I'm not usually a fan of modern hard techno, but this mix is a mind blower.  Three tumbs up.

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Skee Mask is one of dance music's greatest crossover stories of the past decade, with new albums greeted with the attention usually reserved for an Aphex Twin or a Caribou. ("Loved seeing this on r/indieheads," said one Reddit user, on the release of the 2021 LP Pool.) It's not hard to understand why: albums like Compro, he blends well-worn dance music tropes with incredible, detailed soundscapes and spine-tingling melodies. And on his 12-inches, he brings that sensibility to the dance floor, with an approach probably best described as articulate. Even on his most ambient of tracks, everything is in its right place. Along with founders the Zenker Brothers, his music outlines everything that makes Munich outfit Ilian Tape one of the best techno labels going.

On the decks, it's kind of a different story. It might surprise you if you only know his albums, but Skee Mask is an incredible DJ, balancing his predilection for hip-hop and UK-informed sounds with laser-focused techno. He can adapt to all sorts of situations—there's an incredible recording of him DJing with four of the best grime and drum & bass MCs in the business—and on his RA Podcast he focuses on the techno side of things, with nearly two hours of pacey techno and creative mixing, with dips into acid, electro, garage and more. It's a party-starting mix from a genuine star, perfect for getting through the holiday doldrums or pre-gaming your NYE plans. Like Skee Mask's best records, it's something to enjoy in any number of settings.

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Detroit Electro royalty DJ Stingray, recorded live from Babrarella's on Saturday night. As you'd expect it's a white-knuckle ride through breakneck BPM's, with Sherard expertly twisting and turning the ship. A rare live recording of a true master at work.

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Helena Hauff (@helena-hauff) expertly curated DJ sets spanning acid, electro, techno, EBM, and post-punk. Her powerful drum beats collide with freely wandering melodies. Her sound is tailor-made for those who appreciate raw, yet restrained intensity, dragging the dance floor into a frosty abyss. Her debut album "A Tape" in 2015 garnered attention for its intricate manipulation of sound, where she meticulously arranges gritty and rough noises, filling in the gaps with rhythmic intricacies. Her other releases, "Discreet Desires" and the EP "Have You Been There, Have You Seen," experimentally layer and intertwine, with twisted waveforms akin to rusted artifacts, creating an unfriendly listening experience that compels bodily movement to escape Helena Hauff's auditory swamp. It evokes sounds from the Hague's western coast in the Netherlands—blending synthesized tones of Italo Disco with the gritty spirit of Detroit. Despite its unfriendliness, "Have You Been There, Have You Seen" still offers warmth and rhythmic service to dancers with tracks like "Nothing Is What I Know" and "Gift." This year, renowned dance label fabric Records recognized Helena Hauff's unique selections and released "fabric presents Helena Hauff," recreating the dance scenes she once fostered at the Golden Pudel club in Hamburg, Germany.

Gigging incessantly (and still lugging a heavy box of records across the world), Helena's reputation earned her an invitation to join the BBC Radio 1 Residency. She was the subject of cover features for Crack Magazine and DJ Mag, played headline sets at Sonar (b2b with Ben UFO) and Dekmantel, and at the end of 2017, Crack Magazine declared Helena "The Most Exciting DJ In The World (Right Now)" and her ballistic BBC Essential Mix was voted the best of 2017. With razor-sharp precision, her melodies redefine Electro/Techno, adhering to her signature cold and dark taste over the past decade, regardless of current musical trends. Utilizing turntables for minimalist yet forceful performances, she effortlessly navigates between peaks and troughs, even with the risk of needle skips, confidently rolling cigarettes as she cruises at high speeds between highs and lows, making her a unique and standout figure in the scene.

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A luminary of Detroit's electronic music scene, the balaclava-bearing master brought his trademark sounds to the Warehouse at our Halloween party last October for 3 fist-thumping hours. Running between electro and techno, DJ Stingray 313 delivered a killer set, with his dynamic performances and futuristic productions proving why he's seen as a legend around the globe.

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Kaleidoscopic psychedelia from one of Australia's finest.

While it might feel early to call bets on DJs of the decade, Kia Sydney, best known as Kia, is undoubtedly one of them. The Animalia founder began in Naarm's (Melbourne) underground scene in the mid-2010s, crediting a trip to the influential deep techno Japanese festival, Labyrinth, as the inspiration behind her sound.

Deep techno might not cut it as a descriptor for Sydney's sound, though. Hypnotic ribbons of steely techno mix with atmospherics and nimble grooves, drawing from IDM, dub and tech house, sharing as much with DJ Nobu and Donato Dozzy (try to find the track that overlaps with Dozzy's own RA Podcast) as well as modern practitioners like Priori and Beatrice M.

This distinctly Australian scuttling psychedelia has made Kia one of the most sought-after underground DJs globally. Her brainchild, Animalia, showcases a plurality of sounds and scenes, serving as living proof of the fruitful shift of the 2020s: less serious, perhaps, but with a sense of open-minded worldliness that offers a far more promising vision of what dance music can be and achieve.

Sydney's rare talent lies in forging connections, bringing people, sounds and ideas together with a distinct playfulness. Her RA Podcast showcases this alchemy in abundance, weaving classics like Monolake and Enya with peers such as OK EG, Cousin and Command D.

As she told us in her 2023 Breaking Through profile, "people tell me I have quite a distinctive sound but I can't tell so much because I hear so many different versions of it." RA.973 serves as confirmation that Kia's style is, to say the least, the mark of a generational talent.
 
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Recording of Helena Hauff's & DJ Stingray's set at Dekmantel Festival 2016.

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Helena Hauff & DJ Stingray at Dekmantel Festival 2016

Here’s the recording of my Essential Mix for BBC Radio 1, which I recorded at the start of 2020 and was broadcast in June. Feeling like I’d been given some big shoes to fill, I spent a couple of months planning a rambunctious, high-energy party mix that would also still be pretty ambitious in the range of styles and tempos it would cover, finally finishing it just as the first lockdowns were kicking in. Obviously, by the time it was eventually broadcast it felt a little out of step with the times. But listening back to it I still feel like it’s one of my better studio mixes, and with the holidays (and a vaccine) around the corner maybe its energy will even feel newly appropriate. So in case you missed the official broadcast – or wanted a download – here it is.

I included a handful of all-time personal favourites, and most of the tracks marked “unreleased” are presumably up on Bandcamp by now so go show the artists and labels a bit of love if you’re feeling it.

TL:

Lyra Pramuk - Mirror (Bedroom Community)
Laughing Ears - Blue Dusk (DECISIONS)
Batu - SYX (unreleased)
Doctor Jeep - Snake Eyes (DRX)
Miss Red - Come Again (Pressure)
Yilan x Ren - Ark (Infinite Machine)
Chants - Diptych (Astral Plane)
Quincy Jones - The Verb To Be (Qwest/Warner Bros.)
Pearson Sound - Alien Mode (forthcoming Hessle Audio)
Galaxy Lane - Days Gone By (unreleased)
Roman Flugel - Pattern One (Ongaku Music)
Orange Kush - Tremolo (Botchit & Scarper)
Renegade Soundwave - The Phantom (It’s In There) (Mute)
Lenk - 444 (H. Productions)
Badsista - Soca Sem Parar (ft. MC Morena) (self-released?)
Slowdive - In Mind (Bandulu Out Mind Remix) (Creation Records)
Paul Damage - Passing By (HOG Records)
KAB - Anjua (Sneaky 3) (Azurite Records)
Archetype - Inhabit the Rhythm (Theory Recordings)
Sun Electric - Entrance (R&S Records)
Nothus - Konnor 3O12 (XCPT Music)
Rhyw - It Was All Happening (forthcoming Fever AM)
Nan Kolè x DJ Tess - Gimme Any Riddim feat. NyNy (self-released)
Surgeon - Floorshow Pt. 1.3 (Counterbalance)
Lhasa - Gather Like Dust (Dark Entries)
Simo Cell & Abdullah Miniawy - Locked In Syndrome (forthcoming BFDM)
Reelle - Hybris (Danse Noire)
RAC - Doublejointed (2) (Warp Records)
Mystic Letter K - See Her Weaving (MLK)
Thee J Johanz - Bass Up (Emergency Broadcast/Furthur Electronix)
Odd Lust - Planet Is Transparent (forthcoming Trilogy Tapes)
X/319 - Effekt_03 (Tau)
DJ Boss - Zakruta (Audio Assault)
Lag - Znoj (unreleased)
Ceephax Acid Crew - Grand Marniacid (WéMè Records)
Grandmixxer & Scratcha DVA - Free Gaza Remix (Allyall Records)
Scorp - Atomitron (Scorp)
Luxus Varta - Magnetic (unreleased)
Al Wootton - Natural Forward (Trule)
FFT - orr din (Super Hexagon)
Pepe - Palinka Hammer (Naïve)
N-ter - Low (Databass Online)
Radioactive Man - Jommtones (Asking For Trouble)
DJ Balani - Balani Sanga (Sahel Sounds)
The Criminal Minds - Change The Pace (TCM Recordings)
Fast Floor - Plight Of The Innovators (Smooth Recordings)
Luxxuryproblems - Ideal, Whirlpool, Transfer (Turbulence) (SPA Recordings)
MC Jessi - AQFFE (Laza Edit) (Tormenta)
Jonny Megabyte - Pickles & Tootsie Pops (Databass Online)
Homemade Weapons - Svalsat (Donato Dozzy Remix) (Samurai Music)
Artilect - Mefo (Samurai Music)
Digital & Sight Unseen - Out of Control (Function Records)
dgoHn - Ninnyhammer (Love Love Records)
RTR - Untitled21 (Analogical Force)
Greta Wohlfahrt - Ausweichquartiere (Greta Wohlfahrt)
C-Tank - Walk On Base (Overdrive)
Lakker - Suburban Cutting (self-released)
Smog - Surfactant (Failed Units)
DJ Pacifier - Ready (Failed Units)
Sample: Rhythm Device - Acid Rock (Music Man Records)
DJ Pacifier - Beginning to Breathe (Daniel Ruane Failed Reset) (Failed Units)
Etch - Lost Orbit (Chrome Drum VIP) (Altered Roads)

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