Reclaim Your City

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 whe...

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-leani...

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 BB...

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 materia...

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...

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 m...

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 bal...

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, Mi...

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...

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...

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 wi...

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 expan...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 tec...

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 res...

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...

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 attack...

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 unta...

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 a...

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 hardw...

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 be...

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...