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Club Evoy is a house producer and DJ based between Wexford and Dublin, working across warm, driving sounds built for the late hours. Synthetic Drift marks the first release on Ó Rua Records, a new independent dance music label from Co. Wexford. Across four tracks, the EP follows a single idea: moving through the city after dark, windows down, with the night still ahead. “On The Way To The Club” si...

Local Selection number 320 welcomes Jake Brien to the series. Bringing a fresh perspective to the city’s electronic music scene, Brien delivers a mix that reflects his appetite for digging deeper and pushing things forward. Dublin’s Jake Brien is quickly establishing himself as a nonconformist force within the club scene, and his Local Selection is testament to that. Gliding effortlessly between g...

Gleesø is a Dublin-based techno artist exploring the hypnotic and groove-led end of the spectrum. Built around driving rhythms, hard-hitting kicks and off-centre sound design, his productions balance stripped-back arrangements with a raw, high-energy edge. Alongside his studio work, Gleesø has been steadily carving out a presence in Dublin’s club scene, with recent appearances at HOTBOXX and Dark...

This week’s entry to the Local Selection comes from Terrane, formerly known as Son Orbis, who showcases his stylistic shift through an hour of high-voltage, percussive madness. The Dublin-based DJ and producer recently unveiled his fresh outlook on club music, moving away from the deep and soulful sounds of house music that defined the early stages of his career in favour of a more forward-thinkin...

A hypnotic, warped house cut built around a deep, droning bassline, psychedelic textures and an eerie vocal presence. “The Drone” moves through a hazy, otherworldly groove, balancing darker atmospheres with a subtle sense of drive. Suckerfish ------------------------- SC: @user-641423703 IG: www.instagram.com/suckerfish__/ Four Four Magazine 
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Flip The Lid presents the third chapter in their much-loved compilation series with ‘Rolly Bump Vol. 3’, a high-octane collection of progressive house, trance and tech house built for maximum dancefloor impact. Following the first two instalments, ‘Rolly Bump Vol. 3’ brings together ten fresh cuts from across the Flip The Lid orbit. With progressive as the starting point, the compilation moves acr...

Local Selection 318 sees Lana Hayes and Sleepyhead join forces, bringing their bass-heavy, freaky sounds to the mix with the same energy and chemistry they bring to the dance floor. Friends by chance, DJs by choice. Lana Hayes and Sleepyhead go together like pint bottles in the sun, Lucozades on rough mornings and beers amongst friends. Having clocked countless hours of field research in the wild,...

Cartin has been carving out his own space within Ireland’s electronic underground, bringing together guitar-led live performance, emotive songwriting and club-focused production. At its heart, ‘Saturday’ is a celebration of friendship. Built around shimmering Chicago house keys, elastic grooves, pop sensibilities and manipulated vocal fragments, the track radiates an infectious optimism. Beneath i...

Mijo Sanchez takes the Local Selection series into darker territory, delivering a tightly wound journey through murky atmospheres and coiling tension. With close to a decade behind the decks, Sanchez has become one of Galway’s driving forces and mainstays within the city’s club culture, building a reputation through residencies, club appearances and a commitment to keeping the techno candle burnin...

Local Selection 316 is soundtracked by Dublin duo Heftie, who share a one-hour journey through high-octane, warped-out hypnotism and heavy low-end pressure. Heftie are an underground electronic music duo from Dublin, crafting a raw, euphoric sound driven by heavy bass, hard-hitting drums and restless energy. Drawing from garage, house, electro and dubstep, their productions sit within a buckled UK...

i decided comes through with a rough, twisted take on techno. The EP moves between driving rhythms, abrasive sounds and more unexpected, off-kilter moments, keeping things varied without losing its edge. DJ Ligma and Dara Lee step in on remix duties, taking the tracks somewhere a little different while keeping the pressure and intensity on. i decided ---------------------- SC: @idecidedidecided IG...

This week’s Local Selection comes from Elektra, formerly known as CATZA, the new project of Irish DJ and producer Catherine Verzanova. Bringing a fresh approach to the space between house and techno, she builds a deep, enveloping sound that sits towards the hypnotic end of the club spectrum. Originally from Wicklow and now part of Dublin’s electronic music scene, Verzanova has played at venues inc...

Dundalk-based producer and DJ cälpol returns with It Gets Lonely in Hyperspace, a euphoric yet introspective cut blending hard house grooves with trance-influenced energy. Available as a free download. Driving 142 BPM drums, soaring stabs, fragmented vocals and metallic sci-fi FX collide with distant atmospherics, capturing the feeling of euphoria and connection against a backdrop of distance and...

Derry’s Connor Young digs deep into the darker end of techno for Local Selection 314, drawing on years spent chasing the sound across dancefloors. Rooted in the darker side of electronic music and shaped by years spent immersed in dimly lit rooms and packed dancefloors, Connor Young’s sound is driven by a deep connection to club culture and the energy of the dancefloor. His sonic palette is eclect...

This week’s Local Selection comes from burgeoning young artist JOR, who weaves potent strains of trance, techno and bounce into a high-energy package that nods to the past while looking towards where the sound can go next. JOR has been making his mark on Ireland’s rapidly evolving club landscape, with a growing presence across the country and a sound that brings together techno, trance and hard bo...

Sharpson returns with a Trance infused Speed Garage banger: Taste. The Irish-born, London based producer has drawn inspiration from classic trance acts such as Tiesto, Chicane and Underworld and brought it to the contemporary landscape of modern dance music with a high tempo Speed Garage bassline. Moving away from his usual Jungle and Breakbeat influences, Taste harkens back to his formative years...

For the latest edition of our Local Selection series, we welcome Dublin DJ Dylan Shields, aka The Dogfather, to the mix with a spinning selection of smoggy house cuts. At just 21 years old, Dylan has been behind the decks for nearly three years, developing a sound rooted in house music with a growing pull towards darker, deeper territory. His approach is as much about the people around the music a...

Lorcan Kelly is a young and fast rising talent from Ireland who comfortably sits at the inter- section between house and techno just like we love it and is delivering his strongest work yet for his Safe Space debut EP. 5 quirky originals with shuffled 90's and 00's rhythms and dubby chord stabs. Together with remixes by label boss Ackermann and Aero this pack leaves no prisoners and no floor need...

Karlaa soundtracks Local Selection 311, bringing her lifelong connection to rave culture to the mix for a high-energy power hour. Hailing from Galway, Karlaa is a 29-year-old DJ who has spent the past two years carving out her place within Ireland’s club culture circuit. Her musical palette leans towards high-octane sounds, unapologetically anchored in the emotional side of rave, a sound shaped as...

Step into Nancy Wilde’s deep, chugging and effortlessly tripped-out world as she soundtracks Local Selection 310: a hypnotic trip through rolling prog, psychedelic grooves and kaleidoscopic rhythms built for the dancefloor’s twilight hours. Nancy Wilde is a Portugal-born, Ireland-based DJ, radio host and curator whose sets drift between cosmic disco, italo, deep house, acid and more. She is renown...

Emerging producer AOIFE announces the release of their debut EP, a dark and hypnotic collection that explores deeply personal themes through powerful low-end pressure, immersive textures and driving rhythms. Drawing inspiration from the techno traditions of Detroit, Birmingham and Spain, the record also incorporates subtle influences from the UK's broken beat and bass music scenes. The release is...

Digitaldash takes on Local Selection 309 with a kinetic and genre-fluid excursion of sharp rhythmic impulses and playful selections. Digitaldash steps up for Local Selection 309 with a globe-spanning mixbag of club mutations, moving from the smooth, rolling swing of Chicago house to the percussive chaos of Brazilian baile funk, shuffled Jersey grooves and beyond. It’s a restless, high-energy journ...

Oscide soundtracks Local Selection number 308 with an all-vinyl trip that hits the perfect sweet spot between garage and house, swung crisp drums, lush deep chords mixed with utter proficiency from a pillar of Dublin’s club culture Oscide is the alias of Dublin-born producer and DJ Craig Scully, whose approach has been shaped by nearly two decades behind the decks and in the studio. Moving fluidly...

Irish multi-genre producer Martha Dark steps up for her debut release on Irish imprint Your Utopia My Dystopia, delivering a masterclass in late-night dance floor tension with her new single, "Emotion (Detroit Mix)." True to the label’s signature ethos of raw grooves and timeless club structures, the track is a powerful homage to classic Detroit techno. "Emotion" strikes a flawless balance between...

For the 307th edition of the series, mkbest delivers a deep and lush selection of rolling house, carefully shaped into a slow-burning, immersive journey. Belfast’s mkbest is an artist deeply embedded in the city’s club culture, an instinctive student of deeper, more refined strains of house music. Her sound is rooted in a stripped-back, patient aesthetic that prioritises atmosphere, progression, a...