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Recording of Piezo's set at Dekmantel Selectors 2024.

Piezo at Dekmantel Selectors 2024

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

Welcoming the lovely Refuge Worldwide co-founder and dub-master @richard-akingbehin to the Animix series this week, with a beautiful journey of minimal house infused with his signature dub styles.

Clear in his DJ'ing, but also his work with @refugeworldwide, and his immaculately curated label, @kynant-records, Richard is an all-round classy selector, and a champion of community. Through his various outputs, his deep & considered knowledge and taste shines. 

Richard always impresses me with the diversity of moods he presents via his DJ'ing, hybrid collaborations with legend Tikiman, b2bs with other legends like livwutang, and his label - a diversity that's always strung together with his incredibly distinctive psychedelic, soothing dub formula. 

Thanks for the mix Richard <3

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Animix One Hundred & Seventy Three: Richard Akingbehin

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Week's end with pi pi pi curator and The Lot resident deep creep.

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A clinic in minimal from the elusive Acting Press boss. 

Why do certain sounds cultivate a cult following? Simply put, it's often because they resist easy consumption. PLO Man and his imprint Acting Press lean into this. 

Searching for the Berlin-based DJ and producer, you won’t find much online presence, interviews or conventional PR. What you will find, if you look hard enough, is a catalogue of records and mixes with a kind of tape hiss charm (a spiritual successor to Basic Channel and Chain Reaction, but scuzzier and lighter on its feet).

Founded in 2015, Acting Press once seemed to belong to the short-lived "outsider house" trend, but is now synonymous with a certain strain of modern minimal, one that is analogue, spacious and pointedly opaque. PLO Man's output is equally sparse by design: this week, he joins the RA Podcast with a characteristically elusive style, accompanying the near two-hour mix is a one-answer Q&A that gives almost nothing away.

Stripped-back, ever-so-slightly sleazy and coated in dust, PLO Man's RA Podcast continues that lineage in style. Opening with the featherlight microhouse of Margaret Dygas, RA.988 unfolds into a carefully curated spectrum of minimal, dub and deep techno. Among familiar names—look out for the blinding Rhythm & Sound and Moodymann blend—are deep cuts and left turns alongside the odd outlier, like lovers' rock pioneer Gregory Isaacs.

Like the best of his forebears, PLO Man wants RA.988 to take time for you to settle in. But once you do, you won’t want to leave. 

@p_el_oh

Find the tracklist and interview at ra.co/podcast/988

RA.988 PLO Man

Blitz Live : Richard Akingbehin : 22/03/2025

Richard Akingbehin – the tasteful selector known for his engrossing, soothing soundscapes and the driving force behind Berlin’s Refuge Worldwide and Kynant Records – made his Blitz debut in late March 2025, playing alongside DVS1 and Ogazón. A night shaped by deep cuts, subtle shifts and tactile Techno!

We’re pleased to share a recording of the first half of his opening set – and took the chance to ask Richard a few questions about the night, too: find them in our Blitz Magazine:

https://www.blitz.club/2025/06/11/blitz-live-richard-akingbehin/

Listen to the recording here – and don’t forget to follow Richard to stay updated on his upcoming sets and projects.

https://www.instagram.com/richardakingbehin/
https://soundcloud.com/richard-akingbehin

https://kynantrecords.bandcamp.com/music
https://linktr.ee/refugeworldwide

Blitz Live : Richard Akingbehin : 22/03/2025

voices illuminating the dark edges. raw acid. unholy synth. silicon rain save me! 
recorded in my living room on 2 technics 1210s and a xone 62, sometime after midnight, 25.05.25 berlin

Sound Metaphors Mix Series 38 : ābnamā

Live recording from my late night set @ Flow State-Green Machine-Night Logistics present Nono Gigsta (Chicago, 20 June 2025, 2:30-4am)


Track list:
Fuck I Delete The Synth – DE:MA 
Deep Shear – Lewi Boome
Strobe Society – Sota
Forse No – Atoloi
Meander – Vardae
T1 – DBR
Charcoal Yellow – Joey
Clean Lines – McGregor
Apoapsis – Solma
Pulse XIV – Peverelist
jigeumisungan – Romi x BLNDR
Santa Cunegonda – Donato Dozzy
Floresta – Malwen
Guardiarsi Indietro (Vāyu Interpretation) – Elle
Still Green – Sven Laux
Rhiz()me – Nikita Zabelin
Alavir – First Epoque
Daaku – Kohra & Midnight Traffic
The Ones Who Suffers – Arkan
Expansion – Unjin 
Shamefaced (Valentino Mora Cosmic Trance Rephase) – François X
Tell Me – Gentian
This Better Worth – Jurango
Ice Screw – Vardae
Slice Yogg Dub (Remix) – Otone
Sweet Phantasy – Justin Cudmore
Blau – LDS

agraybé Live @ FS-GM-NL Present Nono Gigsta (Chicago, 20 June 2025)

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Best Of Series is a new series I started in 2018.
Hereby I share with you my 35 years of involvement in (Electronic) Music.

Vol. 19 (Deep) Techno Pt. II

Fausto Messina - Planets Ballet
Human Space Machine - SFRS
Andu Simion - Heavy Glow
Cyspe - After This World
Kaap - Ancient
Drafted - Cluster
Patrick Siech - Bubbli (Abstract Division Remix)
Fugal - Arrival
Tensal - Cobertoria
Dawn Razor - 1st June
UBX127 - Singularity

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2000 and One's Best Of Series Vol. 19 (Deep) Techno Pt. II

Had such a blast playing an extended DJ set in San Francisco last weekend, great to catch up with old friends and meet a few new faces . I managed to record half of the set. This section was recorded roughly 4-5.45 am. I didn’t get any footage during my set however managed to get this shot walking back from the club at around 6.30am. I’ve always enjoyed the sense of calm the early hours bring to a big city.

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John Monkman - SET San Francisco [11.05.18]

► Napoli's finest, Joseph Capriati, going in hard for an extended set to close out our Into The Dark Lille broadcast.
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Joseph Capriati Deep Techno mix | Boiler Room Into The Dark Lille

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