Reclaim Your City

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 claustrophobic machine
funk and eerie atmosphere straight out a demented narrative. Expect
rugged hails and fierce winds as SAMA takes over the waves and wreaks
absolute havoc throughout this wild, wild ride.

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 left field-leaning
dubs. Equally at ease in the field of club-oriented maneuvers and
mind-expanding abstraction, Obstructor leaves no stone unturned in his
quest for the right bar in the right place, and the right emotion at the
right time. Enter a deepeningly immersive flipbook of slo-burning
exaltation and blissed-out momenti.

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 assault and
leftfield-informed abstraction. The result is a torrential outpour of
powerhouse machine funk, no-surrender techno brutalism and fiery
analogue thunder. Dive into an orgiastic smorgasbord of ruthless uptempo
churn, surgical technique and immersive cerebrality. Sleek, propulsive
ride all the way, y’all aren’t ready for this one. Enjoy!

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 straightforward
techno numbers, Audrey has cemented her position as one of the most
unique and thrilling artists out there, constantly pushing back the
boundaries of techno as we know it, emancipated from a false sense of
tradition. Fun, effervescing, and engineered for relentless dance floor
uplift, her work is a breath of pure, fresh air.

David Sumner, alias DMO, alias VEX, member of Regis’ seminal Sandwell
District collective, belongs to this category of legendary producers who
withstood the test of time with durably impressive poise. The man
behind some of Ostgut Ton, Tresor, Sandwell District, Stoor and his own
imprint, Infrastructure New York’s most enlightening releases, has been
dishing out game-changing releases one after the other. Championing a
sound that swings the pendulum between pure groove cerebrality and
superior functionality, Sumner creates mixes like one weaves tapestries,
mastering the warps and wefts of rhythmic entanglement and the mind’s
curious architecture like no other. Brace yourself for a wild,
inspirational thriller of a mix.