Reclaim Your City

Up this week is FUSE resident DJ and Phaaar label owner Phara
treating us to a whirlwind of gusty minimal groovers and relentless
big-room punchers. With a solid bunch of quality records on the likes of
Token, Soma or SK_Eleven under his belt, the Brussels-based DJ and
producer delivers a two-hour mix right in line with his signature
stripped-down floor mystique and deadeye, hi-velocity style behind the
decks. Running the gamut from strapping, 909-fuelled pound to choppy
dubbed-out swells, via jagged prog-technoid momentums and acid-informed
psychedelia, Phara’s mix is a vibrantly trippy, inch-perfectly
engineered ode to techno’s dual essence, combining spontaneous
combustion with future-facing innovation to riveting effect. Saddle up
and brace yourself for this incoming number shall leave you gasping for
air.

Herald of a darker, more opaque style of deep-diving techno music,
RYC alum Ruben Ganev (he's got a debut solo transmission on the way but
shhhh) punches in with his second podcast for us. Dwelling the frontier
betwixt sunken dub mechanisms and full-immersion atmospheric
industrialism, Ganev pulls the strings to a fascinating shadow play rife
with textured analogue stunts, verbed-out hoodoo and hair-raising
crescendos out a cinematic tale. Continually slacklining between
faux-organic sound membranes, laser precise scape-sculpting and haunted
brutalist architectonics, his set maintains a complex equilibrium
throughout, vibrating with suspenseful constructions and unsuspected
developments that’ll keep you on your toes through the whole of this
shape-shifting journey.

Who better than the man, the legend Ben Sims to get 2026 rolling in
proper spectacular and ever thought-provoking fashion? As we’re slowly
finding our feet into this odd new revolution ahead, the London legend
clocks in with a most solid bunch of psychoactive wares and chiseled
big-room pumpers bound to have you enter flow state from first minute to
last. Channeling the hard-boiled NRG of his prime and trusted grit of
today’s self, Sims has us surfing a massive comber of fractalized
uptempo motifs, raging machine funk and ruthless, iron-clad grooves.
Having lost nothing of his boundary-pushing verve and floor-harnessing
savor faire, the UK born-and-raised maestro dishes out a fiery two-hour
buffet of unstoppable hi-tech rollers and no-surrender material that
pledges to reunite 90s heyday buffs, hardcore purists and techno
newcomers alike. Slapping and banging ride all the way, with all best
wishes from RYC and co.

Clocking in for our last round of the year, and ready to shut 2025
off on a proper high note, here comes SPE:C, Reef and Biofield boss
Darwin with two hours of hi-velocity yet cerebral material for the
heads. Loaded with the steel-hard fury of future-facing techno wares and
breaks-informed combinations of sci-fi atmospheres, alien emotional
spaces, and impactful weight in the low end, this mix makes for a proper
sendoff party to 2025 so we transition from this long-ass year into the
new one with renewed energy and focus. All in on the 4x4 and adjacent
pumpers, bass-heavy depth charges and zero-G, dub-leaning stunts, the
former Griessmuehle resident and habituée at some of the scene's most
illustrious bastions - including our friends of Berghain and Bassiani -
dishes out a mind-boggling set packing not just the most massive punch
but also a deadeye accuracy in her mixing technique and pristine
curation, sure to please lovers of fast-paced and hedonistically
havoc-wreaking blends, fully zeroed in on bringing back the true
pioneering spirit of techno to the fore. RUFFFFF.

Championing a sound intrinsically deep and leaning towards lo-fi dub
techno, St. Odes co-founder and Dial Records alum Ben Kaczor stops by to
deliver his first ever RYC podcast. Laying down a mix rife with the
slo-churning, micro house-esque jams and eerily contemplative boogie
that’s come to define his style, Kaczor treats us to a two-hour jaunt
into a fractured headspace, organic and synthetic at once, inhabited by
odd creatures and ghostly silhouettes. Evocative and lush, his mix
conjures up the most haunting reverb-drenched melodies and esoteric
grooves to shape a uniquely engaging, cinematic voyage. Give in to this
slo-evolving buildup of dusty ambiences and falsely serene harmonies, as
they teem with the kind of held-in magnetic power and subjugating
potential to get any crowd wading in a weird, awry sense of XTC.