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

Black Sites - C4

Black Sites - 707

Mexican producer Theus Mago kicks off the journey toward his new album 'MUN/SEA' with the release of 'The F-Train', a collaborative single with Berlin-based artist Moderna. Out May 16th via Amsterdam’s DGTL imprint, the track is a dark, propulsive ride through late-night electro and shadowy synth-wave textures.

Built around a muscular low-end and Moderna’s signature spoken-word delivery, 'The F-Train' sets the tone for the rest of the album—raw, hypnotic, and wired for the underground. It’s not designed for the spotlight, but for strobe-lit basements and after-hours dives.

DGTL046: Theus Mago & Moderna - 'The F-Train'

Live recorded on 3 turntables, vinyl only.

B2B with Helena Hauff Live at Trädgården, Stockholm

TP549 Ivan Smagghe (Love International Sunrise Sessions)

Juliet Fox returns to her TREGAMBE label with “Miss U”, a euphoric, high-energy techno track built for peak-time moments.

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Premiere: Juliet Fox - Miss U [TREGAMBE]

Live from Berlin via our audio stream today, with Reach Another System pres. BiGOTT 12’’ release! 
GOTT (Scannoir & Sneaker) for the next 3 hours!

GOTT (Scannoir & Sneaker) [11.10.25]

Premiere of 'Crème de Cassis' by Domenico Crisci & Retina.it, taken from Analogies LP forthcoming on Summa Cum Laude

Domenico Crisci & Retina.it return with a powerful new collaboration, following their 12” on Semantica last year and an EP on Summa Cum Laude, this release marks another chapter in a deep-rooted legacy of Napoli’s techno scene.
With a career spanning decades, Retina.it known also for their pioneering QMen project with Rino Cerrone - helped ignite the original Napoli techno movement back in 1995. Their music has graced labels like Design Music (Marco Carola) and Conform (Gaetano Parisio), defining the city's signature raw, analog sound.

Label: Summa Cum Laude
Artists: Domenico Crisci & Retina.it
Title: Analogies
Track: Crème de Cassis
Cat: Summa Cum Laude 013
Release Date: 24.10.2025

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Premiere: Domenico Crisci & Retina.it - Crème de Cassis [Summa Cum Laude 013]

Layers

Ali X (Alphonse from Azari & III) ), Theus Mago and Ximena combined on seductive five tracker 'Let's Get Naked' last November, they were joined by Berlin-based Curses (who took care of remix duties on the title cut). The steamy lead also got a hypnotic rework from main man Fausto, which before today had yet to see the daylight. This week, as a gift to Club Turbo, our online community, we're making this entrancing remix available to members only. Join here: https://turborecordings.bandcamp.com/track/lets-get-naked-ft-ximena-fausto-remix-2

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Ali X & Theus Mago - Let's Get Naked ft. Ximena (Fausto Remix) [Club Turbo Exclusive]

Last set of 2019! With all my favourite tunes of the year.
Schwarz at Disco Zwei Mannheim
29.12.2019
https://soundcloud.com/jrluettringhaus

Live Sets

@ Disco Zwei - Mannheim 29.12.2019

Layers of darkness embraced by light that stands out at the surface. Known for reckless experimentation in production and recognisable attitude at his Control Club residency, Walentin Pauer's dilettantism transformed into a work ethic which propelled him to the point of reading the room without having to compromise the dancefloor's attitude. Never satisfied.

 While playing for venues and parties such as Renate's Silvester party, Kater Blau, Crack Bellmer, Bohnengold, Virage Paris, Gouter de Nuit or La Rotonde Stalingrad, Walentin Pauer does bookings for 'Cabinet', 'Jetlagged' and 'Jacked' nights in Bucharest for Control Club. 
PAST ALIASES: Pand3lescu, Dilettante, Eddie Lanzat
contact /// valentin@control-club.ro / valentin.pandelescu@gmail.com
https://soundcloud.com/control-club 

Dogs & Vultures records(Eddie Lanzat),Nein Records(Dilettante), Emerald & Doreen recordings(Pand3lescu)
PAST GIGS:
12 feb 2017 - TOFU at Bohnengold, Berlin: Sofia Kourtesis, Sean Patrick, Local Suicide, Dilettante
19 aug 2017 - Cabinet: Asaf Samuel, Heretic, Nek, Dilettante
16 sep 2017 - B.Traits, Moderna, Dilettante
30 sep 2017 - Cabinet: Inigo Vontier, Tal Cohen, Bogman, Dilettante
08 oct 2017 - Katerblau, Berlin
20 oct 2017 - Cabinet: Abstraxion, !idir, Nek & Dilettante
09 nov 2017 - Maschine: Blawan,Alexandru Jijian, Dilettante (ending slot / unannounced)
24 nov 2017 - Markus Nikolai,James Dean Brown, Dilettante (warm up / unannounced)
15 dec 2017 - Cabinet: Man Power, Manfredas, Nek & Dilettante
16 dec 2017 - Maschine: Marcel Dettmann, Sa Pa, Dilettante (ending slot / unannounced)
24 dec 2017 - San Proper vs Ulf Eriksson, Dilettante (warm up + ending slot / unannounced)
31 dec 2017 - Vakula, Ewan Pearson, Chlorys, Dilettante
03 jan 2018 - Cabinet: Morgan Hammer & Lokier, Dilettante & Nek
24 feb 2018 - Sharif Laffrey, Bogman, Dilettante
02 mar 2018 - Carl Craig + Francesco Tristano, Dilettante (warm up + ending slot / unannounced)
31 mar 2018 - Cabinet: The Hacker, Romansoff, Dilettante & Nek
11 may 2018 - Cabinet: Jennifer Cardini, Dilettante & Nek
02 jun 2018 - The Excess Show x Pride Bucharest Opening / Charlotte Bendiks, Admina, Dilettante
24 aug 2018 - 5ive, Eirwud Mudwasser, Dilettante
31 aug 2018 - Cabinet: Matsch Krone, Bogman, Dilettante
29 sep 2018 - Cabinet: Matias Aguayo, Bogman, Eddie Lanzat
05 oct 2018 - Phuong Dan, Marlon Hoffstadt, Eddie Lanzat
06 oct 2018 - Rex The Dog live, Javi Redondo, Chlorys, Eddie Lanzat (ending slot / unannounced)
13 oct 2018 - Asaf Samuel, Katzele, Nek & Eddie Lanzat
10 nov 2018 - Gouter De Nuit 1YR Anniversary, Paris
16 nov 2018 - Ivan Smagghe, Eddie Lanzat
01 dec 2018 - David Vunk, Bogman, Eddie Lanzat & Nek
29 dec 2018 - Mehmet Aslan, Eddie Lanzat & Nek, Cliza
31 dec 2018 - Pional, Valentino Mora, Chlorys & Admina, Eddie Lanzat
02 feb 2019 - Cabinet: Die Wilde Jagd live, Damon Jee, Eddie Lanzat & Nek, Dar Adal
16 feb 2019 - Club Trax, La Rotonde Stalingrad, Paris: Liar, Georgescu, Eddie Lanzat
23 mar 2019 - Cabinet: Fantastic Twins live, Von Bulove, Eddie Lanzat & Nek
06 apr 2019 - Cabinet: Axel Boman, Kosta, Eddie Lanzat & Nek
12 apr 2019 - Cabinet: Thomass Jackson, Bogman, Eddie Lanzat & Nek
13 apr 2019 - Fort Romeau, Ulf Eriksson, Eddie Lanzat (warm up + ending slot / unannounced)
04 mai 2019 - Cabinet: Theus Mago, Dilettante & Nek
17 mai 2019 - Cabinet: Helena Hauff, Admina, Eddie Lanzat
01 jun 2019 - Lauri Soini, Eirwud Mudwasser, Eddie Lanzat
08 jun 2019 - Thomas Freudenthal, Eddie Lanzat & Nek
13 jul 2019 - Cabinet: Oxymore, Eddie Lanzat & Nek, Chlorys
10 aug 2019 - Feinstoff at Crack Bellmer, Berlin: Thomas Freudenthal & Eddie Lanzat
06 sep 2019 - Cabinet: Asaf Samuel, Eddie Lanzat & Nek

+ many more up to 2024.

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