Interview: https://truantsblog.com/2024/truancy-volume-329-buttechno/ ‎

Soundcloud: @buttechno

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Truancy Volume 329: buttechno

Another Barker masterclass.

Sam Barker asks more from techno. The artist known simply as Barker is one of electronic music's most consistently conscientious and curious producers, challenging listeners to question the norms we accept about our shared culture—whether it's the music that fills the room, the process behind it, or the purpose of the space itself.

British-born yet based in Berlin since 2007, Barker forged a connection to many of the city's leading institutions, including Ostgut Ton, and over the course of a long and fruitful relationship, he carved out one of the more singular paths on the club and label's roster.

Not one for orthodoxy, Barker challenged four-to-the-floor techno framework in favor of melodic experimentation. By decentering or completely stripping away the typical trappings of kick drums and claps, his productions are both light and immersive, buoyant in low-end presence and shimmering in weightless space.

Six years after Utility, his sophomore album Stochastic Drift arrives this month. Shaped by pandemic-driven reinvention, it burrows deeper into harmonic twists and freeform drift. "At some point I became conscious of the process," he wrote of his latest album. "The only thing you can do is embrace the uncertainty and see every change as a potential positive.”

Consider his RA Podcast another sequel. Like his much-beloved 2019 mix for FACT, it's a collage of live recordings and a fitting expression of the artist's own internal spring. RA.982 radiates wide-eyed optimism: percussion cloaked in foggy, swirling pads and trance-like chords, neatly synched in synthetic glimmers. 

All in all, it's an hour of music crafted for contemplation, collective euphoria, or heads-down epiphany—or for that matter, any moment, really, its emotive depth seemingly endless.

@voltek

Find the tracklist and Q&A at ra.co/podcast/982

RA.982 Barker

Monthly inter-dimensional techno and rhythm transmissions from GiGi FM.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/gigi-fm/episodes/gigi-fm-23rd-april-2025

GiGi FM presents Efdemin 230425

Twice does not lead to a tradition - but it feels like playing for @swimsupply 🏊 . Whenever the community organisation focusing on lysergic sounds calls, I am more than happy to meet beloved Ellen, Mark Lando and Tesdorpf and to play for their fine events.

So here is a 2h recording from my gig at Wurm in Basel / Switzerland a few months ago where I met and played with fantastic @sellyourmania and @sprtsmanship and its a rare past forward 🦦💃.

15.03.25 Philipp Otterbach @Swim, Basel / Switzerland

๑ begins with a deep hour of masterful and imaginative storytelling, performed live by @templerat at the Siamese Twins label night in March 2025.

แนะนำซีรีส์มิกซ์ Mantra ที่เชิญศิลปินจากเครือข่ายครอบครัวของเราในอดีต ปัจจุบัน และอนาคตมาร่วมเล่าเรื่องผ่านเสียงดนตรี ๑ เริ่มต้นด้วยชั่วโมงแห่งการเล่าเรื่องที่ลึกซึ้งและเปี่ยมจินตนาการ โดย @templerat แบบไลฟ์สด

Mantra

Mantra ๑ Temple Rat (Live Set)

London & Liverpool duo Dual Monitor join our series with a stunning showcase of their hypnotic and heavyweight sound, a recipe they’ve all but perfected through releases on SPE:C, Hardline, Rinse and so many more to come. A full-spectrum mixture of their wide ranging influences builds to eye-watering effect, a parallax vision of dynamic rhythms and deepest hues, comprising work from so many label favorites and a hefty dose of unreleased material from the duo. Thanks Fliss & Zebb!

@dualmonitor

Artwork by Angelina Nikolayeva.

Sure Thing Mix 143: Dual Monitor

https://www.instagram.com/claywwilson 
https://www.instagram.com/iamthespiral

SENSORIA with Ken Meier @ The Lot Radio 06-19-2025

Just some late night pushing faders and pulling buttons.

ㄷㅋㅌㅂㄹㅁㄴ - Defractured

Light speed techno and electro.

@galaxian

Resident Advisor podcast

RA.584 Galaxian

A storming old-school electro session.

@cultivated-electronics

Read more: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=614

RA.614 Sync 24

Resident Advisor