right up my piazzzzaaa

A really beautiful party at a really beautiful club with really beautiful people - Precious Hall in Sapporo, Japan. Thank you Occa for this wonderful adventure in Hokkaido. My favourite club gig of 2022. Unforgettable to go deep and wide <3

Jane Fitz at Archiv, Precious Hall, Sapporo, July 2022

Recording of @janefitz set at SUPERCAMP Festival 2023

Jane Fitz - SUPERCAMP Festival 2023

This week, we’re happy to share XDB's stunning set from Dimensions ’23. Recorded live from Freerotation’s takeover of the Cosmos last summer, which set the stage perfectly for Steevio's live set afterwards.

Deep, refined and classy selections throughout, something we've come to expect and love about Kosta’s sets. 

@xdb

XDB - Live from Dimensions 23'

My closing set Recorded LIVE -
in - 'Sammy String's' (Room 3) 
on - Sunday Night 07-07-2024 12:15 - 2:00am
at - Freerotation Festival,
Baskerville Hall Hotel, Clyro Court, Hay-on-Wye, Hereford, UK.

Photograph by Calandra Balfour @Calandra
Audio mixdown by Charlie Tear https://www.instagram.com/arcmixlondon/

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Interview: www.untitled909.com/alex-downey

Freerotation 2024

Alex Downey Live at Freerotation 2024

Words by Ceci (@ccl-url): 

"Special thanks to Steevio & Suzybee & all the volunteers, workers & dancers 💙

This is my recording from Friday night Room 2, 12:30-2am, my first time being at the mythical Free Rotation. Playing one of the first sets & seeing the room, decor and the big bad subs of Room 2, years of fantastical lore and reality melded, I wanted to keep it sexy, wonky, trippy— imagining a psychic electric swamp and how one would levitate thru it... to the sky. No bpm trickery this time. Out to the heavenly bodies of the universe! ;)

Mastered by Wordcolour"


i <3

ani/live Fifty Six: CCL @ Freerotation

૮ ˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶ აtwotech૮ ˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶ ა

One of the most elusive and singular electronic music records of the century, Mothercave by Traumprinz feels like discovering a hidden world. A cavern of sound where eclectic rave samples, fragile melodies, and submerged rhythms echo into infinity. Both intimate and otherworldly, it’s a rare electronic album that defies genre and resists time—a true underground myth carved into vinyl folklore.

Traumprinz — Mothercave (Mixed Album)

The German minimal DJ returns to the spotlight with two hours of artfully subtle house and techno.

There's an old German proverb that goes "Der stete Tropfen höhlt den Stein." Literally, it means a constant dripping wears away the stone, but the point isn't about force but patience: slow, steady repetition can leave the deepest mark. It's an apt metaphor for the career of Kosta Athanassiadis, better known as XDB.

Active since the early '90s, first as a DJ and then producer by the decade's end, Athanassiadis has built a career less on hype than persistence. His catalogue spans labels like Dial, Metrolux and Echocord, alongside a steady trickle of EPs and remixes that have quietly cemented his reputation as one of minimal house and techno's undersung heroes.

That patience carries into his sound and production ethos. Where many of his peers embraced software upgrades and new workflows, Athanassiadis has long stuck to Cubase, a handful of trusty instruments and 30-year-old speakers he claims to have run "hundreds of thousands of tunes" through. He also still prefers to use inexpensive, straightforward gear—what matters, he insists, is not the tools but the feel. The result is a sound that’s stripped back, direct and enduring.

Lately, Athanassiadis has found himself back in focus. With minimal enjoying fresh attention, his calendar has filled, and with it a run of back-to-back sets—most often alongside PLO Man, a regular sparring partner this year. True to form, though, you won't find that his style has changed much. Over 30 years after his first gig, you can rest assured you'll still find him playing with patience, carving out long arcs rather than sharp peaks.

His RA Mix captures him in a reflective mood. Running just over two hours, RA.1003 is a hushed yet absorbing affair, moving seamlessly from the delicate atmospherics of Valentino Mora and Caldera to the machine funk of Robert Hood, Solid Gold Playaz and Marcellus Pittman. There are left turns folded into XDB's patient narrative arc, too: John Carpenter's brooding scores here, DJ Sprinkles' melancholic work with Will Long on "Acid Trax N (Acid Dog)" there.

It's the sound of a DJ who has been quietly chiseling away for three decades, and who understands the value of persistence as much as restraint.

@xdb

Find the tracklist and interview at ra.co/podcast/1021

RA.1003 XDB

Dance Ambient #8

Richard Akingbehin @ Sustain-Release, New York - Sept '25

Vlada live from Visionaire.

A captivating 1.5 hours closing out RALLY 2025.

Vlada live from Visionaire at RALLY 2025

Loidis at Waking Life 2025

artist: @janefitz
recorded on the 19th of January 2025
length: 04h57m38s

[Extended] Jane Fitz (full recording) @ essaim, Paris / 19Jan2025

Wonkytonk deep

Whispers

An hour of minimal pumpers, electro-tinged workouts, and oddball techno excursions. I sorely miss dance floors at the moment and I think it's pretty evident across this mix. 

Recorded with 2x Technics SL-1200 + Xone 42 Mixer 

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Mary Mix - # 2

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brusselssssss sprout

after studying visual arts, creative centipede
ailsa cavers aka islas slowly drifted 
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pedals, ASMR, spoken word,
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MOVES, and the PLANET collective, 
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