New York party Merge is often described as a queer techno extravaganza. Over the past two years, it's built a loyal community from the ground up while integrating everything from high-energy trance to disorienting acid into its rave repertoire. Resident Clarisa Kimskii has played a defining role in the collective's growth, largely thanks to the ultra-kinetic and rhythmic pace of her DJ sets.

Time and time again, the Washington DC native has demonstrated her ability to lock in dancers through captivating and hypnotic selections across various sub-styles of techno. There are tribal, witchy cuts. Jacking, Detroit-style funk. Psychedelic, DJ Nobu-style grooves and austere sounds that nod to Sandwell District. It's the kind of range that explains why Kimskii has been booked worldwide many years over, and more and more as of late. Her deep understanding of techno's myriad flavours come from two decades of industry experience as well as esoteric productions on labels like Mysteries Of The Deep and L.A.G. (her own short-lived, underrated, essential techno platform).

Kimskii's long time in the techno scene, her experience and her expertise is expressed in full form on her RA Podcast Moving from industrial grit to gentle transcendence to heady acid, the mix feels free, fluid but also remarkably precise, just like Kimskii herself.

@kimskii

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/901

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RA.901 Clarisa Kimskii

Illegal Alien Podcast
Episode: 191
Mix by Lidvall (Mind Trip / Edit select)

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RA: https://ra.co/dj/lidvall

IA Podcast | 191: Lidvall

Playlist:

1.  MNLR - Sonic Groove (Original Mix)
2.  Marcal - Steady (Original Mix)
3.  Pfirter - Change (Original Mix)
4.  Klint - Forces (Original Mix)
5.  Root Noise - Sacrifice (Original Mix)
6.  Dejan (SE) - Ritmovi Nepoznatog (Original Mix)
7.  Perfo - Where Is Pete (Original Mix)
8.  RSD-86 - Acid Simulator (Original Mix)
9.  Robert Hoff - Terminal (Original Mix)
10. Alessandro Grops - Local (Original Mix)
11. Robert Hoff - Presença V4 (Original Mix)
12. Trinidad Shevron - Loyalties (Original Mix)
13. Carara - Labor 26 (Original Mix)
14. CRØG - Inner Self (Original Mix)
15. Dejan (SE) - Glasovi Iistine (Original Mix)
16. Alessandro Grops - Impulse (Original Mix)
17. Unknownfunction - Sleep (Original Mix)

Void Spaces

Void Spaces #25 - 03/02/2024

Eclectic podcast 046 with Trinidad Shevron

Recorded at BRUS Radiosekvens at Fotografiska with @anthonylinell .

The cohesive array of depth charged devices that Anthony Linell has produced is formidable. From his opening statements as Abdulla Rashim on his early label of the same name, right through to his recent work that puts his aliases aside, there is a robust and rigorous intent that compounds the elemental strategies of techno's models to apprehend his singular vision.

Presiding over Stockholm's Northern Electronics label with Varg (Jonas Rönnberg), Linell dispenses with mechanisms of attention on all fronts. Marked by an indefatigable self-reliance, the label presents exactly what it means to display, and no more. Carving an idiosyncratic platform for his music is as great of a warning as there could be that Linell's leveraging little toward the benefit of the audience. By his measure, the familiarity and comfort of contemporary techno is stripped back to its rushing heart, the senses left tailgating the strobe in a fit of intuition over decision. The greater this is exposed the colder it gets, and its in these extremes that Linell's caustic rhythmic precision hits. Live, it comes off as a galvanizing strike from the outside; analysing the room as a DJ, it's a case of being pursued through the dark. 

Just as the brevity of Linell's output in the eyes of techno is exalted as it is brought into focus, the background to this blurs as you start to decipher his other projects. Lundin Oil skirts the fringes of noise and experimental music, and in collaboration with Varg as Ulwhednar, this is perhaps even more pronounced.

Purposively ricocheting between the techno world and experimental electronic music, Linell forges a distinct passage that gathers the aesthetically uncompromising motifs and missions from across this spectrum. It's this combination and resolve that's brought Linell to the world's attention, however little that attention has been solicited.

BRUS 042 - Anthony Linell (Ambient Vinyl set)

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On Board Music - Clarisa Kimskii - 07 May 2024

@kimskii 
Brooklyn-based DJ and producer Clarisa Kimskii has cemented her musical footprint on the borough since moving back in 2022. Through a palpable blend of psychedelic and driving techno, Clarisa’s approach to the genre is deeply idiosyncratic - an assemblage of both timeless and modern grooves. 
As a producer, Clarisa has contributed to a handful of respected labels (Monday Off, Dusk & Haze, Mysteries of the Deep, etc.) within her sonic niche, but it’s through her own label L.A.G where the ethos of her sound truly takes form - a detailed variation of propulsive and atmospheric soundscapes. 
Clarisa is deeply rooted in the techno subculture’s underground, and in early 2022 - the 20+ year veteran was named resident DJ of the Brooklyn-based, queer party Merge. Through her residency at Merge and regular appearances at the city’s premiere institutions in BASEMENT and Nowadays, Clarisa’s prestige is undeniably felt.

Alphabet Podcast 044 - Clarisa Kimskii

7th June 2024 episode with Juho Kusti

TRACKLIST
1. The Kognitives - Sangre - Concepto Hipnotico
2. Jamie Bissmire - Modal Majesty - Evod Music
3. Perfo - Oh (If You Like) - Mord
4. Alexyspirit - Sentient Being - Derailed Records
5. DSNGDMANN - Stormhead - Ucker
6. Skjöld - Path Of Tonality - Soma Recordings
7. Tièmoko Koné - Move - MALöR Records
8. Giri - Frenesia Universale - Antiterra
9. Falling Echoes - Circuit - Soma Recordings
10. RPTLS - Castigo - NODE Recordings
11. Giri - Perpetuo - Antiterra
12. Viels - Exponential - NODE Recordings
13. Fase Bipolar - The Savior - Sungate
14. Yrsen - Sola - ARTS
15. The Kognitives - Camuflado - Concepto Hipnotico
16. Kr!z - There Is No Sun - Blueprint
17. Linear System - Positron - Gordo Trax
18. Ma Haiping - Parallel Cycle - Molecular Recordings
19. Kr!z - Horo - Blueprint
20. Denise Rabe - Short Nights - Rabe
21. Trinidad Shevron - Bargains - Alhena Records
22. Krahm - Nómada - Alterego
23. Petter B - Pots And Pans - Bond
24. Brälle - Slings & Arrows - Adversial Machines
25. Lakej - Walking Wounded - Kazerne
26. Exos - Breaker - Inguma
27. ARKVS - Exodus - Planet Rhythm
28. MSDMNR - Jupiter Syndrome - Recorded Things

Thanks for listening!

Deep Space Helsinki - 7th June 2024

За наступну годину ми з вами пробіжимося від чуттєвого контемпорарі нойзу без всякої форми - і аж до чітко розставлених за сіткою техно бітів і синтів, від новачків та мастодонтів, птеродактелів та ельфійок незалежної української електронної сцени. Успіху вам в опануванні цих емоційних гойдалок, погнали!

🎧 Трекліст:
01. Iraklii - Embrace... @paatttttt
02. Thongvor - Сonversation [Woohaa!] @thongvor @woohaa-records
03. J300i & hd Hameleon - butthisisnotamusic [Lotion Empiric] @butthisisnotamusic
04. SE62 - Fantasy (ft. Javonette) [RAWSOUL] @se62 @raw-soul-1
05. Hockins - MF Rhythm @hockins666
06. Clasps - King Arthurs Last Recorded Dance [Hybrid Moment] @clasps 
 @hybrid-moment
07. Axxi Oma - Red-Haired Girl @axxioma-sc
08. Vladyslav Putistin & Lvcerate - Does It Still Hurt @lvcerate @vladyslavputistin
09. Eazyopoluse - Cali Dixie [Sonor] @eazyopoluse
10. Trinidad Shevron - Treason @shevrontrinidad 
11. Raido - Discharge [Hybrid Moment] @raido_band
12. Revshark - Soul [Mystictrax] @slavadyadyunmusic @mystictrax
13. Native Outsider - Tunnel Boring Machine [Polygon] @native-outsider @polygon-ua
14. Villager - Chlorophyll (Lugovskiy Remix) @lugovskiy
15. Dubplanet X - CIPA 3OHA @dubplanetx
16. Lostlojic - Alluminium Goddess [Laboratorium] @lostlojic @laboratoriumua
17. KILLA SELFIE - OK AI @killaselfie
18. Vitalii Shevchenko - Fox [Reincarnation Ability, Vortex] @hou8gn9ocoux @vortex_kyiv
19. Ternocore x Nina Matviyenko – Kvitka Dusha [Pincet]
@gabbage-1 @pincet
20. Аґрус - Гриби мого діда [2064年 Recordings] @sun_halo @2064recordings
21. Oleksii Podat - shame [Potop] @chszm

Українська Електроніка by Lostlojic x 20ft Radio #006

Lidvall - one of the most productive artists on the scene, known for his rough, textural sound, based in Oviedo, Spain.
He started his techno journey in 2017 in Saint-Petersburg, Russia as a live performer and took part in the biggest Russian techno festivals like Gamma in Saint-Petersburg, Monasterio Factory in Moscow and many other local events.
Since that time he has made many vinyl and digital releases on a different labels such as Mord, Nachtstrom Schallplatten, Faut Section, Mind Trip, Edit Select, Illegal Alien and many others.
Being inspired by world-leading DJs like Ben Sims, Takaaki Itoh and Oscar Mulero, Lidvall follows the conception of non stop stream of energy and intense mixing to lead the crowd through a whole mix. Juggling tracks, he always tells a story with an intricate plot and a dynamic evolving.

IG: https://www.instagram.com/artem_lidvall/
SC: https://soundcloud.com/lidvall

Compromises live set @DVOR12 7.16.2020

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