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Hailing out of Bangkok, Siamese Twins Records co-founder Sunju Hargun has been pushing the Asian techno scene forward untiringly. Exploring the confines of tribal-informed techno through propulsive, boldly minded sets and productions, Sunju keeps swinging the pendulum betwixt eerie, hallucinogenic ambiences and cosmic-tinged, future-proof buildups. Sharp and precise, his nimble mixing style serves as the perfect vehicle for these lengthy, immersive swirls of deeply hued harmonics and feverish rhythmic assault. Expect blissed-out, climactic moments and unharnessed descents into darkling layers of pure, unadulterated techno and trancey hedonism. Oneiric raving in its finest shape.  

Dwelling the interspace between abstract, ambient-adjacent techno and heavily dubbed out electronics, Osaka-based artist TENO is the epitome of a true sound artisan, breathing the most minute attention to detail and textural developments to his complex musical tapestries. Immersive to the full, his mixes teleport us at the junction of meditative stasis and rhythm-driven abandon, infusing each bar with a singular soul of its own, and each sequence with a distinctively vivid impetus. Reverbs and delays blazing, each brushstroke gains mythical force in TENO's kaleidoscopic deluge of changing colours and intense percussive firepower. A hi-res tornado of surgical groove flex, crisp sound design and impeccable transitions, rolled into the most cinematic floor narrative you could think of. Sensitive hi-tech drifter in full effect.  

Up this week with a highly psychedelic two-hour mix, Italian DJ and producer D-Leria steps in with a barrage fire of heavy-duty dubs, tribal-informed polyrhythms and cosmic brainwaves. As a true explorer of uncharted sonic horizons, constantly pushing the envelope of techno and its sub-branches, Giuseppe Di Leria has established a name synonym with quality and innovation - as advocated through a bunch of acclaimed releases for the likes of Non Series, Semantica, Avian and his own imprint, Delirio. Opaque and mystic-imbued, his sound bridges the gap between hi-velocity functionality and abstract-leaning escapology, treating the club space as its playground of choice for bold experimentation. Spanning a wide range of musical genotypes - from rugged, post-industrial 4x4 wares to streamlined, bass-heavy combers, via intricate percussive workouts and tripped-out entrancers, D-Leria’s set is techno at its most enjoyably state-of-the-art and cerebral.  

Punching in with two hours of esoteric techno and multi-layered electronics, Ouroboros crew and Non Series / Samurai Music affiliate Vardae brings over the eerie dubs and arcane moves to RYC. Championing an eruptive blend of tribal-informed breaks, acid-soaked bass waves, tape-delayed patterns and spirals of hypnotic psychedelia, Vardae develops his broad, all-embracing vision through chiseled constructions and articulate dynamics. Built for full-immersion raving and introspective journeying, his mixes route us onto euphoric apexes via craggy meanders and jagged panoramas. Expect a playful, mind-bending trip into Vardae’s shape-shifting imaginarium. A most unpredictable, restless ride awaits.  

Up this week with a lushly-forested sonic voyage, De Lighting, Midgar and Nous’klaer affiliate Human Space Machine treats us to one of his trademark deep, highly cinematic sets. Blending elegant soundscaping with a sixth sense for crafting off-kilter floor momenti, HSM beckons us on the path of slo-entrancement through deftly welded track combinations and surgically executed angle shifts. From abstract-bordering downtempo joints to straight out propulsive, club-ready ordnance, HSM’s range knows no bound as he keeps juggling signatures and purposes, easing us into a kaleidoscopic tableau where the Dutch producer’s widescreen mindset shines in all its unadulterated glory.  

KSR boss Gianluca Caiati aka Kaiser steps into our weekly podcast series with a powerhouse two-hour round of clinical groovers and heavy-duty bass bombs. Championing a sound that goes straight for the jugular, the Italian DJ and producer dishes out mixes that blend fierce Detroit-typical salvos with sheer Berlin-built muscle, going all in on floor-focussed weaponry and no-nonsense club narratives. For lovers of streamlined 4x4 buildups and sleek, reverb-drenched workouts, this one has Caiati zeroing in on the dubbed-out side of operations, unleashing maximal firepower with every bar. One heater after the other.  

This week’s mix comes courtesy of Japanese DJ Yusuke Harada, alias YSK, a particularly deft merchant of deep-diving techno grooves and layered, abstract-leaning sonic explorations. His rapid-fire mixing style, exacting and dexterous, takes us on a journey down mesmeric dub-scapes and intricate mazes packed with hi-NRG cliff-hangers and unsuspected crossroads. Running the voodoo down with remarkable consistency and unfailing precision, YSK is yet another instance of the Japanese scene’s ability in shaping some of the most skilled and discerning DJs around. Be ready for a massive two-hour deluge of brooding sines and claustrophobic atmospheres, wreaking the kind of mastered chaos from which you won’t come out unchanged.  

On the rise towards wider recognition and duly so, Swedish DJ and producer Joline Scheffler - whose path may cross that of RYC in other ways soon *wink wink* - has been making waves with her highly dynamic, exhilarating take on classic techno motifs, pushing grooves that bridge the gap betwixt entrancing cavalcades and more intimate sonic explorations. Dexterously swinging the pendulum from immersive 4x4-spoken poetics to verbed-out refraction, through more spacious, cosmic-leaning developments and a proper pictorial sense, opening up portals onto new dimensions and sensations with every bar, Joline excels at crafting these unsuspected epiphanies and fulgurations that can be enjoyed as intensely both on and off the dance floor. A master of translating emotion through signals, who keeps affirming techno’s never-ending power of transcendence and subjugation.  

Dwelling the deeper end of the spectrum, Amsterdam’s own brooding vibist Nawaz clocks in this week with a raw, uncompromising entry. Adepts of menacing sub-bass onslaughts and cutting-edge minimalism will find in Nawaz’s contribution the perfect companion to their next couple of hours. Dynamic and nuanced, structured yet chaotic, his mixes explore the darkest, infra-visible layers of audio synthesis, with a clear focus on the tantric, hypnosis-inducing effect of loops and repeated motifs. Enter a realm of complex sonic architecture and intricate envelope interplays, each membrane throbbing with a life of its own that echoes far and deep into the psyche long after the lights have gone off.  

Belgian up-and-comer Wala punches in this week with two hours of elegantly stripped-back techno grooves and velveteen atmospheres. Clad in soft, fuzzy envelopes, his music summons the finest of immersive Basic Channel-ian dubs and sensual Detroit house churners, dishing out cinematic sequences rife with minimal, reverb-soaked drifters and slices of deep-diving, hypnagogic abstraction. Emotional and articulate, his sonics fuse the elegance of classic, progressive 90s rollers with the future-proof vision of state-of-the-art electronic research - evolving at the fringe of full-fledged floor-busting potentiality and skirting the conceptual, off-kilter side of house and techno that keeps the scene afresh with a renewed - and much needed - call for undomesticated innovation and self-affirming gravitas. Surgical.  

A serial crafter of deep-diving floor narratives whose magic innervates Brussels' Metropolis Sunday parties, Belgian DJ Sonhan has cemented his position as a surefire groove manipulator, consistently dishing out mixes that span the gap between heavy-duty techno, jagged psychedelics and chiseled dub freqs. His debut mix for RYC conjures up a similar headspace, unrelentingly sinking us down a smouldering corridor of soulful electronics and pumped-up peak time ascensions. An experience of heightened depth and intensity, unfolding with a finely balanced mix of seamless cinematic savoir-faire and dazzling fire at heart.  

A mainstay of Belgian bastions Fuse and TRAUM, Antwerp-based talent Phemia punches in with two hours spanning the broadest techno scope, from sunken dub atmospherics to velvety minimalism. Through rattling 4x4 narratives and jagged, polymorphic sines, Phemia entices us down the path of multisensory elation, summoning the finest of brooding post-industrial folds and elegantly stripped-back, Detroit-style chug. The result is a positively dynamic, highly immersive trip for your synapses that'll have you hold your breath with every transition and reach for your inhaler as soon as the drop lashes down. Fierce and playful, lock in for a proper eruptive mind-bender.  

Melbourne-born, London-based vibist Fergus Sweetland punches in this week with a two-hour jaunt into his playfully jagged and diverse headspace. Responsible for some off-kilter belters on the likes of NRBK and HAYES, the Australian DJ and producer brings his fun-loving approach to our waves with a choice selection of versatile techno grooves and genre-busting edits of his own concoction. Tailored to lift spirits and bodies alike, his mix shall rejoice all lovers of the kind of unbothered musical cross-pollination and essential playfulness that misses from the more ascetic strains of techno orthodoxy. Bending genres, tempi and minds at once, this one goes particularly hard in its own idiosyncratically witty, debonair, killer way.  

Championing a sound both high-octane and propulsive, Dotdat has established himself as one of India's leading techno acts with releases for acclaimed international imprints including Symbolism, Truncate, KSR and more. Tapping in Goa's all-engulfing psychedelia, Dotdat pushes wild uptempo grooves that go straight for the crowd's jugular with its feverish mix of heavy-duty pound, hypnotic buildups and immersive tribal-esque patterns. An epic-sized, trance-inducing tapestry of frantic grooves and intricate polyrhythmic outbursts, Dotdat's RYC contribution unleashes absolute controlled chaos upon us. No surrender.  

Stepping up with two hours of entrancingly deep and immersive techno folds, emerging French DJ Maemm beckons us onto a riveting sonic voyage spanning dubbed-out scapes, eerie atmospheres and eruptive rhythmic interplays. Exploring the confines of polymorphic abstraction through reverb-soaked environments and shape-shifting architectonics, her mix pays tribute to the complex, transcendental nature of techno music. As she cuts a path of thought-provoking instruction with every bar, the groove remains the main focal point in her trampling, mind-expanding quest towards this souls convergence that gives any dance floor the kiss of life. Deep dive mode activated.  

Punching in this week, German-Ukrainian DJ and producer David Natochen alias Chontane storms our waves with two hours spanning über-dynamic grooves, choppy freqs, and further psychoactive uptempo sonics. Pulling out all the stops as he beckons us down the path of entranced abandon, Chontane puts on a wild parade of muscular kick drums, heavy-duty snares and fevered analogue bursts out a hair-raising sci-fi narrative. Expect a massive adrenaline rush at every junction, with every bar being a suspenseful thriller of its own. Full-on immersive mix, surgical and ruthlessly abrasive to the bone.  

Championing a deeply inward-gazing, psychoactive strain of techno, Amsterdam-based Italian DJ and producer Rosati steps in the series with two hours spanning his largely cinematic, emotion-driven headspace. All in on the looped-out psychedelia and hypnosis-inducing ostinatos, Rosati’s sound is an ode to the narrative-building quality of pioneering techno, reaching for that cosmic depth and driven by the urge to create a utopian space for all to express and feel safe again. Whether it is at the helm of his own record label, Global Pulse, or through his releases for Dolly, the Italian artist keeps on carving out a lane of his own, both retro-laced and decidedly future-facing, slowly but surely driving crowds into a soothingly mesmeric kind of daze.  

Expert in bass-heavy arsonism and heavily dubbed-out stunts, REEF resident Esposito clocks in with a most massive two-hour rollout of blazing riddims and stripped-down techno voodooism. Engineering a surgical mix of sub-fueled menace, steely horsepower and rattling drumwork on the prowl, Esposito has us submerged in an all-engulfing, woofer-busting blast of dub esotericism and prototypical UK bass assault. Dishing out a turbulent blend of aggressive machine funk, stormy breaks and liquid reverbs with unrelenting poise, bar after bar, the SPE:C affiliate fires off a much brutal reminder of why he’s one of the best in the game when it comes to bridging dubstep and techno in the most volatile, hi-octane way possible.  

A beautiful milestone to celebrate, our 700th number comes from an artist we've long been looking up to and whose cross-curricular approach matches that of RYC's scope-widening vista effortlessly. Whether you find her pushing the boundaries of techno solo, shifting angles and perspectives with LADA together with Lars Hemmerling, or steering crowds into ecstasy via her Berghain event series, Hunger to Create, Dasha Rush is the kind of artist who simply can't rest on her laurels, rather feeling the urge to explore and question the status quo constantly. Recorded in the same genre-unbound, free-flowing mindset, her RYC mix tackles kindred source material with raw, hi-octane NRG and pure, innovative brains and groove erudition. Expect a rugged avalanche of warped textures, seething machine funk and layered, cross-dimensional synthesis. A helluva ride across non-squared, asymmetrical landscapes for your mind to explore the polytemporal shuffles. Here's to many m...

Protean and boundary-pushing, Mor Elian’s body of work proves frisky and unpindownable by nature. Tapping into the widest array of influences, from abstract techno groovers to jacking house reliefs, via acid-dripping bass and fiery polyrhythms, the Fever AM co-founder enters the melee with a two-hour sonic cruise sweeping incendiary club material and more introspective moments, seamlessly rolled into a gravity-defying floor narrative. Her sense of construction and maneuvering, deftly shifting gears between full-fledged DJ-friendly use and more exploratory detours, reveals in all its unapologetically vibrant and shape-shifting glory in the present mix, vouching for Mor Elian’s pristine groove control and art of traction. Explosive.

Hailing from Guadalajara, Mexico, Andy Martin summons his ancestor’s voices through minutely crafted blends of future-facing electronics that keep on questioning the boundaries between continuity and rupture, between pragmatic physicality and spiritual escapism. Using his platform Diaspora Echoes as the launchpad to sustained sonic innovation release after release, Martin has been shaping up a body of work defined by precision and eclecticism, tapping into Mexico’s rich cultural background and history to build his own cutting-edge musical grammar. Cinematic and deep, his mixes and productions carry that psychoactive, cross-dimensional essence which makes every listen a trip of its own.  

Rising Belgian talent Clara D is our guest this week with a two-hour sonic trip exploring her wide range of influences, from deep techno folds to ambient-leaning divagations, through sleek textured dubs and groovy escapology. Relying on a minimal palette but extrapolating it to dazzling effect, Clara serves up a thoughtful mosaic of varying BPMs and further boundary-pushing loiterings, shifting paradigms and tempi with cloudless, demiurgic vision. Her refined mixing skills and impeccable taste make for a deep, soul-fulfilling voyage, woven around hypnotic textures and just as elegantly mesmerizing rhythms.  

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.  

A new name to the scene on the cusp of big moves, Amsterdam’s 393AD punches in our weekly podcast series with a vengeance. Treating us to two hours of unrelenting kick and snare-powered assault, the Dutch producer leaves no stone unturned in his quest for the deadliest groove. Having recently gained momentum through a pair of records for Full Range Motion that went right for the jugular, the Amsterdam whiz continues his ascension unbothered, delivering yet another fine example of his abrasive and extremely dynamic style. Spirited material laid down with veteran expertise, it's 393AD inbound with the cyclonic frenzy. Don’t sleep.  

As we move closer to our third ever Saüle takeover on April 30, this week’s podcast comes courtesy of Dutch DJ Julie, who’ll be helming the decks alongside Costanza and fellow RYC alums Hitam and Ruben Ganev. Bringing her deft touch for agile techno cavalcades and deeply immersive buildups, Julie gives us a glimpse of the night to come: a set rife with hi-octane rollers and more intimate aesthetics, consistently complex and gripping throughout two hours spanning deep-diving dubs, post-industrial abstraction and further leftfield-oriented sonics. A much compelling peek into Julie's vibrant headspace, this mix shall give future attendees a taste of the storm to come, and absentees something to bite into.  

Actively pushing back the borders of techno language for the past fifteen years, German DJ and producer Thomas Hessler chose to relocate to Tbilisi, Georgia a few years ago and given the current state of the local scene, there is little wonder why. Tireless provider of equally hard-hitting and cerebral grooves that have taken him to play the best stages out there including Berghain, Fabric, Bassiani and Tresor, Hessler’s name has become synonymous with stunt-filled, hi-octane sets and productions that operate in the gap between kevlar-coated payload, mind-bending loops and raging sub-bass drive. Expect a fiery, laser-precise deluge of ultra-dynamic psychedelia and rattling machine funk. No surrender.

All the way from Colombia, Zemög turns up in our weekly podcast series with a vengeance. Explosive and sharp, this two-hour salvo summons a versatile array of floor-busting ordnance: from acid-soaked heaters to atmospheric escapology, through proto-techno chuggers and non-formulaic, abstract-leaning grooves. Boasting a deft hand for these full-immersion sorties into techno deep space, this mix swings the pendulum betwixt laser-like engineering and eerily synthetic emotion, beckoning us onto the path of total subjugation in a near-somnambular state. Channeling energies and brainwaves like a puppeteer, here’s Zemög with the trance-inducing hoodoo. Don’t sleep.  

Punching in with a two-hour round of deep sonic immersion, Rome-via-Berlin up-and-comer Costanza steps in to serve up a glimpse of her highly eclectic, boundary-pushing artistic headspace. Operating at the confines of atmospheric techno and further leftfield-leaning electronics, Costanza has been laying the foundation to a rivetingly profound body of work, extrapolating the functional requirements of dance floor maneuvering into the realm of pure sound-borne elevation. A true herald of techno quality expressing herself through stripped-down introspective pieces, here she goes with a deep, mesmeric dive into her ominous and highly intoxicating soundscapes. Blast it out loud.  

Up this week in our podcast series, Argentinian DJ and producer Pulso steps up with a two-hour ride spanning dark, brooding floor material and verbed-out oddities. Championing a sound both unremittingly abrasive and truly hypnotic, sitting at the junction of hard-hitting big room ballistics and abstract-leaning dub groovers, Pulso dishes out a masterclass in trippy, pulsating sonic tapestries. Wild rhythms and sci-fi-informed atmospheres coalesce in a furnace-hot environment, all set at triggering off the crowd’s most buried raving instincts. Expect a suspenseful workout of a set, rife with massive twists and turns. Fiery!  

Hailing from the lands of ‘Nordic swamp psychedelica’ as he likes to call it, Finnish DJ and producer Kaspiann fractures his way into our weekly podcast series with a special hour-and-a-half-long sonic rodeo spanning frosted hi-tech minimalistic architectures, playful polyrhythmic debauchery and further genre-unbound incursions into icy proto-futuristic territories. Unleashing a vibrant outpour of experimental-leaning rollers, jagged zero-G maneuvers and straight out effusive dubs from down deep, Kaspiann beckons us on the path of sheer multi-sensory abandon and inescapable full body & soul immersion throughout. Expect a deluge of heavily textured envelopes, polychromatic fractals and tribal folk-informed percussive hoodoo to wrap your ears around at various tempi and in various configurations. Monster versatility, monster execution, monster impact.  

This week’s guest in our podcast series is Australian-born / London-based Zara, a name that’s been making waves in the underground UK techno scene and now graces us with her debut two-hour RYC mix. A versatile juggler of styles and tempi, Zara dishes out a multi-faceted set spanning jagged hi-tech grooves, faux-organic downtempo ambiences and further cross-pollinated dubs from outer space. Never quite limiting herself to straitjacketed protocols, the Kinesis Recordings boss pulls out a wealth of unsuspected moves and maneuvers, blurring the line constantly between club adaptation and non-formulaic musical detours bordering on experimental and leftfield. The result is a mix that hums and throbs like nothing else, a proper sound UFO if you prefer, rebellious by nature and rogue by necessity. Beware, shockwave coming in hot.  

Irish DJ and producer Mode_1 is our guest this week with a two-hour sonic cruise running the gamut from psychedelic post-industrial soundscapes to stripped-down brutalist grooves. Cutting a path of destruction across the dance floor, this mix is designed to have all ravers’ adrenaline levels topped out as they wait for the next bar’s own idiosyncratic thrill with blind obedience. Championing a sound both clinically crisp and entrancingly dynamic, Mode_1 is your guide for a deep dive across fractured 4x4 atmospheres and effervescing peak-time jousts. Leaving no stone unturned in his quest for the most hair-raising crescendo, there goes the Dublin whiz firing on all cylinders, ready to buckle knees by the dozen.  

Queens-based DJ and Volnost resident Clarisa Kimskii takes the helm this week with two hours of proper mind-expanding wares, acid-drenched psychedelia and rugged, industrial-informed grooves. Known for her intrepid sonic journeys and hi-impact blends, the US artist takes us on a bumpy ride fusing hi-octane big room momenti, aesthetic style clash and proper eruptive floor combustion. Hold onto your seats and hunch your shoulders. Acceleration is happening, takeoff is imminent.  

Serial havoc-wreaker Amotik punches in this week with a hi-velocity two-hour round running the gamut from mind-expanding minimalism to claustrophobic dubs onto proper heavy-duty, industrial-informed big room wares. Unleashing wave after wave of unrelenting synth undulations and clinical basswork that'll send shivers down your spine, his set is pure techno NRG in a bottle. Ease yourself into Amotik's shape-shifting cyclonic architectures and doomed hi-tech atmospheres, the ride ahead ticks all the boxes of an entrancingly memorable sonic voyage. Lock in and lift off.  

Swinging by with her debut RYC transmission this week is Giegling affiliate and Blitz resident jockey Yamour, a DJ who blends the finest of classic Chicago house joints with Detroit style churners to decisively compelling effect. Showing a particularly deft hand for building soulful sonic narratives with a truly hypnotic edge to them, Yamour digs far and deep into heritage grooves and newly released heaters to form her own floor-focussed musical alphabet, bridging hypnagogic house, eclectic machine funk and muscular techno dubs throughout complex, intricately woven tableaux. Never quite where you’d expect to find her at, cutting her own singular path away from formulaic criterions and run-of-the-mill genre-boundness. A joy to hear from start to finish, Yamour’s versatility blazes with every bar and every beat, writing its own idiosyncratic chapter in the big book of electronic music with unparalleled swagger and chemistry. Hectic.  

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-wreak...

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.  

A sonic explorer connecting the dots between spaced-out abstraction and trippy techno sorties, Shoal has been cruising the scene’s hyperspace for the past ten years with his eyes set on a new horizon of musical possibilities, eager to clear the ground for further audacious expeditions in the uncharted nooks and crannies of atmospheric electronics. Combining spacious and layered envelopes with finely textured, FX-soaked membranes of sound and forward-rushing dynamics, Shoal beckons us on the path of fearless time and space traveling through sound. Immersive and uncompromising, his present mix takes us on a bumpy ride across alien-engineered megastructures and subterranean drifts, in search for the unheard ore concealed at the heart of techno’s paling mainstream veinstone.  

For the past decade, Rhyw has been trading monster floor twisters, inherently bold and inch-perfectly engineered to whip up crowds into a frenzy with its UK bass-y chassis and post-industrial bodywork. Blending in rugged percussion with hard steel machine funk and hip-swaying grooves, the Fever AM co-founder keeps on carving out a lane truly his own in today’s oft tepid techno landscape. Aiming to trigger off yet unfelt sensations amongst ravers, Rhyw puts together mixes that defy gravity and genre-bound limitations, sculpting momentums and harnessing the crowd’s NRG like no one else. Sweeping his wide spectrum of influences, from two-step rhythms and Garage culture to classic steely techno punch, through Latin-inflected swing and electroid propulsion, Rhyw’s RYC mix ushers us down a volcanic vent flush with the wildest floor pyrotechnics and straight slapping bursts of untamed audio synthesis. Fiery.  

Hailing from Sapporo, Japan, Occa is no typical big room DJ but a master acrobat in sound, expertly pushing the envelope of electronics as a transcending means of expression. Shifting gears constantly between conceptual abstraction and functional architecture, seeking effect in every move and sniffing out substance in any sine, Occa dwells his own sonic continuum, hermetic to stiff norms and creatively hampering conventions. Laser-like and seamless, be ready for a descent into a cyclonic tempest of FX-splattered loops and verbed-out tactile, nimbly moving the cursor between ominous dubs, hi-tech floor destroyers and experimental-leaning detours. A masterclass in sound design, boasting both impeccable curation and mind-bending construction thru and thru, it’s Occa taking over with one of this year’s most hair-raising highlights. HARD.  

Diving deeper into reverb-soaked environments and subterranean sonic strata, Berlin-based producer and ungesund co-founder Elias. graces us with a mix bound to have all listeners zone out in a flash. A bold explorer of hyper-textured fractals and submerged post-industrial atmospheres, Elias. embarks us on a trip down the infra-visible and infra-audible, into the heart of our world’s pulsating matter and across FX-coated membranes of sound. Getting ever closer to the organic throb of it all, we’re ushered through an in-limbo kind of headspace, sitting at the junction of proper floor entrancement and abstract-leaning escapology. Prepare for a sense-awakening plunge into a sonic realm seemingly bleached-out and tenebrous at first, yet incredibly vivid upon closer inspection. Mesmerising and deep as it gets.  

Championing a sound both entrancingly serene and deep-diving, Blazej Malinowski joins us for a two-hour journey across dubbed-out psychedelic folds and straightforward cinematic crescendos he holds the secret to. Through a string of hypnotic releases for the likes of Semantica, The Gods Planet, Kvalia and his own imprint, Inner Tension, the Polish DJ and producer has been minting a sound signature both impeccably fuel-efficient and immersive to the full. Seeking the meditative thrill of sensory entanglement through contrasting dynamic forces and melodic chiaroscuros, Malinowski treats us to a rivetingly evocative outpour of shape-shifting techno epics and sunken, reverb-drenched atmospherics spiraling in and out of focus. Expect a deluge of mazy, claustrophobic 4x4 corridors and further unhindered panoramas of layered, swelling synthesis. Wild.