Reclaim Your City

Dwelling the interspace between abstract, ambient-adjacent techno and heavily dubbed out electronics, Osaka-based artist TENO is the epitome of a true sound artisan, breathing the most minute attention to detail and textural developments to his complex musical tapestries. Immersive to the full, his mixes teleport us at the junction of meditative stasis and rhythm-driven abandon, infusing each bar...

Up this week with a highly psychedelic two-hour mix, Italian DJ and producer D-Leria steps in with a barrage fire of heavy-duty dubs, tribal-informed polyrhythms and cosmic brainwaves. As a true explorer of uncharted sonic horizons, constantly pushing the envelope of techno and its sub-branches, Giuseppe Di Leria has established a name synonym with quality and innovation - as advocated through a b...

Punching in with two hours of esoteric techno and multi-layered electronics, Ouroboros crew and Non Series / Samurai Music affiliate Vardae brings over the eerie dubs and arcane moves to RYC. Championing an eruptive blend of tribal-informed breaks, acid-soaked bass waves, tape-delayed patterns and spirals of hypnotic psychedelia, Vardae develops his broad, all-embracing vision through chiseled con...

Up this week with a lushly-forested sonic voyage, De Lighting, Midgar and Nous’klaer affiliate Human Space Machine treats us to one of his trademark deep, highly cinematic sets. Blending elegant soundscaping with a sixth sense for crafting off-kilter floor momenti, HSM beckons us on the path of slo-entrancement through deftly welded track combinations and surgically executed angle shifts. From abs...

KSR boss Gianluca Caiati aka Kaiser steps into our weekly podcast series with a powerhouse two-hour round of clinical groovers and heavy-duty bass bombs. Championing a sound that goes straight for the jugular, the Italian DJ and producer dishes out mixes that blend fierce Detroit-typical salvos with sheer Berlin-built muscle, going all in on floor-focussed weaponry and no-nonsense club narratives....

This week’s mix comes courtesy of Japanese DJ Yusuke Harada, alias YSK, a particularly deft merchant of deep-diving techno grooves and layered, abstract-leaning sonic explorations. His rapid-fire mixing style, exacting and dexterous, takes us on a journey down mesmeric dub-scapes and intricate mazes packed with hi-NRG cliff-hangers and unsuspected crossroads. Running the voodoo down with remarkabl...

On the rise towards wider recognition and duly so, Swedish DJ and producer Joline Scheffler - whose path may cross that of RYC in other ways soon *wink wink* - has been making waves with her highly dynamic, exhilarating take on classic techno motifs, pushing grooves that bridge the gap betwixt entrancing cavalcades and more intimate sonic explorations. Dexterously swinging the pendulum from immers...

Dwelling the deeper end of the spectrum, Amsterdam’s own brooding vibist Nawaz clocks in this week with a raw, uncompromising entry. Adepts of menacing sub-bass onslaughts and cutting-edge minimalism will find in Nawaz’s contribution the perfect companion to their next couple of hours. Dynamic and nuanced, structured yet chaotic, his mixes explore the darkest, infra-visible layers of audio synthes...

Belgian up-and-comer Wala punches in this week with two hours of elegantly stripped-back techno grooves and velveteen atmospheres. Clad in soft, fuzzy envelopes, his music summons the finest of immersive Basic Channel-ian dubs and sensual Detroit house churners, dishing out cinematic sequences rife with minimal, reverb-soaked drifters and slices of deep-diving, hypnagogic abstraction. Emotional an...

A serial crafter of deep-diving floor narratives whose magic innervates Brussels' Metropolis Sunday parties, Belgian DJ Sonhan has cemented his position as a surefire groove manipulator, consistently dishing out mixes that span the gap between heavy-duty techno, jagged psychedelics and chiseled dub freqs. His debut mix for RYC conjures up a similar headspace, unrelentingly sinking us down a smould...

A mainstay of Belgian bastions Fuse and TRAUM, Antwerp-based talent Phemia punches in with two hours spanning the broadest techno scope, from sunken dub atmospherics to velvety minimalism. Through rattling 4x4 narratives and jagged, polymorphic sines, Phemia entices us down the path of multisensory elation, summoning the finest of brooding post-industrial folds and elegantly stripped-back, Detroit...

Melbourne-born, London-based vibist Fergus Sweetland punches in this week with a two-hour jaunt into his playfully jagged and diverse headspace. Responsible for some off-kilter belters on the likes of NRBK and HAYES, the Australian DJ and producer brings his fun-loving approach to our waves with a choice selection of versatile techno grooves and genre-busting edits of his own concoction. Tailored...

Championing a sound both high-octane and propulsive, Dotdat has established himself as one of India's leading techno acts with releases for acclaimed international imprints including Symbolism, Truncate, KSR and more. Tapping in Goa's all-engulfing psychedelia, Dotdat pushes wild uptempo grooves that go straight for the crowd's jugular with its feverish mix of heavy-duty pound, hypnotic buildups a...

Stepping up with two hours of entrancingly deep and immersive techno folds, emerging French DJ Maemm beckons us onto a riveting sonic voyage spanning dubbed-out scapes, eerie atmospheres and eruptive rhythmic interplays. Exploring the confines of polymorphic abstraction through reverb-soaked environments and shape-shifting architectonics, her mix pays tribute to the complex, transcendental nature...

Punching in this week, German-Ukrainian DJ and producer David Natochen alias Chontane storms our waves with two hours spanning über-dynamic grooves, choppy freqs, and further psychoactive uptempo sonics. Pulling out all the stops as he beckons us down the path of entranced abandon, Chontane puts on a wild parade of muscular kick drums, heavy-duty snares and fevered analogue bursts out a hair-raisi...

Championing a deeply inward-gazing, psychoactive strain of techno, Amsterdam-based Italian DJ and producer Rosati steps in the series with two hours spanning his largely cinematic, emotion-driven headspace. All in on the looped-out psychedelia and hypnosis-inducing ostinatos, Rosati’s sound is an ode to the narrative-building quality of pioneering techno, reaching for that cosmic depth and driven...

Expert in bass-heavy arsonism and heavily dubbed-out stunts, REEF resident Esposito clocks in with a most massive two-hour rollout of blazing riddims and stripped-down techno voodooism. Engineering a surgical mix of sub-fueled menace, steely horsepower and rattling drumwork on the prowl, Esposito has us submerged in an all-engulfing, woofer-busting blast of dub esotericism and prototypical UK bass...

NON SQUARED - ASYMMETRICAL A beautiful milestone to celebrate, our 700th number comes from an artist we've long been looking up to and whose cross-curricular approach matches that of RYC's scope-widening vista effortlessly. Whether you find her pushing the boundaries of techno solo, shifting angles and perspectives with LADA together with Lars Hemmerling, or steering crowds into ecstasy via her Be...

Protean and boundary-pushing, Mor Elian’s body of work proves frisky and unpindownable by nature. Tapping into the widest array of influences, from abstract techno groovers to jacking house reliefs, via acid-dripping bass and fiery polyrhythms, the Fever AM co-founder enters the melee with a two-hour sonic cruise sweeping incendiary club material and more introspective moments, seamlessly rolled i...

Hailing from Guadalajara, Mexico, Andy Martin summons his ancestor’s voices through minutely crafted blends of future-facing electronics that keep on questioning the boundaries between continuity and rupture, between pragmatic physicality and spiritual escapism. Using his platform Diaspora Echoes as the launchpad to sustained sonic innovation release after release, Martin has been shaping up a bod...

Rising Belgian talent Clara D is our guest this week with a two-hour sonic trip exploring her wide range of influences, from deep techno folds to ambient-leaning divagations, through sleek textured dubs and groovy escapology. Relying on a minimal palette but extrapolating it to dazzling effect, Clara serves up a thoughtful mosaic of varying BPMs and further boundary-pushing loiterings, shifting pa...

Describing himself as a 'maximalist trying to fit into a minimalist world’, Amsterdam-based DJ and producer SAMA clocks in with a wild two-hour jaunt across altered post-industrial freqs and widescreen sound design. Pulling out all the stops with his versatile big-room arsenal and cross-curricular, bass-heavy hoodoo, the ORPHIC resident deploys a formidable effort unleashing frenzied swells of cla...

A new name making waves in Tbilisi’s now world-renowned techno scene, Obstructor follows the path of his illustrious predecessors whilst carving out a lane truly his own. Championing a highly meditative approach - spanning spacious electronics and paced-up floor dynamics through minutely crafted narratives, the young Georgian producer has us moving across tides of finely sculpted sine waves and le...

A staple component of Marcel Dettmann’s MDR imprint and Berghain’s Ostgut Ton, German legend Norman Nodge clocks in this week with a killer two-hour deluge of Indus-oriented barrage fire. Known for his laser-precise mixing and lethal selections, Nodge cuts a path of absolute dance floor devastation, pushing back the boundaries of techno as we know it through streams of gravity-defying rhythmic ass...

Jumping onboard the RYC podcast series this week, Swiss-born, Berlin-based DJ and producer Audrey Danza steps up with a two-hour sonic feast fusing pure cross-dimensional propulsion with textured psychedelia, hi-intensity body jack and further afield tempi. Carving out a lane of her own through her record label, Proxima, where she experiments with eerie, esoteric electronics and more straightforwa...