"All I want to do is express what I love." The beloved Berghain resident talks about learning from failure, putting in the time and how good sound systems have changed his life.

Born and bred in Minneapolis, Zak Khutoretsky, AKA DVS1, has been throwing and playing raves for decades. Now 47, he's at the top of his game. As one of Berghain's most popular residents and a producer known for his deep and versatile sound, he's amassed thousands of followers around the world, releasing on Klockworks, Transmat and Ostgut Ton, in addition to his own label, HUSH.

Not just an artist, Khutoretsky has garnered a reputation for speaking critically about the challenges facing the electronic music community, notably through his essay about the battle between art and entertainment, and more recently through the inauguration of his revenue sharing platform ASlice. The organisation was designed in 2020 as an antidote to the pay disparity between DJ earnings and producer earnings, and its basic conceit is that DJs submit playlists of their tracks and share small percentages of their gig fees to be redistributed among the artists whose tracks they've played.

In this RA Exchange live from ADE, Khutoretsky talks with journalist Christine Kakaire about the platform and the impetus behind it, as well as his underlying tendency to be a "fixer,"  from the problems in his house to the issues he sees plaguing his community. Listen to the episode in full.

EX.689 DVS1

Further information and tracklist: https://bleep.com/bleep-mix-278-ufo95

Leading up to his debut Tresor release Backward Improvement, @ufo95ufo95 has prepared a mix of ultra forward motion and cavernous four to the floor thumps. Starting with tense dissonant chords and sparse hits reverberating in a sci-fi atmosphere, the mix launches us into an hour of hefty techno shuffles, and rebounding rhythms and rumbles. Alongside the unreleased cuts are select tracks from the Sandwell District crew, like ‘Hunting Lodge’ with icy grains flowing between synth stabs while heaving kicks pulsate and implode. “I made this mix on Ableton and added some 909 jams. The major part of the mix contains my unreleased tracks mixed with techno classics from Sandwell District, Silent Servant, Shifted & more. I went through deep, hypnotic, dub and club oriented techno during these 60 minutes.”

Bleep Mix #278 - UFO95

Performed at the Communion Stage

Equipment used:
6U Modular system
Elektron Digitakt II
Elektron Octatrack MKII
Elektron Analog Heat +FX
Intech Grid MIDI Controller

Lonefront – Live @ The Great Beyond '24 [07-26-2024]

To close out his annual Machine takeover of Sputnik, Ben Sims tapped Josey Rebelle for a debut back-to-back. Strap in–this one goes wild.

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@fieldmaneuvers

RA Live: Ben Sims & Josey Rebelle - Field Maneuvers, UK

Next up in our series, we’re excited to welcome Mary Yuzovskaya, a DJ and producer whose surgical sense of the groove and love for minimal sound structures have become trademarks over the years. At the helm of her own record label, Monday Off, Mary puts in the same precision and effort she dishes out through all of her vinyl-only DJ sets. Stripped-back and highly cerebral, her style sits at the junction of heavily dubbed-out psychedelia, liquid abstraction and post-industrialism, and this mix doesn’t differ. Enter Yuzovskaya’s mazy new vinyl exclusive mix with crumbs of bread in your pocket and some red thread, for we’re yet to know where the labyrinth ends. But does it even have an end?

soundcloud.com/bananamilk

Reclaim Your City

Reclaim Your City 626 | Mary Yuzovskaya

Yuzu ゆず – Supplement 141 [PURE SOUND]
Friday January 17 2025
San Francisco

Yuzu ゆず is the alias for SF based DJ and member of the Vitamin1000 collective. Aiming to contrast the hard, fast, and in-your-face techno, he finds comfort in the deepest corners of psychedelic and hypnotic rhythms. He pulls influence from his Japanese background and often layers sounds from key figures including Wata Igarashi, DJ Nobu, and DJ MARIA.

"It’s 5am. You’re in the warehouse. You can only make out the silhouettes of the people dancing next to you but you’re locked in. That’s the feeling I want to embody with this mix. Groovy, psychedelic, and hypnotic. Long blends and layering to balance tension and release, the slow burn. Just let go and enjoy the journey :)"

Yuzu ゆず:
https://www.instagram.com/yuzuplease/
Soundcloud: @yesyuzu

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Yuzu ゆず – Supplement 141 | PURE SOUND

This year, the spanish techno legend Oscar Mulero will return to the stage at rural, and we are happy to share the recording of his closing set at “rural at New Acao” in 2022.

This three-hour raging techno set guided the audience to the most intense and deeper world in the otherworldly main floor of “New Acao”, a gorgeous Showa-era building overlooking the sea.

今年、再びruralの舞台に戻ることになったスパニッシュテクノの生きる伝説 Oscar Mulero による2022年の“rural at New Acao”でのクロージングセットを公開します。

来場者の記憶に深く刻まれることになった、海を一望できる豪華絢爛な昭和建築“ニューアカオ”の異世界的なメインフロアの中でも、最も激しく、より深い世界を案内することになった3時間に及ぶ怒涛のテクノセットをお楽しみください。

rural Podcast 014 Oscar Mulero

Iskore

ConFirm Mister Wolf

Insanity

Ilian Tape‘s standard bearing siblings join us for the latest in our Bassiani Podcast series. Largely spartan in melody, Dario and Marco’s early influences are self-evident here: the brothers’ roots in dub and even rap meander through techno and the result is every bit as laid back and cool as their own label’s output. Podcast 90 is a fun and vigorous offering by the dynamic Bavarian duo.