This DJ set I performed at 'Into The Woods Festival' during Amsterdam Dance Event 2021 is a good representation of my current vision of techno. Enjoy!

James Ruskin, “Watching ⁦Surgeon play right now is a master class, impeccable music, rhythmically diverse and put together with skill and power........class”

Dustmite - 250
Thomas P.Heckmann - Kopfgeister (Clouds  Remix)
Audio Injection - Charge
Talismann - Anchoryst
Temudo - E08
Avernian - Ruka
Ritzi Lee - Out Of Line
Frankie Bones - Distortion
Chontane - Copper Vein
VIL - The Slip
De Schuurman - Nu Ga Je Dansen
Ruskin & DVS1 - Page 2
Nemmett - Teeth
Truncate & Ruskin - Sketch 1
Stranger - Rok Da Place
S-File - Parting Glances
James Ruskin - Hang Up
DJ Overdose - Skidzomatic
Ritzi Lee - Tunnel Effect
Peder Mannerfelt - Year of the Rats
Surgeon - Raw Trax 4
DJ Hyperactive - Venus
Avernian & Strick - Hairline Fracture
Fadi Mohem + Rodhad - wsnwg008_04_210407.3
Avernian - Raw Hands
LA-4A, Ambivalent - I Feel Lit (Alden Tyrell Remix)
Stef Mendesidis - Wurlitzer Machinery
Ruskin & DVS1 - Page 3
Henry Greenleaf - Formula
Lag - Twitch
Stef Mendesidis - Sonica
Avernian - Maadi
Joey Beltram - Pulse
Truncate - The Eve (James Ruskin Remix)
Paul Bailey - Saturday Boy (Surgeon remix)
Panstarrs - Pendulum
Stef Mendesidis - Stalker
Ploy - Ramos
Surgeon - La Real

Into The Woods ADE Weekender 15th October 2021

A live recording from the closing set of rural2023 by Function, who is a founding member of the Sandwell District collective, Ostgut recording artist and owner of Infrastructure.

Function at rural2023

Excited to share with you my very first set of 2024, recorded live at Ratherlost party at LoFi, Amsterdam on January 1st, 2024. 
It was truly one of the best NY shows I've ever been a part of. The club was completely packed and on fire as I took over the decks following Quelza & Nørbak’s incredible B2B set. My aim was to keep this massive momentum going while leading the floor on a journey to get lost in the music. Hope you can feel this mood and energy from the recording. 

Special thanks to everyone who attended, and to Ratherlost for curating such phenomenal parties and granting me the opportunity to share this mix.

Wata Igarashi at Ratherlost 2024.01.01

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.

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Reclaim Your City 625 | Wata Igarashi

This year, the spanish techno legend Oscar Mulero will return to the stage at rural, and we are happy to share the recording of his closing set at “rural at New Acao” in 2022.

This three-hour raging techno set guided the audience to the most intense and deeper world in the otherworldly main floor of “New Acao”, a gorgeous Showa-era building overlooking the sea.

今年、再びruralの舞台に戻ることになったスパニッシュテクノの生きる伝説 Oscar Mulero による2022年の“rural at New Acao”でのクロージングセットを公開します。

来場者の記憶に深く刻まれることになった、海を一望できる豪華絢爛な昭和建築“ニューアカオ”の異世界的なメインフロアの中でも、最も激しく、より深い世界を案内することになった3時間に及ぶ怒涛のテクノセットをお楽しみください。

rural Podcast 014 Oscar Mulero

You may be familiar with the work of Reeko, the Pole Group co-founder and Spanish auteur whose furious techno has expanded the definitions of his genre and piqued clubfloors over the last decade; Juan Rico’s alias has galvanised the world of electronic music like few can. Over the course of his active years he’s worked on a parallel body of work under the pseudonym Architectural, at first in the shadows of anonymity, now coming into the light. Through this second epithet he channels a more fluid sound, one that uses much of the same percussive scaffolding but goes deeper. The project began back in 2010 with a string of releases on his self-titled and newly pressed label and the 2012 release of Peacetime on Semantica Records, cementing his rise as a deft and mysterious talent from the Asturian coast. The intrigue continued with a fusing of his two projects in 2013, a Reeko and Architectural release on his native Pole Group entitled The Blue Album, a dialogue between the two visions, harsh kicks of the first fused with the trailing reverb of the latter. The next two years saw a pair of releases develop the sound he’d built via his own label and Dutch imprint Wolfskull. In tandem, his sets at Tresor, Printworks, Robert Johnson, Bassiani, Awakenings and his local festival LEV have brought his heavy atmospherics to a wider audience. His sound is primal, dubby and immersive, the output of many years of sonic research and collaboration, paced-out and rich with intelligent details. Here, for one of the most important mixes in this long running series, comes Bassiani Podcast 252, a truly singular piece recorded back in November from this paragon of experimental techno.

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Bassiani invites Architectural / Podcast #252

"We wanted to let go of everything we know." The Berghain residents talk about underground values, leaving behind expectations and their collaborative album, LAYER ONE.

Berghain residents and now frequent collaborators Ben Klock and Fadi Mohem have become synonymous with the classic, no frills aesthetic that's come to define the Berlin institution's sound, with one exception: their newest LP, LAYER ONE. The album sees them step away from techno in a listening experience that explores IDM, ambient and experimental electronic music with guest vocal appearances by UK artists Cobey Sey and Flowdan.

In this Exchange, they talk to Chloe Lula about this departure from their typical style, which imagines a post-human world where AI reigns supreme. They also reflect on building generational bridges in the music industry; how their respective ideas of success have changed; underground values and sensibilities; and why the ethos of an earlier era continues to inform their work. 

Klock also revisits the decade that's elapsed since his last RA interview, including why he's chosen to return to the studio after years on the road, his unexpected career as a DJ and the key to long-lasting relevance in a scene that doesn't slow down. Listen to the episode in full.

EX.757 Ben Klock and Fadi Mohem

Tatsuya Kanamori quickly became one of the few Japanese techno producers to rise to worldwide prominence within the late 90's techno scene with his productions and remixes as DJ Shufflemaster.
Originally a committed member of the Tokyo-based label Subvoice, where he released several of his early EPs, Kanamori's reputation outside of Japan was greatly aided by his affiliation with European techno heavyweights such as Adam Beyer, Joel Mull, Ben Sims and Carl Lekebusch.

It was no surprise that Berlin-based Tresor knocked on the door and offered Kanamori the opportunity to record her first full-length album. In 2001, he appeared via Tresor, a full-length LP packed with a string of dancefloor-oriented techno productions featuring Kanamori's trademark aesthetic, making him one of the first Japanese techno producers to achieve worldwide recognition.

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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. 

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Reclaim Your City 639 | Bastienne

SHED is the 434th guest of our original Hate Podcast series.

René Pawlowitz is a man of many aliases—SHED, Head High, Hoover, WK7, and Evil Fred—each representing a different facet of his wide-ranging musical identity. With a career rooted deeply in Berlin’s underground scene

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Dasha Rush is a Russian born artist who sees the genre as a starting place not a destination. She is a respected and well-travelled DJ and live performer, but her work is equally focussed away from the dance floor, and sometimes away from music itself. Her recent album for Raster-Noton, Sleepstep, could be a metaphor for her work: "These 16 pieces are transmissions from that state between sleep and wakefulness," said Tony Naylor, a reflection of the in-between zones her music often inhabits. Dubby but intense, brutal but tender, foggy yet clear—Sleepstep was a wonderful mass of contradictions. Not being one thing or the other is vitally important to Rush, which goes hand-in-hand with her strong independent streak. The majority of the music she's released since starting out in 2005 has come through her own Fullpanda label and, as she told us in 2013, she's resistant to playing the publicity game in the way many in the scene do. That's meant she's remained off the radar for some techno fans, but it's also given her the freedom to explore projects and sounds as she pleases. With all this mind, it was little surprise that our invitation to record a podcast was met with, "Yes, but it won't be a club mix." What we got instead was an absorbing 65 minutes of dense ambient soundscapes that shows Rush at her most reflective. The mix comes ahead of the North American premiere of Antarctic Takt, Rush's A/V show with Stanislav Glazov, at this week's Mutek festival in Montreal. 

EX.757 Ben Klock and Fadi Mohem

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