something different

friday at sustain-release 2021, 12-2am. thank you karen nicole for the photo :)

thank you @sustain-release-nyc

livwutang @ Sustain-Release Year 7

Recording of Batu B2B Donato Dozzy (the secret B2B) at Aura, Draaimolen Festival 2023, Day 1.

Batu B2B Donato Dozzy at Draaimolen Festival 2023

"Dive into a two-hour voyage curated by Eric Cloutier, weaving through ambient, downtempo, droney techno, trippy rollers, warm dub - a compilation of rare selections for an unparalleled auditory journey."

Thank you again to @ogazon and @rinsefm for this opportunity to melt your brains.

Rinse FM for Ogazón

Madben continue dans sa lancée avec une sélection fraîche des nouveautés techno pour ce mois d'octobre.

Madben - Tsugi Radio - Octobre 2024

"For our set at the festival this year, we challenged ourselves to play tracks with a Scandinavian connection—whether through the artist, remixer, or label. These tracks also echoed the music that first inspired our love for clubbing and DJ’ing. This recording captures a sunny Saturday afternoon at the Aura stage, where the vibe was truly impeccable.” - Martinou

Mama Snake b2b Martinou at Draaimolen Festival 2024

Recording of CCL & Objekt's set at Dekmantel Selectors 2024.

CCL & Objekt at Dekmantel Selectors 2024

Polygonia (House Set) | Blitz, Munich 2025

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

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pi pi pi  - deep creep - 23 Apr 2025

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Objet Personnel w/ softburn (Klympt) 13.05.25

We linked up with the king, Donato Dozzy, at the iconic Brancaleone club in his hometown in Rome for a 5-hour set.

Donato Dozzy | Boiler Room: Rome

RUNAWAY

Euphoria

Arnaud Rebotini from Black Strobe puts the needle on the records in this week’s RA Podcast.

RA.028 Arnaud Rebotini

This week Swedish techno artist Adam Beyer weighs in with a peaktime techno workout.

RA.030 Adam Beyer

This is a mix by Barker, Berlin-based music producer, that was featured on our last podcast: Sam Barker and David Pearce on Art, Paradise Engineering, and Existential Hope (With Guest Mix). We hope that you'll find inspiration and well-being in this soundscape. 

You can find the page for this podcast here: https://futureoflife.org/2020/06/24/sam-barker-and-david-pearce-on-art-paradise-engineering-and-existential-hope-featuring-a-guest-mix/

Tracklist: 

Delta Rain Dance - 1
John Beltran - A Different Dream
Rrose - Horizon
Alexandroid - lvpt3
Datassette - Drizzle Fort
Conrad Sprenger - Opening
JakoJako -  Wavetable#1
Barker & David Goldberg - #3
Barker & Baumecker - Organik (Intro)
Anthony Linell - Fractal Vision
Ametsub - Skydroppin’
Ladyfish\Mewark - Comfortable
JakoJako & Barker - [unreleased]

Where to follow Sam Barker :

Soundcloud: @voltek
Twitter: twitter.com/samvoltek
Instagram: www.instagram.com/samvoltek/
Website: www.voltek-labs.net/
Bandcamp: sambarker.bandcamp.com/

Where to follow Sam's label, Ostgut Ton:

Soundcloud: @ostgutton-official
Facebook: www.facebook.com/Ostgut.Ton.OFFICIAL/
Twitter: twitter.com/ostgutton
Instagram: www.instagram.com/ostgut_ton/
Bandcamp: ostgut.bandcamp.com/

This podcast is possible because of the support of listeners like you. If you found this conversation to be meaningful or valuable, consider supporting it directly by donating at futureoflife.org/donate. Contributions like yours make these conversations possible.

RA.982 Barker

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