Transcendent Sets that make me want to end it all(and by all i mean my job)

Recording of CEM b2b DJ Nobu at Draaimolen Festival 2022

CEM b2b DJ Nobu at Draaimolen Festival 2022

Recording of CEM & Mama Snake's set at Dekmantel Ten

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CEM & Mama Snake at Dekmantel Ten

Dasha Rush b2b Jakojako at Draaimolen Festival 2024

This is my closing set recorded live at Faggots Are Women in NYC. FAW isn’t one of those mid parties begging for attention, promising collective moral high ground without doing anything. This party is an entire world—full of gags, friendship, and intention. The art, copy, door policy, sound, lights, chill areas—and its very existence in today’s USA—is T. It bubbled up from a scene that needs it, agitates the status quo, and doesn’t seek outside validation—IYKYK.

Its theme: “Faggots are FLINTA*s: Escape from Berlin.” We know New Yorkers love to say “Berlin is over” (while others say NYC is over). Some say Berlin is known for cheap living, liberated mindsets, world-class nightlife, and hot people - but it’s also dark and easy to disappear. For me, how you feel there has always been an inkblot test: it depends on who you are right now. 

But since Oct 7, 2023, Berlin has changed radically. A place known for freedom of expression has descended in to a McCarthyist hellscape for pro-Palestine activists. Cultural institutions cooperate by silencing dissenting views, and police enforce this with overtly racist brutality. It affects everything — everyday life, art, music, dancing and fun.

Obviously the political situation is similarly bleak in the US. It feels like a bizarre time to celebrate, but also a critical time to be together with the people you love. This is why the level of intention here is important: worldbuilding by and for a community, even just for a night, has the power to nourish us in so many ways.

And so I tried to match that level for the closing. Not gonna spoil the references, but they are thick and deep, and call on some very important voices. It’s usually hard to listen back to a live set without focusing on the flaws. But in this recording, I think of Charlene giving me a quick face beat en route, the unsure gays when I started, the grind-train of culturatti dolls towards the end, and the gaggle of Colombian queers losing it for Shakira. The room was unhinged and alive, full of the best. This is for those who were there—and for those who get it.

Live at Faggots Are FLINTA*s

Don't take this one too seriously. Recorded in NY on the morning of April 13th 2025 .. from 7-10AM. Went absolutely everywhere with the music in the middle of an abandoned office space. FuUlLlL SeE33nNd!

Live @ Zero Chill (FuLL SeND Mix)

@oscarmulero is one of those artists whose sound is immediately identifiable. It has had an unwavering depth, headiness and atmospheric richness to it for more than 30 years, which is a remarkable achievement few can match. A famous non-conformist, the Spaniard's top-tier three-deck mixing skills and ability to distil techno to its most hypnotic form have also long stood him apart, as have his Polegroup and Warm Up labels.

Mulero's consistency of sound means you know what you're going to get with this mix: spaced-out, layered and deep techno brilliance. Whether more dubby and roomy or glitchy and intense, it's music for both mind and body from one of the scene's most low-key but high-class veterans. Turn it up loud and look forward to more of the same when he plays at Dekmantel Festival later this year. 

Dekmantel Mix 488 - Oscar Mulero

Lea Occhi is a French DJ based in Berlin, co-founder and resident of the parisian queer collective Spectrum. Where words fail, music speaks. Reserved and solitary, Léa found refuge in music since her childhood. Jazz, soul music or French chansons, family moments usually came and still come hand in hand with music and sharing the joint, somewhat meditative listening experience. 

`` In the heart of summer - a suspended, sensual moment of warmth, smoke dancing at our feet, smiles, love and freedom. Like an ode to harmony and tolerance.``

Watch the whole Stream on our YouTube channel
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#smilewhenyoudance

SEVEN House Mix 023: Lea Occhi

Waves of pulsing, layered techno from the revered Mala Junta resident.

If the electronic music industry is caught in the crosshairs of a battle over what makes for true techno, then D.Dan is one of the underground's great modern emissaries.

A figurehead from the new guard of DJs to arise in the '20s, the Berlin-based artist and Mala Junta resident is an ambassador for a sound that is strongly anchored in the classic roots of techno. His productions, like his mixes, are revved-up takes on the hypnotic wormholes that defined dance floors last decade, but with a fresh (and high BPM) millennial twist. 

Originally from Seattle, D.Dan became enamoured with the spectral stylings of psych rock and shoegaze in adolescence. It's not difficult to see how the cosmic tapestry of bands like Cocteau Twins became a blueprint for the entrancing music he's gone on to make as an adult. His releases on Mutant Future and summerpup are latticeworks of loops and layered percussion, custom-tooled for lost hours on the dance floor and drawn-out mixes behind the decks. 

This approach directly extends into his DJ practice, where he pairs song selections from contemporaries that mirror his own reduced, controlled approach to techno. RA.994 is a Grade A display of contemporary four-to-the-floor from flagbearers like Roll Dann and Marcal.

And like D.Dan's standalone records, his RA Podcast finds room for sweetness—the intermittent peal of an open clap, the steady ripening of a chord—while ultimately emphasising the beauty of function and form over flair.

@ddan-sounds

Find the full interview and tracklist at ra.co/podcast/994

RA.994 D.Dan

**TRACKLIST**
Intro
Danny Daze - Anti Gravity Machine (.VRIL Remix) 
.VRIL - In Via (Rene Wise Remix)
.VRIL - Demo1
.VRIL - Headlock 
.VRIL - Miami Shadow Aliens
.VRIL - Moon Tax (Shokh Remix)
KAS:ST - Nepal (.VRIL Remix) - MATERIA
Rødhåd & .VRIL - Target Line (.VRIL Remix) - WSNWG
.VRIL - Polizeigeist - International Day Off
.VRIL - Omniverse (His Master's Voice Remix2)
Mathew Jonson & .VRIL - Live Jam
.VRIL - Pumped Out Kids - WSNWG
Binary Algorithms - Register # 04 (.VRIL Remix) - Furatena
Kmyle - Kinetical (.VRIL Remix) - Kmyle Rec
.VRIL - Torus XXXII (Verraco Remix)
Philipp Stoffel - Akzent (.VRIL Remix) - Akte
Mathame - Never Give Up (.VRIL Remix) - B1 Recordings
.VRIL - Schaltkreis Wassermann
Cecilia Tosh & .VRIL - Fire In The River - Nachtdigital
Wata Igarashi & .VRIL - Track 1
.VRIL - Demo2 
JANEIN - Here & There feat. Olga Phage (.VRIL Remix) - SEELEN
.VRIL - Kintsugi

Label infos attached if released, all other tracks are unreleased.



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#SlamRadio - 651 - .VRIL

Track extracted from Various Artists 'United to Resist'.

Snippets:
https://soundcloud.com/bronx-sector/unitedtoresist-snippets

Bandcamp:
bronxsector.bandcamp.com/album/united-to-resist

Artwork by Bronx Sector

Mastering by Alessandro Ferraro/Dremnes

Released March 17, 2025

United to Resist

Magnetismo

Joey_M - Magnetismo

Ciao tutti ~ my latest NTS episode is live ✨
À la carte ~

🪐 Cosmic update ~ The Sun exits watery Cancer for fiery Leo, lighting up our power to express, feel, and create from deep within. Venus enters Virgo and whispers: devotion is the new romance, and rituals are love in action. As the Aquarius Full Moon nears, we tune into the frequency of our future tribe 🫂

🎹🪩💫 Fireground presents “Marea Live” ~ a special live set flowing with electric piano, synths, groove, and soul. Think Napoli meets Berlin, past meets future. So much raw warmth and emotional power ~ I’m truly honoured to share this with you.
Grazie mille Angela & Daniele for this stunning journey.

Art by MeteFYI 💎
~ with love & gratitude ~
GiGi 🧿💓

NTS GiGi FM PRESENTS FIREGROUND LIVE 16.07.2025

Vinicius Honorio is the 448th guest of our original HATE Podcast series.

Vinicius Honorio delivers a raw and driving 2-hour mix, built on deep grooves, hypnotic rhythms, and carefully layered textures. Featuring unreleased material, collaborations, and reworks, this set captures the heart of his sound: intense, emotional, and always in motion.

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With his Malta debut just around the corner, DJ Tool drops into the Glitch podcast with a no-frills, 85-minute session showcasing the sound he's been championing lately. The Mala Junta co-founder brings a heavy dose of raw, modern techno: loop-driven, drum-forward, and laced with hypnotic tension. Rough around the edges in all the right ways.

@dj-tool

Glitch Podcast 107 / DJ Tool

This was maybe my fourth time ever playing techno, and it felt incredible to be given the trust to close the main room at Zero Chill, NYC's hottest rave. After nearly 20 years of DJing—mostly known for house, sometimes ambient—it was a thrill to stretch into a harder, faster prime-time slot for a massive, raging warehouse crowd. Pride 2025 called for a disco-flavored last hour to honor our origins and ancestors.

I’ve never had so many people DM me after a set, and it’s got me inspired to keep exploring this direction in the techno landscape.

Special thanks to my dears Dirty Daddy Don and Physical Therapy for lacing me with some tracks for the night. It takes a village.

RA.994 D.Dan

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