Deniro, Rene Wise
Liquid Shards 
Release date: May 5, 2020

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. 

All tracks written and produced by Deniro and Rene Wise
Design by Enchilada, Rotterdam
Distributed by Clone distribution, Rotterdam 
Cat. no. RYCL012 – All rights reserved 
℗ & © Reclaim Your City 2020
www.reclaimyourcity.bandcamp.com

Deniro & Rene Wise | Liquid Shards [RYCL012]

Heimat
Marcal, Nicolas Vogler, Hurdslenk, Ruben Ganev
Release date: April 4, 2023

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
Cat. no. RYCL018 – All rights reserved
℗ & © Reclaim Your City 2023
www.reclaimyourcity.bandcamp.com

Heimat | Reclaim Your City [RYCL018]

Far Field
.VRIL & HVL
Format 12" / digital
Limited copies, no repress
Order: bit.ly/RYCL021_vinyl
Release date: August 26, 2024

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]

In The Years Ahead
Mike Parker & Steve Bicknell
Format 12" / digital
Limited copies, no repress
Pre-order: bit.ly/RYCL022_vinyl
Release date: November 18, 2024

You’ve been waiting for it, and so have we, RYC’s next frequency-jammer comes in the form of a heavyweight split 4-tracker, courtesy of two true techno pioneering figures: Mike Parker and Steve Bicknell. The continued influence of these two artists on both our early raving days and now as a team working on providing you the most exciting, boundary-pushing tech wares is second to none. As you’ll experience from the four jams constitutive of this unparalleled mindtrip of an EP, ‘In The Years Ahead’ is the living evidence the steadfastness of Parker and Bicknell's vision remains absolutely untouched. 

Zeroed in on taking ravers on an entrancing ride across pulsating corridors of whirring machine funk, sizzling acid and shape-shifting waves of sound, both sides of this EP share the best lot of both producers’ uniquely innovative approach to rhythm and production. Parker’s opening cut, ’Solar Limb’ is a textbook example of his complex, and heavily layered sound-design. An unflinching swing keeping time, brutal kicks punching holes in your head like giant steel hammers, the track may evolve slowly, repeating its post-industrial mantra over and over again, its flame doesn’t flicker one iota. Switching onto red-level dance floor menace, ‘Badlands’ pulls out the heavy artillery: an overkill bombardment of puncturing 909 drums, vortical winds blowing in the back like some solar storm of sorts, and this ebb-and-flow of FX-drenched synth ripples branded on your cortex like odd signs of cult belonging.

Bicknell’s takeover starts with the rugged and wild ‘Chaotic World’, whose title is definitely not usurped. Enter a blazing maelstrom of frantic synth assault knocked askew, intense bass tectonic movements and smashing arpeggios on the path of war. The track develops a massive momentum, swelling from primordial raw matter into weirdly arranged modular constructions, like that of Kubrick’s monolith emerging with ominous presence. ‘In The Years Ahead’ serves up a much distinctively elegant, glossy type of textural experience, synths playing pong in a hall of mirrors, interlacing and distorting as the percussive line unfolds its linear train-like groove. It dashes across landscapes of hypermodern glass and concrete with unrelenting horsepower, from techno’s early sanctuary right up onto tomorrow's temple of unmapped potentialities. 

*This much special release, so dear to our heart, comes clad in a beautiful piece of design by Atact, and will be pressed to 180g audiophile quality vinyl for an enhanced listening experience.

a1 written & produced by Mike Parker
a2 written & produced by Mike Parker
b1 written & produced by Steve Bicknell
b2 written & produced by Steve Bicknell
Distributed by Clone distribution Rotterdam
Artwork & design by Atact
Cat. no. RYCL022 – All rights reserved
℗ & © Reclaim Your City 2024
www.reclaimyourcity.bandcamp.com

Mike Parker & Steve Bicknell | In The Years Ahead [RYCL022]

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

Reclaim Your City  

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

Heimat
Marcal, Nicolas Vogler, Hurdslenk, Ruben Ganev
Release date: April 4, 2023

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
Cat. no. RYCL018 – All rights reserved
 ℗ & © Reclaim Your City 2023
www.reclaimyourcity.bandcamp.com

RYCL018 - Nicolas Vogler - Lost In Paradiso

RYCL018 - Marcal - Magic Equation

Dishing out his own part - and what a choice cut! - of the Bassiani gospel through the RYC waves this week, Georgian wizard Kancheli fires off a stupendous two-hour round of his immersive take on techno music, beautifully merging cinematic depth of field with hi-impact kinetic grooves. A former percussionist and Jazz head, Kancheli flexes the width of his musical palette to compelling effect, clashing full-blown functional DJ tools against abstract-adjacent flights to form his own dynamic yet hypnotic dance grammar away from normative constraints and ephemeral fads. The result is a bumpy, shape-shifting masterclass of a mix, bridging the gap betwixt proper floor-focussed explosiveness and more inward-gazing extrapolations. Complex and refined, a techno work of art.

soundcloud.com/kancheli

Reclaim Your City 548 | Kancheli

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

Active for nearly three decades, Japanese DJ and producer Takaaki Itoh has been carving out a niche truly his own in the realm of deep techno. Pumping out multi-sensory DJ tools for breakfast, Itoh champions a sound highly dynamic yet infused with the kind of minute textural work and layers of modular complexity one can not but marvel at. Punching in with a wild two hours of electro-magnetic hardware funk and entrancingly immersive brainwaves, the Sendai-based wizard elevates us to a whole new world where hi-tech submersion and atmospheric club music reign supreme. A work of art. 

soundcloud.com/takaaki_itoh

Reclaim Your City 581 | Takaaki Itoh

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

Active since the turn of the millennium, Wisconsin-born / Berlin-based DJ and producer Dustin Zahn has been trading some of the most consistently powerful techno blends over the past twenty years. Incisive and empowering, his sound epitomizes the perfect balance between strenuous, big-room-focussed wares and an acute sensibility for the sharpest sound design. Throughout an endless flow of grade-A heaters for some of the scene's most highly-regarded imprints, including Blueprint, Rekids and his own record label, Enemy, Zahn has been sculpting a body of work both ebulliently intense and future-facing, never quite resting on his laurels but throwing all of his nerve and energy into staying relevant in the age of disposability. Ageless, boundless.

soundcloud.com/dustin-zahn

Reclaim Your City 588 | Dustin Zahn

Author of three massive iterations on SK_eleven since the drop of his debut instalment on the label in 2021, New York DJ and producer Holden Federico aka 90s Techno Redux undoubtedly counts as one of the North-American scene's most exciting talents. Herald of a style both elegantly timeless and straight out propulsive, Holden turns in a textbook example of his adroitly combined sense of selection and mixing. Prepare for two hours of frantic uptempo assault and minutely designed tech-scapes, where no-nonsense big room firepower collides with stripped-down brutalism and an elevated touch of post-industrial sophistication. Going hard.

soundcloud.com/holden-federico

Reclaim Your City 

Reclaim Your City 594 | Holden Federico

Merchant of feral-minded, steel-clad floor wares harboured by some of the finest imprints out there including Token and SK_eleven, in addition to his own outlet, Observer Station, Fuse resident Altinbas takes over the RYC broadcast with an explosive two-hour ride fusing pure raging uptempo arson and highly trenchant, indus-oriented machine funk. Blast it out full force and let the trippy winds of primitive drums patterns, 909-fuelled obsession and dubbed-out 4x4 mystique alter your senses durably, for the spirit of rave shines high and bright above us. Total heater of a mix, you’ve been warned.
 
soundcloud.com/altinbas

Reclaim Your City 595 | Altinbas

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

Reclaim Your City 602 | Kangding Ray

Gracing our podcast with a nasty two hours of punishing beats, rhythmic escapism and straight out uplifting rave sirens, Amsterdam's JSPRV35 cuts a path of destruction in our latest RYC podcast number. Trading hi-impact uptempo wares and no-nonsense floor artillery, the emerging DJ and producer has us swinging to rugged 4x4 monster jams and more left-of-centre sonics, astutely shifting gears betwixt proper big-room momentums and further atmospheric uplift. The result is an extended tableau of both inch-perfectly engineered functionality and soulful curation, primed for both peak time traction and pulsating daydreaming. The unadulterated spirit of rave coming in full blast.

soundcloud.com/v35jsprv35

Reclaim Your City 607 | JSPRV35

Actively pushing hard-boiled techno wares and heavyweight floor artillery for breakfast, German jockey and producer Markus Suckut punches in with two hours of unrelenting dance floor hoodoo on our next installment. With a rather extensive catalogue of big-room rippers under his belt - including choice outings on Odd Even, Primordial State (a label he co-operates alongside Sven Eickhoff) and his own imprint, SCKT, Suckut pumps out a massively smashing two-hour mix for us, packed with his textbook industrial-leaning punch, a certain taste for laser-guided 4x4 stunts and further off-axis grooves straight out techno's outer space. Hop in for a mind-bending dive into a fractal-like torrent of raving material, honed and polished to deadly effect.

soundcloud.com/markussuckut

Reclaim Your City 609 | Markus Suckut

A well furnished pool of electronic talents, Georgia keeps on gracing us with thrilling voices and exciting projects. Next up in our podcast series, Tbilisi’s Rodnevs sheds a further bright light on the Georgian scene as he deploys a two-hour maze of a multi-faceted mix. Spanning the widest array of influences and signatures, the young producer entices us down the road of techno eclecticism, blending polyrhythmic vibrancy with a deadeye sense for supposedly unobvious combinations and permutations. The result is a mix unlike any other, an uncanny place of sound where classic early techno grammar rubs shoulders with hypermodern downtempo drifts and further mesmeric subterranean dubs. Just let it sink in.

soundcloud.com/rodnevs

Reclaim Your City 610 | Rodnevs

Regularly rocking the house at seminal German nights including ://aboutblank, the late Griessmuehle, Paloma and many more, Berlin-based DJ and BINÄR label owner PAREKA drops by our virtual office to serve up a frankly pumping two-hour sample of his own techno multiverse. All in on the chiselled breaks, haunting ostinatos and clinical warehouse destroyers, PAREKA has us walking the tightrope betwixt pure no-prisoner ruggedness, straight brutalist sound architecture and a further experimental spin stretching from dub techno to Birmingham-esque detours. Hold your breath and shut your eyes wide, for the ride promises to drill a serious hole in your head and rewire your brain circuits upside-down.

soundcloud.com/pareka

Reclaim Your City 611 | PAREKA

You know our love for Georgia’s seemingly infinite pool of talented musicians, and here’s another emerging one many of you may not know of yet, but should definitely keep an eye (and ear) on: Boya. Up with a shape-shifting electronic and techno set, the Tbilisi-based DJ and Morevi Records affiliate flaunts the breadth of his talent through a versatile selection and impeccable mixing maneuvers. The result is a two-hour jaunt into the more techno-friendly side of his very own multiverse. From springy uptempo rides to detours into more nuanced, dubbed-out sonics, through genre-unbound meanderings and muscular house flexions, the wide scope of Boya’s mix keeps beckoning us towards the unknown with every bar. Expect the unexpected.

soundcloud.com/boyachineseforever

Reclaim Your City 612 | Boya

Lovers of non-formulaic electronics and immersive experiences, get ready for a mind-expanding treat with Jin Synth at the controls. From extreme, noise-adjacent bursts of sound to serene soundscaping bordering on ASMR therapeutics, the London-based artist knows how to craft ambiences unlike any other. Beatless or percussion-forward, manipulating tension and release as a true groove surgeon, Jin Synth entices us down the path of exquisite minutiae and poetry in motion. Like woven in silken thread, her mixes boast both laser-like precision and the most impressive level of control at every point in time, resulting in a hauntingly cinematic, all around hypnotic display. Enslaving.

soundcloud.com/jinsynth

Reclaim Your City 613 | Jin Synth

Back to Georgia and Tbilisi this week with the one and only Hamatsuki, resident DJ at the infamous Bassiani. Exponent of a versatile DJing style that runs the gamut from rugged techno wares to propulsive acid, via liquid electro, techno, house and everything in between, Hamatsuki treats us to a wild and effusive two hours of radical obliqueness, steering us constantly into murky waters, where life swarms and the metamorphic magic happens. Stacking crazy frantic wares one after the other in a Fantasia-like symphony of broken grooves, raging uptempo and hair-raising buildups, here comes one of Tbilisi’s key figures with a massive, uncompromising blast-off of a set. Sonic boom inbound.

soundcloud.com/hamatsuki

Reclaim Your City 614 | Hamatsuki

RYCL022 - Steve Bicknell - In The Years Ahead

RYCL022 - Steve Bicknell - Chaotic World

RYCL022 - Mike Parker - Badlands

RYCL022 - Mike Parker - Solar Limb

Dutch techno pioneer Jeroen Schrijvershof, alias Jeroen Search, needs no introduction. To those who’ve been living under a rock for the past three decades, just google his name and you’ll be drawn into an endless sea of links, vids, bios, event pages, and all kinds of past and present prowesses vouching for the man’s incredible career so we’ll leave it at that. Having graced the grooves of our record label with the magnetic ‘Enigma’ EP back in 2022, the man is now back with a much anticipated podcast - made up of 100% OG Jeroen material - that shall have a tsunami of modular signals, chiselled 909 onslaughts and Ubik-uitous floor narratives break loose to entrancing effect. Better buckle your belt, for when Jeroen Search steps on the gas, you simply don’t want to end up flying through the windshield. So to speak.

soundcloud.com/jeroensearch

Reclaim Your City 615 | Jeroen Search

Coming up next with a solid two hours of shape-shifting electronics and exploratory techno-scaping, Giegling alum ATEQ pulls out the kaleidoscopic vision and minute sound design on this truly hypnotic ride. Known for his elegantly balanced mixes and hauntingly immersive productions, the Pale Product co-founder treats us to a heavenly mind-trip, brimming with eerily opaque floor narratives, non-formulaic rhythms and abstract-leaning grooves from outer space. Hold tight for gravity-defying, sonic stunts and deeply cinematic submersion, here comes ATEQ with a serious slice of otherworldly techno escapism.

soundcloud.com/ateq

Reclaim Your City 616 | ATEQ

On Thursday the 21st of November 2024, come celebrate the pulsating heritage of Rotterdam’s Reclaim Your City at Saüle. Part of a new event series focussed on styles skirting what is widely embraced as ’techno music’, this first airdrop of the RYC squad promises to be a satisfying moment for all lovers of bold, boundary-pushing electronics. Clad in the austere industrial atmosphere of Berghain’s experimental-oriented subdivision, Saüle, the event gathers voices from distinct geographies and segments of the electronic music scene. From British master and seminal ‘Lost’ nights founder Steve Bicknell, who will blow the winds of dubstep across Saüle’s monster sound system, to Detroit-based deck whiz Erika who will get the heart of the Motown throbbing at the pace of its legendary electro scene, to London jockey and producer Cressida, representing the more alternative confines of the techno-adjacent sonics, from proper UK sound - understand jungle and grime, to techno itself, beware the torrential cascade of roaring machines and sine waves-spoken thunder firing on all cylinders.

Thursday 21.11.2024 | Start 22:00
Am Wriezener Bahnhof - 10234 Berlin
www.berghain.berlin/en/events/78258/

Reclaim Your City x Säule | Cressida

On Thursday the 21st of November 2024, come celebrate the pulsating heritage of Rotterdam’s Reclaim Your City at Saüle. Part of a new event series focussed on styles skirting what is widely embraced as ’techno music’, this first airdrop of the RYC squad promises to be a satisfying moment for all lovers of bold, boundary-pushing electronics. Clad in the austere industrial atmosphere of Berghain’s experimental-oriented subdivision, Saüle, the event gathers voices from distinct geographies and segments of the electronic music scene. From British master and seminal ‘Lost’ nights founder Steve Bicknell, who will blow the winds of dubstep across Saüle’s monster sound system, to Detroit-based deck whiz Erika who will get the heart of the Motown throbbing at the pace of its legendary electro scene, to London jockey and producer Cressida, representing the more alternative confines of the techno-adjacent sonics, from proper UK sound - understand jungle and grime, to techno itself, beware the torrential cascade of roaring machines and sine waves-spoken thunder firing on all cylinders. 

Thursday 21.11.2024 | Start 22:00
Am Wriezener Bahnhof - 10234 Berlin
www.berghain.berlin/en/events/78258/

Reclaim Your City x Säule | Erika

Reclaim Your City x Säule | Steve Bicknell

A much talented purveyor of widescreen electronic epics and mind-expanding techno sceneries, Vera Logdanidi has been trading some of the finest dubs out there, including some outstanding pieces of work for Rhythm Büro, Semantica or On Board Music. All in spacious reverbs and atmospheric deconstructionism, her mixes as much as her own productions seek diffuse effect rather than impactful punch, altering mindsets through carefully orchestrated movements rather than flexing muscles. An origami-like unfolding of mesmerising sequences, ushering us amidst lush forests of sound and distinctive emotional apexes, Vera’s mix is a safe, welcoming haven, here to harbour us from the surrounding crass that threatens to devour the last crumbs of peace and solace in our hearts.

https://soundcloud.com/veralogdanidi

Reclaim Your City 617 | Vera Logdanidi

A true legend and pioneering figure of techno, US sound architect and Geophone label owner Mike Parker breaks in on the RYC waves with a very special set full with his idiosyncratically dark, obsessive, inch-perfectly chiselled 4x4 wares. Before Boiler Room and co. were even a thing, a pioneering platform going by the name of Studio R° used to broadcast techno sets by prominent artists from a secret location in Berlin. This iconic, vinyl-only mix is Parker’s Studio R° set from 2013, now fully remastered for your listening pleasure. Building atmospheres unlike any other, brooding and transcending in equal measure, Parker has laid the foundation to an exceptionally rich body of work. Master of the industrial vocab, peeping towards Detroit but with his defining spin on the early days genre, Parker entices us down the path of steely monumentality and laser-precise mind control. Just as typically mazy, his present mix conjures up all traits of quality Parker material: 909-powered propulsion, enslaving acid whorls, Escher-like fractals. Wild, wild ride ahead.

https://soundcloud.com/geophone

Video by Studio R° @ bit.ly/studior_yt

Reclaim Your City 618 | Mike Parker

Hailing from Tokyo, DJ MARIA. has been making waves with her finely engineered mixes and exquisite selections, as much as a few head-turning productions for the likes of Katharsis and Proxima. Close to the original 90s atmospheric techno vibe, her approach shares that taste for spaciousness and sense-awakening uplift, fitting in nicely in the tradition of dub techno whilst opening onto more ambient-oid detours and further leftfield-friendly electronics. Delving in the essence of techno as a tool for emancipation, her mixes traverse a wealth of landscapes and territories, never quite sitting cozy but roaming in search of new forms to embrace, new geometries to integrate. A musical language in constant motion, where expectations wash up against the beauty of revelation.

soundcloud.com/djmaria-jp

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Reclaim Your City 619 | DJ MARIA.

Taking the helm of our next podcast iteration, Madrid-based DJ and producer Psyk jumps in with a beast of a two-hour jaunt into frantic techno hyperspace. Having dished out some highly magnetic floor wares for the likes of Tresor, Mote Evolver or Modularz and his own imprint, Non Series, Psyk sure knows how to steer crowds into some sort of super-conscious euphoria. Expert provider of big-room ready dynamics and paranoid narratives, Psyk flings us into orbit with his impeccably laid-down assembly of industrial-minded rhythms and murky, oomph-loaded grooves hatching out of the dark like alien eggs from a drifting Nostromo.

soundcloud.com/psyk

Reclaim Your City 620 | Psyk

Stepping in our podcast series this week, London DJ and Neighbourhood chief operator Tasha graces us with a versatile, shape-shifting helluva mix she holds the secret to. Keeper of a sound amplitude that sees her run the gamut from Latin music-inflected techno to proper industrial, Birmingham-style tempi, through hardcore-friendly outbursts and out-there acid mind trips, Tasha has us bedazzled with every bar, wrong-footing any expectation in the process. And just like a good DJ does, she weaves a totally unique web of sound for us to get caught in, cohesively braiding the kind of electronic journey you can not but want to return to. Hop in for a much addictive rollercoaster ride across Tasha’s vortical headspace.

soundcloud.com/dj_tasha

Reclaim Your City 621 | Tasha

Hailing from Tokyo, Japanese DJ and producer Haruka has made a name for himself through his finely curated selections and seamless mixing technique, making him a regular of acclaimed clubs around the world, including that of our beloved friends from Tbilisi, Bassiani’s. Haruka’s polymathic sound - a blend of off-kilter techno and bouncy, genre-unbound electronics, attests to the man’s widescreen vision and engaging versatility, never settling for the obvious but looking to find new paths of expression with every set. His RYC offering doesn’t differ and delves into a wealth of rhythms and tropes, pushing back the boundaries of techno as we know it, or better, redefining it entirely.

soundcloud.com/haruka_ptc

Reclaim Your City 622 | Haruka

Liquid Shards

RYCL012 - Rene Wise - Juggler

RYCL012 - Rene Wise - Liquid Dancer

RYCL012 - Deniro - Static

Deniro, Rene Wise
Liquid Shards
Release date: May 5, 2020

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. 

All tracks written and produced by Deniro and Rene Wise
Design by Enchilada, Rotterdam
Distributed by Clone distribution, Rotterdam 
Cat. no. RYCL012 – All rights reserved 
℗ & © Reclaim Your City 2020
www.reclaimyourcity.bandcamp.com

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

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