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.

Dekmantel Podcast

Dekmantel Podcast 462 - JakoJako

Mari Sakurai at WOMB Tokyo 18th October 2024

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

REC33 w/ Mama Snake

Last year, on November 30th, Fuse welcomed Denmark's Mama Snake to our control room in light of her Amniote Editions night.  With an untamed aura spreading through the space, the dark hours were marked by hypnotic, slightly mental, and utterly intense temperaments.

Snapping between writhing acid lines, crisp tribal rhythms, and trance-laced techno, her selections struck a perfect balance between the meditative and the manic. The floor was hers: fluid, fierce, and full of intent. A reminder that mastery doesn’t always shout; it listens, reacts, and dares to draw outside the lines when the need knocks.

▪️ Soundcloud: @mamasnake
▪️ Resident ra.co/dj/mamasnake-de
▪️ Instagram: instagram.com/mama_snake_
▪️ Facebook: www.facebook.com/666mamasnake666

Mama Snake ― Recorded Live at Fuse (30.11.24)

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Quelza @ The Lot Radio 05-19-2025

Next up on the GROOVE Podcast is Nørbak (@norbakmusic). Go to bit.ly/NorPod for interview and track list.

GROOVE Podcast 460 – Nørbak

Relive our final event with the complete recording from the night. Featuring sets from Nat Salih, Hannah D, Kia, Hasvat Informant, Connor Wall and U-KHAN

Bunker Podcast 73 - The End

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Nothing Like You

Waves of pulsing, layered techno from the revered Mala Junta resident.

If the electronic music industry is caught in the crosshairs of a battle over what makes for true techno, then D.Dan is one of the underground's great modern emissaries.

A figurehead from the new guard of DJs to arise in the '20s, the Berlin-based artist and Mala Junta resident is an ambassador for a sound that is strongly anchored in the classic roots of techno. His productions, like his mixes, are revved-up takes on the hypnotic wormholes that defined dance floors last decade, but with a fresh (and high BPM) millennial twist. 

Originally from Seattle, D.Dan became enamoured with the spectral stylings of psych rock and shoegaze in adolescence. It's not difficult to see how the cosmic tapestry of bands like Cocteau Twins became a blueprint for the entrancing music he's gone on to make as an adult. His releases on Mutant Future and summerpup are latticeworks of loops and layered percussion, custom-tooled for lost hours on the dance floor and drawn-out mixes behind the decks. 

This approach directly extends into his DJ practice, where he pairs song selections from contemporaries that mirror his own reduced, controlled approach to techno. RA.994 is a Grade A display of contemporary four-to-the-floor from flagbearers like Roll Dann and Marcal.

And like D.Dan's standalone records, his RA Podcast finds room for sweetness—the intermittent peal of an open clap, the steady ripening of a chord—while ultimately emphasising the beauty of function and form over flair.

@ddan-sounds

Find the full interview and tracklist at ra.co/podcast/994

Quelza @ The Lot Radio 05-19-2025

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