Okay, now that it's finally out I can post this cover


this cover was the ending of an era. literally, it's the reason I made an era 2. I realised I could not make anything better than this. At least in jazzy form.


Huge thanks to gso and @2053h for the og
thanks to rejona for the thumbnail (white background, like good old times)(I'm still doing black bg, don't worry, this is just a throwback to an old era)

thanks @itsaleccio for the inspiration
thank you Schmiblor for the voicelines


idk just thank you to everyone, shoutout to the paraphrase team)

Railway To Heaven [10.2023]

The German minimal DJ returns to the spotlight with two hours of artfully subtle house and techno.

There's an old German proverb that goes "Der stete Tropfen höhlt den Stein." Literally, it means a constant dripping wears away the stone, but the point isn't about force but patience: slow, steady repetition can leave the deepest mark. It's an apt metaphor for the career of Kosta Athanassiadis, better known as XDB.

Active since the early '90s, first as a DJ and then producer by the decade's end, Athanassiadis has built a career less on hype than persistence. His catalogue spans labels like Dial, Metrolux and Echocord, alongside a steady trickle of EPs and remixes that have quietly cemented his reputation as one of minimal house and techno's undersung heroes.

That patience carries into his sound and production ethos. Where many of his peers embraced software upgrades and new workflows, Athanassiadis has long stuck to Cubase, a handful of trusty instruments and 30-year-old speakers he claims to have run "hundreds of thousands of tunes" through. He also still prefers to use inexpensive, straightforward gear—what matters, he insists, is not the tools but the feel. The result is a sound that’s stripped back, direct and enduring.

Lately, Athanassiadis has found himself back in focus. With minimal enjoying fresh attention, his calendar has filled, and with it a run of back-to-back sets—most often alongside PLO Man, a regular sparring partner this year. True to form, though, you won't find that his style has changed much. Over 30 years after his first gig, you can rest assured you'll still find him playing with patience, carving out long arcs rather than sharp peaks.

His RA Mix captures him in a reflective mood. Running just over two hours, RA.1003 is a hushed yet absorbing affair, moving seamlessly from the delicate atmospherics of Valentino Mora and Caldera to the machine funk of Robert Hood, Solid Gold Playaz and Marcellus Pittman. There are left turns folded into XDB's patient narrative arc, too: John Carpenter's brooding scores here, DJ Sprinkles' melancholic work with Will Long on "Acid Trax N (Acid Dog)" there.

It's the sound of a DJ who has been quietly chiseling away for three decades, and who understands the value of persistence as much as restraint.

@xdb

Find the tracklist and interview at ra.co/podcast/1021

RA.1003 XDB

Support: @DirtyAudio
Support: @PeakDial

Dirty Audio is back! And he's chosen PEAK DIAL as his launchpad. His debut "Lose Control EP is a 3 track siren flare over the bass horizon: big, loud, and surgically dialed for maximum chaos. It slams trap-bred swagger into modern bass muscle, snapping subs, razor percussion, and hooks that refuse to let go. PEAK DIAL proudly presents a statement piece from one of our all-time favorites: Dirty Audio, fully reloaded and roaring. The message is simple: he never left, but now he's unmistakably HERE.

Dirty Audio - Higher [Peak Dial]

Dirty Audio - Lose Control [Peak Dial]

Dirty Audio - Real Ones [Peak Dial]

EEVEE - HOLI FEST 2025

Dripzoid is not a track that relies on weight or darkness. Instead, it thrives on a sense of play: fragments of rhythm and texture that seem to test their own limits, shifting in and out of focus, recombining with an almost mischievous logic. The groove is steady at its core—a measured four-to-the-floor beat around 124 BPM—but the surface is constantly unsettled by detail. Percussion flickers, samples appear and vanish, the bassline bends rather than anchors.

In this approach, Dripzoid joins a lineage that values experimentation over convention. There are echoes of Akufen’s restless sampling, of Herbert’s playful manipulations of everyday sound, and of Villalobos when he lets the beat dissolve into improbable shapes. At the same time, the track’s lightness and curiosity place it closer to the more idiosyncratic corners of Perlon, the understated eccentricities of Playhouse, or the quieter experiments from Kompakt’s back catalog.

What makes “Dripzoid” compelling is its refusal to choose between functionality and experimentation. It is recognizably club music—driving, danceable—but it resists the predictable arc of build and release. Instead, it offers a different kind of intensity: one that emerges from variation, surprise, and the sense that the track is inventing its own grammar as it goes along.

Westend Ghetto - Dripzoid [Playful Deep House]

Support: @9B49
Support: @Wednesday_Club
Support: @PeakDial

The Rolling Stones meet the modern bass era in this heavy dubstep flip of “Paint It Black” by label veterans 9B49 and Wednesday Club. Thunderous drops, gritty textures, and haunting vocals collide for a dark, cinematic ride built for the main stage. The boys are DIALED

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Rolling Stones - Paint It Black [9B49 x Wednesday Club Edit]

We welcome Ben Kaczor back to Stólar. After his remix trio for "Fever Dreams", this record marks his first full EP on the label, joined by a tight and hypnotic remix from Tibi Dabo.

The sound sits exactly where it should. Pushing drums, crisp hats, deep chords and pads that open the room without softening the impact. Dreamy, but not sentimental. House that breathes, moves and holds pressure from start to finish.

A confident return, built for dancers who like their warmth with momentum.

get the vinyl here! 

https://stolar.bandcamp.com/album/st-lar-023-peace-in-mind 

@benkaczor 
www.instagram.com/stolarrecords

Ben Kaczor - Peace In Mind Preview

Support: @TwoLitMusic
Support: @PeakDial

The Crowd favorites TWO LIT make their return on PEAK DIAL continuing their generational run with their colossal dubstep anthem "WYGD". This is by far the heaviest track we've releases on Peak Dial and damn did the boys deliver! With big support already from Riot Ten and Jessica Audfried, this one crushes and the reactions say the same. 

TWO LIT - WYGD [Peak Dial]

Independent  dub house label operating from different chairs in Berlin
It’s going to be alright.

stolarrecords@gmail.com for contact

We love chairs.

google deleted my old acc cuz i was impersonating a guy called rubisco-dumb IMAGINE

Avant-garde house music between lofi- and minimal / deep house, techno, glitch and electronica, plunderphonics and house, the Westend Ghetto Guys somehow occupy a niche of their own and live from strange glitches and bizarre sounds. Bootleg remixes and mashups for 'iamamiwhoami' also lead to an official remix ("N") and collaborations with other musicians (e.g. 3PM, Minute Taker, Christopher Norman, Klordop / Tis, Morgen Wurde) from the Swedish pioneers of viral video chips. Not surprisingly, the collective from the Westend Ghetto even published sample libraries for the renowned magazine "Computer Music" and for the 'sounds2sample'-Platform and offers highly acclaimed "ensembles" in the Reaktor community ("Native Instruments").

New tracks tagged #DIAL