Next up on the GROOVE Podcast is Bjarki (@bjarki). For interview and track list, check bit.ly/BjarkPod

GROOVE Podcast 444 – Bjarki

‘Techno and Noise are more important to me.”

In the barren industrial landscape where noise meets techno, Richie Culver’s Quiet Husband project continues to carve out a landscape that’s as uncompromising as it is compelling. Following the raw, unflinching ‘Religious Equipment’ album, Culver is back with ‘RAGING HABITS 2’.

This sophomore EP signals a subtle shift in approach for Culver. Where ‘Religious Equipment’ dug deep into the harrowing depths of addiction through brutal rhythms and spoken word confessionals, ‘RAGING HABITS 2’ introduces Chicago influences with ambient elements and dark, textural explorations.


 
Culver’s music is like “being punched in the gut with a scrap-metal fist” and captures that raw, pure feeling without thinking. Neural rushes. Claustrophobia’s exit door.

A mix you say? OK then. How’s a frenetic industrial techno mix then? Good stuff.

Here’s an industrial techno mix that doesn’t fuck around.

Listen and read the interview below:
https://www.theransomnote.com/music/mixes/quiet-husband-the-ransom-note-mix/

@richieculver

INTERVIEW

Quiet Husband - The Ransom Note Mix

Yant brings Techno for the mind and body.

https://www.instagram.com/yant_dj
soundcloud.com/yantmusicuk



Yant @ The Lot Radio 03-02-2025

Irakli Kiziria is a much lauded cultural force in his chosen home Berlin. For over a decade, the Georgian transplant has been crafting a space somewhere between belligerent rhythm and ambient dreamscape with a growing number of influential projects to his name. His 10am-10pm STAUB parties offering legendary daytime gathering soundtracked by an incognito list of techno’s finest, and earlier collaboration in the form of I/Y also setting forth a voice and imprint to publish the work of consonant peers. More recently, his home-listening outlet Intergalactic Research Institute For Sound has funeled his energies towards a “dreamy, more abstract, 'intergalactic' music”. And it’s from this realm that this next Zenaari instalment emerges: a tripped-out reverie that walks his more delicate line. Zenaari Mix 016 weaves together gently waltzing piano interludes with the chiming of bells, lullaby warps with the analogue crackle of a vintage speaker and the confident strumming of a lute. Irakli given free-hand to explore his space in heavens and this is the result, an intimate augur for a promising future and 80-minute (all vinyl) podcast hued with the longing and strange.

@irakli

1. Ssiege - Cg104
2. Lucy Gosch - Stalagmites & Helicitites 
3. Hiroshi Yoshimura – Sheep
4. sTia - Out Of My System
5. Panoram - Cyclo
6. Launaea - Del Mar
7. Ken Karter - Kript 432HZ - Sequence 03
8. Saba Alizadeh - Fluid
9. Hannu Karjalainen - Love, Unconditional
10. Tuomo Väänänen - Garden
11. Ryuichi Sakamoto - Dance (Ambient version)
12. Jabu - Lay You Down
13. Niecy Blues - Cascade
14. Sunfear - Daycare 
15. Demen - Morgon
16. Tropic of Cancer - Stop Suffering
17. Above & Beyond - Strength From Inside
18. Tangerine Dream - Portico 
19. Nordvest - Sleepless one
20. Sufjan Stevens - Visions of Gideon

Zenaari Mix 016 - Irakli

"We wanted to let go of everything we know." The Berghain residents talk about underground values, leaving behind expectations and their collaborative album, LAYER ONE.

Berghain residents and now frequent collaborators Ben Klock and Fadi Mohem have become synonymous with the classic, no frills aesthetic that's come to define the Berlin institution's sound, with one exception: their newest LP, LAYER ONE. The album sees them step away from techno in a listening experience that explores IDM, ambient and experimental electronic music with guest vocal appearances by UK artists Cobey Sey and Flowdan.

In this Exchange, they talk to Chloe Lula about this departure from their typical style, which imagines a post-human world where AI reigns supreme. They also reflect on building generational bridges in the music industry; how their respective ideas of success have changed; underground values and sensibilities; and why the ethos of an earlier era continues to inform their work. 

Klock also revisits the decade that's elapsed since his last RA interview, including why he's chosen to return to the studio after years on the road, his unexpected career as a DJ and the key to long-lasting relevance in a scene that doesn't slow down. Listen to the episode in full.

EX.757 Ben Klock and Fadi Mohem

An hour to give you a glimpse of my opening set at Unfold @ Fold in London on March 2 - 2025. Great memory! Thank you all for dancing.

opening Unfold, London - 02.03.25

Ciao tutti 🦋 Back on NTS Radio for a new episode ~ à la carte this month ~

🌌 Cosmic update ~ This season is a dance between endings and beginnings, courage and healing, vision and action.

✨ Vinyl only guest mix by Olivia Mendez (@olivia-mendez) ~ Berlin-based DJ, producer & founder of Dust In Grooves. She delivers a deep dive into her love for hypnotic techno ~ raw, textured, and full of pulse.

I hope you enjoy the show ~ 
Artwork by @mete.fyi

~ with love & gratitude ~
GiGi 🧜‍♀️💖

NTS RADIO GiGi FM PRESENTS OLIVIA MENDEZ 26.03.2025

Andreas Baumecker launched his DJ career in the early 90s, a Frankfurt native coming of age in the halcyon days of his country’s reunification. His first stop was the city’s storied and centrally located Romantica, then its affiliate Intimbar where reps from house label Playhouse picked him up for buying duties at record store Delirium. After an uptick in local bookings, he made a brief stop in Mannheim for more of the same before moving to Berlin in 2004, where a recently opened Panorama Bar scouted him as resident and offered him the role of in-house booker for its Berghain operations. As word got out and the city started to draw larger crowds he became a fundamental force in crafting the club’s story. Hesitant to define the upstairs-downstairs split as house and techno, he practices his preachings through an approach that embraces a range of different sounds. ‘Surprise is important’ and his 25,000 strong vinyl collection lends a hand in the process, an assemblage that oscillates between disco, house, electro, techno, breakbeat and pop; the key is to capture the spirit of a crowd. This strategy has borne not only his label Freundinnen (put on hiatus in 2007, relaunched in 2023), but a lasting collaboration with sparring partner Sam Barker as half or Barker and Baumecker (four 12” records and two albums on his alma mater’s imprint Ostgut Ton to prove it). nd_baumecker deals in all things funky and uplifting, a thread of life-affirming melodies and historically literate beats that drive seamlessly forward. Bassiani Podcast 255 alludes to his well stocked portfolio of references, with hints of disco and balearic house, it's more of what his fans know and love to usher in the warmer months; this latest episode is full of spacey tenor, refreshing and gently rolling, breezy chill-out expertly compiled by this fabled German veteran.

@ndbaumecker

Bassiani invites nd_baumecker / Podcast #255

Track: Lux
Artist(s): Hedström & Pflug
Label: ...is serving
Catalog: IS008
Format: Digital
Genre: Electronic
Style: Techno
Release Date: 16.05.2025

Artist links: https://www.instagram.com/hedstroem_pflug/
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/hedstroem_pflug
Bandcamp: https://hedstroempflug.bandcamp.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hedstroem_pflug/


Label links:
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/isserving-berlin
Bandcamp: https://isserving.bandcamp.com/music
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/isserving.berlin/

Pre-Order Link:
https://isserving.bandcamp.com/music


GTG Premiere | Hedström & Pflug - Lux [IS008]

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