dubs and further esoteric mind-expanders, Temudo reels off a magnetic field of hi-velocity grooves, brutalist analogue bursts and cutting-edge sound design. Swinging the pendulum between straight out heavyweight, 909-fuelled barrage fire and heavily processed electronics on a mission, here’s a mix for those in search of both thrilling floor jack and superior groove know-how. Monster treat. 

soundcloud.com/temudo


Reclaim Your City 644 | Temudo

Ghent-based DJ and Fuse resident Marie-Julie is our guest this week with the killer delivery. Merging future-facing, hi-tech abstraction with a sixth sense for those inescapable rhythms and a wonky, off-kilter sonic engineering, Marie-Julie entices us down the path of complete mind-alteration. Constantly shifting gears, her vinyl blends run the gamut from dystopian murk to ankle-snapping old skool breaks, through lysergic psychedelia and chromatic dubs a la Basic Channel, without ever losing in cohesion or attention to detail. Do not resist, but just let this mad whorl of sound grab you and fling you into an entirely uncharted, demented zone of its own. 

soundcloud.com/marie_julie

Reclaim Your City 645 | Marie-Julie

Right on cue to support the release of his newest EP on SK_eleven, here comes Manchester via Berlin's own Setaoc Mass with a banger of a mix to break June in proper, pedal to the metal. Exponent of a sound both intrinsically rugged yet layered to mind-altering effect, the British producer has been dishing out unstoppable slices of hi-velocity techno laced with a signature stripped-back, psychedelic edge. This new RYC podcast doesn’t veer off from such a direction and we’re graced with a two-hour mind trip boasting both bass-driven warehouse impact and an elegantly-woven tapestry of abrasive grooves, leaning by turn towards atmospheric elation and on other occasions pushing in the direction of utter fibrous, steel-coated industrial pound. The result is a wilder than wild ride down a smouldering pit of acid-washed hard hitters. Brutal. 

soundcloud.com/setaoc_mass

Reclaim Your City 646 | Setaoc Mass

Liquid Shards

RYCL012 - Rene Wise - Juggler

RYCL012 - Rene Wise - Liquid Dancer

RYCL012 - Deniro - Static

RYCL012 - Deniro - Shards

Wild at heart and commando-trained to x-out lame ass 4x4 competition, the sound of MARRØN - whose name is a direct nod to the staunch will and fortitude of eponymous escaped slaves - is dedicated to cutting a path of destruction in gridlocked nightly paradigms. Mapping the confines of deep, hard-to-the-bone techno through damp and dim-lit corridors of sound, the Eerste Communie co-founder serves up two hours of proper clinical hammering and nonstop rhythmic assault, paced to get your heart rolling over from one end of your chest to the other like a pinball caught in a magnetic storm.

soundcloud.com/marron-official

Reclaim Your City 392 | MARRØN

Rotterdam-via-Berlin based outlet reuniting underground purveyors across the globe as they methodically scan and showcase various nerve centers from the techno Internationale.

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