There are DJs, then there are DJs who capture—and live—a moment in dance music's evolution. Born in Los Angeles, but based in New York for the better half of a decade, Akua has established herself as the latter, an important voice in the North American techno scene. Akua's DJing practice is fueled by her research in the '90s techno music archive, with a special interest in the history and roots of techno within America. 

Akua's sets are raw extensions of the foundations laid by the pioneers of '90s U.S. techno. Most prominently, the work and influence of DJs like Jeff Mills, Claude Young and Jay Denham can all be heard across her mixes, as well as the spirit of Underground Resistance. Her interest in fast-paced techno comes from these traditions as well as own individualist streak—while there's no shortage of DJs who play high-BPM techno, you won't hear anyone else play it quite like she does.

Her old-school meets new-school sound has catapulted her from the New York underground into the European techno circuit, where recent gigs have seen her perform at dance music institutions like Berghain and Dekmantel. Akua's RA Podcast is her in full-throttle mode, featuring all the stripped-down, hypnotic groove of early techno aside rushes of searing acid, carefully speeding up until closing at a healthy sprint.

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RA.878 Akua

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Dubwise atmospherics flood Guy Brewer's third RA Mix.

Hear the word "Dionysus" and you picture the Greek god of ecstasy: overflowing tables, delirious revelry, chaos. Not the austere soundworld of Guy Brewer, AKA Carrier. On the surface, the UK artist's latest alias feels almost Spartan. But look closer and the Dionysian link starts to show:  it's about shedding fixed forms and identities, to allow something more true, more alive, to form. 

RA.1011 marks Brewer's third entry in the RA Mix series, following editions as drum & bass outfit Commix (RA.269) and, later, the techno alias Shifted (RA.310). "I guess it's an effort to step away from purism," Brewer told <i>Resident Advisor</i> back in 2023. "Right now the thresholds between genres are where you find the most exciting music." 

Carrier's phenomenal debut album, <i>Rhythm Immortal</i>, delivers on that promise. Low-end pressure cloaks like foreboding shadows, punctured only by eerie, otherworldly percussion comparable only to Photek or T++. Listen to the LP in full and it feels like walking through a scene in a true-crime drama: a fog-drenched city street in the deep of night, ambushed by gusts of wind, whispers and strange noises—and it sounds totally, utterly original.

Tracing a line through dub pressure, fractured percussion and narcotic ambience, Brewer explores that same world on RA.1011. As with the album, there's a primal pulse that threads through the recording. Walls of negative space seem to hover before dissolving inexplicably, their tension intact; drums move more like the weather than rhythm. - Bella Aquilina

RA.1011 Carrier

my set for a farewell rooftop party overlooking the san francisco bay, as the sun set and we moved into night

isostar // intertoto 
sugar snot // loidis 
from the brink // ital & halal
morph // lindamann
overtone // gbar 
merlot // en.ka
ground clouds // tm404 & echologist 
home away from home // ben kaczor
shen wai shenfa // polygonia
conversation // pianeti sintetici
follow // alvar 
spiracle // konduku
tutto positivo // donato dozzy, say dj
wynchwood dub // al wootton
oxygen channel // ok eg
spott, blod & jord // ntogn
teoria sintergica // andy martin
electromagnetico // andy martin
you play games // exit to tomorrow 
si, idealízame // verraco

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No restraint. Yanamaste delivering impact at his own invite showcase during ADE 2025.
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Date | 25/10/2025
Location | H7 Warehouse, Amsterdam

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Website - www.intercell.events
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Yanamaste at Intercell x Yanamaste Invites ADE 2025

Live recording of my closing set for a special WTF at the Stud hosting Lyric's album release party on 11/11/25.

Check out her album here: https://girlclock.bandcamp.com/album/becoming-lyrical

Tracklist:
Frank Bretschneider - Funkstile
Polygonia, Dycide, FTP Doctor - Tectonic Operation
Tammo Hesselink - Cupboard Cylinder Salon
Konduku - Şeker
K Wata - Your Attitude Not Mine (Clemency Remix)
Monolake - Macao
Pianeti Sintetici - Polimorfo
ALPI - Paeonia
Konsudd - Petal Soft
Lemna - Forest Green Tree Frog
Azu Tiwaline - Brain Rattled
Jay Carder - Mekosha
Marco Zenker - Resistance
Mike Parker - Voc-1 Robot
Om Unit - Connector
Why Don't You Don't - Kouslin
Polygonia - Metaphysical Scribbles
FTP Doctor - Discomfort Dance (Dycide Remix)
Seba & Paradox - Trezub
DBridge - Violent Plains
Forest Drive West - They Live (Pessimist Remix)
Donato Dozzy - Dusty Bones
Priori - Pareidolia (Notte Infinita Hi-Tech Roller)
Djrum - Tournesol
Skee Mask - Testo BC Mashup
Takuya Nakamura - Solar Flame
Maya Q - Starburst

WTF [SF, 11/11/25]

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CCL b2b Yushh at Draaimolen Festival 2025

Erika's mid-morning set from 6 - 7:30 at No Way Back, May 25, 2025, Day 2 of Return to the Source at Tangent, Detroit. Directly after BMG and right before Derek Plaslaiko.

"It’s a whirlwind experience throwing a party *and* performing at it. At No Way Back, the only thing that works for me is to use the energy of the crowd to find my sonic direction. The room was incredibly dialed in, and the focus on the floor was immense, this is unlike any experience on any other floor around the world."
 – Erika @erikadotnet

1. EMIT - Prodromal Phase
2. AgainstMe - Into The Dome
3. Surgeon - Infinite Eye
4. DJ Plant Texture - WTT (Dub Mix)
5. RV820 - Bleep Thing
6. Privacy - Sword , NYC
7. Reeko - Verdugo Del Rey
8. Space Drum Meditation - Yacu
9. Oscar Mulero - The Reddish Glow
10. Darkduction - Wounds of Time
11. Binary Algorithms / UFO95 - Register #01 (UFO95 Remix)
12. Jamie Bissmire - The Fundamentals of Time
13. Tenebre - Nightshift
14. Seph - Renew
15. Beaabea - Constants
16. Naco - Snakey
17. Raissa Febriani - Transiver
18. EMIT - Mother Runner
19. Dagga x Manao - Suave
20. Noodles142 - Burnt
21. Doctor Jeep - Raiva
22. Shai FM - Heatsink
23. Cimm - Circuit Jam
24. Anthony Rother - Slit-Scan
25. Mani Festo - Leviathan
26. Berwick - Where Are You?
27. Gesture - WHAT
28. Sabola - Isolate
29. Erik Luebs - Irradiated Body

IT Podcast

IT.podcast.s14e09: Erika at No Way Back 2025

Surgeon has released countless classic records and managed to stay relevant and fresh since the 90s. Now he is back on Ilian Tape with a podcast and another 12" called Europa Code, which will be out early October. His selections can send a dancefloor to another dimension and hopefully will do so soon again. Enjoy!

Interview: http://iliantape.de/ilian-tape-podcast-series-055/

WTF [SF, 11/11/25]

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