Reclaim Your City

Reclaim Your City 691 | 393AD

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 08:25:00 +0200

A new name to the scene on the cusp of big moves, Amsterdam’s 393AD punches in our weekly podcast series with a vengeance. Treating us to two hours of unrelenting kick and snare-powered assault, the Dutch producer leaves no stone unturned in his quest for the deadliest groove. Having recently gained momentum through a pair of records for Full Range Motion that went right for the jugular, the Amsterdam whiz continues his ascension unbothered, delivering yet another fine example of his abrasive and extremely dynamic style. Spirited material laid down with veteran expertise, it's 393AD inbound with the cyclonic frenzy. Don’t sleep.

Reclaim Your City 690 | Julie

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 6 Apr 2026 07:55:00 +0200

As we move closer to our third ever Saüle takeover on April 30, this week’s podcast comes courtesy of Dutch DJ Julie, who’ll be helming the decks alongside Costanza and fellow RYC alums Hitam and Ruben Ganev. Bringing her deft touch for agile techno cavalcades and deeply immersive buildups, Julie gives us a glimpse of the night to come: a set rife with hi-octane rollers and more intimate aesthetics, consistently complex and gripping throughout two hours spanning deep-diving dubs, post-industrial abstraction and further leftfield-oriented sonics. A much compelling peek into Julie's vibrant headspace, this mix shall give future attendees a taste of the storm to come, and absentees something to bite into.

Reclaim Your City 689 | Thomas Hessler

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 08:44:00 +0200

Actively pushing back the borders of techno language for the past fifteen years, German DJ and producer Thomas Hessler chose to relocate to Tbilisi, Georgia a few years ago and given the current state of the local scene, there is little wonder why. Tireless provider of equally hard-hitting and cerebral grooves that have taken him to play the best stages out there including Berghain, Fabric, Bassiani and Tresor, Hessler’s name has become synonymous with stunt-filled, hi-octane sets and productions that operate in the gap between kevlar-coated payload, mind-bending loops and raging sub-bass drive. Expect a fiery, laser-precise deluge of ultra-dynamic psychedelia and rattling machine funk. No surrender.

Reclaim Your City 688 | Zemög

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 07:39:00 +0100

All the way from Colombia, Zemög turns up in our weekly podcast series with a vengeance. Explosive and sharp, this two-hour salvo summons a versatile array of floor-busting ordnance: from acid-soaked heaters to atmospheric escapology, through proto-techno chuggers and non-formulaic, abstract-leaning grooves. Boasting a deft hand for these full-immersion sorties into techno deep space, this mix swings the pendulum betwixt laser-like engineering and eerily synthetic emotion, beckoning us onto the path of total subjugation in a near-somnambular state. Channeling energies and brainwaves like a puppeteer, here’s Zemög with the trance-inducing hoodoo. Don’t sleep.

Reclaim Your City 687 | Costanza

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 06:53:00 +0100

Punching in with a two-hour round of deep sonic immersion, Rome-via-Berlin up-and-comer Costanza steps in to serve up a glimpse of her highly eclectic, boundary-pushing artistic headspace. Operating at the confines of atmospheric techno and further leftfield-leaning electronics, Costanza has been laying the foundation to a rivetingly profound body of work, extrapolating the functional requirements of dance floor maneuvering into the realm of pure sound-borne elevation. A true herald of techno quality expressing herself through stripped-down introspective pieces, here she goes with a deep, mesmeric dive into her ominous and highly intoxicating soundscapes. Blast it out loud.

Reclaim Your City 686 | Pulso

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 9 Mar 2026 07:35:00 +0100

Up this week in our podcast series, Argentinian DJ and producer Pulso steps up with a two-hour ride spanning dark, brooding floor material and verbed-out oddities. Championing a sound both unremittingly abrasive and truly hypnotic, sitting at the junction of hard-hitting big room ballistics and abstract-leaning dub groovers, Pulso dishes out a masterclass in trippy, pulsating sonic tapestries. Wild rhythms and sci-fi-informed atmospheres coalesce in a furnace-hot environment, all set at triggering off the crowd’s most buried raving instincts. Expect a suspenseful workout of a set, rife with massive twists and turns. Fiery!

Reclaim Your City 685 | Kaspiann Live

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 2 Mar 2026 07:32:00 +0100

Hailing from the lands of ‘Nordic swamp psychedelica’ as he likes to call it, Finnish DJ and producer Kaspiann fractures his way into our weekly podcast series with a special hour-and-a-half-long sonic rodeo spanning frosted hi-tech minimalistic architectures, playful polyrhythmic debauchery and further genre-unbound incursions into icy proto-futuristic territories. Unleashing a vibrant outpour of experimental-leaning rollers, jagged zero-G maneuvers and straight out effusive dubs from down deep, Kaspiann beckons us on the path of sheer multi-sensory abandon and inescapable full body & soul immersion throughout. Expect a deluge of heavily textured envelopes, polychromatic fractals and tribal folk-informed percussive hoodoo to wrap your ears around at various tempi and in various configurations. Monster versatility, monster execution, monster impact.

Reclaim Your City 684 | Zara

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 08:33:00 +0100

This week’s guest in our podcast series is Australian-born / London-based Zara, a name that’s been making waves in the underground UK techno scene and now graces us with her debut two-hour RYC mix. A versatile juggler of styles and tempi, Zara dishes out a multi-faceted set spanning jagged hi-tech grooves, faux-organic downtempo ambiences and further cross-pollinated dubs from outer space. Never quite limiting herself to straitjacketed protocols, the Kinesis Recordings boss pulls out a wealth of unsuspected moves and maneuvers, blurring the line constantly between club adaptation and non-formulaic musical detours bordering on experimental and leftfield. The result is a mix that hums and throbs like nothing else, a proper sound UFO if you prefer, rebellious by nature and rogue by necessity. Beware, shockwave coming in hot.

Reclaim Your City 683 | Mode_1

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 08:37:00 +0100

Irish DJ and producer Mode_1 is our guest this week with a two-hour sonic cruise running the gamut from psychedelic post-industrial soundscapes to stripped-down brutalist grooves. Cutting a path of destruction across the dance floor, this mix is designed to have all ravers’ adrenaline levels topped out as they wait for the next bar’s own idiosyncratic thrill with blind obedience. Championing a sound both clinically crisp and entrancingly dynamic, Mode_1 is your guide for a deep dive across fractured 4x4 atmospheres and effervescing peak-time jousts. Leaving no stone unturned in his quest for the most hair-raising crescendo, there goes the Dublin whiz firing on all cylinders, ready to buckle knees by the dozen.

Reclaim Your City 682 | Clarisa Kimskii

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 9 Feb 2026 08:47:00 +0100

Queens-based DJ and Volnost resident Clarisa Kimskii takes the helm this week with two hours of proper mind-expanding wares, acid-drenched psychedelia and rugged, industrial-informed grooves. Known for her intrepid sonic journeys and hi-impact blends, the US artist takes us on a bumpy ride fusing hi-octane big room momenti, aesthetic style clash and proper eruptive floor combustion. Hold onto your seats and hunch your shoulders. Acceleration is happening, takeoff is imminent.

Reclaim Your City 681 | Amotik

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 2 Feb 2026 07:39:00 +0100

Serial havoc-wreaker Amotik punches in this week with a hi-velocity two-hour round running the gamut from mind-expanding minimalism to claustrophobic dubs onto proper heavy-duty, industrial-informed big room wares. Unleashing wave after wave of unrelenting synth undulations and clinical basswork that'll send shivers down your spine, his set is pure techno NRG in a bottle. Ease yourself into Amotik's shape-shifting cyclonic architectures and doomed hi-tech atmospheres, the ride ahead ticks all the boxes of an entrancingly memorable sonic voyage. Lock in and lift off.

Reclaim Your City 680 | Yamour

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 12:26:00 +0100

Swinging by with her debut RYC transmission this week is Giegling affiliate and Blitz resident jockey Yamour, a DJ who blends the finest of classic Chicago house joints with Detroit style churners to decisively compelling effect. Showing a particularly deft hand for building soulful sonic narratives with a truly hypnotic edge to them, Yamour digs far and deep into heritage grooves and newly released heaters to form her own floor-focussed musical alphabet, bridging hypnagogic house, eclectic machine funk and muscular techno dubs throughout complex, intricately woven tableaux. Never quite where you’d expect to find her at, cutting her own singular path away from formulaic criterions and run-of-the-mill genre-boundness. A joy to hear from start to finish, Yamour’s versatility blazes with every bar and every beat, writing its own idiosyncratic chapter in the big book of electronic music with unparalleled swagger and chemistry. Hectic.

Reclaim Your City 679 | Phara

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 08:39:00 +0100

Up this week is FUSE resident DJ and Phaaar label owner Phara treating us to a whirlwind of gusty minimal groovers and relentless big-room punchers. With a solid bunch of quality records on the likes of Token, Soma or SK_Eleven under his belt, the Brussels-based DJ and producer delivers a two-hour mix right in line with his signature stripped-down floor mystique and deadeye, hi-velocity style behind the decks. Running the gamut from strapping, 909-fuelled pound to choppy dubbed-out swells, via jagged prog-technoid momentums and acid-informed psychedelia, Phara’s mix is a vibrantly trippy, inch-perfectly engineered ode to techno’s dual essence, combining spontaneous combustion with future-facing innovation to riveting effect. Saddle up and brace yourself for this incoming number shall leave you gasping for air.

Reclaim Your City 678 | Ruben Ganev

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 08:50:00 +0100

Herald of a darker, more opaque style of deep-diving techno music, RYC alum Ruben Ganev (he's got a debut solo transmission on the way but shhhh) punches in with his second podcast for us. Dwelling the frontier betwixt sunken dub mechanisms and full-immersion atmospheric industrialism, Ganev pulls the strings to a fascinating shadow play rife with textured analogue stunts, verbed-out hoodoo and hair-raising crescendos out a cinematic tale. Continually slacklining between faux-organic sound membranes, laser precise scape-sculpting and haunted brutalist architectonics, his set maintains a complex equilibrium throughout, vibrating with suspenseful constructions and unsuspected developments that’ll keep you on your toes through the whole of this shape-shifting journey.

Reclaim Your City 677 | Ben Sims

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 5 Jan 2026 08:45:00 +0100

Who better than the man, the legend Ben Sims to get 2026 rolling in proper spectacular and ever thought-provoking fashion? As we’re slowly finding our feet into this odd new revolution ahead, the London legend clocks in with a most solid bunch of psychoactive wares and chiseled big-room pumpers bound to have you enter flow state from first minute to last. Channeling the hard-boiled NRG of his prime and trusted grit of today’s self, Sims has us surfing a massive comber of fractalized uptempo motifs, raging machine funk and ruthless, iron-clad grooves. Having lost nothing of his boundary-pushing verve and floor-harnessing savor faire, the UK born-and-raised maestro dishes out a fiery two-hour buffet of unstoppable hi-tech rollers and no-surrender material that pledges to reunite 90s heyday buffs, hardcore purists and techno newcomers alike. Slapping and banging ride all the way, with all best wishes from RYC and co.

Reclaim Your City 676 | Darwin

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 09:56:00 +0100

Clocking in for our last round of the year, and ready to shut 2025 off on a proper high note, here comes SPE:C, Reef and Biofield boss Darwin with two hours of hi-velocity yet cerebral material for the heads. Loaded with the steel-hard fury of future-facing techno wares and breaks-informed combinations of sci-fi atmospheres, alien emotional spaces, and impactful weight in the low end, this mix makes for a proper sendoff party to 2025 so we transition from this long-ass year into the new one with renewed energy and focus. All in on the 4x4 and adjacent pumpers, bass-heavy depth charges and zero-G, dub-leaning stunts, the former Griessmuehle resident and habituée at some of the scene's most illustrious bastions - including our friends of Berghain and Bassiani - dishes out a mind-boggling set packing not just the most massive punch but also a deadeye accuracy in her mixing technique and pristine curation, sure to please lovers of fast-paced and hedonistically havoc-wreaking blends, fully zeroed in on bringing back the true pioneering spirit of techno to the fore. RUFFFFF.

Reclaim Your City 675 | Ben Kaczor

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 09:25:00 +0100

Championing a sound intrinsically deep and leaning towards lo-fi dub techno, St. Odes co-founder and Dial Records alum Ben Kaczor stops by to deliver his first ever RYC podcast. Laying down a mix rife with the slo-churning, micro house-esque jams and eerily contemplative boogie that’s come to define his style, Kaczor treats us to a two-hour jaunt into a fractured headspace, organic and synthetic at once, inhabited by odd creatures and ghostly silhouettes. Evocative and lush, his mix conjures up the most haunting reverb-drenched melodies and esoteric grooves to shape a uniquely engaging, cinematic voyage. Give in to this slo-evolving buildup of dusty ambiences and falsely serene harmonies, as they teem with the kind of held-in magnetic power and subjugating potential to get any crowd wading in a weird, awry sense of XTC.

Reclaim Your City 674 | Shoal

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 09:47:00 +0100

A sonic explorer connecting the dots between spaced-out abstraction and trippy techno sorties, Shoal has been cruising the scene’s hyperspace for the past ten years with his eyes set on a new horizon of musical possibilities, eager to clear the ground for further audacious expeditions in the uncharted nooks and crannies of atmospheric electronics. Combining spacious and layered envelopes with finely textured, FX-soaked membranes of sound and forward-rushing dynamics, Shoal beckons us on the path of fearless time and space traveling through sound. Immersive and uncompromising, his present mix takes us on a bumpy ride across alien-engineered megastructures and subterranean drifts, in search for the unheard ore concealed at the heart of techno’s paling mainstream veinstone.

Reclaim Your City 673 | Rhyw

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 8 Dec 2025 15:52:00 +0100

For the past decade, Rhyw has been trading monster floor twisters, inherently bold and inch-perfectly engineered to whip up crowds into a frenzy with its UK bass-y chassis and post-industrial bodywork. Blending in rugged percussion with hard steel machine funk and hip-swaying grooves, the Fever AM co-founder keeps on carving out a lane truly his own in today’s oft tepid techno landscape. Aiming to trigger off yet unfelt sensations amongst ravers, Rhyw puts together mixes that defy gravity and genre-bound limitations, sculpting momentums and harnessing the crowd’s NRG like no one else. Sweeping his wide spectrum of influences, from two-step rhythms and Garage culture to classic steely techno punch, through Latin-inflected swing and electroid propulsion, Rhyw’s RYC mix ushers us down a volcanic vent flush with the wildest floor pyrotechnics and straight slapping bursts of untamed audio synthesis. Fiery.

Reclaim Your City 672 | OCCA

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 1 Dec 2025 08:44:00 +0100

Hailing from Sapporo, Japan, Occa is no typical big room DJ but a master acrobat in sound, expertly pushing the envelope of electronics as a transcending means of expression. Shifting gears constantly between conceptual abstraction and functional architecture, seeking effect in every move and sniffing out substance in any sine, Occa dwells his own sonic continuum, hermetic to stiff norms and creatively hampering conventions. Laser-like and seamless, be ready for a descent into a cyclonic tempest of FX-splattered loops and verbed-out tactile, nimbly moving the cursor between ominous dubs, hi-tech floor destroyers and experimental-leaning detours. A masterclass in sound design, boasting both impeccable curation and mind-bending construction thru and thru, it’s Occa taking over with one of this year’s most hair-raising highlights. HARD.

Reclaim Your City 671 | Elias.

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 09:34:00 +0100

Diving deeper into reverb-soaked environments and subterranean sonic strata, Berlin-based producer and ungesund co-founder Elias. graces us with a mix bound to have all listeners zone out in a flash. A bold explorer of hyper-textured fractals and submerged post-industrial atmospheres, Elias. embarks us on a trip down the infra-visible and infra-audible, into the heart of our world’s pulsating matter and across FX-coated membranes of sound. Getting ever closer to the organic throb of it all, we’re ushered through an in-limbo kind of headspace, sitting at the junction of proper floor entrancement and abstract-leaning escapology. Prepare for a sense-awakening plunge into a sonic realm seemingly bleached-out and tenebrous at first, yet incredibly vivid upon closer inspection. Mesmerising and deep as it gets.

Reclaim Your City 670 | Blazej Malinowski

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 07:55:00 +0100

Championing a sound both entrancingly serene and deep-diving, Blazej Malinowski joins us for a two-hour journey across dubbed-out psychedelic folds and straightforward cinematic crescendos he holds the secret to. Through a string of hypnotic releases for the likes of Semantica, The Gods Planet, Kvalia and his own imprint, Inner Tension, the Polish DJ and producer has been minting a sound signature both impeccably fuel-efficient and immersive to the full. Seeking the meditative thrill of sensory entanglement through contrasting dynamic forces and melodic chiaroscuros, Malinowski treats us to a rivetingly evocative outpour of shape-shifting techno epics and sunken, reverb-drenched atmospherics spiraling in and out of focus. Expect a deluge of mazy, claustrophobic 4x4 corridors and further unhindered panoramas of layered, swelling synthesis. Wild.

Reclaim Your City 669 | DJ Surgeles

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 08:51:00 +0100

Herald of a sound both punishingly jagged and haunted by the long heritage of Dutch industrial music, U.F.F. boss and Axis alum Kole Leijen aka DJ Surgeles steps in with a two hour mix reflecting his hard-boiled headspace, sprawling steely uptempo landscapes and further rapid-fire bursts of enslaving machine funk. Running the hoodoo down with masterly precision and undeniable flair, Kole amps up the pressure through a chiselled montage of titanium-coated big room wares, kaleidoscopic hi-tech motifs and abstract-leaning analogue techno stunts. Prime yourself for a wild ride across metamorphic, future-proof atmospheres and whirring fractals of sound.

Reclaim Your City 668 | Rolando

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 3 Nov 2025 08:42:00 +0100

This week we’re blessed to welcome a true legend of the techno game with Rolando taking over RYC waves for a two-hour jaunt into otherworldly floor narratives and lushly-forested sonic landscapes. Now operating out of Edinburgh, the former Underground Resistance member - forever associated with the timeless classic ‘Knights of the Jaguar’ - has laid the foundation to a ceaselessly compelling body of work, including key releases on Ostgut Ton, Delsin and his own imprint, R3. Championing a sound most entrancingly dynamic, largely informed by groove, jazz and Latin percussions, Rolando graces us with a mix that combines the finest of his signature mystic-imbued vision and sixth sense for crafting some of the most memorable club experiences to be had. Tapping in his love for polyamorous Detroit techno and house combinations, mostly leaning into the more soulful side of his hometown’s heritage rather than the industrial edge, Rolando embarks us on a ride across shape-shifting technoid boogie reliefs and further uncharted routes. Brace yourselves for some of the lushest, most immersive and distinctive techno heroics around.

Reclaim Your City 667 | The Exaltics

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 07:39:00 +0100

Bringing this month of Clone-ruled brilliance to a closure, legendary German act The Exaltics treat us to a face-melting avalanche of abrasive kick-n-snare-heavy assault and future-proof sound engineering. Championing that no-surrender electro pulse and the same acid-soaked dystopian atmospheres that innervate their whole discography, the two-hour set here presented showcases the uncompromising nature of The Exaltics sound: both rugged to the core and infinitely complex in its musical phrasing. The result is a highly corrosive and equally dynamic mosaic of paced-up fragments, polychromatic ambiences and that signature in-your-face punch wrapped in a post-apocalyptic cinematic envelope. Steel yourself for liftoff.

Reclaim Your City 666 | Legowelt

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 08:51:00 +0200

Third artist to grace us in this Clone-curated month of October, The Hague’s one-and-only analogue wizard Legowelt surfaces with a mix sprawling from esoteric proto-techno to hallucinogenic electro, via trance-infused dreamscapes, eerie pop and mystique-imbued downtempo. As the true master of the synths he is, Legowelt has us traveling far and deep into a layered multiverse of dazzling hardware stutter and iridescent machine funk out a frizzling, VHS-supported headspace. Effusively vivid and durably haunting 8-bit-informed tapestries succeed through this glitchy maze of fractured tempi and vectorial stunts, cascading seamlessly as Legowelt pulls off yet another magnetic expression of retro-laced granularity and enhanced organic synthesis. Mythical.

Reclaim Your City 665 | Serge

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 07:31:00 +0200

Taking the helm for the second number in Clone’s October takeover, here goes the mastermind himself, Serge with an ever epic selection of hard-nosed bangers and boundary-pushing ordnance. Having built an absolute monument to electronic music in the broadest, most widely eclectic sense of the term, Serge remains a driving force without equivalent both within and well beyond the borders of Netherlands. His much anticipated mix for RYC attests to the evergreen quality of his selections and precision of his mixing, diving deep into his own label’s catalogue and like-minded repertoires to once again deliver the most compelling club-destroying transmission you could think of. Expect torrents of acid-drenched psychedelia, rough-hewn analogue bursts, cutting-edge slices and laser-precise groovers on a post-industrial tip. BEEG.

Reclaim Your City 664 | Afra

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 6 Oct 2025 08:35:00 +0200

Brace yourselves for a breakneck ride this month as our longtime friends and distributor Clone hijack RYC frequencies with a massive takeover for the whole month of October. Breaking this four-part installment in, Amsterdam’s Afra cuts in with two-hours of old-school Detroit electro vibrations, hi-velocity breaks and future-facing floor narratives beckoning us onto a whole distinct dimension entirely. All in finessed vortical dynamics and rapid-fire bass deluge, the Dutch DJ pulls out an absolute charge of a chiseled and finely-curated mix, locked-and-loaded on having ravers lose their mind to this effervescing fusion of frantic sci-fi-like atmosphere and proper nuclear propulsion. Buckle your belt.

Reclaim Your City 663 | Erik Jabari

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 07:37:00 +0200

Not yet a big name on today’s techno map, up-and-comer Erik Jabari is a producer and DJ you shall hear a lot more from in the coming years. Championing a sound both rugged to the core and honed to razor-sharp effect, the young Berlin-based artist is on a rising trajectory his recent 6-hour B2B set with living legend DJ Pete came to confirm in the most splendid way. Building upon an unmatched maturity behind the decks associated with a sixth sense for faultless track selections, Erik has been dishing out proper memorable vinyl-only sets with unfaltering flair and focus throughout the past few months, and his inaugural mix for RYC shall cement his position as a DJ and producer to keep a close eye on. Locked in, ready for the sweep.

Reclaim Your City 662 | Mareena

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 07:42:00 +0200

Taking over the decks this week with two hours of unflinching groove engineering, Tresor resident DJ and Unrush boss Mareena pulls out the big guns. All in layered atmospheric finesse, streamlined rhythmic architecture and nimble transitions, Mareena's mix vouches for her impeccable mixing skillset and pristine curation. Blending hi-impact, big room-focussed wares and clever detours into further experimental-leaning territories, the German artist captures a compelling snapshot of her current musical headspace, combining the finest of hi-tech dubs with vanguard electronics and stripped-down floor destroyers bound to wreak havoc all the way from the basement to the rooftop. Seismic drop, beware.

Reclaim Your City 661 | Neel

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 07:10:00 +0200

Half of boundary-pushing production outfit Voices From The Lake and co-founder of Spazio Disponibile, Neel is an Italian producer with a keen ear for complex, enveloping sonics; his ample, elegant pieces of music sitting right at the junction of beatless abstraction and intricate webs of electronic pulsations. Boasting his works’ most dynamic side, Neel’s debut transmission on RYC ushers us into a smouldering pit of molten steel and glassy membranes. Playing with echoes and latency as he builds his own multi-sensory experience out of eclectic fragments, Neel transports us to a zone where movement and inertia rule in concerted harmony, and your suddenly weightless body feels eventually free from today’s iteratively chaotic burden. Uplifting.

Reclaim Your City 660 | Irakli

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 8 Sep 2025 09:44:00 +0200

Responsible for a handful exquisite platters on the likes of Dial Records, LARJ, Figures’ sub-division LF RMX and his own imprint, Intergalactic Research Institute for Sound, Georgia-born, Berlin-based sound explorer Irakli lands his new transmission for RYC: a mix giving full vent to his ever innovative and shape-shifting approach to floor narratives. Always going the unsuspected route with no compass to guide us back onto the normative boulevard, Irakli takes us on a bumpy ride across jagged proto-technoid topographies, fractal-like foldings and mind-expanding new horizons of musical possibilities. The result is - as per the man’s high-flying standards, an ode to techno’s core values of innovation and fearlessness, developing the kind of pioneering mindset we miss so much these days. Electrifying.

Reclaim Your City 659 | Svreca

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 1 Sep 2025 07:47:00 +0200

Boss of Madrid’s seminal imprint Semantica, Spanish DJ and producer Svreca steps in the series with a monster two-hour jaunt into his multi-faceted techno headspace. As ever busy pushing the club sound’s envelope with great loads of heavyweight kicks and trenchant snares, Svreca has us all kitted out for a breathtaking dive into gravityless territories and cragged moonscapes. Flush with hair-raising momenti, unsuspected plot twists and climactic rollercoasting, his mix shifts the focus constantly betwixt textural magnification and rhythm-enslaved abandon, having you wading into the instant’s XTC to most mesmeric effect. A rough, Indus-minded masterclass from one of the finest to ever do it. Rampage mode on.

Reclaim Your City 658 | Alienata

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 08:25:00 +0200

A gifted, sure-handed groove manipulator, Alienata has been carving out a niche for herself as one of the scene’s most reliable DJs in both actual floor impact and mixing skillset. Also curating the ever consistent Discos Atónicos, which she founded in 2017, she keeps on delivering sets that combine a wide array of styles, from dark disco to acid, through D-town electro, industrial and IDM outbursts with equal poise and gusto, time and again. Expert in chiselled transitions and pristine track selections, the Spanish born DJ builds her mixes like one creates mosaics, building a cohesive whole out of disparate rhythmic elements and tempi, while she snaps ankles and flips brains by the dozen along the way. Yet another faultless mix from a DJ whose palette and perspective here surface in all their abrasive, unadulterated glory. Jet propulsion activated.

Reclaim Your City 657 | Marcal

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 08:51:00 +0200

Championing a sound both rugged and trance-inducing, Porto-based Brazilian producer Marcal clocks in this week with two hours blending future-proof warehouse rave material and claustrophobic 4x4 maneuvers. Hot on the heels of his latest ’Nature of the Future’ EP on Donato Dozzy and Neel’s imprint Spazio Disponibile, Marcal takes us on a mind-bending ride down raucous sine-scapes and brooding, verbed-out atmospheres, constantly pushing the envelope of techno as can be experienced these days. Resuming its course as a means for transcending our (currently much gloomy) zeitgeist, techno here gets back on its revolution-friendly tracks, finding its second breath as a metamorphic tool for blazing new paths and routes towards a better, more intelligently designed world. There goes a mix that summons the very finest of Marcal’s boundary-pushing vision and killer knack for crafting memorable and emancipatory floor narratives. Brace yourselves.

Reclaim Your City 656 | Arkan

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 08:44:00 +0200

Paris-via-Berlin based DJ and producer Arkan onboards the series this week with two hours fully embracing his deep, hypnosis-inducing mindset and definite knack for shaping streamlined floor narratives. Responsible for a handful surgical transmissions on the likes of Figure and SK_Eleven, in addition to running his own imprints Autonome and Drawner, the French artist keeps carving out a niche for himself at the junction of purely pragmatic, gravity-defying grooves and a certain orientation for experimental-leaning submersion, tailored to maintain techno's intrinsic relevancy and boundary-pushing character when so much material feels stuck in the emulative loop and not caring one bit to opt out the lame-ass continuum. One to keep the adrenaline rushing badman-style, and all brains in the room just as duly, unflinchingly stimulated.

Reclaim Your City 655 | Deniro

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 4 Aug 2025 08:49:00 +0200

Amsterdam's one and only Deniro returns to the series with a two-hour treat spanning his fast-paced, hi-res techno headspace. Up with the cutting-edge wares and laser-focussed grooves, the TAPE Records co-founder and RYC alum has us drifting across hi-tech machine funk scapes and jagged analogue reliefs, constantly in search for the next mind-expanding thrill. Known for his impeccably chiselled signature cuts blending the finest of future-facing techno with an experimental-leaning approach to production, Deniro turns in a monster transmission, rife with the hypnotic hoodoo and typically entrancing buildups that've made him the surefire agent of techno he is today. A gigantic ride packed with climactic eargasms and unsuspected cliff-hangers. Lock in, zone out.

Reclaim Your City 654 | Phase Fatale

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 08:03:00 +0200

Wrapping up July with a ballistic transmission, Berghain and Khidi resident Hayden Payne aka Phase Fatale punches in with two hours of genre-busting material, ebbing and flowing between surgical rhythmic assault and shape-shifting oneirism. Responsible for a handful of memorable platters on the likes of OSTGUT TON, Jealous God and his own imprint, BITE, Payne delivers a masterclass in laser-like DJing and ambient-scaping, pushing back the limits of techno as a vessel for emotional introspection and wordless communication. Taking us on a captivating ride across slow-evolving, finessed sonic reliefs, mind-expanding grooves and machine-told musings of the soul, Phase Fatale dazzles and subjugates. True to his ever high-flying standards and impeccable touch, a mix that shall leave you gobsmacked. Don’t sleep.

Reclaim Your City 653 | Stranger

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 15:00:00 +0200

Local player Mitchel Polderman alias Stranger steps in the RYC mix series with a two-hour pumper of a set epitomizing the very trademark character of his productions: hard-hitting, dynamic, unfaltering. Trading heavyweight floor-busters via his own labels Self Reflektion, Paling Trax and Perspektiv, or through the likes of Monnom Black or Clergy, Stranger has cemented his reputation as a surefire big-room puncher, serving up frantic, utilitarian peak time grooves and hi-impact warehouse ordnance like one goes for a walk in the park. Expertly mixed and proper XTC-inducing, Stranger’s mix vouches for the mad sound quality flowing in the veins of our beloved city. Reclaim.

Reclaim Your City 652 | Kr!z

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 08:40:00 +0200

Boss of the seminal Belgian techno imprint, Token, and absolute legend of the game, Kr!z returns to the series with a propulsive monster of a mix, ready to take you into the zone, halfway some demented inward dive and trance-inducing dance floor occultism. Boasting the kind of corrosive punch and textural maestria that’ve come to define his style, both elegant and tendinous, Kr!z dishes out a mind-altering treat of a sonic journey, packed to the rafters with spine-tingling climaxes and chiselled crescendos. As the true master of the craft he is, Kr!z unfolds his narrative like a sonic origami of sorts, preserving each twist and turn from easy spoiling and maintaining the kind of tension throughout that keeps you craving for that next bar like some mystic revelation. Thrilling as it gets.

Reclaim Your City 651 | A.Morgan

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 7 Jul 2025 08:44:00 +0200

Co-founder of Manchester’s infamous Rhythm Theory parties, A.Morgan lands his inaugural mix for RYC, showcasing both the breadth of his style and clinicality of his mixing skillset. Fresh off the release of his five-tracker, ‘Hyper Tension’, Morgan onboards the series with two hours of no-nonsense floor-destroying wares, stripped-down 4x4 aerobatics and epic-sized buildups. Muscular and mind-expanding, brace yourself for a set at the junction of proper hi-tech grit and heavily verbed-out grooves, merging the finest of classic 909-fuelled pound with atmospheric abandon and tape-delayed psychedelia. Blast this one out loud, all windows opened and woofers set to eleven.

Reclaim Your City 650 | Marie Montexier

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 07:55:00 +0200

Over the past few years, German DJ Marie Montexier has built and cemented her reputation as one of the finest groove merchants around, gracing the stages of the most highly-regarded clubs and festivals out there including Berghain, Fabric, De School and more. Her eclectic selections tap into the broadest spectrum of rhythms and influences, from tribal-informed electronics to straight out surgical indus-minded payload onto breaksy delicacies, propulsive house NRG and jagged funk from outer-space. Highly infectious, here goes an all vinyl mix fusing wild dynamics with deadeye DJing accuracy, oozing unclouded raving joy and out-and-out confidence. A no-miss delivery from a DJ in full possession of her art.

Reclaim Your City 649 | Atomic moog Live

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 08:40:00 +0200

True to their deep, widescreen approach to both production and live-performing, Parisian outfit Atomic Moog clock in with a helluva sleek and lushly relief’d mix, recorded on the occasion of their latest live performance at Outre Bleu on March 29. Through their releases for the likes of Delsin, Appian, Lowless or Monument, the French duo has been carving a niche for itself at the fringes of the dubbed-out techno tradition and abstract-leaning experimentality. This two-hour jaunt into their reverb and delay-heavy imaginarium has us moving across narrow corridors and cathedral-large spaces by turn, exploring the concept of spatialization in dance music under a new, boundary-pushing light. Through focal-shifting jumps between acid-drenched beds of rippling analogue sine waves and sizzling machine circuitry, the constant angle shifts from macro to micro tell a tale of vibrant sound research, not quite picking a side between the dance floor’s sense of purpose and genre-unbound, creative unintentionality.

Reclaim Your City 648 | Eric Cloutier

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 08:37:00 +0200

Throughout the years, Detroit-born Berlin-based groove operator and Tresor / Globus resident Eric Cloutier has been honing and refining his palette as both a producer and a DJ. Not one to engage in dogmatic restraint, Cloutier keeps developing his vision through carefully curated selections and an equally impeccable mixing technique. Boasting the variety and precision of his releases for his own imprint Palinoia, the present mix was recorded live at The Chinese Laundry in Sydney last year. Playing the main room open-to-close, Cloutier put together this mix as an evolving story and, much like the crowd of that night which proved highly receptive to the narrative, we hope this one will resonate with you. A most exquisitely complex and deep-diving plunge into Cloutier’s shape-shifting headspace, alternating heavyweight punch and dubbed-out minimalism with swashes of textured membranes and faux-organic, modular-like intricacies, this mix is as elusively impossible to pigeonhole as it proves sophisticated in its design.

Reclaim Your City 647 | Perfo

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 9 Jun 2025 12:37:00 +0200

Berlin-based French DJ and producer Perfo is our guest this week with a special two-hour round of cross-pollinated salvos and anti-normative grooves. Having made a name for himself through a string of releases for key imprints including MORD, 47 or Hayes Collective, Perfo serves up a masterly executed set spanning the breadth of his adventurous scope and clinical skillset. From faux-tribal polyrhythmic evocations to future-facing hi-tech stunts, through nods to heavy-lidded machine funk and the Detroit sound's trademark blend of rough-hewn firepower and ebullient sensuality. Serious number.

Reclaim Your City 646 | Setaoc Mass

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 2 Jun 2025 08:48:00 +0200

Right on cue to support the release of his newest EP on SK_eleven, here comes Manchester via Berlin's own Setaoc Mass with a banger of a mix to break June in proper, pedal to the metal. Exponent of a sound both intrinsically rugged yet layered to mind-altering effect, the British producer has been dishing out unstoppable slices of hi-velocity techno laced with a signature stripped-back, psychedelic edge. This new RYC podcast doesn’t veer off from such a direction and we’re graced with a two-hour mind trip boasting both bass-driven warehouse impact and an elegantly-woven tapestry of abrasive grooves, leaning by turn towards atmospheric elation and on other occasions pushing in the direction of utter fibrous, steel-coated industrial pound. The result is a wilder than wild ride down a smouldering pit of acid-washed hard hitters. Brutal.

Reclaim Your City 645 | Marie-Julie

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 26 May 2025 08:31:00 +0200

Ghent-based DJ and Fuse resident Marie-Julie is our guest this week with the killer delivery. Merging future-facing, hi-tech abstraction with a sixth sense for those inescapable rhythms and a wonky, off-kilter sonic engineering, Marie-Julie entices us down the path of complete mind-alteration. Constantly shifting gears, her vinyl blends run the gamut from dystopian murk to ankle-snapping old skool breaks, through lysergic psychedelia and chromatic dubs a la Basic Channel, without ever losing in cohesion or attention to detail. Do not resist, but just let this mad whorl of sound grab you and fling you into an entirely uncharted, demented zone of its own.

Reclaim Your City 644 | Temudo

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 19 May 2025 08:37:00 +0200

A well-known alum of acclaimed record labels such as Hayes, Klockworks, Fuse, Blueprint, Soma et al., Lisbon-based DJ and producer Temudo clocks in with a mix showcasing the breadth of his vista and smooth mixing skillset. Up with a choice selection of unbending warehouse percussion, laser-guided dubs and further esoteric mind-expanders, Temudo reels off a magnetic field of hi-velocity grooves, brutalist analogue bursts and cutting-edge sound design. Swinging the pendulum between straight out heavyweight, 909-fuelled barrage fire and heavily processed electronics on a mission, here’s a mix for those in search of both thrilling floor jack and superior groove know-how. Monster treat.

Reclaim Your City 643 | Ina Kacz

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 12 May 2025 08:47:00 +0200

French-born, Tbilisi-based Ina Kacz is a DJ and producer whose vision far exceeds the limitations of a genre, including one as multi-faceted as techno. Her shape-shifting sets span a wide spectrum of styles and sub-divisions, flourishing somewhere at the junction of acid-drenched cycloramas, chiselled ambient breaks, twilight dubs and chrome-coated industrialism. With her exquisitely fine touch and impeccable understanding of the groove, the French artist pulls out a two-hour jaunt into her pulsating headspace, packed to the rafters with streamlined style collision, inch-perfectly engineered plot twists and hair-raising momentums.

Reclaim Your City 642 | Zisko

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 5 May 2025 09:58:00 +0200

A true driving force both within and beyond the South-American techno ecosystem, Zisko graces us with two hours of clinically laid down big-room punch and genre-unbound, off-kilter rhythms on steroid. Championing a sound both highly intense and surgically precise, the Argentinian DJ and producer has us surfing a rogue wave of frenzied analogue funk, sci-fi-informed industrial pound and proto-electroid impulsions. Not one for the faint-hearted, Zisko’s mix is galloping techno at its most eruptively driving and merciless, bound for heavy-duty, mid-set apexes and hi-impact mosh pits down the basement. Total smasher beware, this one’s cut from the heaviest alloy.

Reclaim Your City 641 | Mari Sakurai

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 16:25:00 +0200

Taking over the RYC waves this week, Tokyo’s finest Mari Sakurai punches in with a helluva 2-hour treat by way of introduction. Working her way in the gap betwixt post-industrial opacity and heavy-duty brutalism, Mari has been slowly but surely making a name for herself with uncompromising sets spanning everything from cool-handed big room pound to mazy abstraction and other bursts of mind-altering sonics from way deep. Known for cutting a path of destruction with every of her mixes, her RYC offering doesn’t depart from such intentions, and we’re invited to a smorgasbord of claustrophobic hi-tech onslaughts and a string of purely exhilarating, apex-seeking momentums. Hi-voltage shockwave due for impact imminently.

Reclaim Your City 640 | DJ HI-C

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 14:49:00 +0200

Six-time turntablism champ turned sleek tech groove-provider, Japanese DJ and producer DJ HI-C has had many lives before settling as a merchant of stripped-back, zen-like ambiences and mesmeric club rhythms. Elegant and dynamic, his productions sit halfway deeply organic, atmospheric blends and a further steely, hi-velocity strain of techno. Mind-bending by nature, his mixes open a wide window into a pulsating headspace, rife with ebullient bass drive and obsessive loops, constantly pushing the envelope of danceable material as we know it. Tailored to emphasize the impact of a limited number of components rather than drowning his listener under an avalanche of sonic stimuli, HI-C unleashes a storm of painstakingly textured layers and ripping melodic stabs. Bringing together minimalism with soul is an art, and HI-C is an absolute master at that.

Reclaim Your City 639 | Bastienne

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 08:47:00 +0200

Hailing from Amsterdam, Bastienne has been making waves with her impeccably laid-down mixes and carefully curated selections. Through chiselled, laser-precise sets that showcase the breadth of her scope and minutely woven floor narratives, Bastienne moves the cursor from straight pumping house jack in Detroit fashion to Birmingham-style techno hybrids, via rowdy electronics and forward-pushing dubs. The result is a propulsive journey across techno music in the broadest sense of the term, with all its sister genres, sub-divisions and offshoots taking center stage by turn as Bastienne ensures the cocktail blends in just nicely. No-nonsense, all-out dance floor-destroyer ahead.

Reclaim Your City 638 | ROD

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 7 Apr 2025 23:06:00 +0200

For the past fifteen years, Rotterdam-based DJ and producer Benny Rodrigues alias ROD has been carving out a lane of his own in the realm of contemporary techno. Piling up one massive release after the other for the likes of Axis, Figure, Soma, Klockworks or his own record label, Rod20, the Dutch artist has been laying the foundation to a catalogue driven by thrill-seeking curiosity and a vibrant desire to bring techno into a whole new dimension, just as the pioneers did. That epic-sized vision and deeply innovative breath infuse both ROD’s studio productions and sets, and his RYC podcast vouches for that very ground-breaking, limit-busting take on the medium. Flush with galloping grooves, mind-altering distortions and heavy-duty analogue funk, the present mix is as much an ode to the early scene’s unfading visionary impulse as it is a future-ready manifesto for our age.

Reclaim Your City 637 | DJ Sodeyama

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 09:43:00 +0200

Over two decades of unfaltering devotion to production and DJing, dishing out some of the finest slices of opulently textured techno along the way, Tokyo-based maestro DJ Sodeyama has been honing a sound signature both intricately hypnotic and boundary-pushing. Blending delicate melodic strains of electronics ranging from deep, ambient music to verbed-out, atmospheric techno, often laced with hints of jazz and soulful discoid expressions, his productions and mixes combine the satiny elegance of loungey daydream with that of more rugged, deep-diving dubs a la Basic Channel. From light to shade, and vice-versa, DJ Sodeyama builds pieces of music where the ever-changing lighting and shifting angles swath you in an oddly comforting headspace. A most fascinating trip for the body and soul.

Reclaim Your City 636 | Mary Lake

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 14:11:00 +0100

Lacking no oomph, the mixes of Amsterdam’s one and only Mary Lake tick all the boxes of a quality hi-NRG set. Boasting a definite knack for those volatile hotchpotches of big-room-ready jack and a surgical DJing skillset, Mary treats us to a frantic whirlwind of paced-up machine funk and absolutely imparable industrial-inflected maneuvers. Cranking the heat one notch up with every bar, the Dutch DJ certainly knows how to bring dance floors to a simmer and keep crowds under her spell through wave after wave of an uncompromising floor-destroying exposé. No-surrender, adrenaline-stacked ripper of a mix thru and thru, consider yourselves warned for the tumultuous ride ahead. Hectic.

Reclaim Your City 635 | Konduku

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 07:43:00 +0100

Having made a name for himself through a string of choice releases for the likes of Nous’klaer and Delsin, Dutch producer Konduku has been turning heads with his ever innovative take on the techno medium. Pushing for new directions, Konduku’s been laying down intriguing blends of dubbed-out, Afro-infused grooves and plural strains of abstract-leaning, breaks-friendly hybrids. The present mix showcases the breadth of his influences and essential components, extrapolating techno’s genre-transcending nature through a fine mix of heavily verbed-out electronics and shape-shifting buildup, never quite going where you’d expect it, rather seeking the excitement of suspenseful arcs and unsuspected developments. Bold as it should.

Reclaim Your City 634 | Robin Kampschoer

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 08:22:00 +0100

Blasting his way into our series this week, Dutch producer Robin Kampschoer revs up the engines and lifts us off to higher spheres of consciousness through two hours of chiselled post-industrial sound engineering. Exploring the confines of techno, somewhere at the junction of proper raw, steely rhythms and further elevated ambience-scaping, the RKM boss and STOOR alum swings the pendulum betwixt full-blown warehouse-ready assault and inward-gazing escapism effortlessly. Elegantly brutalist, his approach is both one of nuance and impact, exalting and pensive in equal measure, never flinching in its quest for the sweet spot between raging horsepower and nostalgia-soaked harmonics.

Reclaim Your City 633 | Megan Leber

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 3 Mar 2025 08:53:00 +0100

Hailing from our home city of Rotterdam, local player and modular sound first-lady Megan Leber turns up in RYC's weekly series with two hybrid hours spanning off-kilter rhythmic experiments and atmospheric breakaways. Through her vividly textured tapestries and shape-shifting sonic explorations, the STOOR affiliate weaves moments of grace and tension with effortless poise, easing us into her idiosyncratically deep and pulsating headspace via intuitive routes and hypnotic bypaths. Leave all expectations at the door and let Leber's sizzling pool of raw, unadulterated sonic material soak up to the last drop of energy available and turn it into the most volatile fuel for raving. Mesmeric to the full.

Reclaim Your City 632 | Sunil Sharpe

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 09:45:00 +0100

For some time now, Irish DJ and producer Sunil Sharpe has been honing (no pun intended) his skills as a formidable floor destroyer, putting out a string of memorable burners for the likes of Works The Long Nights, BPitch, MORD or his own imprint, Earwiggle. Delivering his implacable two-hour missive through blends of breaks-laden rhythms, frenzied machine talk and murky, weatherbeaten ambiences, Sunil Sharpe boggles the mind and knocks senses askew, not letting loose on his astonished prey - understand the odd raver bracing themselves for the blast incoming. Unless they’ve already bashed their skull in the system’s facade and got to taste the visceral high of sound flowing through their body. You think it’s an image, but the man is a literalist.

Reclaim Your City 631 | Arthur Robert Live

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 10:10:00 +0100

Back in the series with a special hour-and-a-half-long live set, fellow RYC alum Arthur Robert graces us with a mix that best exemplifies his cosmonautical approach to production, flush with alien-engineered sounds and sci-fi-indebted atmospheres. Like traversing a dynamic hall of mirrors and prisms, distorting our cognitive scope to hypnotic effect, Robert’s mix is a maze of fast swiveling grooves and bubbling, modular-like reflections. If you like your techno both hi-velocity and uncompromisingly trippy, Robert’s blends extrapolate the finest of galloping techno and outer-spacey poetics, birthing the kind of transporting narrative that’ll sooth your nerves from the daily heartbreak we’ve come to process as an integral part of our lives.

Reclaim Your City 630 | Bas Mooy

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 09:46:00 +0100

More than just MORD boss and a direct neighbour, both musically and geographically speaking, Bas Mooy is a longstanding friend to us, as well as a figure we truly look up to. Whether found pushing back the boundaries of the techno sound through his vanguard-minded imprint or teleporting dance floors to the 4th dimension with no turning back, Bas holds on to his quality-driven methods to deliver music and moments that transcend both time and space. Up with three hours of sprawling techno heat that runs the gamut from proper big-room artillery to abstract-leaning bravura, through strapping peak-time nemesis and dystopian raw power, here goes Mooy with the wildest instance of his 360 vision when it comes to blazing new paths and setting future directions for the genre. Weapon of mass instruction.

Reclaim Your City 629 | Mathys Lenne

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 3 Feb 2025 09:51:00 +0100

Responsible for a handful of head-turning releases via the likes of MORD, Hayes and Float Records this past couple of years, on-the-rise techno producer Mathys Lenne clocks in our series with a mindtrip that’ll knock your socks off. Championing a sound both deep-diving, rugged and hi-intensity thru and thru, the Frenchman treats us to a storm of steely firepower and post-apocalyptic brainwaves. His mix of cerebral wares and shape-shifting, industrial-informed machine talk takes us straight back to the heyday of raving, when the sound we all love was not just a merchandise, but meant a whole new perspective on the world as we knew it.

Reclaim Your City 628 | Juana

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 08:37:00 +0100

Final mix of January comes courtesy of Chicago-born, Washington DC-based one and only Juana. Championing a sound both highly energetic and firmly contemporary, the American DJ and producer has us working out with every bar. From strapping 4x4 charges to gut-churning brain intruders, onto experimental-leaning glides and further esoteric drifts, Juana’s dance floor hoodoo is as bewitching as it is deadly. Spanning harsh industrial, rough-hewn proto-techno and lo-slung machine funk, her RYC mix ticks all the boxes of a grade-A puzzler, eyes constantly set on that next killer loop that’ll get the crowd veering off into pure XTC.

Reclaim Your City 627 | Vincent Neumann

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 12:49:00 +0100

Psychotherapist by day, mind-hacker by night, here comes Leipzig’s Vincent Neumann with two hours of widely versatile techno and electronics. All in jagged dynamics and hi-NRG propulsion, Neumann’s mix is an ode to old-school raving, back when the DJ’s name was of no importance but the flow of the music itself was all that mattered, or when the true spirit of techno rhymed with riotous communion and a new horizon of possibilities, not some ultra fast-fashion side issue. The result is a fiery jaunt across some of those balls-out anthems old and new that got people converging from all around the country onto secret places, eager to let the socio-political frustration of their age out, regardless of how the norm thought of them. A manifesto-like set to play out loud and share around.

Reclaim Your City 626 | Mary Yuzovskaya

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 10:52:00 +0100

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?

Reclaim Your City 625 | Wata Igarashi

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 6 Jan 2025 12:51:00 +0100

Kicking off 2025 in the best company as Tokyo-born, Amsterdam-based don Wata Igarashi takes over with a masterclass in pulsating futuristic techno and widescreen sonics. Through a flurry of top-of-the-range releases for the likes of Dekmantel, Kompakt, Figure and his own imprint, WIP, the Japanese producer has been cementing his position as a true innovator of techno music. His unparalleled knack for crafting big-room-ready tunes that engineer a complex cocktail of cutting-edge elegance, modular intuitivity and hi-impact punch has logically made him a much sought-after talent in the scene. Not departing from that polymathic approach, his RYC mix, recorded at PURE G x FINAL in Taipei on December 7, treats us to a storm of shape-shifting grooves and brutalist fractals of sound. Beware, high voltage.

Reclaim Your City 624 | MARRØN

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 12:35:00 +0100

A much (duly) rated exponent of the Dutch techno sound within and well beyond its borders, Eerste Communie co-founder and resident MARRØN clocks in with a vibrant two-hour trip into his constantly minimal, yet untiringly expansive imaginarium. Through a chiselled selection of cuts both surgical and eerie - combining the haunting nature of deep, texturally lavish dubs with that of clinically arranged dance floor-destroyers, he has us swaying in a state of spooky stasis, zoning out further and further into trance-like abandon as the groove etches deeper. Boasting a signature both paced-up and uncompromisingly stripped down to its atomic nucleus, MARRØN serves up a masterly crafted piece of soul-searching engineering.

Reclaim Your City 623 | Ogazón

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 09:41:00 +0100

Breaking in our waves with a special two-hour round of genre-busting floor hoodoo, here comes Luxemburg-via-Germany’s one and only Ogazón. Nimbly walking the tightrope between sensuous house folds and more rugged, up-for-the-jugular techno on a deep, dubby tip, Ogazón treats us to a hi-NRG vinyl workout flush with immersive, cinematic motion and proper low-slung club-oriented extrapolations. The result is a mix that swings the pendulum between sheer blazing functionality and an escapist mindset, sparking off the inextinguible will to go out and rave your night away from the daily hassle, and you can trust Ogazón for she certainly knows how to teleport dancers to a whole cozier, comely dimension in the twinkling of an eye. Merry Xmas to all!

Reclaim Your City 622 | Haruka

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 09:51:00 +0100

Hailing from Tokyo, Japanese DJ and producer Haruka has made a name for himself through his finely curated selections and seamless mixing technique, making him a regular of acclaimed clubs around the world, including that of our beloved friends from Tbilisi, Bassiani’s. Haruka’s polymathic sound - a blend of off-kilter techno and bouncy, genre-unbound electronics, attests to the man’s widescreen vision and engaging versatility, never settling for the obvious but looking to find new paths of expression with every set. His RYC offering doesn’t differ and delves into a wealth of rhythms and tropes, pushing back the boundaries of techno as we know it, or better, redefining it entirely.

Reclaim Your City 621 | Tasha

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 9 Dec 2024 09:37:00 +0100

Stepping in our podcast series this week, London DJ and Neighbourhood chief operator Tasha graces us with a versatile, shape-shifting helluva mix she holds the secret to. Keeper of a sound amplitude that sees her run the gamut from Latin music-inflected techno to proper industrial, Birmingham-style tempi, through hardcore-friendly outbursts and out-there acid mind trips, Tasha has us bedazzled with every bar, wrong-footing any expectation in the process. And just like a good DJ does, she weaves a totally unique web of sound for us to get caught in, cohesively braiding the kind of electronic journey you can not but want to return to. Hop in for a much addictive rollercoaster ride across Tasha’s vortical headspace.

Reclaim Your City 620 | Psyk

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Tue, 3 Dec 2024 10:07:00 +0100

Taking the helm of our next podcast iteration, Madrid-based DJ and producer Psyk jumps in with a beast of a two-hour jaunt into frantic techno hyperspace. Having dished out some highly magnetic floor wares for the likes of Tresor, Mote Evolver or Modularz and his own imprint, Non Series, Psyk sure knows how to steer crowds into some sort of super-conscious euphoria. Expert provider of big-room ready dynamics and paranoid narratives, Psyk flings us into orbit with his impeccably laid-down assembly of industrial-minded rhythms and murky, oomph-loaded grooves hatching out of the dark like alien eggs from a drifting Nostromo.

Reclaim Your City 619 | DJ MARIA.

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 12:55:00 +0100

Hailing from Tokyo, DJ MARIA. has been making waves with her finely engineered mixes and exquisite selections, as much as a few head-turning productions for the likes of Katharsis and Proxima. Close to the original 90s atmospheric techno vibe, her approach shares that taste for spaciousness and sense-awakening uplift, fitting in nicely in the tradition of dub techno whilst opening onto more ambient-oid detours and further leftfield-friendly electronics. Delving in the essence of techno as a tool for emancipation, her mixes traverse a wealth of landscapes and territories, never quite sitting cozy but roaming in search of new forms to embrace, new geometries to integrate. A musical language in constant motion, where expectations wash up against the beauty of revelation.

Reclaim Your City 618 | Mike Parker

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 08:56:00 +0100

A true legend and pioneering figure of techno, US sound architect and Geophone label owner Mike Parker breaks in on the RYC waves with a very special set full with his idiosyncratically dark, obsessive, inch-perfectly chiselled 4x4 wares. Before Boiler Room and co. were even a thing, a pioneering platform going by the name of Studio R° used to broadcast techno sets by prominent artists from a secret location in Berlin. This iconic, vinyl-only mix is Parker’s Studio R° set from 2013, now fully remastered for your listening pleasure. Building atmospheres unlike any other, brooding and transcending in equal measure, Parker has laid the foundation to an exceptionally rich body of work. Master of the industrial vocab, peeping towards Detroit but with his defining spin on the early days genre, Parker entices us down the path of steely monumentality and laser-precise mind control. Just as typically mazy, his present mix conjures up all traits of quality Parker material: 909-powered propulsion, enslaving acid whorls, Escher-like fractals. Wild, wild ride ahead.

Reclaim Your City 617 | Vera Logdanidi

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 08:49:00 +0100

A much talented purveyor of widescreen electronic epics and mind-expanding techno sceneries, Vera Logdanidi has been trading some of the finest dubs out there, including some outstanding pieces of work for Rhythm Büro, Semantica or On Board Music. All in spacious reverbs and atmospheric deconstructionism, her mixes as much as her own productions seek diffuse effect rather than impactful punch, altering mindsets through carefully orchestrated movements rather than flexing muscles. An origami-like unfolding of mesmerising sequences, ushering us amidst lush forests of sound and distinctive emotional apexes, Vera’s mix is a safe, welcoming haven, here to harbour us from the surrounding crass that threatens to devour the last crumbs of peace and solace in our hearts.

Reclaim Your City 616 | ATEQ

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 4 Nov 2024 12:59:00 +0100

Coming up next with a solid two hours of shape-shifting electronics and exploratory techno-scaping, Giegling alum ATEQ pulls out the kaleidoscopic vision and minute sound design on this truly hypnotic ride. Known for his elegantly balanced mixes and hauntingly immersive productions, the Pale Product co-founder treats us to a heavenly mind-trip, brimming with eerily opaque floor narratives, non-formulaic rhythms and abstract-leaning grooves from outer space. Hold tight for gravity-defying, sonic stunts and deeply cinematic submersion, here comes ATEQ with a serious slice of otherworldly techno escapism.

Reclaim Your City 615 | Jeroen Search

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 09:13:00 +0100

Dutch techno pioneer Jeroen Schrijvershof, alias Jeroen Search, needs no introduction. To those who’ve been living under a rock for the past three decades, just google his name and you’ll be drawn into an endless sea of links, vids, bios, event pages, and all kinds of past and present prowesses vouching for the man’s incredible career so we’ll leave it at that. Having graced the grooves of our record label with the magnetic ‘Enigma’ EP back in 2022, the man is now back with a much anticipated podcast - made up of 100% OG Jeroen material - that shall have a tsunami of modular signals, chiselled 909 onslaughts and Ubik-uitous floor narratives break loose to entrancing effect. Better buckle your belt, for when Jeroen Search steps on the gas, you simply don’t want to end up flying through the windshield. So to speak.

Reclaim Your City 614 | Hamatsuki

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 09:54:00 +0200

Back to Georgia and Tbilisi this week with the one and only Hamatsuki, resident DJ at the infamous Bassiani. Exponent of a versatile DJing style that runs the gamut from rugged techno wares to propulsive acid, via liquid electro, techno, house and everything in between, Hamatsuki treats us to a wild and effusive two hours of radical obliqueness, steering us constantly into murky waters, where life swarms and the metamorphic magic happens. Stacking crazy frantic wares one after the other in a Fantasia-like symphony of broken grooves, raging uptempo and hair-raising buildups, here comes one of Tbilisi’s key figures with a massive, uncompromising blast-off of a set. Sonic boom inbound.

Reclaim Your City 613 | Jin Synth

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 09:32:00 +0200

Lovers of non-formulaic electronics and immersive experiences, get ready for a mind-expanding treat with Jin Synth at the controls. From extreme, noise-adjacent bursts of sound to serene soundscaping bordering on ASMR therapeutics, the London-based artist knows how to craft ambiences unlike any other. Beatless or percussion-forward, manipulating tension and release as a true groove surgeon, Jin Synth entices us down the path of exquisite minutiae and poetry in motion. Like woven in silken thread, her mixes boast both laser-like precision and the most impressive level of control at every point in time, resulting in a hauntingly cinematic, all around hypnotic display. Enslaving.

Reclaim Your City 612 | Boya

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Wed, 9 Oct 2024 15:25:00 +0200

You know our love for Georgia’s seemingly infinite pool of talented musicians, and here’s another emerging one many of you may not know of yet, but should definitely keep an eye (and ear) on: Boya. Up with a shape-shifting electronic and techno set, the Tbilisi-based DJ and Morevi Records affiliate flaunts the breadth of his talent through a versatile selection and impeccable mixing maneuvers. The result is a two-hour jaunt into the more techno-friendly side of his very own multiverse. From springy uptempo rides to detours into more nuanced, dubbed-out sonics, through genre-unbound meanderings and muscular house flexions, the wide scope of Boya’s mix keeps beckoning us towards the unknown with every bar. Expect the unexpected.

Reclaim Your City 611 | PAREKA

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 07:47:00 +0200

Regularly rocking the house at seminal German nights including ://aboutblank, the late Griessmuehle, Paloma and many more, Berlin-based DJ and BINÄR label owner PAREKA drops by our virtual office to serve up a frankly pumping two-hour sample of his own techno multiverse. All in on the chiselled breaks, haunting ostinatos and clinical warehouse destroyers, PAREKA has us walking the tightrope betwixt pure no-prisoner ruggedness, straight brutalist sound architecture and a further experimental spin stretching from dub techno to Birmingham-esque detours. Hold your breath and shut your eyes wide, for the ride promises to drill a serious hole in your head and rewire your brain circuits upside-down.

Reclaim Your City 610 | Rodnevs

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 08:41:00 +0200

A well furnished pool of electronic talents, Georgia keeps on gracing us with thrilling voices and exciting projects. Next up in our podcast series, Tbilisi’s Rodnevs sheds a further bright light on the Georgian scene as he deploys a two-hour maze of a multi-faceted mix. Spanning the widest array of influences and signatures, the young producer entices us down the road of techno eclecticism, blending polyrhythmic vibrancy with a deadeye sense for supposedly unobvious combinations and permutations. The result is a mix unlike any other, an uncanny place of sound where classic early techno grammar rubs shoulders with hypermodern downtempo drifts and further mesmeric subterranean dubs. Just let it sink in.

Reclaim Your City 609 | Markus Suckut

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 08:56:00 +0200

Actively pushing hard-boiled techno wares and heavyweight floor artillery for breakfast, German jockey and producer Markus Suckut punches in with two hours of unrelenting dance floor hoodoo on our next installment. With a rather extensive catalogue of big-room rippers under his belt - including choice outings on Odd Even, Primordial State (a label he co-operates alongside Sven Eickhoff) and his own imprint, SCKT, Suckut pumps out a massively smashing two-hour mix for us, packed with his textbook industrial-leaning punch, a certain taste for laser-guided 4x4 stunts and further off-axis grooves straight out techno's outer space. Hop in for a mind-bending dive into a fractal-like torrent of raving material, honed and polished to deadly effect.

Reclaim Your City 608 | Sanna Mun

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 9 Sep 2024 08:27:00 +0200

Trader of hypnotic grooves and raging big-room cavalcades, Berlin's Sanna Mun embodies the spirit of untiring sound exploration. Responsible for a handful head-turning platters on Ø [Phase]'s Modwerks label, Clone's Repetitive Rhythm Research outlet and her own imprint, Katabasis Records, Sanna has been dishing out boundary-pushing slabs one after the other. Sitting at the junction of proper DJ-friendly pragmatism, depth-plumbing escapology and shape-shifting experimentality, her sound tells a tale of unabridged soul-search through music, taking techno on a bumpy ride across the many facets of its known history and sonic alphabet, to better tweak it into an immersively intimate, multi-dimensional fable of brutalist kicks, layered textures and enthralling atmospheres.

Reclaim Your City 607 | JSPRV35

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 2 Sep 2024 11:07:00 +0200

Gracing our podcast with a nasty two hours of punishing beats, rhythmic escapism and straight out uplifting rave sirens, Amsterdam's JSPRV35 cuts a path of destruction in our latest RYC podcast number. Trading hi-impact uptempo wares and no-nonsense floor artillery, the emerging DJ and producer has us swinging to rugged 4x4 monster jams and more left-of-centre sonics, astutely shifting gears betwixt proper big-room momentums and further atmospheric uplift. The result is an extended tableau of both inch-perfectly engineered functionality and soulful curation, primed for both peak time traction and pulsating daydreaming. The unadulterated spirit of rave coming in full blast.

Reclaim Your City 606 | Peryl Live

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 08:03:00 +0200

A distinctively talented name to have emerged from the German scene the past half decade, Dennis Strobel alias Peryl is the kind of producer obsessed by textures and sound design, and his modular-centric compositions sure do translate his deep, thorough vision of club music potentialities to captivating effect. From granular tension to sleek, streamlined beds of synth effervescence, onto bursts of polished machine assault and inch-perfectly balanced architectonics, Peryl’s live performances serve up a wealth of boundary-pushing ideas and plot-twists, wrong-footing expectations to better submerge his audience into the experience of sound itself, making each performance a truly unique and memorable moment. Brace yourself for a mind-boggling ride across pulsating membranes and spellbinding envelopes.

Reclaim Your City 605 | Tapefeed

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 12:06:00 +0200

Fabric resident duo Tapefeed steps in with a two-hour epic jaunt into their shape-shifting, floor-efficient mindset. Having recently launched their own record label, Inveterate, the pair drops by with the heavyweight wares and mind-expanding transitions on this podcast. Lithely moving the cursor from hi-impact material to laser-guided brain hacks, Tapefeed treats us to a deluge of galloping grooves, frenzied dubs and no-nonsense analogue hoodoo, swiftly shifting gear from Birmingham-style tempi to more straightforward big-room buildups. Dashing across all 909 blazing, their set harnesses the hydraulic power of a tsunami so you better buckle up for the fierce drenching ahead.

Reclaim Your City 604 | Dimi Angélis

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 08:31:00 +0200

Active since the late ‘90s, Amsterdam-based DJ and producer Dimi Angélis needs no introduction. Boasting a catalogue of the highest order with releases for countless spearheading techno outlets including MORD, Axis, Warm Up, Construct Re-Form, KEY and his own imprint, ANGLS, Dimi has been laying down slab after slab of uncompromising rave material, naturally bridging the gap between trance-inducing big room sonics, sizzling machine funk and left-of-centre divagations into further abstract, noise-adjacent territories. Rugged to the bone, his sound is a call to creative arms, blurring the frontier between full-fledged floor functionality and the deep, intimate expression of the inner turmoils of our age. Enter the room for two hours of seditious, no-bs techno with a true-school, future-facing edge. Slam-dunking the status quo 💯🔥

Reclaim Your City 603 | Elli Arakawa

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 5 Aug 2024 08:48:00 +0200

Taking over our next instalment, Tokyo's sensation Elli Arakawa punches in the series with two hours of full-immersion atmospheric techno and deep, dubbed-out folds. Running the gamut elegantly from textured tapestries of sound to kaleidoscopic 4x4 wares, through acid-drenched extrapolations and further poetic drifts across spacious sonic wildlands, Arakawa's mix eases us in an ambiguous realm where sheer DJ functionality rubs shoulders with ethereal abstraction and hyperconscious escapology. One for the lovers of breath-holding dives and riveting techno panoramas.

Reclaim Your City 602 | Kangding Ray

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 08:55:00 +0200

A surefire provider of deep, complex weapons for the dance floor and beyond, French-born, Berlin-based artist Kangding Ray has been minting some of the most strikingly unique techno records in recent memory. His body of work for some of the most reputed record labels out there, including Raster Noton, Stroboscopic Artefacts and his own outlet, ara, cuts an introspective path, halfway modular-leaning escapology and beat-driven abstraction. From his background in architecture, his musical approach retains that fondness for structure and the creation, or re-creation of space, both as an actual object and a mental projection. Immerse yourself into KR's minutely designed headspace with this two-hour deep and intimate audio dive.

Reclaim Your City 601 | B.Traits

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 08:07:00 +0200

Cutting-edge techno with a vision, breaksy meanders and dreamy electro blends, that’s what’s on the menu of our next podcast installment as Canada-born, UK-based jockey and producer B.Traits takes over the waves for two hours of genuinely versatile, genre-unbound sonic exploration. Championing a lithe mix of hi-NRG house and next-level techno expression that sends us straight back to her mighty BBC1 days, the In.Toto boss heaves us headlong into an effervescing hodgepodge of multidirectional, where rabid snare onslaughts and high-impact programming intertwine to shape a mind-expanding floor narrative. Generous and inch-perfectly engineered, here comes B.Traits with a proper panoramic view into her ever sharp, shape-shifting musical headspace.

Reclaim Your City 600 | James Ruskin

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 13:10:00 +0200

Celebrating our 600th podcast in proper massive fashion, we’re no short of psyched to welcome the man, the legend James Ruskin for a much anticipated two-hour round of implacable warehouse-sized dance floor obliteration. Ever since he first stepped into the scene in 1991, the Croydon-born and based groove doctor has been dishing out some of the most impressively rugged and haunting uptempo material with uncompromising poise and style. From Tresor to his own seminal record label, Blueprint, which still leads the way in terms of both grade A curation and time-transcending impact, Ruskin keeps writing the future of techno with unadulterated spirit, as attested by his RYC transmission, fusing the finest of techno’s potential for abstract-leaning sonic exploration and riotous rhythmic firepower. As we inexorably ram in deep into tomorrow’s full-fledged dystopia all guns blazing, be sure to turn this on full blast.

Reclaim Your City 599 | Peter Van Hoesen Live

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 8 Jul 2024 09:45:00 +0200

Stepping up with the hypnotic, heavy-duty wares all set at knocking your senses askew, Belgian producer Peter Van Hoesen lands us a monster of a live set. Responsible for some seriously mind-expanding sorties on the likes of Tresor, Vlek and his self-operated outlets Time To Express & Center 91 over the past 15 years, Van Hoesen has established himself as one of the scene’s driving forces when it comes to integrating these cinematic ambiences into an effervescing mesh of pulsating 4x4 rhythms and a millefeuille of layered envelopes acting like quicksands. Recorded on the occasion of his latest live performance at Tresor on May 10, this particular live harnesses that deep-diving energy elemental to Van Hoesen’s intricate engineering of hi-velocity dynamics and rippling dub interplays, ushering us headlong into a bright, merciless furnace of sound. Checkmate.

Reclaim Your City 598 | Gaetano Parisio

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 1 Jul 2024 12:50:00 +0200

A true pioneer of the techno scene, Italian DJ and producer Gaetano Parisio needs no introduction but we'll just underline that since his first steps in the then-burgenoning electronic world back in 1992, his influence on the sound hasn't flinched one bit. Responsible for countless seminal releases on the likes of Primate, Zenit, Mosaic, his own structures Conform, ART and Southsoul and a myriad more, Gaetano has been pushing techno in new directions with ultimate drive and devotion to duty. Clocking in with a two-hour trip into his boundary-pushing headspace, the Neapolitan maestro treats us to a wild ride of trampling uptempo funk, sci-fi-indebted flights and further alien-engineered heaters. The forward-looking power of rave in its purest expression.

Reclaim Your City 597 | Isabel Soto

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 09:52:00 +0200

Taking up the reins for the next round of our podcast adventures, Germany-based Venezuelan artist Isabel Soto graces us with a mix that embodies her gracefully stripped-down, durably hypnotic touch to a tee. Vibrantly surfing the edge betwixt immersive sound exploration and steadfastly dynamic flights, Soto swings the pendulum deftly across a kaleidoscope of rhythmic crossovers and exquisitely balanced sonic hues. The result is a throbbing tableau in motion, meshing Soto’s hauntingly poetic narratives with that laser precision when it comes to shifting gears and ramping up the momentum. Join us on a total trip of a set.

Reclaim Your City 596 | MSDMNR

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 09:39:00 +0200

A legend of the hardcore sound and true homie of the RYC clique, Miro Pajic alias MSDMNR has been etching his name in the pantheon of the rave sound classics in gold letters for the past 30 years or so, and good news is he’s not quite done fending off IG-borne leeches and wannabes. Under his MSDMNR alias, through which he's repurposed his sound to deliver more complex and moody techno dynamics, Miro conjures up the finest of pulsating hi-tech electronics and haunting soundscapes to whelm us under an avalanche of shape-shifting modulations, future-facing narratives and untiringly massive big-room pound. Bend your mind.

Reclaim Your City 595 | Altinbas

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 07:23:00 +0200

Merchant of feral-minded, steel-clad floor wares harboured by some of the finest imprints out there including Token and SK_eleven, in addition to his own outlet, Observer Station, Fuse resident Altinbas takes over the RYC broadcast with an explosive two-hour ride fusing pure raging uptempo arson and highly trenchant, indus-oriented machine funk. Blast it out full force and let the trippy winds of primitive drums patterns, 909-fuelled obsession and dubbed-out 4x4 mystique alter your senses durably, for the spirit of rave shines high and bright above us. Total heater of a mix, you’ve been warned.

Reclaim Your City 594 | Holden Federico

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 3 Jun 2024 12:21:00 +0200

Author of three massive iterations on SK_eleven since the drop of his debut instalment on the label in 2021, New York DJ and producer Holden Federico aka 90s Techno Redux undoubtedly counts as one of the North-American scene's most exciting talents. Herald of a style both elegantly timeless and straight out propulsive, Holden turns in a textbook example of his adroitly combined sense of selection and mixing. Prepare for two hours of frantic uptempo assault and minutely designed tech-scapes, where no-nonsense big room firepower collides with stripped-down brutalism and an elevated touch of post-industrial sophistication. Going hard.

Reclaim Your City 593 | Tauceti

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 27 May 2024 12:37:00 +0200

Up with a vibrant delivery that ticks all the boxes of the music we love, here, at RYC, please welcome Tauceti, a Lyon-based DJ and producer with plenty of tricks up her sleeve. Exploring the confines of techno and ambient through complex and highly evocative tableaux, Tauceti has been making waves thanks to her impeccably engineered sets, merging elements from askew, acid-drenched machine funk with more straightforward 4x4 buildups, all eyes on setting dance floors ablaze. Her fiercely precise mixing skills, combined with grade A selections and a sixth sense for amping up the tension to thriller-like levels, undeniably make the French artist a talent to keep an eye on. Hear it, feel it.

Reclaim Your City 592 | Refracted

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 20 May 2024 09:55:00 +0200

Expert pusher of intrusively mental wares and kaleidoscopic audio scenarios, Refracted has been laying the foundation to a truly solid body of work, punctuated with releases for Bitta, Polegroup and his own imprint, Mind Express. From serene, stripped-down ambiences to churning material from the deep, his blends conjure up the best of textural immersion and rhythmic out-thereness, constantly expanding the scope with every bar. Enter a world of sunken minimalism, that won’t fail to evoke Basic Channel and Moritz von Oswald’s seminal dub techno idioms, but complete with its own hypnotic appeal and highly addictive grammar.

Reclaim Your City 591 | Vinicius Honorio

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 13 May 2024 12:08:00 +0200

Actively trading big-room narratives for the past fifteen years, London’s Vinicius Honorio boasts a solid 20-ish EPs for some of the best techno labels out there, including choice contributions to Blueprint, Planet Rhythm, Modularz, and his most recent sortie, ‘Endless Love’, freshly out via Len Faki’s Figure imprint. Merchant of paced-up, peak-time tonics bound to wreak havoc from the basement up, Honorio champions a sound Infused in steely industrialism and sci-fi-inflected escapology, built to have the woofers screaming in ecstasy. Rave the stress away.

Reclaim Your City 590 | Uväll

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 6 May 2024 12:54:00 +0200

Hailing from Tbilisi, Georgia, Uväll epitomizes his hometown's fearless approach towards quality club music. Pushing sounds that transcend the mere scope of techno per se, Uväll's blends stretch from no-nonsense gridlocked firepower onto off-piste digressions into brooding atmospherics and further heavy-duty experimentality. The resulting effort is nothing short of wild and entrancing, casting its net far and deep into techno’s wide spectrum of potentialities and tweaking them to eleven. A mind-bending missile of a mix, riding at breakneck speed from brutalist pound to zero-G elevation with untamed snazz and jazz. Harness the storm.

Reclaim Your City 589 | Cressida

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 09:40:00 +0200

Perhaps one of techno’s best kept secrets these days, London born-and-raised groove manipulator Cressida isn’t your typical merchant of quality 4x4 smack. His sound, nurtured on a variety of genres and approaches - from jungle to grime and dubstep (which he keeps on repping through his mixes), flexes a different signature than most, insanely versatile and consistently busting the frontiers between normative frameworks. Hopping on board our podcast series with a massive treat of cross-pollinated techno riddims and no-frills club rippers out the widest scope, Cressida dishes out a fierily potent two-hours of freako disco, locked-and-loaded onto hacking the boring matrix of tepid machine funk that has most subjugated at the minute. Flamethrowin’ the status-quo to ashes.

Reclaim Your City 588 | Dustin Zahn

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 12:31:00 +0200

Active since the turn of the millennium, Wisconsin-born / Berlin-based DJ and producer Dustin Zahn has been trading some of the most consistently powerful techno blends over the past twenty years. Incisive and empowering, his sound epitomizes the perfect balance between strenuous, big-room-focussed wares and an acute sensibility for the sharpest sound design. Throughout an endless flow of grade-A heaters for some of the scene's most highly-regarded imprints, including Blueprint, Rekids and his own record label, Enemy, Zahn has been sculpting a body of work both ebulliently intense and future-facing, never quite resting on his laurels but throwing all of his nerve and energy into staying relevant in the age of disposability. Ageless, boundless.

Reclaim Your City 587 | Philippa Pacho

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 12:53:00 +0200

Born in Sweden but operating out of Berlin, Philippa Pacho has been making waves in the scene as of late, notably amassing a stream of incendiary performances at some of the world’s finest (and most demanding) clubs, including Bassiani and Fuse. Herald of a fast-paced, no-surrender type of DJing, all eyes set on bringing crowds to a simmer thru and thru, Philippa muscles her way across various techno sub-genres and rhythms with conviction and poise, alternatively pushing classic Detroit-influenced material, Nordic minimalism and more Continental European-informed expressions, as she harnesses the very best of these through uncompromising selections with a pristine mixing technique. Shockwave incoming.

Reclaim Your City 586 | Sev Dah

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 8 Apr 2024 09:04:00 +0200

Bosnian-born, Sweden-based producer and jockey Sev Dah has been carving a niche truly personal and distinctive into techno’s growingly standardized on and off-stage realm. Boss of his own imprint, Proletarijat, with releases for Mote-Evolver, Random Island or K S R under his belt, Sev has been pushing wares both entrancingly hi-NRG (a nod to the early Schranz heroes) and ruggedly abrasive. The result is an effervescing mishmash of rabid uptempo drives, screwed melodies and fiery rhythmic grids, ready to leave all ravers knocked askew.

Reclaim Your City 585 | Roseen

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 1 Apr 2024 09:36:00 +0200

Inbound with a mental two-hour ride down the darker end of the techno spectrum, Berlin’s Roseen makes his debut in the RYC podcast series with a hair-raising smorgasbord of industrial-informed grooves and no-prisoner, 909-fuelled pound. All in on the heavy-duty, warehouse-busting ordnance, Roseen treats us to a cavalcade of true school Detroit-derived tempi and brutalist fractals, leaving no stone unturned in his quest for the beat that haunts and rips. Enter a spooky dystopia in sound, where untamed functionalism rubs shoulders with hypnotic abandon and depth-plumbing adventurism. Full blast.

Reclaim Your City 584 | Pushmann

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 12:35:00 +0100

March will have given Spain a pretty solid close-up with three artists involved, and here is Pushmann rounding the month off with a cutting-edge finale. Muscling in with that trademark hypnotic approach of his, the Axis, Soma and Symbolism alum propels us headfirst into a maelstrom of hi-velocity programming and acid-drenched chromaticism. Walking the tightrope between no-surrender rhythmic attacks and corrosive melodies straight out a rust-gnawed industrial dystopia, Pushmann’s delivery serves up a perfectly balanced blend of infrared spook, intense gravity acceleration and dissonant fractals of sound wrapped into one fiery trial by combat.

Reclaim Your City 583 | ORBE

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 09:32:00 +0100

In less than a decade of total devotion to DJing and production, Spanish artist Orbe has dropped more material than some shall ever dream of putting out in a lifetime. Obviously not just quantity, but quality at that, as dispensed through key techno imprints of our age including Axis, Token, Mote-Evolver, Semantica, his own eponymous record label and a host more… Clocking in with a fierce and untamed two-hour sonic safari spanning vast expanses and more claustrophobic spaces, Orbe treats us to a mind-altering whirlwind of echoes and signals, where big-room thrillers rub shoulders with off-piste explorations and brutalist plications. This one hits hard.

Reclaim Your City 582 | Anika Kunst

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 12:39:00 +0100

Pulling out the heavy floor artillery on the next round of our podcast series, here comes Spanish talent and Chapter Rcrds boss Anika Kunst. Known for her highly energetic and uncompromising productions, which have graced the likes of Rekids and Symbolism, Anika steps in with a two-hour mind boggler of a vinyl mix, flush with her signature blend of unfaltering uptempo assault, moon-lit ambiences and finessed origamis of sound, all kitted up for ecstatic communion under the strobes. Hop in for an exhilarating ride out in techno’s wild emotional lands, with Kunst vectoring us straight onto the most hectic climax.

Reclaim Your City 581 | Takaaki Itoh

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 4 Mar 2024 12:47:00 +0100

Active for nearly three decades, Japanese DJ and producer Takaaki Itoh has been carving out a niche truly his own in the realm of deep techno. Pumping out multi-sensory DJ tools for breakfast, Itoh champions a sound highly dynamic yet infused with the kind of minute textural work and layers of modular complexity one can not but marvel at. Punching in with a wild two hours of electro-magnetic hardware funk and entrancingly immersive brainwaves, the Sendai-based wizard elevates us to a whole new world where hi-tech submersion and atmospheric club music reign supreme. A work of art.

Reclaim Your City 580 | Chami

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 12:38:00 +0100

Some will be familiar and some won’t be just yet, but one thing is certain, Chami should be on your radar. A spectacularly dextrous groove manipulator in his own right, the Berlin-based jockey has been harnessing some fierce dance floor moments over at the world’s most well-known club (guess which, it starts with a B) and a dozen more. Running the gamut from archetypal uptempo drives to aqueous beds of acidic textures and highly volatile 909 outbursts, Chami treats us to a mind-bending two-hour assault in sound, which will drain up to the last drop of sweat in your (soon dog-tired) carcass of a body. Absolute vinyl masterclass from a DJ in full possession of his art. Don’t miss.

Reclaim Your City 579 | Ketch

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 08:20:00 +0100

Co-head of SYXT and Glukkon Records, Romania-born artist Ketch steps in the series with two hours of full-fledged big-room-oriented dynamics. Combining the dark and brute side of steely industrial music with that of more deep-minded electronics, halfway dub immersion and further left-field acid eccentricities, Ketch ploughs his own furrow aside from techno's main drag, somewhere at the junction of raw brutalism and tribal-inherited transcendence. Just like his own tracks, the Italy-based producer’s mixes lay down a complex, near-labyrinthine mindset, not quite choosing its side between hands-on floor destruction and eruptive mass communion. Hear hear, it’s the sound of your soul fanning out.

Reclaim Your City 578 | Cecilia Tosh

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 12:31:00 +0100

Emerging DJ and producer Cecilia Tosh has a keen ear for sleek and streamlined sonic combinations. Her sets, just as much as her own compositions, are testaments to her love for well-oiled structures and engineerings. A regular of Tresor, where she’s learned to hone her skills and precision, Tosh delivers brilliant sonic journeys one after the other, and her introductory RYC mix shall just live up to that - much deserved - hype. Swinging the pendulum betwixt luminescent melodies and under-the-radar dub moves, she certainly knows one or two things about steering a crowd into ecstatic abandon. But enough talking, we’ll leave it at that and just let the magic do the rest.

Reclaim Your City 577 | Zadig

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 5 Feb 2024 15:36:00 +0100

Continually pushing the boundaries between plain DJ-friendly functionality and abstract-leaning tendencies, Parisian producer Zadig has carved a niche for himself at the forefront of the European techno scene thanks to his quality-driven approach and keenness to explore the uncharted. Boss of the ever future-facing record label Construct Re-Form, whose name says it all about his take on the genre, Zadig keeps on dishing out challenging opuses in sound, naturally inclined to break down and reinvent old mechanisms rather than phrase it like everyone else. His blends, extrapolating relatively classic 4x4 rhythms to seemingly incompatible territories, are both bold statements and question marks altogether. Brace yourself for a two-hour field trip across jagged industrial reliefs and more laid-back, thought-provoking environments.

Reclaim Your City 576 | Dold

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 11:56:00 +0100

One of Sweden’s most monitored prospects within the techno realm, Dold has been making waves thanks to a stream of boundary-pushing rippers for the likes of KEY, Float, MindTrip and his Arsenik label this past couple of years. Adding his playful spin to the gridlocked tech continuum, Dold - real name Patrik Eriksson - embarks us on a bumpy, unrelenting ride across jagged IDM scapes and electroid reliefs only he knows the path to. Enter a trip bound to have you headbanging to a never-ending assault of heavily trippin’ four-to-the-floor, arpeggiated zen-like cascades of sound and other nimble junglistic pleasures, perfect to keep everyone guessing what the next bar holds. Keeping it fresh no matter what.

Reclaim Your City 575 | Windfuhr

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 12:37:00 +0100

A rising name in Berlin’s ever crowded pool of talents, Eerste Communie resident Windfuhr has been developing his own idiosyncratic persona at the junction of heavy-traction 4x4 rhythms and deep, hypnotic folds of intricate melodies and exotica-laced electronics. Minimal in essence but maximal in effect, his compositions bridge the gap between stripped-back functionality and dreamy escapology, neatly coordinating the throbbing cavalcade of racy uptempo machine funk with layered, modular-like transmissions as his feverish drum programming leads the charge. No doubt Windfuhr’s name is one you’ll hear a lot more in 2024.

Reclaim Your City 574 | Lewis Fautzi

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 12:24:00 +0100

An habitué of seminal techno labels such as Rotterdamian outlet Mord Records and Spanish imprint PoleGroup, Portuguese producer Lewis Fautzi has been dishing out warehouse rippers one after the other this past decade. Now at the helm of his own structure, Faut Section, Fautzi keeps on serving up that fiery mix of no-nonsense industrial pound and mental techno ostinatos, ready to subjugate any crowd in its drop zone. Clearly not for the faint of heart, his blends combine the wildness of 909-powered trampling with untamed onslaughts of hypnotic synth furls and heavy-duty, aggro percussions gone rogue. Treat yourself to an absolute mind-boggler of a mix with this two-hour jaunt into Fautzi’s delectably murky sonic domain.

Reclaim Your City 573 | Sandrien

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 8 Jan 2024 12:34:00 +0100

A key exponent of Amsterdam’s techno scene, Sandrien definitely counts as one of the finest jockeys around. A gifted selector and just as skilled groove manipulator, she has been a constant in a world full of variables, quietly making it to the top of the game thanks to her impeccably crafted sets, both alone and alongside legends such as Ben Sims, DJ Nobu or Inigo Kennedy. Tirelessly pushing for new approaches to DJing and also production, Sandrien has been carving out a niche of her own, elegantly weaving the classic drive of 90s techno with an all-embracing, future-facing take on electronics, always eager to incorporate new tropes and ways to tell her musical story on the dance floor. Slip into a world full of off-kilter analogue magic and deep-diving tech-y escapism, and let yourself get carried away.

Reclaim Your City 572 | .VRIL

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 23:38:00 +0100

Kicking off the year under the best auspices, here comes a threat of a mix from German producer Vril. Known for his nostalgia-soaked strain of big-room techno and impeccably textured audio trips, the Giegling and Delsin stalwart lays down a proper magnetic hour-and-a-half of floor-focussed dynamics, packing the very type of steel-clad punch and vaporous atmospheres we enjoy so much here at RYC. A perfect start to the new year, Vril’s ever minutely engineered mix of hot-tempered grooves and deep cinematic immersion will have you both zoning out and sweating off all that extra fat put on during the holiday, while setting your sight onto the next revolution with the poise and heartiness to achieve your goals in 2024 and beyond. Happy new year to you, RYC fellows!

Reclaim Your City 571 | Rrose

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 13:06:00 +0100

Ho ho ho, the mystery-shrouded Rrose - named after Marcel Duchamp’s eponymous persona, punches in right on cue for Xmas with an absolute monster of a two-hour jaunt into their exquisitely twisted headspace. Having served up some of the finest techno slabs of the past decade through the likes of Sandwell District, Stroboscopic Artefacts and now their own dedicated imprint, Eaux, Rrose steps in the series with a bonkers mix of dusty techno hustle-and-bustle, neatly alternating sequences of pumping 4x4 aerobatics, searing, noise-adjacent outbursts and eerie melodies to hypnotic effect. A constant balancing act of raw power and haunting score, Rrose’s RYC mix takes us on a deep and fascinating trip into genre-unbound territories, where only abandon and wildness reign supreme. Happy EOY celebrations, y’all! See you in 2024.

Reclaim Your City 570 | HVL

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 09:20:00 +0100

Undoubtedly one of today’s most gifted visionaries of the electronic scene, Bassiani’s beloved resident HVL has to be one of the best-kept secrets. But for how long? His sound sculptures, spanning everything ranging from kosmische-indebted downtempo to ethereal dub techno to murky, post-industrial ambient conjure up that dusty grain of Rephlex-era masterpieces and nu-age serenity, reeling off their soothing lineage across newly pollinated grounds. One for the ages, infused with that widescreen, cinematic grandiosity, HVL’s RYC mix is everything you could have wished for: the very definition of walking the surface of the moon on your own, floating away from a crater to the other with weightless agility, as the earth reveals its blue silhouette in the distance. A taste of infinity. Yes, we’re talking that kind of beautiful.

Reclaim Your City 569 | Albert van Abbe

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 18:58:00 +0100

A leading figure of vanguard electronics for well over the past two decades, Albert van Abbe is the epitome of a tireless, innovation-craving trailblazer, continually seeking to open new windows for the sound he loves. From early hardcore blasts to institutional commissions, evidence says there’s no right or wrong way to explore one’s own continuum, just paths to clear and visions to have. Percolating that motto through two hours of absolutely mind-boggling rushes and U-turns, the Eindhoven-based sound builder treats us to an impeccably laid-down parade of hi-NRG old school shuffle, spiralling modular excavations and future-facing dance floor experiments halfway heavy-traction machine talk and synth-heavy sci-fi-ism.

Reclaim Your City 568 | Artefakt

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Thu, 7 Dec 2023 06:36:00 +0100

Ceaselessly pushing the boundaries between proper enslaving music for the mind and straight out incendiary floor dynamics bound to wreak havoc down the basement, Dutch production unit Artefakt counts as one of the country’s finest exponents of that sleek, hypnotic school of techno. Having carved out their niche as stalwarts of seminal Amsterdam-based imprint Delsin, the pair keep on dishing out their enveloping blends of silken analogue rhythms and elegant 4x4 digressions into a dreamy unknown, which the present RYC mix makes a perfect showcase of. A trance-inducing journey away from real-life hustle and across lushly-textured jungles of sound, where the martial pulse of 909s, squelchy acid tropes and magnetic deep tech elevation coalesce into a volatile mix of escapist endeavour and big-room punch from hell. Bend your mind.

Reclaim Your City 567 | Kai van Dongen

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 12:38:00 +0100

Revving up towards wider recognition the past couple of years, South Africa-born / London-based producer Kai van Dongen has been dishing out peak-time bangers one after the other in recent memory, including top-of-the-range floor-destroying weaponry on labels as diverse as Truncate, 1Ø Pills Mate and New York Haunted. All about paced-up rhythmic onslaughts (that’s a euphemism), incisive breaks from hell and jaw-breaking angularity, clearly his blends are not made to be enjoyed with a scone in one hand and a teacup in the other, or else you’ll need some new tableware and shirt pronto. So what’s van Dongen’s style like for real? Fling a brick in the dishwasher and let it froth to death, that's an idea. Or just hop on board his RYC mix and feel the shockwave. Either way you’ll know for sure.

Reclaim Your City 566 | Translate

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 12:14:00 +0100

Hailing from Buenos Aires, Argentina, Teo Pellegrino AKA Translate has been pushing some serious heat as of late, including prime heaters for the likes of Semantica, KEY, Axis, Edit Select, Nachtstrom Schallplatten and his own record label, SRIE. Cutting his lane at the fringe of iron-fisted industrial percussion and intricate dub mind-games, Translate has us diving deep into claustrophobic environments and across mesmerizing layers of FX-soaked dementia. Stormy and highly energetic, his style combines the ruthlessness of uptempo tech assault and eerie, post-apocalyptic audio scenarios. Fierce and uncompromising thru and thru, there goes techno at its most brutally corrosive.

Reclaim Your City 565 | Laura van Hal

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 12:40:00 +0100

Having started making waves the past few years, Nijmegen-based rising DJ and producer Laura van Hal has been getting accolades from some of the best in the game including Freddy K and DVS1, and deservedly so. Fresh off her latest release on German label Synergie, Laura drops by the series with two hours of music true to the high-intensity momentums and implacable dynamics she’s been laying down throughout her sets. Hypnotic yet clearly headed for the jugular, her buildups conjure up the rugged pulsations of tribal blends with the heavy-traction precision of Birmingham-style dubs and deeper folds of ambient-oid techno. There you go for a massive, hectic workout, so ready the gym outfit and towels for you’re going to sweat buckets as your mind elevates to higher spheres of consciousness.

Reclaim Your City 564 | Tripeo

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 6 Nov 2023 15:22:00 +0100

A true staple of the Dutch scene and beyond for the past fifteen years, Darko Esser alias Tripeo has constantly been at the forefront of what techno can bring to the table in terms of both innovation and raw power. Responsible for memorable platters on the likes of Clone Records, Cultivated Electronics, Rekids, Bassiani and his own imprint, Wolfskuil, amongst many others, Darko has always been ahead of the curve, not just in being an absolute technical beast or through his extensive knowledge of music - which reaches way out the niche realm of techno/electronics, but in beckoning techno onto uncharted routes just like the Detroit sound paved the way for a bolder, time-transcending approach. It’s with great honour that we welcome him in the series, this time under the Tripeo moniker, for two hours of absolute batshit 4x4 frenzy. A no-miss.

Reclaim Your City 563 | Reka Zalan

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 12:45:00 +0100

A tireless boundary-pusher, you may know Reka Zalan through working at flagship Berlin record store Hardwax by day or via the infamous ://elements series she's been helming for quite some time at ://aboutblank. Either solo-flying or going B2B as No Life Signal with fellow ://aboutblank resident THNTS, the German DJ champions a sound both intensely trippy and cutting-edge to the core. Working her way across a versatile gamut of rhythmic signatures and cross-pollinated ambiences, ranging from propulsive electro wares to slashing UK breaks, no doubt the two hours ahead shall be a mind-expanding treat thru and thru.

Reclaim Your City 562 | Bassil

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 12:45:00 +0200

Another force to be reckoned with in Tbilisi's ever flourishing underground, Georgian producer Bassil steps in the series with two hours of versatile techno grooves, nimbly running the gamut from low-slung, electronica-informed phrases to hi-octane peak time juggernauts all set at wreaking havoc across the rooms. Bathed in a thick gravy of rust-gnawed, post-industrial murk but schooled to the polyamorous horizons of '90s trip-hop, BoC-ian emotional landslides, kosmische-y jazz and claustrophobic Detroit weaponry, Bassil's mix take us for a most immersive ride down that lush and tormented headspace of his. Get in for a proper mind-bend.

Reclaim Your City 561 | Albert Chiovenda

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 12:17:00 +0200

All the way from down under, here comes Albert Chiovenda, a talented producer whose deep and mesmeric productions have graced the grooves of Granulart Rec., Hayes Collective and Evod Music. Revolving around loopy motif'd soundscapes and ever immersive rhythmic propulsion, Chiovenda's sound has us moving in between proper transporting dubbed-out layers a la Basic Channel and oneiric harmonics rolling and tumbling in cascade. A lush imaginarium bristling with impressive audio minutiae and balmy ambient weathering, this is techno to offset your sensory balance. A welcome swash of velveteen serenity to kick off the week.

Reclaim Your City 560 | Stephanie Sykes

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 17:27:00 +0200

Weaving some of the most exhilaratingly hypnotic floor narratives in the landscape of contemporary techno, UK's driving force Stephanie Sykes graces us with two utmost hectic hours of music. Cozy on all terrains, the British DJ and producer juggles rhythms and shifts scopes as a chameleon swaps camouflages. By turn rugged and propulsive, her blends elegantly stretch from post-indus rustiness to straight out computer-age gloss in the blink of an eye, though her mixing seamlessly coalesces all in a brilliantly understated tour de force. With her typical refinement and pristine dexterity behind the decks, Sykes keeps us on our toes throughout this belter of a sonic journey. Fasten your seatbelt and revel, here comes a total cyclone of a mix.

Reclaim Your City 559 | Magna Pia

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 2 Oct 2023 19:27:00 +0200

Formerly active as one half of Cassegrain and now solely under his own name, Hüseyin Evirgen alias Magna Pia has been trading out some of the finest hypnotising floor material on the market for the past decade. Responsible for some key platters on the likes of Soma, Arcing Seas and Counterchange, the Berlin-based producer eases us in his intricately structured headspace, lithely moving at the confluence of post-industrial dubs, central Asian folk and heavy-duty brutalism. Dishing out proper excellence behind the decks, and the perfect balance between paced-up dynamics and full-immersion atmospherism, here goes Magna Pia with his newest two-hour selection of hi-voltage wares to jack your mind and body to, unabashedly. Lock in, zone out.

Reclaim Your City 558 | Angioma b2b Blanka

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 07:42:00 +0200

For this new round, Berlin-based friends and collaborators Angioma and Blanka team up for a very special B2B set spanning the spectrum of their respective, and much compatible, universes. Both sharing the same shelter of their own record label Room Trax, the pair sends us into orbit with two hours of shadowy 4x4 grooves and thick-set dubs primed for peak-time basement rioting. Astutely swinging the pendulum between reverb-soaked atmospherism and gut-churning bass assault, Angioma and Blanka have us riding stormy sine waves and exhilarating distortions effortlessly. Kit up for a riveting deep-dive into nightmarish grottos and oddly cozy, Berghain-ready chasms.

Reclaim Your City 557 | Franz Jäger

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 19:58:00 +0200

Affiliate of the ever trustworthy Hayes Collective, as well as the SYXT connection, Stockholm operator Franz Jäger steps in our weekly mix series with two hours of utterly cinematic techno for the heads. Busting the invisible frontier between floor-focussed functionality and inward-gazing meanderings, the Swedish producer has us abseiling down a much fascinating decorum of mazy architectures and suffocating ambiences. Behind a curtain of iron-hard austerity and industrial-informed punch, a luxuriant jungle of minutely crafted sound design reveals itself, mysterious and enveloping as it gets. Make yourself at home, for Jäger certainly knows how to treat his guests with bespoke care and distinction.

Reclaim Your City 556 | Measure Divide

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 13:28:00 +0200

Slashing its way across murky industrial scapes and haunting concrete and glass visions at unrelenting pace, the sound of Karachi-born, Toronto-based producer Fahad Ahmad alias Measure Divide summons all the assets of tormented hardware sorcery. Responsible for an array of quality efforts for the likes of Clergy and Nachtstrom Schallplatten over the years, Fahad has consistently laid down non-formulaic techno with a truly honest and singular approach. Defying the bland order of the day with productions that stretch from high-traction elephant grooves to more subtle psy-op manoeuvres with seamless ease, the Canadian jockey treats us to a mind-boggling fractal of homing big-room missiles, all set at shredding the dance floor into scraps of euphoric abandon.

Reclaim Your City 555 | Beatrice

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 4 Sep 2023 20:08:00 +0200

This week's mix comes courtesy of a young Spanish DJ and producer going by the name of Beatrice. Operating out of Berlin, she's started making waves over the last few years thanks to dextrous mixes running the gamut from deep, mind-altering techno wares to further heavy-duty workout material, becoming a resident at New York's Basement along the way. Constantly blurring the lines between abstract-leaning, angular 4x4 on a post-industrial tip and breath-holding descents down claustrophobic environments, Beatrice dishes out a prime selection of equivocally brutal and subtle joints, tailored to keep the nastiest herd of ravers in check throughout. Massive.

Reclaim Your City 554 | Steve Bicknell

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 15:47:00 +0200

From breaking through in the early 90s right when things were still done wild, helming the legendary Lost club nights from 1992 onward, onto becoming a pioneering figure of the UK's underground, it's safe to say Steve Bicknell ticks all the boxes of a self-made myth in the scene. Tirelessly pushing the boundaries of techno as we know it, the British don has been carving out his name in gold letters amongst the pantheon of DJs capable to evolve and transcend both themselves and their audience through the cathartic power of music. Always a step ahead, Bicknell treats us to two hours of resolutely immersive and achingly powerful soul-search, seamlessly criss-crossing our brains with his top-of-the-range anti-bullshit techno medicine. Posology? Repeat listens until complete recovery.

Reclaim Your City 553 | Anthony Linell

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 08:02:00 +0200

Championing a dark, claustrophobic strain of techno, Swedish maestro Anthony Linell (aka Abdullah Rashim) pulls by our mix series with two hours of spine-tingling ambiences and velvet-clad industrial punch. True to the time-tested musical precepts he’s been relying on throughout his impeccable discography - which includes about a dozen albums and twice as many EPs for his own record label Northern Electronics plus a happy few, Linell’s present delivery remains befogged with that trademark esoteric enthrallment of his, taking us for a much captivating deep-dive into troubled sonic marshes and across the deeper layers of your consciousness. As ever with the Stockholm wizard, it’s a masterly handled showdown of all-terrain cinematic immersion and on-target groove manipulation that reels off freely, ready to subject any raver with its magnetic flair and indisputably massive fire at heart. Locked and loaded.

Reclaim Your City 552 | Nadia Struiwigh

noreply@blogger.com (Reclaim Your City) — Sun, 20 Aug 2023 09:12:00 +0200

Threading her way at the confines of techno and abstract electronics, interwoven with elements of industrial, dub and ambient music, Tresor’s new resident Nadia Struiwigh occupies a peculiar position in today’s electronic landscape, offering sonic experiences both truly unique and captivatingly immersive at once. Above and foremost, Nadia has been thrashing prejudices as to the limits and norms induced by so-called genres, styles and scenes, sending the headshrinkers back to the drawing board. With a solid bunch of releases for labels as varied as Dekmantel, CPU, Clone, DFA, STOOR, MORD, Infiné and Nous’Klaer, you can clearly see how incredibly magnetic her sound has proven to be. Here comes Nadia Struiwigh with two hours of utterly dazzling, boundary-busting bravura.