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The full 3h recorded set of my debut at the legendary @tresorberlin on October 25, 2023 - invited by @push_femaledjnetwork for the Tresor Berlin New Faces event series.

Isabel Soto @ Tresor Berlin | 25.10.23 (New Faces)

Welcome to the milestone Slam Radio episode 600 - with ourselves Slam in the mix for 6 hours - which features new music, alongside some classics that have never left our crates - inspired by some of our recent long club sets.  

We started Slam Radio as a way of airing some of our favourite established and emerging artists, all of whom play underground techno and electro (and have never repeated a single guest twice ) -  thanks to every single one of you.

We’d also like to say a big thanks to all the Slam Radio crew and especially our long standing show producer Conor Dalton, who’s been with us from the very start. 

Finally - “thank you” - to all our listeners, for all the support you’ve given the show from its inception - we’d never have got this far without it.

Slam on Slam Radio for the 600th episode - Enjoy

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Slam 6hr Set

#SlamRadio - 600 - Slam 6hr Mix

Insolate stands as a defining figure in the Croatian techno circuit, achieving international acclaim over two decades as both a revered DJ and producer, and the driving force behind the esteemed Out Of Place label, as well as the electrifying HUSH! and TRAUM events. 

With her roots in Osijek, she initiated her journey in 1997, progressing to captivate audiences across Europe and the globe. Honored as "Croatia’s ambassador overseas" in 2017 and 2018, and lauded as Croatia's top DJ in 2022, Insolate also proudly represented her country at the DJ Awards in Ibiza, claiming the "Dance Nation of the Year" award.
 
Her global presence includes marquee performances at leading clubs and festivals like Berghain, Rex, Tresor, and Tomorrowland, extending to tours across Colombia, the USA, China, and Argentina. Her production prowess shines on tracks released through distinguished labels such as Mote Evolver and BPitch Rec, earning the support of techno titans like Laurent Garnier and Ben Klock. 

Insolate's DJ sets are celebrated for their unadulterated energy and technical finesse, reflecting her seasoned expertise, boundless inspiration, and profound understanding of techno, cementing her as an innate force within the DJ booth.

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Insolate

#SlamRadio - 604 - Insolate

Lea & Laura; this is the story of a human connection first, when they met in Manchester in March 23, united around their passion, love and dedication to music. 

In December last year, they played 'by accident' their first B2B in Amsterdam, which was an effortless affair, realizing that their artistic sensibilities resonated strongly with each other - a new duo was born. Lea's organic, tribal grooves blend perfectly with Laura's deeper trippy sound, as they morph into one person behind the decks, delivering an immersive and dynamic experience to the dancefloor.

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Lea Occhi B2B Lauren Van Hal 

#SlamRadio - 609 - Lea Occhi B2B Laura Van Hal

Dynamic Forces is a duo from Rome, Italy. Devoted and taste for characteristically uncompromising techno, they continue on the heritage of electronic music of the early 2000's and 90's characterised by tougher groove, incisive rhythms and Detroit’s souls. 

Pushing forward their vision of electronic music of the golden years. They’ve just recently release music on labels such Dolly, Tar Hallow, Kazerne, Planet Rhythm, Be As One Imprint, Emerald, Hardgroove and 2 EP collabs with the legendary duo Exium on Nheoma Records.

Releasing music under the B R 1 0 0 2 moniker since 2015, they are owners of Overstep Records, on wich they released music from many techno legends like Regis, Exium, Loktibrada and Dj Boss. The duo are also residents for Silencio events in Rome, a seminal night that has hosted a lot of great artists.

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Dynamic Forces

#SlamRadio - 615 - Dynamic Forces

Italy born producer and modular synthesist David Castellani is an aficionado in all things modular with a focus on driving, contemporary techno. His sound, fuelled by an array of analog hardware, showcases the intricate aspects of modern music production, while staying true to the fundamentals. 

Having formerly cut his teeth in a DJ/Producer duo, David has already built a category of healthy releases, collaborations and remixes, while sharing the decks with industry heavies including Nastia, Mark Broom, Dense & Pika & Vril, to name a few. 

Now based in LA by way of Chicago, Castellani launched his record label Noetic in 2021, cultivating smart & dynamic techno with a focus on synthesizers and analog hardware. The label has curated eleven releases from Castellani so far, featuring remixes from Redshape, Matrixxman, Voiski & Etapp Kyle. 

Castellani’s journey in music has been marked by two guiding principles – passion and learning, including exploration of world cultures. He uses the didgeridoo, part of ancient First Nation Australian culture which he respectfully acknowledges, in his live sets. He was taught drums by respected Afro Cuban percussionist Juma Santos, who featured on the legendary Miles Davis album ‘Bitches Brew’. The experience of working with Santos has stayed with him till this day. 

“It was one of the most vivid memories of my youth. We just spent hours playing drums together and then we’d indulge in some cannabis while Juma would share stories about hanging out with Miles Davis in the 70's. I was about 17 and remember travelling home, thinking how excited I was to start this new journey in music. And most of all, this helped me understand the value of education via a proper teacher within music.” 

Castellani would go on to be an educator himself, thriving as a teacher at Chicago’s respected Columbia College, where he’d teach for almost a decade. His passion for educating is something that stays with him till this day, involved in running modular synth workshops in LA in collaboration with the RE/FORM crew, with whom he holds a residency. He also volunteers with the Jazz Angels, an outreach program that sees him go into schools and help children record and learn about music. 

His passion and curiosity for all things learning, creativity and technological development has seen him create his own sequencer module, the Precision Disrupter. His background in graphic design also sees a collaboration with clothing brand After Infinite, responsible for designing all their rave wear garments. 

A magnetic live performer, recent highlights include a special 360-degree audio-visual performance in LA alongside Colin Benders and ONYVAA; a coveted spot playing Chicago’s Arc Festival and the release of his collaborative project ‘Hysteria Dichotic’ with AnnMarie Arcuri, which combined techno, contemporary dance, modular synthesis and film. 

Castellani wishes to acknowledge that First Nations Australians are the traditional owners of the didgeridoo, a wind instrument he uses in his live sets. He pays his respects to all First Nations people.

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David Castellani

#SlamRadio - 616 - David Castellani

Next up on the GROOVE Podcast is Setaoc Mass (@setaoc_mass). For interview and track list, check https://bit.ly/3WsZa1S

GROOVE Podcast 446 – Setaoc Mass

Oxygeno @ KHIDI - 31.01.2025

Back in the series with a special hour-and-a-half-long live set, fellow RYC alum Arthur Robert graces us with a mix that best exemplifies his cosmonautical approach to production, flush with alien-engineered sounds and sci-fi-indebted atmospheres. Like traversing a dynamic hall of mirrors and prisms, distorting our cognitive scope to hypnotic effect, Robert’s mix is a maze of fast swiveling grooves and bubbling, modular-like reflections. If you like your techno both hi-velocity and uncompromisingly trippy, Robert’s blends extrapolate the finest of galloping techno and outer-spacey poetics, birthing the kind of transporting narrative that’ll sooth your nerves from the daily heartbreak we’ve come to process as an integral part of our lives.

soundcloud.com/arthurrobert

Reclaim Your City

Reclaim Your City 631 | Arthur Robert Live

Live recording from Lehmann Club in Stuttgart on February 15th, 2025.

Kaiser B2B Chami @ Lehmann Club, Stuttgart - 15.02.2025

A rising force in the next wave of techno, BLANKA has swiftly earned acclaim for her finesse both behind the decks and in the studio — and this Glitch podcast is a perfect example of why the Spanish artist sits at the core of today’s thriving scene. She delivers a 65-minute minimalist set, weaving hypnotic loops and trippy textures into a mysterious subterranean world of hidden experiments, captivating both body and mind. As BLANKA puts it, "Sometimes less is more."

@blankamusic

Glitch Podcast 093 / BLANKA

A well-known alum of acclaimed record labels such as Hayes, Klockworks, Fuse, Blueprint, Soma et al., Lisbon-based DJ and producer Temudo clocks in with a mix showcasing the breadth of his vista and smooth mixing skillset. Up with a choice selection of unbending warehouse percussion, laser-guided dubs and further esoteric mind-expanders, Temudo reels off a magnetic field of hi-velocity grooves, brutalist analogue bursts and cutting-edge sound design. Swinging the pendulum between straight out heavyweight, 909-fuelled barrage fire and heavily processed electronics on a mission, here’s a mix for those in search of both thrilling floor jack and superior groove know-how. Monster treat. 

soundcloud.com/temudo


Reclaim Your City 644 | Temudo

At the intersection of techno's industrial past and its avant-garde future stands Phase Fatale, the Berlin-based project of Hayden Payne. A resident at both Berghain and KHIDI, Payne channels his roots in New York's post-punk and EBM scenes into a sound that's precisely engineered for the deepest corners of the dancefloor. 

Since emerging in 2014, Phase Fatale has been pivotal in reshaping the contours of modern techno. His releases on labels like Ostgut Ton, Jealous God, and Hospital Productions showcase a commitment to sonic exploration, blending dense atmospheres with rhythmic precision. His 2020 album, Scanning Backwards, was specifically engineered for Berghain's acoustics, reflecting his deep connection to the club's sonic environment.

Beyond his productions, Payne co-founded the BITE label in 2018, aiming to platform artists operating outside conventional techno paradigms. With a roster that includes both emerging talents and established names, BITE has become a beacon for those seeking the fringes of electronic music

In this milestone 250th podcast, Phase Fatale delivers a mix that encapsulates his sonic ethos: a fusion of industrial textures with post-punk, and techno's relentless drive. It's a cinematic journey through the shadows, illuminated by his distinctive sound design and narrative depth.

Immerse yourself in #250.

Artwork by @ankhsious

Vault Sessions #250 - Phase Fatale

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In "Structural Disruption ", Ground16 crafts a deeply textured journey that blends breakbeat-infused grooves, hazy pads, and dubwise atmospheres. Across five tracks, the Lausanne-based producer explores the space between introspection and dancefloor tension where raw percussion meets dreamy harmonics. From the gritty energy of "Disruptive Error" to the misty melancholy of "Horizon Fumé", the EP reflects Ground16’s distinctive approach to rhythm and space. It’s a release that resonates through both body and mind.
credits.

Buy: https://ground16.bandcamp.com/album/structural-disruption-ep

PREMIERE: Ground16 - Silent Echoes [Sofa Movement Records]

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Slam (aka Stuart McMillan and Orde Meikle) are a tour de force on the global techno circuit. Their unique, six deck, back-to-back DJ performances have seen the duo play leading clubs and festivals across the world. They are renowned for both their experience and their powerful, contemporary sound. 

They are co-owners of Glasgow's Riverside Festival, and also host the legendary Maximum Pressure warehouse parties, which showcase the best emerging local talent alongside some of the most established names in international techno.

Their iconic Soma Records label boasts in excess of 600 releases, hosting Mcmillan and Meikle's own productions and many of today's most cutting-edge techno artists.

The last few years have seen some of the duo's most prolific studio output as they continue to innovate and keep things moving forward, most recently with the release of their experimental full length record Athenæum 101. In addition, Slam have also remixed tracks from the likes of Planetary Assault Systems, Clouds, Dax J, Damon Wild, Richie Hawtin, and Truncate, to name just a few. 

Slam also host one of Techno's most respected weekly podcasts, Slam Radio, which has now surpassed over 400 episodes. The show allows the duo to demonstrate their conviction to creating and promoting music and vibes that provide an antidote to the mainstream by inviting fellow artists from the vibrant Techno scene, from obscure names to current trailblazers.

#SlamRadio - 615 - Dynamic Forces

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