Recorded live from the studio
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Twisting Knobs: Italo special w/ Luca Carluccio // 17.04.25

GiGi FM - Virgo Space Acid [SRN003] 

A1. Calibration
A2. Mercury
B1. Virgo Space Acid
B2. Floresta

Release date : 23rd May 2025
Pre-order : https://gigifm.bandcamp.com/album/virgo-space-acid-2

All tracks written, produced and performed by GiGi FM.
Mixed and mastered by Ahmet Altinbas.
℗ & © 2025 GiGi FM - Sea~rène.
All rights reserved. Made in the EU.
Photography by Yumiya Saiki.
Layout by Studio Phazed.

GiGi FM - Virgo Space Acid [SRN003]

THE DJ PLANT TEXTURE SESSIONS With Layne & Franco Fonato - 08 Mai 2025

Advertising transversality in his music, @giorgipipia's sets are purposefully multi-cultural - rich and catchy, the tracks he selects come from diverse horizons, from Arabic electro to Turkish beatmakers, and much more. Catch Giorgi Pipia every second Saturday at 15h [CET] on rinse.fr !

Giorgi Pipia with Vulkanski - 10 Mai 2025

On June 27, 2025, a long-dormant signal reactivates from Hamburg's hidden places: Helena Hauff and F#X return as Black Sites with R4 on Tresor Records—their first full-length album and the first release under the moniker since 2014. Like a hieroglyphic recently discovered and translated, R4 feels more like a long-awaited resumption than a comeback.

Recorded to tape with minimal editing or post-production the record is a classic example of the symbiotic relationship that can come from the interaction of human and machine. This punk ethos isn't invoked through distortion alone, but through method; in the album's breaking from the received wisdom of hardness tethered to speed as most of the tougher pieces are lower BPM and vice versa (with one notable exception in the mind-melting stomp of BLOKK).

Across ten tracks, Black Sites traverse a landscape where genre dissolves into intention. It migrates through electro's danceability, acid house's corrosion, and into the liminal realm of machine funk—a genre coined by Andrew Weatherall, which sounds like the results of technology dreaming of soul where the emphasis is on live execution, on immediacy over perfection—a sound forged in the act of creating, not polishing.

In a 2013 interview, around the time of the first Black Sites EP, Hauff was quoted as saying that she wants "things to fit together properly, but on another level, I really want them to make sense together." That principle animates R4: The album's form reveals itself in time, with each movement echoing and amplifying the others to create a synergistic whole.

From the opening crawl of C4 (a name that like the music foreshadows the explosions to come) to the end-of-the-night bliss of MOTHERJAM via the intense peaks of BLOKK, 707, and classic acid track 3D it's clear that R4 is a work made with serious intent; a refutation of a world where streaming has made the two-minute single the dominant musical form again. R4 demands immersion, not just attention. It is not a collection of tracks, but a singular, recursive experience: a mirror in which sound and listener repeatedly rediscover one another.

BANDCAMP

PREMIERE: Black Sites - FLIKK

a deep dissolve into ÇINTH’s lucid zone :: where trance spirals and tektonic rhythms shimmer

https://soundcloud.com/cinthiciza

Pure Space :: ÇINTH

Next up in our mix series is Innersha, hailing from Yerevan, Armenia. As an initiator in the local raving scene and a co-founder of the dk.tsk collective, her artistic development has been significantly shaped by the communal music experience. Innersha is a relatively new face to the scene, with her debut EP just last October, on Polygonias label ‘QEONE’. In the short time she has already carved her sound, and with upcoming performances at the iconic Macadam and pe:rsona festival this summer. Innersha also contributed with a track on the freshly released '8 Years of Ute' CD, which dropped this week.

For this episode, Innersha shares a live recording from her set at the Omen Wapta Weekender at Garage Noord in Amsterdam in April. The mix is a raw, heads-down excursion into hypnotic territory, full of shifting patterns, deep pulses, and high pace. Capturing the energy of a packed room in motion, the set balances intensity with restraint, showcasing Innersha’s ability to hold tension and guide a narrative across the arc of a live performance.

@innersha

Ute Mix Series #104 | Innersha (live)

I had the honors of closing the 8th Ankali birthday celebration - the Planeta Za stage last weekend, this recording is an excerpt from a 7h long closing set combining digi and vinyl
I recommend dosing it in parts as it travels through trance, goa, techhouse, house and prog.. enjoy!
Pic by Jonas Verespej

Ankali 8th Anniversary Closing [extract] - [31.05.2025]

Dark and moody like a long British winter, not your usual ‘sound of the summer 2025’ mix… but here we are! This is Vision 029 w/ April (100% vinyl only mix 🫰).

Based in Manchester, Ben Moulson aka @apriluk has firmly rooted himself in the UK scene with his hyperactive crate digging habits and diversity in sound. Whether it is the 10pm ambient hour, or the 6am sweat box his record bag will answer the call. In his own words: “This mix explores the gloomier cuts of dubstep, techno and bass that currently circulate my record bag. Mixed from the perspective of a dancefloor warm-up, it kicks off in the slow and steppy realm before picking up pace with wiggly left-field club sounds in the later minutes!”.

Mastered by @yantmusicuk

Vision 029 w/ April

Founder of Berlin-based event and mix series Iterations, Mademoisel (she/her) is a London-born, Berlin-based DJ, promoter and artist. Known for her distinctive style and playful energy, Mademoisel’s sets guide dancers through sonic terrains spanning trance, techno, and house. With a focus on bringing a fresh perspective to Berlin’s underground trance scene, the avid digger blends old-school and new-school sounds to create a playful and fun atmosphere on the dance floor.

Iterations : Mademoisel - 09 Juin 2025

Recorded live at Ratherlost Easter 2025, Lofi Amsterdam, 6-9PM.

Thank you to the @ratherlost team for the trust, to the producers within for their incredible music, to all who shared that moment which will surely endure in my mind.

Artwork by Dypere (dypere.cc).

Aaron J at Ratherlost Easter 2025

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Twisting Knobs: Italo special w/ Luca Carluccio // 17.04.25

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