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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 isolation.

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@calpolmg

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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 eclectic, moving across house, electro, breaks and beyond, but deep, trudging and hypnotic techno is where his heart lies. For Connor, it is more than a sound. It’s a feeling and an ethos. He has immersed himself in the culture surrounding the music, travelling far & wide for parties and absorbing the different ways it can be presented, from the mechanics of tension and release within a DJ set to the more physical relationship between sound, space and movement.

That experience feeds directly back into his approach at home in Derry. Behind the decks, Connor is concerned with how a room moves, flows and feels, building sets that develop organically while maintaining a strong sense of tension and momentum.

Connor is also a driving force behind Mosaic, the Derry-based collective and event series he co-founded. Built around a shared passion for stripped-back club experiences, Mosaic aims to create intimate, forward-thinking events while providing a platform for emerging and established artists pushing their sound forward.

For his local selection, Connor digs deep into a cavernous strain of minimal, stripped-back and muscular techno. Beginning with dizzying, hypnotic sounds before slipping into warped, slippery minimalism and gradually giving way to more driving, ’90s-adjacent cuts. It is a sound shaped through long nights spent in dark rooms, refined through years of listening, travelling and dancing, tried and tested, without the bullshit. Real techno, made to make you move.

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SC: @connor-young-84799804

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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 bounce into something built for high-intensity moments. His productions channel a pacey, euphoric and physical energy, leaning into the tension-and-release dynamics that sit at the heart of a great dancefloor record.

With millions of streams across platforms and growing support from DJs across the world, JOR is quickly establishing himself as a producer with a sharp understanding of what makes a dancefloor move. His rise has been matched by an increasingly recognisable approach behind the decks: fast, forceful and unrelenting.

For his Local Selection mix, JOR brings together nostalgic trance influences with the raw energy of modern hard dance, moving through euphoric melodies, driving rhythms and high-impact bursts. Fast-paced and dynamic, the mix captures the tenacity that has become a defining feature of JOR’s sound, both in the studio and behind the decks.

JOR

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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 as a Trance-lover growing up in Dublin City. The arpeggiated melodies and repetitive vocals sit this track would nicely fit in with the early 00’s Ministry of Sound and Gatecrasher compilation albums which formulated the producer’s love for electronic music growing up.

In terms of releases, the multi-genre producer and DJ has seen releases on the likes of Dirtybird, Solamente, Snatch! and more recently Southpoint and Hot Cake’s Breakbeat sister label Hardcore Energy. Notably, his tracks find support from luminaries like Skream, KiNK, Nastia, Four Tet, Deborah De Luca, Ed Solo, Riva Starr, Spartaque and have found a home on platforms such as BBC Radio1, Rinse FM, Boiler Room, HÖR, Ministry of Sound and more.

Taste drops on the 28th of August on his label, Choki Biki Records.

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SC: @sharpsonmusic
IG: www.instagram.com/sharpsonmusic

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@chokibikirecords

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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 as it is the music itself. Placing community, friendship and creating shared experiences at the heart of what it means to be a DJ.

Dylan cites Dublin scene pioneer Eric Brown as a major inspiration, highlighting his selfless approach to supporting those around him and making sure everyone has a place at the table. That same ethos runs through Dylan’s own perspective: being part of the scene, rather than simply being in it, and recognising that the moments away from the decks can be just as important as those behind them.

Alongside DJing, Dylan has recently begun developing his own productions, with a recent release on Foundations Records and more new material in the works for the months ahead.

For this Local Selection guest mix, the young selector delves into murkier, more hypnotic realms of house, weaving together cavernous rolling rhythms, descending chords, string sections and two-stepping grooves. It’s a heads-down approach, with each track melting seamlessly into the next to create a cauldron of smouldering, gnarly sounds. a mix you can sink your teeth into, before slowly finding yourself submerged in the dark, hypnotic ether.

IG: www.instagram.com/thedogfather.ie
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