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Nate Pizano - vocals, guitar, bass, samples, synths, lyrics, producer

Released on November 3, 2025

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Italian dj/producer and label owner,  Ràkale takes us back in time with his new track  'Adjusting Code' out on February 14, 2019  through his self titled label “RÀKALE” .

Rakale experiments crossing funk, broken beat and techno to deliver this 80’s inspire track that is sure to set any dance floor on fire. A variety of pop synths carry this whole track giving it the life and energy it needs to give you goosebumps as you listen. 

Early support from heavy hitter such as Ame, Eagles & Butterflies, and Fabrizio Mammarella.

Safe to say that this will be roaming track will be making appearances on many dance floors around the world in 2019. 

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PREMIERE: Ràkale - Adjusting Code [Ràkale]

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About a month before Sid Le Rock’s longplayer ‘Scenic Route’ is going to hit the stores, the first single from the album will be out on hafendisko. 

‘Slowpoke’ comes with a defining remix from Dark-Disco and Indie-Dance sorcerer Cabaret Nocturne. Order now >https://hafendisko.lnk.to/hfndisk52

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"With the deep and intense dance-floor heater ‘Slowpoke’, the Berlin-based and Canada-born Sid Le Rock, who has been bossing the Indie-Electronica scene for 15 years now, takes a dive into rather slow spheres of dance music but doesn’t let go of the drive.

Sid Le Rock already left hallmarks under his monikers Pan/Tone and Gringo Grinders, also established the vinyl imprint Cereal/Killer and founded Beachcoma Recordings in 2009. 

The straight in-your-face beat of ‘Slowpoke’ is driven by a whipping synthesizer and builds on the massiveness of the steadily pushing bassline. His vocals along the track create a great mystical suspense.

Adding a slapped e-bass and dramatic wave-table bass hits, Raphaël de Sauvage aka Cabaret Nocturne goes heavy on the groove on the flip side. With successful releases on Nein, Factor City, Roam, My Favorite Robot and Thompson’s Beachcoma Recordings, Cabaret Nocturne is a household name in the scene.

Artwork by Alex Solman."

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Slowpoke

PREMIERE: Sid Le Rock - Slowpoke (Original Mix) (Edit) [hafendisko]

A dance floor effective tapestry from raw layers of vocally propelled new wave, post-punk and synth pop. As the newly-founded project by Tilburg-based DJ, producer and graphic designer, Raynor de Groot, Coloray infuses powerful, unpolished sound aesthetics with relentless energy. . Following a very strong bundle of releases for Eagles & Butterflies' Art Imitating Life, Atomnation, Innervisions and his own Intercept, it's a pleasure welcoming Raynor into the mix series as he shares the musical narrative of his Coloray project through a DJ mix for the very first time.

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It’s taken @yotamavni a little while to get to his debut album; almost a decade, really, since his debut 12”, “That’s What The World Needs”, on California’s Seasons Limited imprint. During that time, the Tel-Aviv based producer has refined his productions, tightening the groove and paring everything back to bare essentials; the power in an Avni cut is its combination of piston-pulse propulsion and a deep, but gently applied, musicality. This combination gives his techno productions added heft on the dance floor, but also a lyrical sensibility that places him squarely in a tradition of techno legends who somehow manage to make the four-to-the-floor a space of poetic intensity, of rigorous joy.

Avni’s been on Kompakt’s radar for a while, first appearing on the label last year, with his Speicher contribution, “Mañana Mañana”. (“Track For Agoria”, from that EP, also appeared on Total 19.) The connection immediately made sense – dance music that managed to feel both lush and streamlined across the same great gasp of late-night energy. But with Yotam Avni Was Here, he’s taken a huge leap. After a brief intro, Avni sets his stall with “Beyond The Dance”, which features slow-moving vocal melisma over sculptural, melting tonalities, a tintinnabulating, harpsichord-like two-note phrase pacing out the track. Then “It Was What It Was” comes into view, its strip-light textures suddenly placed into sharp relief by a muted trumpet figure that hangs in the air, melancholy and pensive.

It’s no surprise, at this point, to discover that Avni’s inspirations for Was Here took in the histories of both techno and jazz. “I wanted to try something more around Detroit Techno meets ECM,” he reflects, when explaining the motivating forces behind the album. “Carl Craig’s Just Another Day EP and Kenny Larkin’s Keys, Strings, Tambourines came out during my high school years and had huge impact on me.” Avni’s also appeared on Transmat compilations, and remixed artists like the Midwest’s Titonton Duvanté, and Orlando Voorn – the latter particularly important for the way he connected the Detroit and Amsterdam techno scenes – his career path is marked by ongoing connections, direct and indirect, to Detroit’s storied history.

“I always wanted to go back to those hi-tek soul roots on a full album,” he continues, and he’s definitely exploring that terrain here, with the sky-strafing brass on “Free Darius Now”, morse-code keys on “Vortex” and glitchy, microhouse tickles of “Know Hope” all contributing to an oblique narrative that seems to arc across Was Here – one fleshed out by guest musicians, who include dop and Gerog Levin on vocals, and trumpets by Greg Paulus (of Beirut and No Regular Play). The cover art makes the jazz connection explicit, riffing on the text-based, minimal design of The Modern Jazz Quartet’s 1955 album for Prestige, Concorde. But the way Avni has gathered around him both inspiring musicians and intriguing reference points makes me think of his broader career as well, the collectivism behind his AVADON nights in Tel-Aviv, his many and wide-ranging releases on labels like Innervisions, Hotflush and Stroboscopic Artefacts, and the openness of his productions, which seem to be all about the multiple, the possibilities of cross-pollination, of fusing this with that, of adding and subtracting, all under the pulsating thumbprint of techno.

Good things, after all, are worth waiting for.

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Yotam Avni - Beyond The Dance

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Two decades. Twenty years. Twenty compilations. Over 400 tracks. Over two days of total playing time and countless coloured dots. If someone would have told us in 1999, when we put together TOTAL 1 that this would turn into one of the longest standing compilation series in techno world we would have laughed out loud. But here we are – in the year 2020 which will probably go down in history as the most difficult period ever for club culture. But we won’t stop doing what we’re doing. Music is our oxygen. We’ll dance together soon again.

The TOTAL series has always been like KOMPAKT’s yearbook and to say it with the late Frank Sinatra: It was a very good year. Our family of artists delivered a strong heterogeneous mix of uplifting sounds, from the lush reveries of ROBAG WRUHME and SOELA to the stark primetime bangers of MARC ROMBOY or ANNA & KITTIN and everything in between. Notable new entries to our crew are the Londoner KIWI with his wonderfully careless “Hello Echo” that picks up the camp disco vibes Justus Köhncke made a staple in our repertoire. Amsterdam’s DAVID DOUGLAS delivers an appetizer for a full course meal. His quirky pop approach sits comfortably between fellow dutchmen WEVAL’s abstract beats and AGENTS OF TIME’s opulent Italo Disco. YOTAM AVNI blends Detroit techno with new age jazz that reminisces the sound of ECM artists like Jan Garbarek or John Surman. The man with the hat, KÖLSCH also picks up jazzier notes in his very own big room style. Youngblood JONATHAN KASPAR appears twice, fortifying his status as one of the hottest beat smiths of our hometown Cologne. TOTAL wouldn’t be TOTAL without our permanent staff present in full force. As per tradition, KOMPAKT’s founding fathers, VOIGT & VOIGT, JÜRGEN PAAPE, JÖRG BURGER, MICHAEL MAYER as well as our Berlin outpost SASCHA FUNKE all deliver exclusive gems that also feature on Total 20’s double vinyl edition.

May TOTAL 20 become your trustworthy companion in these uncertain times.

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