What Does It Matter If This Is All A Dream?

Never Break Faith

Light, Cruel & Vain

I Wanna Be An Idol

Nothing Lasts Forever

Nothing Lasts Forever (with Grimes) (Parrish Smith Remix)

Nina Kraviz launches her трип (pronounced ‘trip’) label with a double-EP compilation entitled ’The Deviant Octopus’, featuring a pair of brand new productions from Kraviz alongside material from Terrence Dixon, emerging talent Parrish Smith & Bjarki, and veteran producers Exos & Steve Stoll.

The idea for трип has been gestating for some time with Nina Kraviz, an avid crate-digger and frequenter of numerous second-hand record stores, who has long wanted to begin a label of her own which would build on some of the principles of her beloved 90s techno labels in terms of attitude and aesthetics, whilst looking for forward-thinking modern productions that reflect her core tastes for idiosyncratic electronic music.

The art and title of 'The Deviant Octopus' comes from a single-sentence scenario dreamt up by Kraviz: “Without a moment's notice an Octopus appeared and devoured everyone in sight”. Supplied with this scenario, artist Tombo rendered his own unique visualization for the artwork that adorns the release sleeve. It's Kraviz's own nod to the labels that inspire her and grab her attention while digging through second hand records, the best of which were imbued with the unique personality of the people behind them. This extends to the sound Kraviz intends for трип: dusky, divergent and trippy music to stimulate brains, dreams and fantasies.

In this respect ‘The Deviant Octopus’ is a perfect introduction: Kraviz herself is represented on the tracklist by two new tracks that take up the mantle of last year’s Mr Jones EP by returning to the vocal-flecked hypnotic techno that marked out that release. Complimenting those are two new cuts from a true master of hallucinatory off-kilter techno, Terrence Dixon in his Population One guise.

Joining them will be a pair of names from the techno pantheon who have been huge influences on Kraviz: with a career that’s taken in releases on Synewave, Trax, Novamute and Richie Hawtin’s early-90s Probe Records, Steve Stoll has been mining his own variant on techno and acid minimalism for over twenty years, heading up the Proper NYC label and releasing under various pseudonyms, such as Cobalt, of which Kraviz has been a long-term fan. His counterintuitively titled ‘Pop Song’ sits alongside a 13-minute 90s techno excursion from Reykjavik’s Exos - the only previously-released cut (originally appearing on Thule Records sub-label Plast Trax in 1998) - together illustrating that трип will also live up to its name in the geographical sense: showcasing great music from historically vibrant electronic music scenes outside of the usual Detroit-Berlin axis.

With Kraviz looking to build a small repertory of talent around трип, this first release also makes room for two newer names: Bjarki is an Icelandic talent to keep a firm eye on, who drew Kraviz’s attention in a chance meeting after a gig at Copenhagen’s Culturebox club, after which he passed her a collection of mind-bendingly odd demos; while Parrish Smith is a talented Netherlands-based producer whose short yet impactful sketch ‘1.0 / 8.0 Afrika Genocide’ brings the second 12” to a bewitching close.

All tracks on ‘The Deviant Octopus’ will feature on Nina Kraviz’s DJ Kicks compilation, out in January 2015 on !K7 Records.

Tracklist: 
A1 Nina Kraviz - Prozimokampleme 
A2 Steve Stoll - Pop Song 
B1 Nina Kraviz - IMPRV 
B2 Bjarki - Polygon Pink Toast 
C1 Population One - Out of Control (Vocal mix) 
C2 Population One - Bonus Beats 
D1 Exos - Nuclear Red Guard 
D2 Parrish Smith - 1.0 : 8.0 Afrika Genocide

The Deviant Octopus

D2. Parrish Smith -  1.0 : 8.0 Afrika Genocide

Read the cover feature: https://bit.ly/verracomixmag
Tracklist: https://bit.ly/verracocmix

@TraTraTrax co-founder @verraco showcases his upfront DJ style with a 90-minute mix of hybrid sounds.

"I wanted to make a mix that could be listened to at home, but that at the same time reflects part of what my DJing is today. That's why I decided to record it with an Allen & Heath Xone:92 mixer and three CDJs and inject my approach and technique, I guess. I thought about the tracklist for almost two months, trying to make it a document that can be listened today, but hopefully also revisited as time goes by."

The Cover Mix: Verraco

@ferrarirot

This mix is a collection of recently discovered gems, all released in what is widely regarded as THE best year for dance music: 2007. Expect big room productions, glitchy sound effects and lyrics so sexually-charged it turns dance floors into some sort of sonic squirt caves, or – depending on where your preference lies – bassline bukkake bunkers. The mission remains: to serve cunt as severely and unapologetically as I possibly can – whether it be in music or in life. And with this mix, recorded for and dedicated to my dear Maricas, I might be considered bi-curious after all ;)))


tracklist:


Rob Mooney & Jon Gurd: High Volume 

Youri Donatz & Michel Post: Go Pimp The Tune Up feat. Lady Bee (Phonic-Funk Mix)

Sense & Welton: Sex Bullet

Emanuel Paglicci: Bringing Down feat. Samantha Woodtzi 

David Amo & Julio Navas: Beat Generation feat. Anhui

Andre Absolut: Fusion

Alex Gomez & Miguel Picasso: Inside You (Remix)

Lunacy Sound Division - House Muzika (Atomic Edit)

Dave Robertson & Jon Gurd: Our Execution 

Miguel Picasso: The Beat Conductor (Alex Gomez & Txemi Rodriguez Calambre Remix)

Melleefresh & deadmau5: Hey Baby (Adamk Clean Remix)

Loic B: Pulse N Saw (Mox Codeta Remix)

Anthony Class: Heaven

DJs From Mars: The Motherfucker (Red Planet Club Mix)

MARICAS n.74 - ferrari rot

elise massoni est de retour pour nous préchauffer avant son closing du 21 pour notre fete de la musique à Virage

Élise Massoni - 12 Juin 2025

Genesis

Genesis (Daniel Avery Remix)

For our 41st entry into the PPRZ Podcast series, we are hosting a proper techno journey mix courtesy of Detroit based Nick Burgess. Slowly built tension and release, dreamy atmospheres and all around deep listening propelling into tougher grooves. What more could you ask for?!

Nick Burgess is a student of Detroit, prioritizing the groove while seamlessly weaving between deep acidic Techno hypnosis and punishing Industrial sonics. In the short time since making his debut, Nick has played every hour of the night across notable Detroit venues such as Leland City Club, Marble Bar, Tangent Gallery and several D.I.Y. locations. He has shared the bill with the likes of Skee Mask, Headless Horseman, Black Asteroid, BMG, Terrence Dixon, The Brvtalist, and Underground Resistance artists like Mark Flash and Esteban Adame. As a producer, his hypnotic and abrasive productions have been released through labels PITS, Junted, Detroit Underground, Ominous Earth, Collapsed Structures and his co-owned label, Apocalypse Rave Culture.

Tracklist
Nightmoves – Moon Diagrams
Glass Eye – Surfing
Coldstar – Riohv
Computer Controlled Insanity – Sweater on Polo
Reduction – Fabio Monesi
Romance – Bill Converse
Cloudy Signal (Brendan Moeller Reshape) - Joshua Tree
Her Eyes Tightly Closed (Szare Remix) - Altstadt Echo
Garbage Part 5 (Entro Senestre Remix) - JL
Steakout – Dez Williams
Help (DJ Version) - Paranoid London
Hollow Vessel – Plural
Water (Brenner Remix) - AdamHD
Prueba y Error – Oscar Mulero
34 – STUKES
Stuck in My Mind (Truncate Remix) - Drumcell & Luis Flores
Double Aspect – Uun
The Last Jealous Joke – Vulkanski 
Green Lion – Jeremy Caulfield 
Helium – Chontane 
The Love Anthem (Lindsey Herbert Remix) - Gabriella Vergilov
Ethereals – Nick Burgess 
Aspects – Kamellia 
Sad Lover, Desolated (Dave Clarke Remix) - Antipole & Paris Alexander

PPRZ Podcast 41 - Nick Burgess

APO is a Moscow DJ, promoter, founder and main ideologist of the musical association KISLO
APO — московский диджей, промоутер, основатель и главный идеолог музыкального объединения KISLO


YouTube Streaming RRC Garage Studio - APO : https://youtu.be/r9tcA8fQbqg

@apopure1
www.instagram.com/renegade_radio_camp

Renegade Radio Camp - APO - Mix 20-06-2025

French DJ based in Berlin, co-founder and resident of the Parisian queer collective Spectrum Waves.

https://www.instagram.com/leaocchi
https://soundcloud.com/lea-occhi



Lea Occhi @ The Lot Radio 07-25-2025

Recorded live at Carry Nation's party at Good Room NYC, in May 2023, closing set at the Bad Room. 

Live @ Carry Nation Good Room  May 2023 - NYC

SYSTEM108 PODCAST 305: NATASHA BAI

A modular exploration from Erik Jabari, captured live at New Faces, June 11, 2025.

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Photo credit: Marie Staggat: www.marie-staggat.com/
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About Tresor Berlin
At midnight, on March 13th 1991, a basement door opened at Leipziger Strasse 126, Berlin. Through this door, many passed, on their way to defining new terrains in electronic music. There they found a dance floor in the vaults of a closed-down department store, with a unique sound bound to dense fog, building night after night a history that was also a vision of the future.

This history has seen in Jeff Mills’ first sets on three turntables, Underground Resistance's first live appearances in Europe, grandiose Tresor Park parties, to various chapters of the Loveparade with Sven Väth in the 90s and since then countless generation-spanning parties. These moments represent the highlights of infinite personal clubbing experiences. It is the manifestation of the Berlin spirit, emerging from its considerable strife. This history is not without its complications - from temporary closure by the authorities and several raids in the early years to closure and demolition of the old location in 2005. What followed was years of wandering in exile and, finally, resurrection in the new home in Kraftwerk Berlin.

These stories, conversations and shared experiences within our walls forge a resilience that drives towards a shared ideal, the Tresor sound: community, resistance, and the world to come. This was observed in the newly re-unified German youth, who danced and celebrated together from the club’s inception, and into the present day through ongoing community work in Detroit.

To those that have danced before, and to those that will dance in the future: the light at the end of the long Tresor tunnel is a signal. A flicker amidst the fog. This is our future. This is our place.

Erik Jabari (Live Modular Set) | Live at Tresor - 11.05.25

On November 8th, the British DJ and producer, Tommy Four Seven, will release Veer Remixed, a double vinyl LP featuring remixes by Ansome, SØS Gunver Ryberg, Rhys Fulber, Pessimist, Parrish Smith, Stenny, Silent Servant, Machine Woman, Homemade Weapons and Sawf.

Each artist - making their debut on the 47 label - has selected a track taken from Tommy’s second album Veer which was released earlier this year via his own 47 imprint. The result is a collection of 10 finely crafted reinterpretations of the original works.

Following the original album track order, Veer Remixed is designed to pull the listener into its parallel world, from roughed up off-beat cuts by Ansome, to ethereal post-punk takes by Silent Servant. Bone rattling Drum & Bass by Homemade Weapons to guitar fused dark beat from Parrish Smith.

Veer Remixed

D2 // TOMMY FOUR SEVEN // COLONY (PARRISH SMITH REMIX) [47023]

With “As We Were Saying”, Bassiani resident Héctor Oaks presented his first full-length album. Two years later it’s time to share a new take on Oaks’ vision of rave culture. He brings together an intimate selection of fellow artists and the result is ‘often plus, never minus’ through and through.
DJ Stingray starts off with a dismantled version of “Forwarded State of Evidence”, he keeps the vocals and contrasts them with a metallic beat. Berlin’s Somewhen is next on A2 with a dancefloor-oriented version of “Is Imminent“, originally the opener of the album, now sped up and reworked.
Flipping to the B-side, things get deep: what’s striking about “Re-Improved Motto“ is how Voiski (a fellow Bassiani resident) has kept the beautiful melody of the original and steered it towards acid. Parrish Smith’s remix of “After All She Had No Reason To Stay” pushes through the darkness with a fast beat. Tribal drums and a luring melody complement the EP with “Horoom Reclusion” in a remix by Georgian artist Zesknel.
All in all, BASRMX01 has you think of sweaty club nights and pumped up dancefloors. If the cast of this remix EP was a line-up, you would definitely want to show up to the party.

D2. Parrish Smith - 1.0 : 8.0 Afrika Genocide

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