The Great Beyond 2025 Playlist

https://soundcloud.com/ducktrash
Indianapolis-based musician Duck Trash is a techno & electro DJ and classically trained cellist. They are passionate about the queer roots of rave culture & strive to ensure that raves remain spaces of queer liberation. Dive into the midwestern rave continuum with this mix of acid, electro, and techno.....and don't be afraid to sob on the dancefloor

RND 071 - Duck Trash

https://soundcloud.com/sardashhh
A self-described "rave-generalist", Sard is a DJ, producer, and Live PA artist living in Detroit. Combining his passion for perfect dancefloors and the deeper technical aspects of dance music, his performances and productions have maintained a steady placement in the Midwest and beyond. Sard channels a life dedicated to music study into his sound, blending influences of North American techno and rhythms from abroad. His releases on Fixed Rhythms, PPRZ, Amphiboly, and Codec Recordings have been played globally by friends and heroes alike.

RND 099 - Sard

https://soundcloud.com/jodieoverland
Overland is a rave inciter and beat architect shaped by her upbringing in small town Alberta, Canada, and an itinerant way of life guided by the magnetism of disparate musical influences. 

With notable sojourns in London, UK and Vancouver, British Columbia, Overland’s journey has taken her from organizing hometown warehouse raves and beachside renegades to high profile bookings at Berlin’s Tresor and Boiler Room x Igloofest Montreal. 

Echoes of the myriad of people and places that have helped her flourish can be heard in her playful, high-energy mixes 
and simmering sets that weave morphing basslines with propulsive beats. Her driving, dynamic and acid-laced productions have been released on Lisbon’s Naive and New York’s Sweat Equity. Berlin-based label Paryía run by Marie Montexier hosted her record last year with a remix by high profile ambient trio Purelink, and Priori’s Canadian imprint, GARMO released her most 
recent record with praise from Hardwax. 

Fresh off the back of a newly minted residency for 
Rinse France, Overland’s mark on Canadian dance music continues to thrive and shows no sign 
of slowing down.

RND 100 - Overland

TML has been a vital force in the Midwest electronic music scene for nearly two decades, defying easy categorization while pushing an evolving, boundary-pushing sound.

Growing up in the northern suburbs of Chicago, TML (aka Peter Lansky) would journey into the city to immerse himself in underground culture at illicit loft parties and venues like the Fireside Bowl and Metro/Smart Bar. Inspired, he moved to Minneapolis and swiftly kicked off a residency at the iconic First Avenue nightclub. Running weekly over the course of eight years, the Too Much Love party brought together diverse local acts and international names, won nightlife awards, and cemented his reputation as a curator of unique sounds and killer parties.

After ending his weekly residency, Lansky began releasing his own music. TML’s productions closely mirror his genre-crossing DJ sets—a functional, rhythmic collision of acid, electro, and the darker corners of the hardcore continuum. Releases on Scuba’s Hotflush Recordings and his co-owned Always Human Tapes label highlight a blend of raw energy and lived-in sound design. 

TML can be found pushing this idiosyncratic approach across discerning corners of the underground. He excavates new sonic spaces on a long-running monthly show for Bristol’s Noods Radio and as a resident DJ for acme. collective's infamous basement parties. Whether headlining Midwest raves or clubs from New York to Berlin, performing live, or featuring on iconic mix series like Tim Sweeney’s Beats In Space, TML continues a midwestern legacy of speaker shaking electronic music, championing the weird and wonderful sounds that make dark dance floors transcendent.

Tracklist:
Richie Culver - Slow Car
oneoneone - Wound Up
Immediate Proximity - Ground
Silas - Wot
Mosca - Look After The Dead
Mike Parker - Voiceprint: Voice Two
DJ Bone - Soul Controller
Laksa - The Art Of Slip
L-VIS 1990 - Run With It
Radioactive Man & Ben Pest - Bar Tab
Azari - Aqatetra (Gesloten Cirkel Remix)
Emily Jeanne - Liquid Crystal
dBridge x Forest Drive West - Death Race 3000
Sapiano and the Partycrashers - Let It Rip
Special Request - What Time Is Ardkore
Alberta Balsam - Cosmic Runner (Peder Mannerfelt Remix)
Xen Chron - Return of Drone Face
Stingray313 - Herd Instinct
Conrad Pack - Deep Distrust (Raw Mix)
SHXCXCHCXSH - DO 1
Erin Hopes - I Don't Want To Feel
Escape - Escape (The Optical Mix)

RND 110 - TML

I'm honored to have again opened the main stage at The Great Beyond for Saturday noontime. I really enjoy opening up the space and providing a hot daytime chill and vibe experience. Thanks to everyone who came to dance or nap in the shade.

Skip Club Orchestra - Representation
Kiisu - Golden Hour
Lassigue Bendthaus - I'm Slowly Morphing
As Seas Exhale - Dream
Gears - from With Space in Mind
ju ca - Ecru
The Flashbulb - Flutter
Signal Quest - Tide Pool Portals to Another World
MMYYKK - Grand Rising [Vibe]
Piezo - Skinner
Various Artists - Glances - Sun Dapple
Destrata - Delos
Tristan Arp - Branching Streams
Ike - Vernis VIP
Significant Other - Little Blue Pills
Yushh - Bcc:
Dan Habarnam - Draw Your Pattern
Forest Drive West - Forest Drive West - B2. They Live
Neinzer - Rassalin
Steevio - Candescent
Anunaku - Spirale
Planete - Fammi Sapere
Azu Tiwaline & Al Wootton - Nine Points
Notte Infinita - Ecstatic Dub (Roller Mix)
Ryan James Ford - Toree Bahrstad - 7A - 131
Jinjé - All But a Glimmer
Union Jack - Morning Glory [Remastered]
Overmono - iii's Front

Live DJ Set At The Great Beyond 2024

Shanti is a Chicago-based DJ who curates eerie, otherworldly, and longing sounds. Music has always been a means of coping with the otherness and hybridity Shanti experienced throughout her life. While she is a philosopher and writer, Shanti has felt limited by words and has recognized the transcendent ability of music to express concepts, states of consciousness, and conflicting emotions. Philosophical themes of existential angst and ambiguity are explored in her sets through ethereal, foreboding techno, angsty EBM/dark wave, and squishy acid sounds. Music has always been a way for her to cope with the darker realities of existence. Shanti’s sets weave a story of the simultaneous despair and yearning that are intertwined with the human condition and illustrate an intentional trajectory.

Polar Inertia - Interlude (Sound Stroke)
IG METALL - Muscle & Hate
Maedon X - Subterranean Caverns
Lonefront - Crisalign
Troy - Shadow of the Comet
Stecks - Hemoglobin
Sard - orange ii
P.E.A.R.L. - Sangre IV
Israel Vines – WWKD (Silent Servant remix)
BEAU WANZER - Non Human Headlock
British Murder Boys - It’s in the Heart
Crystal Geometry - Class Real
Julia Govor - Close to the Sun
Makeen - Pallets
Uun - Atrahasis
Mtrl & Tenzia - Strange Signs
SHXCXCHCXSH - Stämma #3
DJ Nobu -  Blue Zone
Alexskyspirit - Lost Humanity
Elijan- Sara
v_3.378 - Submissive Gesture (Original Mix)
Surgeon – Convenience Trap, Pt. 2
CA2+ - Zugzwang
David Wincent - Virtuoso
Planetary Assault System - Undertow
Luigi Tozzi - Obsidian
Actress - Static

RND 114 - Shanti

Living, breathing, banging techno from an artist defining the highly-textured new frontier of the sound in 2024.

Lindsey Wang, AKA Polygonia, has an amorphous style you could call organic—or, better yet, harmonious. She interweaves unfamiliar elements with a mercurial touch. Wang can make something completely otherworldly sound totally, well, natural. It's made her a fixture everywhere from Munich's BLITZ to major festivals like Sustain-Release and Draaimolen.

Unsurprisingly, Wang is not one to be pinned down. Be it the sound design-anchored side project Lyder, her own label QEONE, or co-producing an album's worth of experimental percussion alongside jazz drummer Simon Popp, it's fair to say her personal output matches the feverish energy of her mixes. There's multidisciplinary, and then there's Wang: Poly-disciplinary, you might say.

Wang's entry into the RA Podcast series is no different, another stellar emphasis of her artistry. RA.955 is a voyage into wild variations of texture, rhythm and feeling, guided along by the principle of endless metamorphosis. Supple driving grooves meet crinkled surfaces, scuttling hi-hats meet chattering sonics, and good luck keeping hold of a consistent drum pattern for long. Behold a living organism raised by the club and the great outdoors in equal measure.

@polygonia

Read more at ra.co/podcast/955

RA Podcast

RA.955 Polygonia

There’s nothing like playing No Way Back. It’s such a unique environment. All the DJs look forward to their set all year, but then low key freak out before they play. Will they live up to expectations? Will they surpass their previous sets? You ask yourself, is this what feels like to throw lightning? You can sense the room expand and contract. Connecting to the audience and taking them on our journey is what it is all about. For this adventure I played on 4x CDJ-3000’s, a Pioneer V10 using 2 internal delays and a Strymon El Capistan pedal. I played some new tunes I had remastered, as well as a remix from Love Letters I had just completed on my new mixer, along with an edit of an unreleased version of Jordan Zawideh’s “Magellanic Cloud”, also mastered through my new mixer. What an amazing space to test these new tones. This was quite a sonic journey for me, and put me on an amazing trajectory where I feel like I’m constantly growing and improving and adding newly remastered music to every set. Looking forward to playing this coming weekend at No Way Back in NYC with the Bunker at the Chocolate Factory. 

Funkadelic – Maggot Brain (BMG dub) 
CHBB – Disconanz
Terence Fixmer – Paroxysm
Matrixxman – Opium Den (Mike Parker Remix) 
Stanislav Tolkachev – Now We Are Talking 
Analog Solutions – Oxygen Tank Failure
ASEC – Reconnaissance
Kyntral – Yuco 
Neel – Afro Aliena
Cabaret Voltaire – Silent Command (Function Edit)
Marcel Dettmann – Throb
Silent Servant – Invocation of Lust (12” Mix)
Freddy Fresh & Tim Taylor – 5 Mouths
Architectural – Rare Ceremony Tapes
Lory D – John Carpenter
Architectural – Bad-Tempered Drumming
Robert Hood – Unix
Phuture – Rise From Your Grave
Mood II Swing Productions – 8 Ways To Knock Down A Wall
Jordan Zawideh – Magellanic Cloud (2024 BMG V2 Edit)
The Fantasy – Strong Dub
Love Letters – Morse (BMG Mix)
DJ Who – Give A Little More (MIke Parker Remix)
The Maghreban – Patterns
Ratsnake – Hole 
Mike Dred – Macrocosm
Jamie Jupitor – Computer Power


IT.podcast.s13e04: BMG at No Way Back 2024

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

RND 125 - Lonefront

Our new mix comes from New York locals, Scotia and threehz who went b2b at "dream/self", a beautifully crafted club night hosted by threehz at Earthly Delights in Ridgewood New York. Get ready for some spring heat. 

Scotia is a DJ and producer with the ear of a true fan and the deep intention of a seasoned practitioner. Her debut EP "Giving Chase" on Acid Camp is a high-energy, lo-fi romp into transfemme jacking hysteria. Scotia has been making rounds on the local club scene recently. Keep an eye out New York. 

https://soundcloud.com/scotia-xo
https://www.instagram.com/scotia_trax/

NYC-based selector threehz explores the emotive sides of techno, experimental, and ambient music for every performance, taking inspiration from sludgy dark psychedelia to pulsing warpdrive drum tracks. Whether rinsing healing or destructive frequencies, as their namesake suggests, threehz knows how to craft textured, curated soundscapes on the dance floor which can be heard at multiple event series’ in NYC and residencies for The Lot Radio.

https://soundcloud.com/threehz
https://www.instagram.com/threehz/

Scotia b2b threehz

A rare club mix from the ever-evolving artist, with 90 minutes of shadowy, atmospheric pressure.

Music's therapeutic value is often linked to relaxation—gongs, singing bowls and the like. Dense passages of foggy droning and eerie static aren't traditionally considered restorative, but Laurel Halo makes a pretty good case for it.

The Detroit-born, Los Angeles-based musician's abstract, often improvised productions are heavy on sound design and emotional climax. Driven by atmosphere rather than rhythm, they push listeners to grapple with their innermost insecurities, fears and dreams. "I'm lucky my music has helped people through crises," Halo once told Discwoman. It's easy to see why.

Since her 2010 debut King Felix, Halo has built a stunningly diverse catalogue of classically-informed records. A multi-instrumentalist—piano, violin, guitar, keys—her sharpest instrument is arrangement. Inspired by the surrealism of Italo Calvino and Apichatpong Weerasethakul, her releases, from Atlas to Behind The Green Door, unfold with slow-burning narrative and dense emotional weight. Her soundworlds are layered and labyrinthine—an architectonic space where self-reflection happens almost by force.

Even in the club, the sought-after composer excels in immersion. Her sets extend the expressionist palette of her records, trading traditional rhythm for tension, space and surprise. It’s no wonder she takes a genre-agnostic approach to the dance floor—her deep roots in freeform radio began at WCBN-FM in Michigan, followed by Berlin Community Radio, Rinse FM, and now a regular show on NTS.

RA.992 stitches foggy ambient loops, propulsive techno, mutant percussion and heady left turns with care. Tracks from DJ Rush, Octave One and Eddie Fowlkes nod to her Midwestern heritage, balanced out by deeper, psychedelic fare from the likes of Polygonia and Cousin. It's the mark of an artist revealing both deep curiosity and a precise hand as a selector. Rare, indeed.

@laurelhalo

Find the full interview at ra.co/podcast/992

RA.992 Laurel Halo

DJ set from Communion (with some live bits)

1	Liquid - Dream 2 Science
2	Can You Dance - Kenny 'Jammin' Jason	
3	Psy Vs Psy - Passarani		
4	Numero 4 - Passarani	
5	Wake Up Shake It - Passarani
6	Shoeshine (Original Mix) - Efdemin	
7	Dienstags Disco - RR	
8	Test Drive - Passarani	
9	81.12 - RR	
10	Marcel Dettmann - Suffice To Predict (L.B. Dub Corp Remix)		
11	Scorpion - Dave Angel	
12	A1. Steffi - Yours feat. Virginia (Original Version)	
13	Belly Jolie Movements - Quelza	
14	Don't You Dare - Quelza
15	Atlas Express	 - Quelza	
16	Orange Du Ciel - Quelza	
17	Hunger - Surgeon	
18	Low Key - Quelza			
19	Pensa Poetico	 - Quelza	
20	Stringent - Surgeon	
21	We'll Never Be Friends Again	 - Quelza	
22	Andromeda (Part 2) - ORBE	
23	Falling	- Psyk	
24	The Ballad of Willy Stompers	- Quelza	
25	Voiceprint - Psyk	
26	A1. Hypernova - ORBE	
27	Triple Threat - Surgeon	
28	Unreleased - XXXX					
29	B2. Atonement - Elias Garcia	
30	Toner - Takaaki Itoh	
31	Panic Button - Skee Mask		
32	No matter what you do in life, always keep death by your side - Surgeon	
33        Silhouettes - Rrose 
34	Origami - Quelza			
35	Sleep (Ultra Violet) - Surgeon 
36	Left Hand Path - Commodo x Gantz		
37	Badder	 - Calibre & DRS v Mark Ernestus	
38	What A Dub - Annette Brissett		
39	God Only Knows - The Beach Boys	

Kit List : 3 x CDJ3000, Xone 96, Eventide H9, Boss RE20, 
Elektron Digitakt 2, Elektron Digitone 2, Bass Bot TT-303,
Zoom L6

Centrific Communion 2025

Neptunian Influence, Seventy-Four | Featuring @bbmmgg / @erikadotnet / @ithqdetroit

Neptunian Influence: Detroit Brunch Journey's End is the gift that keeps on giving. Recorded live on May 25, 2024, we are proud to present Ectomorph's electrifying DJ set. To have the iconic Detroit electro duo perform at our closing party was a dream, and they slid in and took everyone in attendance deep into the Great Dark Spot. We hope that you enjoy this little piece of NI history!

SUPPORT: https://ectomorph.bandcamp.com/ 

Meet you in the Great Dark Spot <3

NI74 | Ectomorph

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Based in Chicago, R&D is a music event/mix series focused on nurturing new sounds, experiences and atmospheres while exploring the music and culture it was born or mutated from. Techno, electro, EBM, bass, breaks, club and beyond.
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Eric Fernandez - Makeen
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