The Bunker Podcast

The Bunker Podcast 235 comes from Erik Luebs. This is a live set recorded in Milan on March 28 at the party Acquario. Erik Luebs is a US-born musician and sound designer based in Japan. Eschewing typical genre tropes, Luebs approaches techno with a playfully disruptive technique, reinterpreting the fundamentals using built-from-scratch patches and labyrinthine sequencing. While the labor-intensive...

This edition of The Bunker Podcast comes in the form of a peak time live set from Doltz, a label artist on DJ Nobu's Bitta imprint who will be performing live at The Bunker x Bitta party in Brooklyn on Friday November 29. When we asked Nobu who else he wanted to bring from the label for this showcase, he immediately suggested Doltz. Doltz started his musical career in 1998 as a drummer in a hardco...

“For the closing night of Return to the Source at the Interdimensional Transmissions presents The Bunker party, we have a night of unique pairings, back to back sets from people who knew each other mostly, but usually don’t play together. After a full weekend of non stop great music, what better than the drama of the unknown combinations to keep you fully engaged, with deeply curated pairings and...

This episode of The Bunker Podcast comes from Brussels’ Fuse resident DJ and label co-curator Altinbas, who has been playing all over Europe lately. Through his excellent Observation Station imprint, and other labels such as Token, Non Series, and of course Fuse, Altinbas has released a ton of great music in a relatively short period of time. Altinbas makes his US debut closing out The Bunker at G...

Umboma, is a collaboration between Omar Ahmad and Miss Alicia. Umboma is a project that emphasizes African, Arab and Latin American contemporary rhythms. A combination of Arabic, Swahili and Spanish words, Umboma signifies a Congregation of Freedom & Dance. Umboma do long-form journeys, starting with the experimental and psychedelic, moving into the rhythmic and euphoric. Here they present a studi...

This edition of The Bunker Podcast comes from Camille Altay (they/them), a visual artist, composer and DJ who lives and works in Climax, New York. Camille spent formative years as a drum and bass dj in the house-heavy rave scene in Chicago in the late 90s. A contrarian in nature, Camille has been known to play genre-bending dj sets with influences ranging from Cumbia to Ghettotech. Camille’s live...

The Bunker Podcast 229 comes from Berlin's Sarah Wreath, who takes you on a journey of intricate rhythms intertwine, leading you deeper into a mesmerizing labyrinth of sound. If listening, collection, and selection have been daily habits since her youth, the processes of production and devoted explorations into the ripples of sound became the most important aspects of her current practice. In her...

This edition of The Bunker podcast comes from our old friend Blacklauren, recorded live at The Bunker at Good Room in July 2022, when he opened for DJ Nobu and Wata Igarashi. Mastered by Russell E.L. Butler. artist statement: "At some point during the late months of 2013, a close friend at the time sent me a podcast mix to listen to from a young Japanese DJ who was completely unknown to me at the...

For this edition of The Bunker Podcast we're releasing @otodojo's live set from their album release party at The Bunker in April. artist video explanation accompaniment: youtu.be/h-xMUetPiTg?si=9qj-4DNHj2dHUBtT artist statement: In February 2023 I focused on developing a new live set for my debut with @thebunkerny for an album release, named one of the best releases of 2023 by @mixmag-1. I trained...

artist statement from Sister Zo: My sound has evolved a lot over the past year living in New York. While I feel everyone knows me primarily for my percussive broken beat productions and sets, anyone who's seen me play recently will know I've been leaning heavily into driving psychedelic techno and hard groove house. So I wanted to make something that reflects my evolving tastes. In that sense this...

The Bunker Podcast 225 comes from Scotia. Currently based in Albany, she is known as one of the Capital Region and Hudson Valley's very best and most hardworking DJs, playing almost 100 gigs last year. She appeared in the Going In room at The Bunker Hudson Valley's collaborative event with T4T back in September, and is one of the resident DJs at Community Rave Network, who do a monthly party at Av...

DJ Leeon sort of burst onto The Bunker scene with an absolutely storming set for a heaving Bad Room at The Bunker 19 Year Anniversary. He returned in September 2022, closing The Bunker after Moritz Von Oswald, with his premier b2b set with Derek Plaslaiko. Here he treats us to a very special studio mix, his first public mix since his EOS Radio residency ended in the spring. tracklist: Jackson Lee...

Leela is a collaboration between Jan Woo and Dru, both currently based in Ridgewood, Queens. They are inspired by the entire spectrum of freeform art, spiritual transformation, and a dual/nondual approach to all things. In this mix, they focus on the Spring/Summer transition, illbient, experimental, and oddities from the history of recorded music. tracklist: Raymonde - Mer Aux Etoiles Space Afrika...

Very excited to host this podcast from Mareena, who simply has this to say: "This mix is dedicated to the club re-opening in my hometown Berlin. Pure dance vibes!" tracklist: 01_Refracted - Torn Relics (Delsin) 02_Gianluca Caiati - Surrender - Substance Remix (KSR) 03_Bidoben - Gstaad (Truncate) 04_Ness - The Moon in Montreal (The Gods Planet) 05_Monobox - Rise (M-Plant) 06_Vil - 50 Shades of Grai...

This podcast was recorded live at The Bunker New Year's Eve party at Market Hotel on December 31, 2021. @nihal-ramchandani was booked to play the closing slot less than 24 hours before the party started, filling in for Patrick Russell. This was Nihal's first time playing in public since before the pandemic.

Artist Statement: I don’t think it’s a stretch for me to say that I really enjoy making mixes. I like challenging myself while exploring different sounds and rhythms and mixes give me a chance to play around without the added pressure of the dance floor. Context is key and in this regard, I always try to take into the consideration the environment the mixes are consumed by the listener. So I tend...

Davide Gualandi grew up in Italy. He played in some bad hardcore bands in the 90s and wrote for some fairly respected music magazines in the 2000s. He DJs noisy psychedelic music and supports the weirdos who populate the NYC scene. About the mix: "My midlife crisis brought me to the inevitable purchase of a rotary mixer. Since I'm bad at mixing anyway, I bought a MasterSounds Radius 4, which just...

HE VALENCIA is an Indiana midwest based dj, producer, cultural theorist and techno historian who has been active in North American techno since 2010, hotly tipped by the likes of DJ Stingray, Jamal Moss & Carlos Souffront. He contributes to the long legacy of black midwest techno by exploring the many permeations and intersections of techno and other electronic dance music. artist statement: "this...

artist statement: "Music has maybe been the only enjoyable escape for me during the pandemic, and my relationship to it has taken on a new shape given that I only listen at home alone, mainly on headphones, and at odd hours. I’ve used Ableton to DJ for over a decade now, and this mix is no exception—though I wanted to do something different here, given these new listening patterns. So this is more...

This week's edition of The Bunker Podcast comes from @amourette, who is the resident DJ and co-producer of one of NYC's best and most interesting parties, Weird Science. For this mix, Ania did something different. here is her artist's statement: ""Hi there, Maybe I am not so well known for "going hard", since for the last two years I’ve been concentrating, along with my co-conspirators, to play an...

For this edition of The Bunker Podcast, we welcome one of Berlin's best DJs, Handmade, resident at Tresor and Same Bitches. artist statement: "For the current Bunker Podcast series I compiled some of my favourite club tunes, released between 1995-1999, I used two Technics 1210 turntables and an Allen&Heath Xone 22 mixer. Its a tough time for all of us right now, so I hope I can send some light int...

This edition of The Bunker Podcast comes from long time friend Israel Vines. Izzy has peppered this mix with many of his recent and forthcoming productions. His KGIV project, a collaboration with Kit Geary, just released an EP on Eye Teeth, Interdimensional Transmissions' sub-label that was set up to release Vines' music. His debut album will also be dropping later this year. ISRAEL VINES - POPULA...

In anticipation of her appearance at Return to the Source in Detroit this May, we are excited to present this set from Amanda Mussi. Amanda is a pillar of the scene in São Paulo, where she puts on the Dûsk party. About this mix, she says "I did a combination of genres from my influences to my contemporary taste such as ambient, breakbeats, EBM, electro and techno mixing dark and also uplifting atm...

When we asked Marco Shuttle if he wanted to podcast an excerpt of his all night set from The Bunker LTD at Public Records in February, he responded that he really wanted to publish the whole set start to finish. So here you have it, nearly 6 hours of Marco playing to a very intimate dancefloor in Brooklyn. This set is quite a bit different than what you might normally hear him play at a big techno...

It's always a good day when you get a new mix from Karl Meier tracklist: 1. CABARET VOLTAIRE "Colours - Thunder Mix" (Plastex/Mute, 1991) 2. DHS "Telephone Sounds" (Tino Corp, 2001) 3. DHS "Hypnosis" (Tino Corp, 2001) 4. DATASSETTE "Polyhedron Navigator" (Central Processing Unit, 2019) 5. SENSE CLUB "Tanzglatte" (Perlon, 2003) 6. SECTOR Y "Sentient" (Booma Collective, 2016) 7. JICHAEL MACKSON "A S...