“For the closing night of Return to the Source at the @ithqdetroit presents @thebunkerny party, we have a night of unique pairings, back to back sets from people who knew each other mostly, but usually don’t play together. After a full weekend of non stop great music, what better than the drama of the unknown combinations to keep you fully engaged, with deeply curated pairings and flows for each room. On May 27, @mikeservito x @jeffreysfire scheduled from 1am until 3am. Mike Servito always majestically closes out No Way Back, but what would this combination bring? Sfire brought the heat, and their styles melded in a slightly pitched down form, music from all eras appeared. To me, it was a form of sonic bliss. I went and asked the Danny from Bing (who does the sound and built the speakers for the Garden Stage) if he minded if we went later, he was all for it. So were Servito and Sfire, and it just kept getting better and better. The crowd was totally locked in, the feeling was ecstatic, it was truly a beautiful moment. A magical closing set that naturally extended from two hours to 5 hours of pure heat from two DJs whose whole life is this music and this culture — who could ask for more?” — BMG

Catch Servito and Sfire playing an extended set to close out No Way Back NYC presented by The Bunker at the Chocolate Factory as a day party on Sunday November 12:
https://ra.co/events/1983236

The Bunker Podcast 233: Mike Servito x Jeffrey Sfire

@richard-akingbehin: "The second half of my set at NYE 2025 by Diega, Victoria, Australia—a dreamy three hours at sunset on New Year's Eve. Enjoy!"

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Richard Akingbehin Live @NYE 2025

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

Episode 4 of the Sixth Sense mix series brought to you by Peach. This episode by London based legend Wes Baggaley (@wes-baggaley). little blurb, interview, tracklist >>>>>>>>>>thisissixthsense.com<<<<<<<<<<

Sixth Sense 004 - Wes Baggaley

The Sustain-Release co-founder steps up to the Phonica mix just ahead of the acclaimed festival’s 11th year. 
New York has an iconic history when it comes to club music, and over the years has seen many great names emerge from its underground scene. In modern times, Aurora Halal is undoubtedly one of those names. 
Aurora has become a staple at forward-thinking institutions like Berghain, De School, and her home base, Nowadays, where she holds a residency. Alongside her international touring, she’s carved out her own vital space through the long-running Mutual Dreaming parties and Sustain-Release, the DIY-rooted festival she co-founded, which continues to push boundaries as it enters its second decade.
Her Phonica mix offers a vivid snapshot of her deep, intuitive approach to DJing—captured live at Mansions, a cozy NYC wine bar turned house party haven. Known for her genre-fluid sets that blend hypnotic techno, house, acid and experimental textures this is the perfect calling card to showcase why she can hold it down with a range of greats like DJ Nobu, Vladimir Ivkovic and more.
We had a chat about the mix with Aurora as well as touching off Sustain and some of her favorite moments at the festival.

Phonica Mix Series 134: Aurora Halal

One of the enduring powerhouses of our era returns for RA.1000 with a riotous mix.

When Helena Hauff made her first RA Podcast appearance back in 2013, she was on the eve of releasing her debut production on Actress' Werkdiscs imprint. In the 12 years that have elapsed, she's become not just a household name within electronic music, but the kind of rare talent that lives in seclusion from industry tumultt.

(Hauff, enviously, has never even owned a smartphone.)

Her calling card continues to be her penchant for rough and ready EBM, electro and new wave. Her unique ability is creating a singular listening experience from disparate or out-of-favour tracks, with a raw immediacy that functions as a redress to over-choreographed modern DJing.

Her outsider approach is on show once again for RA.1000. Threaded together by strobe-lit DIY electronica, old-school acid house and corrosive machine funk that chews up the ear, the nearly two-hour set raises the bar once again.

In the sci-fi themed first half, Hauff drops two Cybotron tracks, nodding to Juan Atkins' blueprint for electro. You'll also hear "Riot" by Underground Resistance, the definitive mission statement for a world ablaze. This is musical anarchism, executed to the highest degree.

Find the tracklist and interview at ra.co/podcast/1017. Listen to all RA.1000 mixes, as well as the complete history of the RA Podcast, at https://1000.ra.co

RA.1000 Helena Hauff

a visison of peaceful living with none of life's complicatons

Sensational Island Club Life Revised

A fizzing mix bringing together the old and the new. There's Liquid's 'Feel 3' and Leftfield's 'Fanfare Of Life' from 1992 and Luca Lozano's 'Essential Elements' and Truska's 'Lucid' from this year, mixed into to a bunch of other electrifying records either released in the early '90s or the last two years.

Tracklist: https://mixmag.net/feature/in-session-eris-drew

More exclusive music

In Session: Eris Drew's 'Thundering Goddess Mix'

I recorded this mix in 2018 for the Her Damit festival and titled it the Mystery of the Motherbeat. I was hungry to tour Europe for the first time and agreed to do a mix and play the festival on a shoestring budget. Her Damit went into bankruptcy later that year, failing to pay artists and others for their work.  They also let their Soundcloud account expire, losing all the mixes they commissioned for the series. 

I am re-releasing this mix under its original name. Its real name. It is one of my deepest mixes. It is filled with the love and hope for the future that I put into it. It was recorded a week before I went to visit Maya and Brooke for the first time in March of 2018, exactly two years ago. That visit would change my life.  

Metronome - Voyage to the Bottom of the Bass (WBR Records 1991) 
Visions of Rhythm - Power of Purchase (Klasse Wrecks 2017)
Christian Tiger School - If You Want To (Original Version) (Lissoms 2018)
DJ Python - Cuál (Incienso 2017) 
Pseudopolis - Tracer (Redstone Press 2017)
Bassbin Twins III - untitled (Bassbin Records 1995)
Nitro Delux feat Silk - Hypno House (Deep Dub) (Cutting Records 1990)
Christian Tiger School - If You Want To (Edmondson Version) (Lissoms 2018)
Friends of Mathew - Out There (Raw mix) (Pulse-8 Records 1991)
DJ bwin - Mit Bonus... (First Second Label 2017)
Glas Rm - Fully Dipped (Wells Street  2017)
Ben Cohen - Entrance (from “Lesser Mysteries”) (Brokntoys 2018)
DJ Psychiatre - Trust Issues (Gasp 2017)
Hawke - 3 Moods in a Gurple Parden (Hardkiss Music 1993)
Dream Cycle - Paradise State (Sneaker Social Club 2017)
Human Movement - I Need (12 inch mix) (Of Leisure 2017)
Waterpark - Data Orb (Deep Blue 2016)
Environments - Ultimate Thunderstorm (Syntonic Research, Inc. 1979)

Eris Drew’s Mystery of the Motherbeat Part 1 (formerly Her Damit)

For the final recorded set from Campout 2019, we wanted to share a special moment from the weekend. @midland played a stunning three hour set at Hemlock Hole that helped set the tone for the weekend. 

Reflecting back on this time together feels almost like a dream. The threat of COVID-19 and the quarantine we’ve been forced to endure has forced us to hit pause on our lives and rethink our immediate futures. As much as we’d love to dance with you this summer, we tearfully must postpone Honcho Campout to August 19-22, 2021 due to COVID-19.  

For more information on our decision and future updates please visit: honchocampout.com/updates

Campout Series: Midland

An ode to Chicago and Detroit

Read more here: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=730

@mikeservito

Resident Advisor podcast

RA.730 Mike Servito

The Bunker New York has been producing live music events since 2003, operating a booking agency for many of our artists since 2006, and publishing their music on our two record labels since 2014. Operated by Beyond Booking, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, The Bunker NY has grown into an established institution which is well known across the world.

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bookings: - michelle@thebunkerny.com