Enter the wormhole with one of the techno artists we're most excited about in 2025.

Born in Osaka and now based in Tokyo, DJ MARIA. joins a decorated lineage of Japan's psychedelic elite, cut from a similarly explorative cloth as Wata Igarashi, Haruka and esoteric icons ¥ØU$UK€ ¥UK1MAT$U and DJ Nobu. This nerdy sanctum of deep techno is a notoriously hard world to break into: only the very best make the grade. DJ MARIA.'s head-spinning sets emphasise why she's already part of the club firmament at home, and is now in the midst of a global breakthrough.

Her trademark is tapestries of acid, trance and techno that strike a perfect balance between vibrancy, impact and restraint. She bit the bug through a teenage discovery of DVDs showing legendary psytrance raves like Solstice and Vision Quest, yet it wasn't until 2014 that she started DJing, balancing gigs with shifts at Tokyo's Face Records and, as of late, motherhood.

Today, as well as producing and touring venues such as FOLD and Bassiani, she helps run two boutique forest festivals—Moment and Transcendence—both of which play a big part in upholding Japan's storied techno tradition. DJ MARIA. has reached these heights principally because of her exceptional talent as a DJ, which is on full display on this week's RA Podcast.

The two-hour mix is pure manna for psychedelic techno heads, though we're confident the depth of feeling, subtle pacing and seamless stitching will lure in fans from across the electronic spectrum. RA.971 is a total treasure—the latest wow moment from an artist destined to have a career littered with them.

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RA.971 DJ MARIA.

Tracklist + Q&A: https://bit.ly/43lOJzO

@djbone debuts five new tracks made exclusively for his Mixmag mix, going heavy on Detroit-style techno.

"For this mix, I actually did something really special. I’m premiering the remixes from my Subject Detroit compilation, and I’ve also created five new tracks specifically to play in this mix. There are a couple of other tracks from some amazingly talented artists in there as well. The focus is an uptempo, danceable, but super funky techno mix – not sleepy, not slow – just Detroit style. That’s what I love to do. It’s got to be funky, but it has to have that pace and danceability."

The Mix 060: DJ Bone

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The German artist shows us his strange side.

Read more: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=524

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Luke Slater

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Rich, psychedelic techno.

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Read more: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=617

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RA.617 Wata Igarashi

Download the set here: 
http://corenews.me/blawan-essential-mix-2018-05-19/
Tracklist over here:
http://tracklists.thomaslaupstad.com/blawan-essential-mix-2018-05-19-tracklist-playlist/

Blawan - Essential Mix 2018-05-19

“The last couple of months been really emotional for me and I definitely see that affecting the track list for this mix. For me it’s almost unbearable to listen to gloomy music when feeling down, so in this mix I ended up focusing on the softer side of the dance music I play, and a bit more colorful and optimistic than in my earlier mixes." @courtesy707

Tracklist: https://mixmag.net/feature/in-session-courtesy

More exclusive music

In Session: Courtesy

'Surgeon - Food For Thought' 
63 min.  320kbps 143.9MB

Recorded January 2004, Food For Thought changed the parameters of the techno DJ mix.
For years there has only a 128kbps version available that had been subjected to over zealous 'mastering'. 
Here for your pleasure is a 320kbps version encoded from the original DAT recording of the set.

Tracklist-

Shiver - Subsonic Soundscape
Autechre - Clipper
Surgeon - Exhibit
Scorn - Twitcher (Surgeon DNA remake)
Liaisons Dangereuses - Peut Etre ... Pas
AFX - Mighty Force
Monolake - Polaroid
Photek - Trans 7
Renegade Soundwave - Phantom
DHS - The House Of God (DHS remix)
Monolake - Cern
Autechre - Second Scepe
Tony Rohr - Lofishizzy
65D Mavericks - Earthbound (Surgeon remix)
Cane - Fall
Curve - Falling Free (Aphex Twin remix)
Dom and Rymetyme - Iceberg
Horace Andy - Money Money
Monolake - Stratosphere
British Murder Boys - Live Ritual No.1
Autechre - Second Bad Vilbel
Phantom Power - Can D
Nitzer Ebb - Smear Body
Meat Beat Manifesto - Mindstream (Aphex Twin remix)
Autechre - Cipater (Surgeon remake)
Denis Rusnak - Working Sister
British Murder Boys - Don't Give Way To Fear
Ed Rush, Optical and Fierce - Alien Girl
Autechre - Second Peng
Surgeon - Shaper Of The Unknown

Surgeon - Food For Thought

Recording of Regis & Veronica Vadicka's set at Dekmantel Festival 2018.

RA.524 Boys Noize

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