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Techno has been reclaimed and refined in the last few years. For Ghanaian-American Discwoman associate Akua (@akua_b), that means a deep dedication to bringing forth narratives about the genre's history. It's about original, authentic and rebellious old school values of the sort that Underground Resistance defined so early on. It's about breaking modern expectations with a fresh sense of attitude. Her recontextualisation of techno centres its long lineage for contemporary audiences. All this most often plays out in Akua's blazing sets, most often during the late-night and early morning hours of the clubs around her New York City hometown. They find her transmute 90s nostalgia while connecting the dots between past and present. "Playing fast feels cathartic," she says, "and helps me deal with the nostalgia I have for a time that I never got to experience but remember and connect with so fondly.”

This week's mix is a testament to that: it starts with 1994's 'Global Warning' from the late great K-Hand and goes on to cover decades of history at warp speed. There are frenetic layers of percussion and hammering kick drums, bouncing bass lines and arresting rave synths all threaded together into something hugely powerful and muscular. It is only a DJ with Akua's sense of control that can serve up a chaotic collision of sound in such a compelling way.

Tracklist
K-Hand - Global Warning [Warp, 1994]
Voltage 9 - Untitled B1 - Candema [Synewave, 1994]
Drax (Thomas P. Heckmann) -  Search [Trope Recordings, 1998]
Mike Dearborn - Warning [Majesty, 1994]
Gene Hunt - Juno 106 [Contaminated Muzik, 1998]
NYCO - Plasticity [ESP Collective, 2021]
DJ Shufflemaster - 808 Cosmetics [Self-Released, 2018] 
Mike Dunn - Damn You All [Trax Records, 1994]
DJ Powerout - Lift [Synewave, 1995]
DJ Slugo - Taris Sleeps Wild [Dance Mania, 1995]
DJ Rush - Control Yourself [Djax-Up-Beats, 1999]  
Fuzz Face (DJ Hyperactive + Woody McBride) - New Ones [Communique, 1996] 
DJ Slip - Bushwick Birds [Kanzleramt, 2001]
DJ Hyperactive - Get In [4 Track Recordings, 2008]
Joey Beltram - Caliber [Warp, 1994]
Surgeon - THX-1139 (Level) [1996]
Creeper - Spoke [Cluster Records, 1997]
DJ Jes - True Honesty [Contaminated Muzik, 1998]
Tevatron - Molekule [Re-load Records, 1998]
Jana Clemen - Momentum [Convex, 2001]
Decoder - Populations [Self-Released, 2021]
Unknown Force - Internal Drive [430 West, 1995]
Bios - Basic Black [Black Nation, 1998]
DJ Apollo - Hooligan Stomp [Head In The Clouds, 1996]
DJ Genderfluid - Dirty Funker [Wet Trax, 2021]
Woody McBride + DJ T-1000 -  Test Three [Generator Records, 1995]
Fumiya Tanaka - Micro One [Torema, 1995]
Max Watts - Ichi 3 [ESP Collective, 2021] 
DJ Rashad - Acid Bit (Feat. Addison Groove) [Hyperdub, 2013]

Tracklist

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As the year winds down, let loose with Lolsnake and her entry into the Crack Mix series.

Storming in at just over an hour, it’s a “deep journey exploring the mood of rolling into the winter months” from the Berlin-based DJ and visual artist, who is also the founder of queer platform and event series Weeeirdos. Expect scintillating techno and melodies bright enough to rival any festive season decor.

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ANTIVERSE 26Nov22: DJ TOOL - Carbone club Paris

Mama Snake is the reptilian alias of Sara Svanholm, a Copenhagen-based DJ/Producer whose slithering beats are every bit as cunning as the name suggests. She’s an integral part of her city’s scene and a card-carrying member of collaborative ‘mixed media channel’ Amniote Editions alongside names like Celestial Trax, Hadone and D.Dan. Her full-blooded sound leaves no room for misinterpretation, it is thrilling, primal and overwhelming in the vein of the most compelling main stage techno. There’s a raw practicality to the music too, perhaps a function of her second career as a medical surgeon; Mama Snake wants to create a communal feeling through her work, and there’s the human touch. These rumbling rhythms might sound formidable, but they’re there to bring people together and get both bodies and progressive ideas moving. Bassiani Podcast 163 is pure, unadulterated, percussive power, 80 minutes of coiling loops and white-hot basslines from the Denmark-based techno matriarch.

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Recording of Blawan b2b JASSS at Draaimolen Festival 2022.

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Blawan b2b JASSS at Draaimolen Festival 2022

Last weekend Harmony joined forces with the hereandthere crew to put together a 17-hour-long warehouse party in Depo Lihovar, Prague. We are still glowing after this one, the crowd and music were really something special. 

As the sun started to creep through the windows onto the foggy dance floor, Harmony’s Yan united with hereandthere’s Pink Concrete for an epic 3-hour b2b. We knew this moment would be too good not to record, so we made sure to capture it so we could all relive this beautiful morning together. 

Pink Concrete’s techno rhythms matched perfectly with Yan’s groovy energy, and we have to say that listening to their set again takes us back to the feeling of joy we had from this collaboration.

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@yanmmxiv

29-04-2023
07:00-10:00 AM

Harmony Rec.ordings | Pink Concrete b2b Yan @ Harmony x hereandthere "Weekender"

Welcome @ryanjamesford. Dj & producer from Canada based in Berlin.

Artwork : Timothée Boubay // www.instagram.com/timothee_boubay/

KALT Podcast #3.5 // Ryan James Ford

Dirty Fuc Mix

Local hero JEANS and Mirror Zone's Spekki Webu brought that distinct flavour of The Hague to Resident Advisor's stage at The Crave Festival.

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RA Live - 01.06.19 - JEANS + Spekki Webu, The Crave Festival, Netherlands

Breaks, techno, hardcore, bass—Skee Mask tore through genres with ease during RA’s takeover of The Void at Dimensions Festival 2019.

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RA Live - 01.06.19 - JEANS + Spekki Webu, The Crave Festival, Netherlands

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