Techno

Leftfield

Bio - Late night / early morning sets have been Niki Kitz’s forte ever since the beginning of her music career. She cut her teeth hosting and DJing at unconventional late night events with the Foshizzle Family in Madison, WI and she continued down this rabbit hole with a relocation to Milwaukee. There she joined the Apart artist collective and co-founded Plush Works, a DIY music space and after hours venue. With a whimsical yet powerful style, she has left her mark across the Midwest, from warehouses in Chicago, to Movement after-parties in Detroit, to open air psytrance festivals in Missouri and many dance floors in between. Since moving to Minneapolis in 2017, she’s established herself as a household name within the underground community, playing notable sets at SYSTEM and Intellephunk parties. She also produces ambient and experimental music under her Kiisu moniker and recently released her first full length album, “Mother of Dirt,” on the Portland-based label, Disposable Commodities.

More at Soundcloud.com/nikikitz 

TRACKLIST
Retina - Iota
Eclipse - Byron Yeates
All I Know Now - Sam Brickel
Best Not Miss - Fio Fa
Faerie Stomp (Ludwig A.F.’s Haunted Mix) - Psychedelic Budz
I’m Alright Mate (Asusu Remix) - Bruce
Tympanum VI - Radial
Saturn - Jupiter 8000
Byron’s Theme (Ex-Terrestrial Remix) - Pillow Queen
Doubtful - Overland
MS 04 (138 Remix) - SDX
Humanoid Future (Roza Terenzi Remix) - Assembler Code & Alex Jann
OFFITONIT - Erotek
On/Offline - UF095 x Anetha
Cyclic - Paul Birken
Grasshopper’s Opinion - Vladimir Dubyshkin 
Polarlicht (Mix 1) - S.O.L.
DEMONHOLE - Jasmine Infiniti 
Pull Up (bound 2 meet the taxman mix) - Oprofessionell
Mother - Jensen Interceptor
Internally Vexed - Lou Karsh
Moderno (Marc Piñol Acid Remix) - Margot
Perfume - Logic1000
Where Do We Go From Here? - No Moon

Niki Kitz(DJ set)@Future Classic Redbull Radio

Lindsey Herbert Live @ The Communion Stage, The Great Beyond Festival 2021

Closing set recorded sometime around noon on March 13 at one of the best new afterhours parties in Brooklyn, @lockedgroovebk. Check out @spencertechno's fantastic opening set.

Juana @ Locked Groove - March 12, 2022

Overland invites Lonefront from Minneapolis on her show this week. Expect pummeling techno with modular influences.

Catch Overland every 1st Wednesday of the month, from 01h to 02h [CET] on rinse.fr

Rinse France Podcast

Overland invites Lonefront - 01 Mars 2023

ROOM 2 - SATURDAY 20 til 22 🐊🐊🐊

Thanks to Suzybee & Steevio, the volunteers, the dancers, the musicians, Théo & Ugo, the Friends of Fictions, Alex & very special thanks to @iambruce for mastering the recording :)

Hug to @r4r_luz who sadly couldn't make it this year and was supposed to play before me.

Shorter context: https://www.instagram.com/p/C9NI2bwMVcu/

Longer context: https://fictionsandreflections.com/a-fluid-togetherness-that-manages/

Freerotation 2024 : The House Of Crocodiles Part 2 (Live Recording)

Interface / Scene Movement Afterparty 2015

Hessle Audio feat. Dave Huismans (ex-libris, A Made Up Sound) - 30 June 2025

recorded live at good work in a backyard on a lovely saturday in brooklyn

Loidis @ Good Work - 12 July 2025

@christian-s-smith

him.saint (Christian Streit Smith, b. 1990) is a percussionist, producer, dj, & landscaper based in The Hague.  Christian grew up in Cincinnati, and has lived in Canada and Switzerland before moving to The Netherlands in 2016. He has been playing percussion since he was 10 years old, and while he was originally trained classically, he now works in the ever expanding field of experimental music.  Since 2020 he has self-released a solo full length album, a project with composer Jesse Broekman called 'Contrafacta' on Moon Villain, and next month he and his Basel based ensemble Gyre are releasing an album of music by Argentinian composer Santiago Diez Fischer on Another Timbre.  As a dj, the last years have seen several appearances on Maxi Radio in Leiden as well as making mixes for his soundcloud an average of once or twice per year, and in November he will begin a 4 show residency at Stranded FM in Utrecht called 'C. Smith's Midwest Meltdown' which will conclude in Summer 2026.  him.saint is his moniker chosen for all electronic dance music including techno, but the Stranded FM shows under his government name will be focused on presenting a wide range of his music taste outside of club and dance music culture. 

For my debut R&D mix I was really trying to compress the experience of a 3 hour set into 1 hour, and to lean into maintaining and building a continuous groove and energy for as long as possible before the final 15 minutes where it goes to some perhaps unexpected places. It was recorded in my apartment in March of 2025 using my computer, rekordbox software, and a ddj-400 controller.  

IG: https://www.instagram.com/christian_streit_smith/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@christiansmithpercussion6472
Bandcamp: 
https://moonvillainrecords.bandcamp.com/album/a-place-to-sing-at-night
https://christiansmith1.bandcamp.com/album/blue-scatter-lp
https://anothertimbre.bandcamp.com/

Tracklist:
Sandro Uhl - Sounscape
Sleeparchive - 6
Truncate - Untitled
Rrose X Polygonia - Haima
Al Wootton - When Hempe is Spun
Jerical - Groove On
Jonas Kopp - Ocher System #2
Casual Treatment - Eternity Is Long, Prepare For It
Blenk - Outline
Rene Wise - Mover
Finder - Shifting Sands
Temudo - When I Grow Up
Chlär - Panopticon
Beste Hira - Representing My Brain
Taken - Ice Truck
D.I.E. - Dutch Friends
Doctor Jeep - Cyber Funk
Baalti - Buttons
Chaos In The CBD - Liquid Experience

RND 143 - him.saint

Montreal's Phoebé Guillemot plays records as DJ FATi and is an album specialist as RAMZi. Just this month her fifth full length, Pèze-Piton, dropped and was another beautifully unusual mix of tropical house, dub, future jazz and experimental grooves that are impossibly loose and inescapably infectious. Releasing on cult labels like Mood Hut, 1080p and Rvng Into., her leftfield sounds feel at once completely alien yet also wholly organic and earthy. They are jumbled collages of trippy vocal sounds, squelchy synths and tumbling drums that real new details with each listen. 

Playing live but also DJing under the DJ Fati alias, when in selector mode her sound is just as fresh. This mix is a worldly hour of laid-back beats, jungle house and new age grooves that ooze exotic flavours and tropical vibes. It goes through blissed out and baeachy passages of instrumentals, jumbled drums and shimmering synths that paint a perfect picture of a some imaginary paradise where all there is to do is soak up the sun and dance.

Dekmantel Podcast

Dekmantel Podcast 155 - DJ FATi (aka RAMZi)

This is Erika in pure form — delivering the heat like no one else can. Where others see boundaries, she sees possibilities. This is techno as it can be — inspiring & liberating. Recorded while DJing live in LA for an Eye Teeth showcase November 2, 2018.

Interdimensional Transmissions Podcast

IT.podcast.s08e01: Erika DJ set at Eye Teeth Showcase, LA (2018)

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.
Current personnel
Jeremy Alvarez - JS Alvarez
Eric Fernandez - Makeen
Shanti Chu - Shanti
Dan Hood - Dan B Hood
Kona Mazariegos - Zona Cinco

RND 143 - him.saint

Research & Development Mix Series