Mixes on repeat this week: August 31, 2026
Sanna Mun
Sanna Mun treats techno as a continuation of much older ritual: a background in archaeology and esotericism, a label named for the descent into the underworld, and a debut EP built from Pythagoras. She recites Dante over dub on a single called Inferno. HATE 502 runs bare to atmospheric to driving, contemporary records set over much older forms.
HATE Podcast 502Ferdinger
I'd recommend 703 of Slam's Glasgow series on the strength of its detail alone: high-energy throughout, 90s timbres against modern processing, rhythms evolving over a fixed frame. The Paris-based German runs Life In Patterns and has put records through ARTS, BCCO and Marcel Fengler's Index, and the drive holds from the first record to the last.
#SlamRadio 703Flug
Flug's two decades run through this one mix: HATE 501 is him mapping his own range across dub techno, modern minimal and old classic forms, most of it unreleased and all of it cut in his own studio. Barcelona-based, a label of his own in Existentia, and the low end does the arguing, kicks landing dense with the basslines packed tight behind them.
HATE Podcast 501Ma Haiping
Ma Haiping runs the Detroit lineage in both directions: the first Chinese artist to reach a Detroit techno label, later released on Jeff Mills' Axis, making sci-fi techno out of Shanghai in the Underground Resistance and Drexciya line. His grooves are pared to their working parts. In Denver he opened for Perc and built the tension slowly, keeping the room locked while it breathes.
Tekunomama DenverElli Acula
Elli Acula builds rave records from unlikely material: field recordings of jets breaking the sound barrier, and her own voice cut into the tracks. The Berlin artist runs a hard-hitting kick under glitched vocal cuts and a nasty synth line, with breakbeats loaded into the back half. At Aquasella she had the Open Air, pure techno under the Asturian sky.
Aquasella Festival 2026Kameliia
HATE 498 argues that driving techno can stay melancholic all the way down: Kameliia's own unreleased tracks, abstract textures, sub-bass rolling under percussion saturated to the point of blur. The Bulgarian-born, Oslo-based producer was a professional runner before she made records, and the mileage simply moved onto a dancefloor. We count that.
HATE Podcast 498