A surefire provider of deep, complex weapons for the dance floor and beyond, French-born, Berlin-based artist Kangding Ray has been minting some of the most strikingly unique techno records in recent memory. His body of work for some of the most reputed record labels out there, including Raster Noton, Stroboscopic Artefacts and his own outlet, ara, cuts an introspective path, halfway modular-leaning escapology and beat-driven abstraction. From his background in architecture, his musical approach retains that fondness for structure and the creation, or re-creation of space, both as an actual object and a mental projection. Immerse yourself into KR's minutely designed headspace with this two-hour deep and intimate audio dive. 

soundcloud.com/kangding-ray

Reclaim Your City 

Reclaim Your City 602 | Kangding Ray

Taking over our next instalment, Tokyo's sensation Elli Arakawa punches in the series with two hours of full-immersion atmospheric techno and deep, dubbed-out folds. Running the gamut elegantly from textured tapestries of sound to kaleidoscopic 4x4 wares, through acid-drenched extrapolations and further poetic drifts across spacious sonic wildlands, Arakawa's mix eases us in an ambiguous realm where sheer DJ functionality rubs shoulders with ethereal abstraction and hyperconscious escapology. One for the lovers of breath-holding dives and riveting techno panoramas. 

soundcloud.com/elli-arakawa

Reclaim Your City

Reclaim Your City 603 | Elli Arakawa

Active since the late ‘90s, Amsterdam-based DJ and producer Dimi Angélis needs no introduction. Boasting a catalogue of the highest order with releases for countless spearheading techno outlets including MORD, Axis, Warm Up, Construct Re-Form, KEY and his own imprint, ANGLS, Dimi has been laying down slab after slab of uncompromising rave material, naturally bridging the gap between trance-inducing big room sonics, sizzling machine funk and left-of-centre divagations into further abstract, noise-adjacent territories. Rugged to the bone, his sound is a call to creative arms, blurring the frontier between full-fledged floor functionality and the deep, intimate expression of the inner turmoils of our age. Enter the room for two hours of seditious, no-bs techno with a true-school, future-facing edge. Slam-dunking the status quo 💯🔥

soundcloud.com/dimi-angelis

Reclaim Your City 604 | Dimi Angélis

Fabric resident duo Tapefeed steps in with a two-hour epic jaunt into their shape-shifting, floor-efficient mindset. Having recently launched their own record label, Inveterate, the pair drops by with the heavyweight wares and mind-expanding transitions on this podcast. Lithely moving the cursor from hi-impact material to laser-guided brain hacks, Tapefeed treats us to a deluge of galloping grooves, frenzied dubs and no-nonsense analogue hoodoo, swiftly shifting gear from Birmingham-style tempi to more straightforward big-room buildups. Dashing across all 909 blazing, their set harnesses the hydraulic power of a tsunami so you better buckle up for the fierce drenching ahead.

soundcloud.com/tapefeed

Reclaim Your City 605 | Tapefeed

You’ve been waiting for it, and so have we, RYC’s next frequency-jammer comes in the form of a heavyweight split 4-tracker, courtesy of two true techno pioneering figures: Mike Parker and Steve Bicknell. The continued influence of these two artists on both our early raving days and now as a team working on providing you the most exciting, boundary-pushing tech wares is second to none. As you’ll experience from the four jams constitutive of this unparalleled mindtrip of an EP, ‘In The Years Ahead’ is the living evidence the steadfastness of Parker and Bicknell's vision remains absolutely untouched. 

Zeroed in on taking ravers on an entrancing ride across pulsating corridors of whirring machine funk, sizzling acid and shape-shifting waves of sound, both sides of this EP share the best lot of both producers’ uniquely innovative approach to rhythm and production. Parker’s opening cut, ’Solar Limb’ is a textbook example of his complex, and heavily layered sound-design. An unflinching swing keeping time, brutal kicks punching holes in your head like giant steel hammers, the track may evolve slowly, repeating its post-industrial mantra over and over again, its flame doesn’t flicker one iota. Switching onto red-level dance floor menace, ‘Badlands’ pulls out the heavy artillery: an overkill bombardment of puncturing 909 drums, vortical winds blowing in the back like some solar storm of sorts, and this ebb-and-flow of FX-drenched synth ripples branded on your cortex like odd signs of cult belonging.

Bicknell’s takeover starts with the rugged and wild ‘Chaotic World’, whose title is definitely not usurped. Enter a blazing maelstrom of frantic synth assault knocked askew, intense bass tectonic movements and smashing arpeggios on the path of war. The track develops a massive momentum, swelling from primordial raw matter into weirdly arranged modular constructions, like that of Kubrick’s monolith emerging with ominous presence. ‘In The Years Ahead’ serves up a much distinctively elegant, glossy type of textural experience, synths playing pong in a hall of mirrors, interlacing and distorting as the percussive line unfolds its linear train-like groove. It dashes across landscapes of hypermodern glass and concrete with unrelenting horsepower, from techno’s early sanctuary right up onto tomorrow's temple of unmapped potentialities. 

*This much special release, so dear to our heart, comes clad in a beautiful piece of design by Atact, and will be pressed to 180g audiophile quality vinyl for an enhanced listening experience.

A1 written & produced by Mike Parker
A2 written & produced by Mike Parker
B1 written & produced by Steve Bicknell
B2 written & produced by Steve Bicknell
Distributed by Clone Distribution Rotterdam
Artwork & design by Atact.uk
Cat. no. RYCL022 – All Rights Reserved
℗ & © Reclaim Your City 2024
www.reclaimyourcity.bandcamp.com

RYCL022 - Steve Bicknell - In The Years Ahead

RYCL022 - Steve Bicknell - Chaotic World

RYCL022 - Mike Parker - Badlands

RYCL022 - Mike Parker - Solar Limb

Recorded by @psyk for The Memoir, 2025.
All tracks are written and produced by @psyk.
Artwork by Gabriella Holmström.
Curated by Hypnus Records.

00:00 Psyk - Overture [Semantica]
02:36 Psyk - Untitled [Kvalia]
07:07 Psyk - Night Currents [Non Series]
10:35 Psyk - Acid Test [Tresor]
14:35 Psyk - Cascade [On Board]
17:20 Psyk - 1000 Tribes [Non Series]
22:45 Psyk - Bell Tair [Non Series]
25:08 Psyk - Hiss [Non Series]
29:25 Psyk - Outline [Non Series]
33:15 Psyk - Deep Breath [Tresor]
37:44 Luigi Tozzi - Psyk Remix [Non Series]
41:10 Psyk - Disconnected [Non Series]
45:36 Psyk - Organic [RYC]
48:25 Psyk - Waves [Tresor]
51:50 Psyk - Apart [Mote-Evolver]
55:30 Psyk - Grain [Tresor]
58:00 Deepbass - Nova (Psyk Remix) [Informa]
1:01:03 Psyk & Orbe - Liquid Drop [Nwhite]
1:07:00 Reeko & Psyk - Withstand the Light of Day [Mental Disorder]
1:10:00 Psyk - Vortex [Non Series]
1:13:00 Psyk - Nine [Mote-Evolver]
1:17:00 Psyk - Out of Sight [Nwhite]
1:19:00 Psyk & Orbe - Untitled [Nwhite]
1:23:00 Psyk - Decoder [Timeline]
1:27:20 Psyk & Orbe - Maths [Mote-Evolver]
1:30:00 Psyk - Fear Of Sleep (Edit) [Non Series]
1:34:00 Psyk - Sideral [Semantica]

Love and light

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This is the new RTRGRD Dark & Raw Techno-Mix!
Enjoy & go crazy
Thank you for listening Retrograd Music!
Don´t forget...
make LOVE & NOT WAR!
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RTRGRD - Parallel Future #5

Continuing his exploration of intricate techno systems, their effect and direct perimeter of action, Peter Van Hoesen turns in his newest four-track piece, ‘Prime Directive’: a fascinating dive into the artist’s shape-shifting headspace and inner creative chaos.

Fuelled on a furnace-hot mix of abstract-leaning immersion and hi-octane rhythmic thrust, ‘Prime Directive’ looks at contemporary techno from the angle of experimentation and intuitive abandon. The result comes in the form of four distinct movements, each carving out their own logic and associated behaviour out an endless pool of potentialities. Here comes chaology unfolding in all its unadulterated, visceral glory.

‘Definition by Absence’ breaks the trip in to the sound of a faux-random symphony: its train-like swing and fiery bass seesaw coalesce through an elliptic fluttering of sorts, iterative and not, patterns moving in and out of synchronicity as Van Hoesen applies more or less pressure on both ends. All in gusty in-your-face-ness, ‘Variables Edit 1’ whirls and swirls like an ominous vengeance of nature; Its puncturing kicks and whistling menace set against stellar winds and rabid machinery on the prowl for its next victim.

An even more unsettling piece of disjointedly arrhythmic, anti-club music for the dance floor, ‘Prime Directive’ will have you zoning out like a bad dream, flush with metronome-faced monsters and molten clocks hanging from dead trees. ‘Morphology’ could be PVH’s attempt at giving his concepts a carnal carcass to hold onto. Here, rhythm becomes somewhat less erratic, offering his 360-degree vision more melodic surface and actual room for dispersion. One to keep the boundaries pushed and status-quo challenged, this is techno at its most entrancingly bold and fearless.

*This new monster four-track classic-in-the-making from Peter Van Hoesen comes draped in a fine piece of artwork courtesy of Atact, and pressed in 180g audiophile quality so you get to experience the Belgian master's chiselled sound design in all its glory.

Written & Produced by Peter Van Hoesen
Distributed by Clone Distribution Rotterdam
Mastering by Peter Van Hoesen
Artwork & Design by Atact.uk
Cat. no. RYCL023 – All Rights Reserved
℗ & © Reclaim Your City 2025
www.reclaimyourcity.bandcamp.com

Prime Directive

Order

RYCL023 - Peter Van Hoesen - Morphology

RYCL023 - Peter Van Hoesen - Prime Directive

RYCL023 - Peter Van Hoesen - Variables Edit 1

Continuing his exploration of intricate techno systems, their effect and direct perimeter of action, Peter Van Hoesen turns in his newest four-track piece, ‘Prime Directive’: a fascinating dive into the artist’s shape-shifting headspace and inner creative chaos.

Fuelled on a furnace-hot mix of abstract-leaning immersion and hi-octane rhythmic thrust, ‘Prime Directive’ looks at contemporary techno from the angle of experimentation and intuitive abandon. The result comes in the form of four distinct movements, each carving out their own logic and associated behaviour out an endless pool of potentialities. Here comes chaology unfolding in all its unadulterated, visceral glory.

‘Definition by Absence’ breaks the trip in to the sound of a faux-random symphony: its train-like swing and fiery bass seesaw coalesce through an elliptic fluttering of sorts, iterative and not, patterns moving in and out of synchronicity as Van Hoesen applies more or less pressure on both ends. All in gusty in-your-face-ness, ‘Variables Edit 1’ whirls and swirls like an ominous vengeance of nature; Its puncturing kicks and whistling menace set against stellar winds and rabid machinery on the prowl for its next victim.

An even more unsettling piece of disjointedly arrhythmic, anti-club music for the dance floor, ‘Prime Directive’ will have you zoning out like a bad dream, flush with metronome-faced monsters and molten clocks hanging from dead trees. ‘Morphology’ could be PVH’s attempt at giving his concepts a carnal carcass to hold onto. Here, rhythm becomes somewhat less erratic, offering his 360-degree vision more melodic surface and actual room for dispersion. One to keep the boundaries pushed and status-quo challenged, this is techno at its most entrancingly bold and fearless.

*This new monster four-track classic-in-the-making from Peter Van Hoesen comes draped in a fine piece of artwork courtesy of Atact, and pressed in 180g audiophile quality so you get to experience the Belgian master's chiselled sound design in all its glory.

Written & Produced by Peter Van Hoesen
Distributed by Clone Distribution Rotterdam
Mastering by Peter Van Hoesen
Artwork & Design by Atact.uk 
Cat. no. RYCL023 – All Rights Reserved 
℗ & © Reclaim Your City 2025
www.reclaimyourcity.bandcamp.com

RYCL023 - Peter Van Hoesen - Definition by Absence

The twenty fourth transmission from RYC comes courtesy of not one, but two artists we greatly admire. Joining forces on a split truly like no other, Japanese maestro Wata Igarashi and Munich’s own multi-faceted genius Polygonia step up with the magnetic ‘Cross Passage’ - a four-track journey at the junction of their respective universes, teleporting us straight to a propulsive, mind-expanding headspace as we’re invited to explore sonic territories still uncharted and harmonics yet unravelled.

The collaborative A-side begins with the dynamic title-track, ‘Cross Passage’, a proactively future-facing number packing the kind of utopian drive that used to define the original techno sound. A highly cinematic narrative boasting Detroit-style vision and epic breath, ‘Cross Passage’ builds bridges between hi-tech elation and organic integration, transcending mere functionality to push back and expand the limits of techno as a deep communication vessel between the individual and the mass. Firing off like a binary script gone astray, ‘Fibre Axis’ takes us on a further bumpy ride across shape-shifting interfaces and blurred-out digital scapes, via abrupt pixel landslides and fractured 3D renderings.

Side-B finds each producer dishing out a slice of his/her own musical idiom. Polygonia strikes first with the pulsating ‘Voltage Blues’ - a mesmeric roller cut from pure eerie synth algebra, boundary-pushing abstraction and surgical but experimental-leaning rhythmic assault. The result is a piece of cutting-edge techno hoodoo, ready to take on clubs with utmost abrasive swagger. Sniping a hail of rainbow-like analogue synth outpour, Wata Igarashi’s solo contribution ’The Tunnel Dreams’ rounds off the journey on a fiercely nonconformist note. Merging a hard-hitting main swing with 8-bit-esque audio pointillism and brooding bass undertones, the Japanese producer cuts a path of antigravitational abandon and relentless rush towards absolving euphoria, which shall leave all in the room levitating somewhere between sheer daze and love-thirsty XTC.

*Clad in the sleekest cover art courtesy of designer Atact, RYCL024 is pressed to red & white marbled vinyl for you, fancy platter collectors and picky audio-visual aesthetes alike.

Written & Produced by Wata Igarashi & Polygonia
Distributed by Clone Distribution Rotterdam
Mastering by Artefacts Mastering Berlin
Artwork & Design by Atact.uk
Cat. no. RYCL024 – All Rights Reserved
℗ & © Reclaim Your City 2025
www.reclaimyourcity.bandcamp.com


Cross Passage

RYCL024 - Polygonia - Voltage Blues

RYCL024 - Wata Igarashi & Polygonia - Fibre Axis

RYCL024 - Wata Igarashi - The Tunnel Dreams

RYCL024 - Wata Igarashi & Polygonia - Cross Passage

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