Introducing @hamatsuki, DJ, Producer and live performer from Tbilisi, Georgia. As a day one resident of Horoom / Bassiani he’s a vivid part of the local scene while his productions for iconic labels like Further Electronics, Apnea and Georgian labels Fantastic Planet and Mind Controlled Rectifier made him known to the international crowd. His DJ sets and live performances are celebrated for their energy and versatility, delivering a diverse range of vibes that captivate electronic dance music lovers worldwide.

GENAU #141 HAMATSUKI || 01/05/2025

There’s beauty in chaos and method to madness, that much is true to the work of this faceless duo from Sweden. SHXCXCHCXSH’s strain of anarchic noise has sparked conversations and head-spinning records ever since the two producers first swapped notes in 2009. For about a decade, Hannes Stenström and Emmanuel Pascal Moreno stayed out of the public eye as a matter of principle, stripping music to its very base, without the weight of prejudice and social context holding it back: ’we prefer to listen to music in the dark, preferably without knowing who made it, when or how’. From the chaos and their loyalty to instinct came the need to find new structures, and so their faceless records united around a theme or musical element. It was a gamble, but their sledgehammer destruction of techno conventions gave some of the most intriguing sounds of the 2010s. Sampling everything from podcasts to YouTube to field recordings, they’re always on the hunt for ‘in-between’, ‘unintentional’ details, a way to composite the strangest and most innovative techno out there. Their staggering releases on Avian pioneered new sounds (and track names), and successfully manufactured the type of music you could hear both at home and in clubs; and 2024 saw them resurrect their Rösten imprint with the release of DO, an infernal four-tracker made for the dancefloor. Bassiani Podcast 257 explores that format further, bringing their stabbing and psychedelic havoc to a crowd facing setting. Immersive and heavy-duty, this one’s an hour-long clip of their snake-pit percussions, mind-bending techno from the enigmatic Norrköping duo.

@shxcxchcxsh

Bassiani invites SHXCXCHCXSH [live] / Podcast #257

Viennese DJ/Producer Alpha Tracks is best-known as a fleet-footed champion for contemporary neo-trance. Where others to the north of the genre’s beginnings are breathing new life into the musical style, Felix Benedikt holds down the fort in the east, deriving his intrinsic link to its forms from the early millennium record-digging. With releases on imprints like Blue Hour, Ute.Rec., his very own Morbid and newly pressed <AIR WAYS> bristling with scrappy basslines, the shape of his mission is sharp in focus, a revival and reconfiguration of those 90s sounds into something modern and loaded with relevance. Striking parallels with the speed of data in our modern landscape could be made with trance’s newfound acceptance, but for Felix it’s something inherently felt. Logic demands respite, and his palette has changed to suit an equal need for interiority, a slower pace and the psychic realm. Enter Zenaari Mix 017: this latest episode turns down the tempo and strips away the kick of his bellicose basslines for a pure and surrealist patchwork of prophetic sounds. Rapid eye melodies that conjure up a dark side to Alpha Tracks’ moon. Weird and beautiful frequencies from Vienna’s veteran artist.

@alpha-tracks-official

1. The Future Sound of London – Cascade
2. Subdub - Monuments On Earth
3. Donato Dozzy - Personal Rock
4. Robert Rich & B. Lustmord - Delusion Fields
5. Biosphere & Deathprod - Journey To The Centre Of The First, Pt.2 
6. Alpha Tracks - December (Nino Stelzl Remix)
7. Richie Hawtin - Concept 1 96 :12 24:00
8. A Strange Wedding - Wormhole Breaker (Patrick Russell Remix) 
9. David Sylvian – Epiphany
10. Biosphere - Ancient Campfire
11. Terre Thaemlitz - Subjective Loss, Day 83
12. MLO - Birds & Flutes
13. Silence - While Angels Sleep
14. Datacide - Data Haiku
15. Aphex Twin - #20
16. Terre Thaemlitz - 2AM on a Silo
17. Labradford - Air Lubricated Free Axis Trainer
18. Biosphere – Shade
19. Plastikman - Cor Ten
20. Plastikman – Consumed
21. nthng - Monk Teknois
22. Eternal Basement - Switch The Things
23. Om - Human Love
24. Biosphere – Hyperborea
25. Carl Craig – Sandstorms
26. nthng - Two People
27. Tetsu Inoue - Magnetic Field
28. Philipp Pettauer - Coming Full Spiral
29. Europa - V

Zenaari Mix 017 - Alpha Tracks

Psyk is a key player in Spanish techno, an acclaimed talent with firm emphasis on deep, repetitive loops. He has become synonymous with high-quality, trippy and smart as a tack rhythms. For the last two decades since he started out on Madrid’s clandestine rave beat, he’s developed and advanced a sound to near perfection: raw and technically agile, pelagic echoes from the abyss that have shifted with their changing times. 2011 saw him launch the widely renowned Non Series, a platform releasing the work of similar vein artists like DJ Nobu, Architectural, Neel, Nastia Reigel, Tauceti, Blawan, Luigi Tozzi, Function and Rrose, generating buzz and ardent following. His own releases on labels like Mote Evolver, Semantica and Tresor, intermittent forays on his own label under the alias Maan, as well as his co-project Second Skin (est. 2022) alongside fellow Madrileño Oscar Mulero have been slowly gaining traction in a contemporary music landscape replete with talent. Though the rate of productions is decelerating his touring schedule marches forward at full tilt, adding recent Bassiani dates to those at a list of must-play venues like Fabric, Berghain, Fuse, Tresor and Amsterdam’s shuttered DeSchool. His expert drones and algorithmic beat patterns are in a process of continuing evolution and whatever comes next is sure to be even better than his already outstanding catalogue of work. Bassiani Podcast 258 is an 80-minute expedition into a murky world of Psyk’s design, sweeping and purist techno from this heavyweight selector. 

@psyk

Bassiani invites Psyk / Podcast #258

Soppgirobygget - BASSIANI (MIDDSNÄRT REMIX)

It’s back to the Norwegian woods with Mikkel Rev for Bassiani Podcast 259. Alongside Oprofessionel he moonlights as Omformer, and co-spearheads the Oslo-based UTE collective, famous for offering mystical forest raves, memorable club nights and their take-home recordings via digital/vinyl outlet UTE.REC (and sub-label Translusid). Trance is the main thrust, but an updated and savvy manifestation of it that’s more than suited to 2025, furnishing its breakneck rhythms with the experimental slant of its IDM and ambient forebears. It’s an elevated approach to a known genre, and perhaps at the bleeding edge of its future potential, keeping sound and woodland birthplace tethered crucial to its mission. As well as a number of EPs out on his homespun label, he’s apt to explore the fringes of his sound and export its singular voice across the map: intelligent trance with a strong emotional charge. This latest instalment keeps that promise with Mikkel on top form, an hour of cathartic beats recorded live at Bassiani: supernatural and stylish fare for sylvan nighttime gatherings.

@mikkel-rev

Bassiani invites Mikkel Rev [live] / Podcast #259

DJ Sodeyama’s been around since the 90s, a Tokyo-based whizz and DJ’s DJ, whose career has offered the type of sound many selectors would envy. It’s incredibly sharp, meandering along its intelligent thread in unexpected and high-minded ways. Since the early noughties he could add producer to his soubriquet too, flexing his minimal muscle with early releases, a steady stream of ensuing ventures further cementing his craft via Korean-based deep techno distributor Artscope, Dynamic Reflection, illegal alien, Daybreak and many more. He’s also explored adjacent genres and ventured into the world of house under his parallel alias The People In Fog. Pretty full plate, but the quality of his sound has suffered nothing for it. His techno is an expert tapestry of interlaced details and lingering moods, injected with raw feeling and undeniable skill. It darts from peak to peak, fusing frequencies riddled with forward-pitched elements and vivid effects, and forges a long-range feeling that abuts the realm of both man and machine. Thick and volatile techno that serves as proof that the genre can keep expanding outwards in fresh and surprising ways. Bassiani Podcast 260 moves the needle further, it's quintessential Sodeyama: vivid climbs and steep descents, warped vocal samples, brave and unbending beats for prime-time raving.

@arparecords

Bassiani invites DJ Sodeyama / Podcast #260

Selector Session – Kvanchi [SSKI004]

Selector Session serisinin bu haftaki konuğu, komşu ülkemiz Gürcistan’dan dostumuz Kvanchi. 

Bassiani’nin resident DJ’i ve Bassiani Records’un label manager’ı olarak sahnenin merkezindeki yerini koruyan Kvanchi, bu kayıtta arşivinin trippy ve trance etkili parçalarına yöneliyor. 

Minimal groove’larla örülü, sade ama derin yapılı bu set, dinleyiciyi hipnotik bir ses dünyasına davet ediyor.

Tiflis’te yükselen protestoların gölgesinde, Kvanchi bu seti hem sahnede hem de toplumsal alanda sesini duyuran bir sanatçı olarak sunuyor. 

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This week’s Selector Session features our good friend Kvanchi from our neighboring country, Georgia. 

A resident of the iconic Bassiani and label manager at Bassiani Records, Kvanchi dives into the more trancey and trippy corners of his collection. 

Built around minimal grooves and stripped-down rhythms, the set delivers a hypnotic, carefully crafted journey through his distinct sonic world.

Recorded in the midst of ongoing protests in Tbilisi, this mix arrives with quiet weight — a reminder of how music and resistance often move side by side.

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https://soundcloud.com/kvanchi

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Selector Session - Kvanchi [SSKI004]

Recorded live at Horoom in mid-March comes this next instalment from Copenhagen representative Martin Gilleshøj. The DJ, co-founder of KUNE music and arts festival, co-founder of Axces Recordings (and their event series), and head at vinyl dispensary Proton Records is a bulwark of the Danish scene. Alongside pals like previous Bassiani Podcast guest Kasper Marott, Søren Kinch and Popmix he’s been key to his city’s cultural offer, blending groovy dancefloor tracks irrespective of narrow genre categorisations with a focus on high-energy nighttime turnouts. It’s a witty spin on clubland fare, iconoclastic and highly danceable stuff that keeps the happy chemicals unanimously flowing. Another plate to spin: he also now runs Buttheads, an intimate club series turned into a record label for the work of selected friends. Through all these outlets, Martin unravels the common thread that binds his work together, laying open a mix of styles and developing something fresh in their coming together. For Bassiani Podcast 261 Gilleshøj flexes his DJ muscles and delivers three hours of wobbly prime time bangers. Fluid, shapeshifting and soulful rhythms, slick selecting flawlessly woven together, a gradual build that perfectly epitomises Horoom’s spirit. This is a sweaty, long haul set from the Danish polymath and clubfloor mischief-maker.

@martin_gilleshoej

Bassiani invites Martin Gilleshøj / Podcast #261

Rising from the shadows comes a 90-minute blend of hang-tough beats for this latest in the Bassiani Podcast series. This one comes by way of Kaytseng, a Taiwanese transplant in the Netherlands who cut her teeth down under while playing Melbourne’s local circuit. Though the Amsterdam relocation’s only two years old, the move’s already budding a promising path for her sinister sound and bringing her into the European techno fold. Think merciless fast-trance, gritty and thrashing sounds that pack a punch with every beat, it’s a measure of brutal craftwork for footloose and die-hard raving, tough and highly physical. Her warpspeed tempos are racking up a following, and her Berghain debut as part of the CRUDE roster’s reared a long-term residency with the Berlin label to boot. Her sets are fun and quick on the draw and this latest one’s not afraid to show it. Kaytseng delivers an hour and a half of pulse-quickening rhythms that ramp up and roll to the hilt for Bassiani Podcast 262, rattling clicks and primeval bass, apocalypse ready techno that’s breathing fresh life into the global scene. The future of sound is fast approaching and this Taiwan selector’s both emergent defender and catalysing force.

@kay_tseng

Bassiani invites Kaytseng / Podcast #262

OCLK-Kast 047 : : 3AM @ana-marjanidze

3AM drifts through the twilight hours of sound with emotional depth and quiet intensity. Based in Tbilisi, Ana Marjanidze weaves tangled narratives that speak sincerity and soul. Her sets explore the borderlands of deep and atmospheric, forging intimate moments. A co-founder of the FLINTA* series at Bassiani, she channels her feminist ethos into action amplifying underrepresented voices in the electronic music landscape. As a representative for Support the Sound in collaboration with Aslice, she furthers a vision of community and equity in sound. Guided by empathy and driven by purpose, 3AM invites us into a space where music becomes connection.

მადლობა, Ana.

OCLK-Kast 047 : : 3AM

Founding member of Axces Recordings and Danish DJ/producer Kasper Marott returns to the Bassiani airwaves with a Zenaari edition that studies a much more phrenic side of his musical world. Driven by instinct, his work reflects a single minded aversion to commercial orthodoxy and the regular grind of a 40 hour work week: it’s all about feeling and a passion for creating the sounds that have kept him and his Copenhagen crew together, ‘nature, friends, family, home’. Forget the springy beats and dulcet melodies this time round, here is something entirely different and new. In stark contrast to his catalogue of jovial anthems, the likes of breakthrough hit Keflavik and 2021’s Mini Trance, Kasper’s inward-looking work slows those rhythms right down and investigates the possibilities of a sound much more restricted in palette. It’s a surprising turnaround for someone whose name evokes the breezy basslines of open-air jaunts, one packed with vibrating synths, understated instrumentals, and the electronic crackling of a wood fire on a balmy summer night. Zenaari Mix 018 is Kasper Marott like you’ve never heard him before, far from the dancefloor and burdening constraints of a rave context, Zenaari gives his inner world a voice, and the result is a rich, human and deep-toned 67 minute cut recorded in studio for this latest in the series.

@kaspermarott



Zenaari Mix 018 - Kasper Marott

A descent through pulsating shadows, warped frequencies, and raw industrial textures.

Tratu (Original Mix) – Submerge
Disappear inside – Oscar Mulero
Celestial Sphere – Lewis Fautzi
Dungeon's Theme – AgainstMe/Red Rooms
Curiosity (Mike Parker Remix) – Abstract Man
Between The Lines – Uun
Preso De Las Sombras – Nwhr
Tension – Hadone
Katu – NØRBAK
Bolt – Planetary Assault Systems
Cosmic Glasses (Original Mix) – Oscar Mulero
Total Black – A4
Traveller – Escape to Mars
Syntanoma – Tensal
Never Surrender – Pfirter
Blood Stream – Ryogo Yamamori
Doppler Effect – Lindsey Herbert
First Stop the Moon – A4
Searchlight – Toru Katsu

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Khrys – Echoes of the Void [Hypnotic / Raw Techno Set]

This next guest is part of a new generation of talent coming from Japan and slowly taking over the world. Cutting her teeth on the dancefloors of Tokyo, imus is a significant and perennial player on her local scene. She’s played at Keep Hush, contributed mixes to NTS Radio and delivered her mentally challenging techno to audiences at DJ Nobu’s Future Terror parties. At the end of 2023, she also launched eulb, an event series sitting at the ‘intersection of machine, band and dance that focuses on the aesthetic aspects of electronic and spiritual sounds’. Inspired by techno, bass and all things experimental, her work pulls heavily from her context at the centre of the Japanese sound, but pushes it further and develops something unique to her own experience. Her sets are large format trips into the strange realms of her mind-altering frequencies, sonorous and full-bodied ripples and beats that explore the fringes of dance music in all of its forms. Bassiani Podcast 264 channels imus’ deep-toned techno in an hour long instalment that rattles and pulsates with riveting atmospheres and firebrand rhythms. All out techno from an up-and-coming selector.

@imus_dj



Bassiani invites imus / Podcast #264

Bulgarian-born, Oslo-based talent Kameliia’s sound leaves little room for misunderstanding. It’s ghostly, powerful and mesmerising stuff that leans on a wealth of inspiration from peers and the likes of Burial’s shadowy UK dubstep. Having studied music for four years, the production of sounds comes naturally, and on the dancefloor she’s given the space to test those personal and unreleased experiments in situ; that feedback is part of the process. Her sets too follow a formula, and a narrative thread that builds from more sparsely populated compositions to maximal, high-intensity techno, a vertical trip of the purest calibre. The threatening and world-shaking sounds she’s come to be known for have coalesced into a number of well-received productions, and made her a solid collaborator for names such as Amotik, Rødhåd and Setaoc Mass; it would be hard to imagine better company for the work she’s doing. Her cavernous and highly spiritual sound is soaked in gritty textures and characterized by a generous dosing of formidable bass, enough to get blood-flowing and her calendar packed with names like Berghain, Fold, Fuse and essaim. For Bassiani Podcast 265 Kameliia delivers a masterclass in atmosphere building, a skittish and salient addition to the Podcast series, you might want to buckle up.

@kameliia-music

Bassiani invites Kameliia / Podcast #265

NORMA (Hybrid Live)

A trip thru minimal & techno mixed by Revar Lagelli. Enjoy!

4hminmix 11/7-25

SHDW is the phantom moniker of Marco Bläsi, a Stuttgart native with a penchant for racing percussions and big room sounds. 2014 saw the beginning of his long-term partnership with like-minded techno dealer Obscure Shape (Luigi Urban), with whom he co-ran the party series and label spin-off From Another Mind. Ten years later and Bläsi has set out on his own journey, building on a decade-long legacy of sounds with just himself, ‘his music, decks, and a mixer’. Following on from his previous label, he founded Mutual Rytm in 2022, an outlet and creative platform focused on putting out the type of expansive techno SHDW’s come to be known for. His signature style a blend of intelligently superimposed and shuffling basslines, blink of an eye beats that elicit movement and social bonds. Unerring prime time techno, Bläsi’s path forward is looking promising, with a surge of Mutual Rytm releases and worldwide dates, the next ten years look set to further build on what he’s achieved since he started out. Bassiani Podcast 267 is a true to type episode from this master of the genre, a sleek and contemporary spate of rumbling kicks, dizzying effects and hedonic vibrations, a chugging and groovy 65 minute edition with SHDW’s fingerprints all over it.

Bassiani invites SHDW / Podcast #267

Professionell Midsnärtare
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Indipendent Techno label (vinyl & digital) from Turin (Italy) run by Gandalf, Exilles & Kessa & most prominent Italian Techno Podcast series.

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Organising events and festivals, keeping a finger on the pulse of the city and hosting the biggest names in electronic music from 2012 until today, Kite has played a huge role in sparking a new music scene to become one of the most rooted venues in Ankara today.

Başkent'te yeni bir müzikal kültürün kıvılcımlanmasında önemli bir rolü olan, Ankara’nın en köklü klübü Kite;  2012'den bugüne kadar elektronik müziğin en önemli isimlerine ev sahipliği yapmış, organize ettiği festivaller ve etkinliklerle ile şehrin eğlence nabzını tutan bir mekandır.

Porto imprint label and event promoter est. since 2019.

Infused deep platform taking form through a sense of communion between image and sound as two parallel realities.

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