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Overland invites Lonefront from Minneapolis on her show this week. Expect pummeling techno with modular influences.

Catch Overland every 1st Wednesday of the month, from 01h to 02h [CET] on rinse.fr

Rinse France Podcast

Overland invites Lonefront - 01 Mars 2023

ROOM 2 - SATURDAY 20 til 22 🐊🐊🐊

Thanks to Suzybee & Steevio, the volunteers, the dancers, the musicians, Théo & Ugo, the Friends of Fictions, Alex & very special thanks to @iambruce for mastering the recording :)

Hug to @r4r_luz who sadly couldn't make it this year and was supposed to play before me.

Shorter context: https://www.instagram.com/p/C9NI2bwMVcu/

Longer context: https://fictionsandreflections.com/a-fluid-togetherness-that-manages/

Freerotation 2024 : The House Of Crocodiles Part 2 (Live Recording)

Hessle Audio feat. Dave Huismans (ex-libris, A Made Up Sound) - 30 June 2025

recorded live at good work in a backyard on a lovely saturday in brooklyn

Loidis @ Good Work - 12 July 2025

Fresh off the release of his outstanding album ‘Berlin’ we welcome Felix K - a true purveyor of sophisticated, deep electronic music. His work explores the fringes of techno, jungle, dub, and ambient, building immersive sound worlds that defy easy categorization. Known for his meticulous approach to production and his ability to weave complex narratives through sound, Felix K has carved out a unique space for himself in the global underground scene.

For this marathon journey, Felix K delivers a masterclass in patience and precision, guiding listeners through a three-hour odyssey that is as introspective as it is rhythmically compelling. The mix is a testament to his expansive musical knowledge and his ability to connect seemingly disparate genres into a cohesive, flowing narrative.

In his own words: "The mix was recorded in my studio in Berlin. Beginning with slower Dub Techno, it slips into the early, minimalist 85/170 Drum-and-Bass era, showcasing plenty of those formative highlights before closing with authentic Amen Breaks combining with a sound design that actually anticipates the vibe of some of today’s darker techno productions."

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https://soundcloud.com/flxk1
https://www.instagram.com/flxk1/
https://flxk1.bandcamp.com/album/berlin
https://nullpunktrec.eu/flxk1


MNMT 481 : Felix K

The German minimal DJ returns to the spotlight with two hours of artfully subtle house and techno.

There's an old German proverb that goes "Der stete Tropfen höhlt den Stein." Literally, it means a constant dripping wears away the stone, but the point isn't about force but patience: slow, steady repetition can leave the deepest mark. It's an apt metaphor for the career of Kosta Athanassiadis, better known as XDB.

Active since the early '90s, first as a DJ and then producer by the decade's end, Athanassiadis has built a career less on hype than persistence. His catalogue spans labels like Dial, Metrolux and Echocord, alongside a steady trickle of EPs and remixes that have quietly cemented his reputation as one of minimal house and techno's undersung heroes.

That patience carries into his sound and production ethos. Where many of his peers embraced software upgrades and new workflows, Athanassiadis has long stuck to Cubase, a handful of trusty instruments and 30-year-old speakers he claims to have run "hundreds of thousands of tunes" through. He also still prefers to use inexpensive, straightforward gear—what matters, he insists, is not the tools but the feel. The result is a sound that’s stripped back, direct and enduring.

Lately, Athanassiadis has found himself back in focus. With minimal enjoying fresh attention, his calendar has filled, and with it a run of back-to-back sets—most often alongside PLO Man, a regular sparring partner this year. True to form, though, you won't find that his style has changed much. Over 30 years after his first gig, you can rest assured you'll still find him playing with patience, carving out long arcs rather than sharp peaks.

His RA Mix captures him in a reflective mood. Running just over two hours, RA.1003 is a hushed yet absorbing affair, moving seamlessly from the delicate atmospherics of Valentino Mora and Caldera to the machine funk of Robert Hood, Solid Gold Playaz and Marcellus Pittman. There are left turns folded into XDB's patient narrative arc, too: John Carpenter's brooding scores here, DJ Sprinkles' melancholic work with Will Long on "Acid Trax N (Acid Dog)" there.

It's the sound of a DJ who has been quietly chiseling away for three decades, and who understands the value of persistence as much as restraint.

@xdb

Find the tracklist and interview at ra.co/podcast/1021

RA.1003 XDB

@christian-s-smith

him.saint (Christian Streit Smith, b. 1990) is a percussionist, producer, dj, & landscaper based in The Hague.  Christian grew up in Cincinnati, and has lived in Canada and Switzerland before moving to The Netherlands in 2016. He has been playing percussion since he was 10 years old, and while he was originally trained classically, he now works in the ever expanding field of experimental music.  Since 2020 he has self-released a solo full length album, a project with composer Jesse Broekman called 'Contrafacta' on Moon Villain, and next month he and his Basel based ensemble Gyre are releasing an album of music by Argentinian composer Santiago Diez Fischer on Another Timbre.  As a dj, the last years have seen several appearances on Maxi Radio in Leiden as well as making mixes for his soundcloud an average of once or twice per year, and in November he will begin a 4 show residency at Stranded FM in Utrecht called 'C. Smith's Midwest Meltdown' which will conclude in Summer 2026.  him.saint is his moniker chosen for all electronic dance music including techno, but the Stranded FM shows under his government name will be focused on presenting a wide range of his music taste outside of club and dance music culture. 

For my debut R&D mix I was really trying to compress the experience of a 3 hour set into 1 hour, and to lean into maintaining and building a continuous groove and energy for as long as possible before the final 15 minutes where it goes to some perhaps unexpected places. It was recorded in my apartment in March of 2025 using my computer, rekordbox software, and a ddj-400 controller.  

IG: https://www.instagram.com/christian_streit_smith/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@christiansmithpercussion6472
Bandcamp: 
https://moonvillainrecords.bandcamp.com/album/a-place-to-sing-at-night
https://christiansmith1.bandcamp.com/album/blue-scatter-lp
https://anothertimbre.bandcamp.com/

Tracklist:
Sandro Uhl - Sounscape
Sleeparchive - 6
Truncate - Untitled
Rrose X Polygonia - Haima
Al Wootton - When Hempe is Spun
Jerical - Groove On
Jonas Kopp - Ocher System #2
Casual Treatment - Eternity Is Long, Prepare For It
Blenk - Outline
Rene Wise - Mover
Finder - Shifting Sands
Temudo - When I Grow Up
Chlär - Panopticon
Beste Hira - Representing My Brain
Taken - Ice Truck
D.I.E. - Dutch Friends
Doctor Jeep - Cyber Funk
Baalti - Buttons
Chaos In The CBD - Liquid Experience

RND 143 - him.saint

30 Years of Interdimensional Transmissions Tour came to Karmen Camina in Strasbourg on August 23, 2025 – celebrating 30 years of summoning music from the other side. We brought a special lineup reflecting the context of that city and artists we connect to, focused around BMG & Erika with venue transformations by Amber Gillen & the Infinite Dimensions Crew. For the show in Strasbourg, in addition to DJ sets from Ectomorph along with solo sets from Erika and BMG, we were pleased to welcome one of our musical heroes: the genre transcendent genius from The Hague: Intergalactic Gary. This was the final DJ set of the 30 Years of IT Tour. This set really aces the mission of the whole tour, and after guests like Rrose, dBridge and Clarisa Kimskii at other shows, we really feel like we expressed so many sides of our vision. IT’s first record launched with Ectomorph in February 1995, and we have been devoted to the left hand path of Detroit Techno to this day, striving to create music and environments that are both timeless and inspiring.

IT Podcast

IT.podcast.s14e08: Intergalactic Gary at 30 Years of IT – Strasbourg

Montreal's Phoebé Guillemot plays records as DJ FATi and is an album specialist as RAMZi. Just this month her fifth full length, Pèze-Piton, dropped and was another beautifully unusual mix of tropical house, dub, future jazz and experimental grooves that are impossibly loose and inescapably infectious. Releasing on cult labels like Mood Hut, 1080p and Rvng Into., her leftfield sounds feel at once completely alien yet also wholly organic and earthy. They are jumbled collages of trippy vocal sounds, squelchy synths and tumbling drums that real new details with each listen. 

Playing live but also DJing under the DJ Fati alias, when in selector mode her sound is just as fresh. This mix is a worldly hour of laid-back beats, jungle house and new age grooves that ooze exotic flavours and tropical vibes. It goes through blissed out and baeachy passages of instrumentals, jumbled drums and shimmering synths that paint a perfect picture of a some imaginary paradise where all there is to do is soak up the sun and dance.

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