EleCTro

Recorded January 2012
Part 2: heliopoliselectropolis

Photo: Fabian Hammerl

2012 ElectroPhysics 10 year anniversary Part 2

AFRODEUTSCHE joins us for the Saturday-Monday edition of our Birthday extravaganza (15th-17th October 2022). Tuck into a very special set we’ve lifted out of the vault ahead of time –  an impactful 2 hours in Room 1 from 9th October 2021 where she played alongside Helena Hauff, The Hacker, Alienata and more.

fabric 23rd Birthday tickets: https://bit.ly/23rd-birthday-fabric

005 - AFRODEUTSCHE - Recorded live from fabric

The UTDF podcast presents the recording of Zenker Brothers euphoric DJ set straight from Up To Date Festival Secret Location 2023. Best-selected dance tracks, cross-genres fast ride through rapidly changing sounds. What a night it was! Let's go back there for a minute (or 2hrs!). 

Join us at Electrum Up To Date Festival 2024 in Białystok! See you 30.05-02.06.24 🌞

Podcast UTDF prezentuje nagranie euforycznego DJ setu duetu Zenker Brothers prosto z To Date Festival Secret Location 2023. Najlepiej wyselekcjonowane tracki, szybka podróż międzygatunkowa przez gwałtownie zmieniające się dźwięki. Cóż to była za noc! Wróćmy tam na minutę (lub 2 godziny).

Zapraszamy na Electrum Up To Date Festival 2024 w Białymstoku! Do zobaczenia 30.05-02.06.24 🌞

Recorded @ UTDF 2023
Mix / mastering @ Coastline Studio / Coastline Northern Cuts

UTDF Podcast #6: Zenker Brothers

(tracklist below) 

This is part 1 of 3 of the recording from my set at Nowadays Nonstop on April 7, 2024.

I played from 9am-3pm, between JASSS and Bearcat, and it was one of the most creatively fulfilling sets I can remember playing – one of those sets where the audience, environment, atmosphere, tech setup, phase of the moon, whatever, all somehow lined up for a full 6 hours. And happily, the recording is maybe my favorite I’ve managed to capture to date. Huge thanks to Kristin for inviting me and to everyone who was there that morning.


TRACKLIST – PART 1 – 9am – 11am

Moritz Von Oswald – Opaco
La Fe – Alta
Xcor – transmission
Levl – Nullpunkt #4
DB1 – B5
Es.Tereo – Temple of Ra
Skeptical, dBridge – Poor & Poverty
Last Life – Hope Killer
Metrist – GMFGR
Fracture & Deft – I Just
Reeko – Rooted
Massive Attack – Inertia Creeps (Floating On Dubwise)
Overlook – Phantom
Scotch Rolex and Shackleton – The Eleventh Voyage
Cortex of Light – Key Hall Mix
Sote – Kangaroo Court
Meo & Steve – Global Village (Funk Version)
Ali – Abyadh Aswad
Kalua feat. Dj Brahms – Brain
Hysterical Love Project – Boyracer
Scorn – Exodus
El Alfa, El Mayor Clasico, Chael Produciendo – Galapin
Osheyack & Nahash – Bait (Florentino Remix)
Material – Reality Dub
Golden Bug – Tokoyo No Kuni (Wolf Müller Remix)
Tammo Hesselink – Work Work Work
Robo-Gnostic – Ghost Rider
Sea Of Disillusions – Voodoo Heaven
Om – Brother That (Tribal Om Acid Remix)
Mosca – Thin That Blood Down
Timeblind – Come Back Wicked (Original Mix)
Pluralist – Body
Einstürzende Neubauten – Yü-gung (Fütter mein Ego)
Piezo – Skinner
Hypna feat. Warrior Queen – Rolling Deep
Kouslin – Michael
Siu Mata – Vaalbara
TEACHI feat. カクマクシャカ – Esther
vromb – emphase
Two Dogs in a House – Dogs DJ Tool
Neon – Voices
The Knife – We Share Our Mothers's Health
Unknown Artist – Spider Crab [Sacred Stones 01]
Ssiege – Drama Lover


Artwork by Brodie Kaman

Live at Nowadays 7 April 2024

Live at Nowadays 7 April 2024 - Part 1

Regis and Function's first mix in over 10 years is a unique paean to Silent Servant, heavy on unreleased material.

When it came time for RA to compile our Albums of the 2010s, one record with a tauntingly limited availability of 500 copies was never in doubt: Sandwell District's era-defining 'Feed-Forward'. Encompassing Karl O'Connor (Regis), Peter Sutton (Female), David Sumner (Function) and Juan Mendez (Silent Servant), Sandwell District had the underground in a vice grip for over a decade.

The collective imploded in 2013, with Sumner and O'Connor's relationship appearing beyond repair. And yet, an unlikely second phase is here, featuring imminent comeback LP 'End Beginnings' and their return to the RA Podcast after 16 years. In 2023, the trio of Function, Regis and Silent Servant had been performing and laying down new material before the latter's shock death last January. It's in the shadow of loss that this unique mix was forged.

Founded in 2002 as a spiritual sister to seminal Downwards, Sandwell truly began to hit its straps in the late '00s, as shadow-stalking cuts sliced through clubland orthodoxy like a switchblade. In parallel, the label's artwork—a noir recombination of Burroughs cut-ups, DIY zines and arthouse amour that Silent Servant made his own—helped fortify a movement which placed an aesthetic premium on grit, grain and sadism.

By the early 2010s, this fixation on the dark arts had utterly permeated the mood inside techno's masonic temples. Labels like Blackest Ever Black, Stroboscopic Artefacts, Avian and Modern Love were in their pomp, razorwire legends like Severed Heads and Chris & Cosey benefited from second winds, and it was briefly a jailable offence to not have a press photo in black and white. 'Feed-Forward' was the exceptional coronating statement.

RA.978 features a stack of unheard recordings from each of the trio, as well as close allies Stefanie Parnow and Tropic of Cancer, while also gathering many of Silent Servant's all-time favourite songs, including Psychic TV, Grace Jones and Galaxie 500. It's a strikingly vulnerable listen, one without many parallels on the Podcast. We're glad to run it. – Gabriel Szatan

Read more and find the tracklist here: ra.co/podcast/978
Read our new feature with Sandwell District here: https://ra.co/features/4426

RA.978 Sandwell District

Forward thinking underground music from across the musical spectrum. Techno and house alongside selections from more experimental styles and sounds.  

Pariah - 03 July 2025

Ciao tutti 💖
So happy to share the recording from my last set at Open Ground from December 2024. 

It was an emotional journey ~ I wanted to tell a story of diving into underwater dream lands, where spirit guides and glitchy creatures meet and send us messages from the other side... where sound takes over the brain and opens something in the heart and body.
I waved through many genres ~ ambient, jungle, electro, dubstep, drill, jazz, techno and the wonky in-between. It felt like I had the chance to express a fuller spectrum of who I am as a music lover. 🙏

That night, I had the honour of opening for the legend Surgeon ~ someone who’s deeply inspired my path since the very beginning. Sharing that moment with him and connecting was just wow. 🥹

Open Ground truly is one of the most special places on earth ~ the care, the sound, the freedom, the community, the crew… just perfection. 

So grateful to be invited back this saturday ! (26.07.2025) 
Don’t skip ~ come sweat and feel with us 🌀💎💦

~ with love & gratitude ~ 
GiGi🧜‍♀️

GiGi FM at Freifeld / Open Ground 14.12.2024

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'Tri-gate' finds Sync 24 hooking up with UK techno noisenik @truss for a muscular electro workout with bass weighty enough to grab you by the throat, and dizzying 808 breaks to put your head in a spin. It’s a paranoiac soundscape with vocal smears and interference, driving you through a futuristic urban darkness in the way only good electro can, without ever being formulaic or predictable. The old cliche is true – if it ain't broke don't fix it, but to that we might add: just keep pushing it to its limits. Truss and Sync 24 are certainly doing that.

'Ten Year Electronics' is out soon on @cultivated-electronics.

Pre-order: bit.ly/2iyOoS1

Ten Year Electronics

Premiere: Sync 24 & Truss – Tri-gate [Cultivated Electronics]

Polydeuces

Truss (electro set)at Unpolished 2018

Umwelt at Unpolished 2018

Jensen Interceptor at Unpolished 2019

Jensen Interceptor threw down just over an hour of tough electro as he stepped up in Zerostrasse for RA's first tunnel party at Dimensions Festival 2019.

@jensen-interceptor
@dimensionsfestival

RA Live - 29.08.19 - Jensen Interceptor, Dimensions Festival, Croatia

It's impossible to talk about the sound of DjRUM without using the word cinematic. Whatever he does, it has a feeling of grand importance, widescreen elegance and moving emotion that elevates it way above a dance floor soundtrack. Throughout the course of his career, the UK artist has drawn on downtempo, blurred the lines between drum & bass and dubstep and always imbued his music with spoken words snippets, piano and chamber instruments. His Portrait With Firewood album was a real high-water mark in 2018, and last year his latest outing on R&S once again managed to draw on every aspect of electronic music and come up with something all his own. 

His mix for us this week is a perfect ethereal rave that finds plenty of beauty in the sparse rhythms he draws on from the worlds of garage, techno and drum & bass. There is a delicacy and elegance throughout, even when the beats hit hard and fast as they do at the overdriven and manic mid point. The amen breaks come thick and fast after that, but eventually melt away to propulsive ambient soundscapes that suspend you in time and space. Blissful.

Dekmantel Podcast

Dekmantel Podcast 267 - Djrum

Open for booking

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Noel Rückwärts and Can‘t Commit - Yin and Yang - water and fire.

DJ Can‘t Commit delivers what it takes to get the blood cooking and the ceiling dripping. While he can’t commit to one genre - because why should one - his commitment to serving fresh and spicy sounds is unequivocal. 

Noel Rückwärts positions himself with a more relaxed, funky and playful sound. Equally unbound to genre as Can’t Commit, his focus is on emotionally rich track selection to be enjoyed on the dance floor and other settings as well.

RA Live - 29.08.19 - Jensen Interceptor, Dimensions Festival, Croatia

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