Rush rush! So nice to catch the train @&@!!

EEN.002 23.05.2023

Wata Igarashi B2b Kangding Ray - Dantz Point Athens (Greece)

JakoJako (@jakojako_live) always wanted to make music and her self-confessed hyperactivity ultimately led to her getting the most joy out of playing about with machines and patching up synths. These days the Berghain resident is a celebrated live act and DJ who draws on the considerable knowledge she picked up working at Berlin's legendary synth shop SchneidersLaden, but she has also worked on several high-profile motion sensor dance projects at places like The Royal Albert Hall. Her smart sound designs and unique rhythms have landed on Leisure System, Tresor and Figure and she has a new EP coming on Mute this June.

Her mix for us this week features a sneak preview of one of the tracks from that EP as well as mixing up music from Alaric, Siege, Altinbas and many more. It's full of high-speed sounds couched loosely in techno but with moods and textures borrowed from industrial, minimal and even trance as things reach an emotional peak late on. Though she broke through as a live act, this set shows JakoJako can now speak just as freely through the decks.

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Zenker Brothers — Live From The Cause (ILIAN TAPE x TRANSMISSIONS — DEC '23)

Here's the recording of my set at Nowadays Nonstop on Feb 12th, 3-6am

endless gratitude to DJ Voices https://soundcloud.com/latenitesbookclub for the opportunity to do my thing in total freedom

Piezo @ Nowadays Nonstop NYC 17/02/24

Munich meets Miami in a B2B that's a dream come true. A perfect brew of DnB, hip hop, techno, ambient, and bouncy mesh brings together two of the scene's most innovative forces. Skee Mask, the master of acoustic manipulation and dark atmospheric textures, teams up with childhood friends duo INVT, with their hypnotic, trippy Latin-scented audioscapes and intricate drum programming. An immaculate blend of INVT's gritty rhythms and Skee Mask's otherworldly sonic engineering.

INVT b2b Skee Mask - Climate Of Fear - April '24

My set closing out Room 2 on the Saturday night of Freerotation 2024.

Pariah @ Freerotation 2024, Baskerville Hall, UK (06/07/24)

b2b DJ set from @yafan-chang and @pevin-l from ANKR's release party event for Taro's Nock EP

available now on bandcamp
https://ankr.bandcamp.com/album/nock-akr005

recorded live in Taipei at Rabbit Hole 12.28.25

"Nock" Release Party - DJ just a party girl b2b Melting 99

@tarotunes Taro's DJ set from ANKR's release event for his recently released "Nock" EP 

available now on bandcamp
https://ankr.bandcamp.com/album/nock-akr005

recorded live in Taipei at Rabbit Hole 12.28.25 

"Nock" Release Party - Taro

The in-demand US DJ unfurls dubby, dance floor poetry.

Where does sentimentality fit on the dance floor? For Liv Klutse, AKA livwutang, the answer is everywhere. The New York-based DJ is guided by a deep desire to stir connection, finding themes and points of correspondence across an impressively broad range of sounds, tempos and eras. 

This emotional intuition lends Klutse's sets a depth few others can match. Her selections can seem unpredictable, rooted in an appreciation for feeling over genre—hard and soft sounds are carefully balanced with surrealism and bursts of nostalgia (for instance, the Lazy Dog bootleg edit of Everything But The Girl's "Tracey In My Room"). But as versatile as she is, a few signature traits colour her style, such as a love for dubwise music and rhythms from across the Black diaspora, alongside a refreshingly introspective energy that invites dancers to find moments of meditation—even during peak time. 

A former staffer at our New York office, Klutse has long merited an RA Podcast. Her slow-burning blends and mystical selections have graced near-enough every major festival and club out there, from Dekmantel and Sustain-Release to Nowadays, where she's been a resident since 2022. Despite this cross-continental touring schedule, she still plays plenty of grassroots venues—testament to her days with TUF collective and Orphan Radio in Seattle, as well as her enduring belief in the power of DIY, community-orientated dance music. 

"How did you come down off life?" James Massiah asks at the beginning of RA.975. Across nearly 90 minutes, Klutse's downright beautiful mix seeks answers to this question, reflecting on hedonism in times of political decay. She's in full-on dub mode, moving through meditative bassweight, glitchy house and flat-out weirdo techno with a deftness we've come to expect from one of the most promising, singular voices in dance music right now. She's got there all on her own terms—and we couldn't be prouder.

@livwutang

Read more and find the tracklist ra.co/podcast/975

RA.975 livwutang

w&p by Taro
mastered by Brian Sanhaji at CALYX Mastering
artwork by Walking Designs & Trae Gould
released February 4, 2022

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Upcoming:
10.7.25 B Sides, Rabbit Hole, Taipei, Taiwan
11.7.25 Final [ANKR 5 Year Anv.], Taipei, Taiwan
19.7.25 LIVE - DAO [Sono Debut], Taichung, Taiwan

Past:
20.6.25 Revolver, Taipei, Taiwan
14.6.25 Double Check, Taipei, Taiwan
7.6.25 Fumu, Taipei, Taiwan
20.4.25 Alishan Mountain, Taiwan
20.10.24 LIVE Wandering Sound Festival, Taipei, Taiwan
11.4.23 LIVE Petrichor, Hsinchu, Taiwan
10.2.23 Roderich, Berlin
03.2.23 Renate, Berlin
19.1.23 KollektivBar ES, Berlin

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