Name: Bruised Knees (AxxhimK & Taro) by Taro
Duration: 5 min 54 s
Description: @achim-klenk aka AxxhimK and I wrote this track 5 years ago on a cold winter night in Berlin. It's 2 analog oscillators that melt into each other.

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

EEN.002 23.05.2023

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

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

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

Skee's insight through his daily listening habits, from guilty pleasures to casual recommendations and in between... 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/skee-mask/episodes/skee-mask-3rd-january-2025

Feierabend w/ Skee Mask 030125

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

Another Barker masterclass.

Sam Barker asks more from techno. The artist known simply as Barker is one of electronic music's most consistently conscientious and curious producers, challenging listeners to question the norms we accept about our shared culture—whether it's the music that fills the room, the process behind it, or the purpose of the space itself.

British-born yet based in Berlin since 2007, Barker forged a connection to many of the city's leading institutions, including Ostgut Ton, and over the course of a long and fruitful relationship, he carved out one of the more singular paths on the club and label's roster.

Not one for orthodoxy, Barker challenged four-to-the-floor techno framework in favor of melodic experimentation. By decentering or completely stripping away the typical trappings of kick drums and claps, his productions are both light and immersive, buoyant in low-end presence and shimmering in weightless space.

Six years after Utility, his sophomore album Stochastic Drift arrives this month. Shaped by pandemic-driven reinvention, it burrows deeper into harmonic twists and freeform drift. "At some point I became conscious of the process," he wrote of his latest album. "The only thing you can do is embrace the uncertainty and see every change as a potential positive.”

Consider his RA Podcast another sequel. Like his much-beloved 2019 mix for FACT, it's a collage of live recordings and a fitting expression of the artist's own internal spring. RA.982 radiates wide-eyed optimism: percussion cloaked in foggy, swirling pads and trance-like chords, neatly synched in synthetic glimmers. 

All in all, it's an hour of music crafted for contemplation, collective euphoria, or heads-down epiphany—or for that matter, any moment, really, its emotive depth seemingly endless.

@voltek

Find the tracklist and Q&A at ra.co/podcast/982

RA.982 Barker

@achim-klenk aka AxxhimK and I wrote this track 5 years ago on a cold winter night in Berlin. It's 2 analog oscillators that melt into each other.

Bruised Knees (AxxhimK & Taro)

Upcoming:
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

Booking: dantarotunes[at]gmail.com
Profile Photo: Kanaan Brothers

Bruised Knees (AxxhimK & Taro)

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