Mixes on repeat this week
Simone de Kunovich
Recorded live at Bassiani's anniversary last October, this is Simone de Kunovich at his most expansive: three hours on the Tbilisi club's Horoom floor, patient and rolling, warm from the first record to the last.
The Milanese DJ makes elegant, melodic house with a cinematic streak, shaped by a lifelong love of old film scores. Here it turns feel-good and funky, the work of a stylist with all night to fill.
Bassiani Podcast #296Jamie Bissmire
Jamie Bissmire has spent thirty years finding corners of techno no one else had touched, working entirely in analogue, no digital in the chain, mixing down live and chasing mood over polish. What happens between the sounds, he'll tell you, matters as much as the sounds.
It's raw, hypnotic, full of the soul the modern grid tends to lose. Here it turns as dark as it gets: a dystopian, all-vinyl hour for the Gekiga podcast that never once eases off.
Gekiga Podcast EP 29Hannah Addams
Hannah Addams deals in raw, hypnotic techno pitched at the after-hours, dark, acid-tinged, and utterly relentless. No soft moments, no downs, just an unbroken drive sharpened across years of Berlin nights and heavy sound systems.
The Spanish-born, Berlin-based producer takes it home here, recorded at the Skool barraca during Alicante's Hogueras festival.
Hannah Addams @ Barraca Skool - Hogueras 26Cirkle
Cirkle treats techno less as a genre than as a language of tension and release. Spare and hypnotic, kinetic and electric, his sound reconciles the old school with the futuristic and, at its height, carries a room close to ecstasy. It has made him one of the scene's most quietly distinctive voices, and a fixture on his peers' tracklists.
Enjoy this mix from Los Angeles's Dirty Epic: an hour-long distillation of everything he does, held in balance between introspection and peak-time drive.
Amplify Series 142co:co
There's a spell to a co:co set. The Hamburg DJ works old-school grooves and tribal percussion into a single hypnotic pull, playful and rough by turns, her pulsing basslines and restless drums carrying a room, hour by hour, toward euphoria.
She brings it to ZEMENT here, the Berlin party and podcast devoted to techno and hardgroove, live at Tresor.
Honiggroove at Tresor for ZEMENTThe carousel
Sources
Simone de Kunovich (alias SDK; Italian, Milan; he/him) — https://ra.co/dj/simonedekunovich/biography + https://ra.co/dj/simonedekunovich + https://soundcloud.com/simonedekunovich + the Bassiani set page + https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bassiani, verbatim: - Sound: "a flamboyant blend of Deep and Tech House" / "an accessible yet sophisticated high-powered DJ style" (RA); "a house aficionado, spanning everything from deep to tech house and weirder avant-garde inflections, with his work influenced by 60/70s avant-garde cinema soundtracks" (Bassiani/Podchaser). - "currently works from his home studio in Milan"; nationality "Italy" (RA). Residencies: "hold residencies for Love On The Rocks (Berlin), Public Records (NYC) and Mihn (Hong Kong)." Labels: Mule Musiq, Superconscious, Safe Trip, Public Possession. - The set: "Bassiani Podcast 296 is a three hour edition from the Horoom floor, packed with bouncing baselines and saccharine tunes… feel-good house from an Italian master recorded live at Bassiani's anniversary back in October" — plus "a patient assemblage, rolling and funky through and through" (the Bassiani/Podchaser set description; the anniversary/October + rolling/funky/feel-good lines added to the slide from Shiwei-provided press material, paraphrased not lifted). Bassiani = "a nightclub in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. Founded in 2014" (Horoom = its upstairs room). - GENRE: deep/tech HOUSE, NOT techno (kicker = "House" per Shiwei). Our DB tags on him (hard/industrial/raw techno, ev 187) are a DATA ERROR — no primary source supports them; should be re-tagged house. NOT claimed: birthplace within Italy; named supporters; any BPM. Avatar = his SC profile (DB has none). "Bassiani invites Simone de kunovich" — set title lowercases his surname; slide uses "Simone de Kunovich".
Jamie Bissmire (Hornsey / North London; he/him) — bio provided by Shiwei (the Gekiga "Legends Edition" description) + https://ra.co/dj/jamiebissmire/biography + http://deathtechno.com/artists/jamie-bissmire/ + https://www.last.fm/music/Jamie+Bissmire, verbatim: - "Origin: Hornsey, North London, UK"; "Active Period: Since 1991 to present" (~three decades). - Bandulu (co-founded 1991): "Bissmire first unleashed Bandulu and The Thunderground in 1991"; "Mixing dub reggae sound ethics into Detroit techno and electro" (basis for "dub, Detroit, and electro"). - Space DJz (with Ben Long): the high-energy "four-deck, two-mixer" DJ format (Shiwei's bio); RA (Space DJz) "Members: Ben Long and Jamie Bissmire." - Own labels: "In 2004 Jamie Bissmire launched his label 50Hz" + Ground + Foundation. - Sound (the slide now LEADS on this, per Shiwei): "Mixing dub reggae sound ethics into Detroit techno and electro" + "loose-limbed techno minimalism" / "off kilter mad sequences on strange looped timings" (RA https://ra.co/dj/jamiebissmire/biography); "a terrifyingly powerful techno strain which is totally his own… a jacking barrage" (DMC World, Sound 4 Youth EP); "hypnotic, yet enchanting and dreamy" + "wicked patterns, dark mood and relentless pressure" (NovaFuture, Analogue Ascension https://novafuture.blog/2024/09/08/jamie-bissmire-analogue-ascension-no-signal-records/); "sci-fi aesthetic with modular tones… trippy rhythms" (Death Techno, "Magic Squares"). → basis for the slide's "dub weight + Detroit soul, raw/jacking, off-kilter, hardware, hypnotic + relentless." "dark" is sourced ("dark mood"); "dystopian" is Shiwei's mood framing (a fair read of the dark/sci-fi character; paraphrased, not lifted). - Interview — the slide's current philosophy angle (per Shiwei): https://palpebrae.com/in-conversation-with-jamie-bissmire/ — verbatim: "Techno is about mood and vibe, and what happens between the sounds is just as important as the sounds themselves"; "I find a lot of today's Techno, even though it's produced flawlessly, to be soulless"; setup is "all analogue—no digital in my music-making process at all" (mixed down live, no stems); his return picks up "where I left off with Ground, as I felt that was my personal sound." → basis for the slide's "mood over polish, all analogue / no digital, between the sounds, the soul the modern grid loses." Paraphrased, not lifted. - The set = an all-vinyl guest mix for Gekiga Podcast (underground-techno series on dss010101 / GKG Records); Shiwei's source frames it as the "first Gekiga Podcast: Legends Edition." - GENRE: Techno (every source; Last.fm tags "techno / hard techno"). Our DB tags him "House" (ev 7) — a DATA ERROR; should be Techno. NOT claimed: current base city (origin Hornsey sourced; current base inferred); Bandwidth/Sativae/direct-Drumcode links (unverified). Avatar = DB 35fc441c…, eyeball-verified.
Hannah Addams (he/him — real name Domingo Casanova; "Hannah Addams" is his stage name. The research agent assumed she/her; corrected to he/him 2026-07-05 per Shiwei.) — https://ra.co/dj/hannahaddams + https://moogbarcelona.com/en/dj/hannah-addams/ + https://illegalalienrecords.bandcamp.com/album/laboratory-story + https://www.elfest.es/en/valencia/places/clubs/barraca, verbatim: - Origin/base: RA fields "Spain (Born)" / "Germany (Based)"; "Berlin based artist." - "Founder of Casanova Bar Records" + "Co-Founder & Owner of Disconnekt, the iconic underground Techno Events in Berlin" (Moog Barcelona). - Release w/ nkx: "their brand new EP called 'Laboratory Story'" on Illegal Alien Records. - Sound (the slide now LEADS on this, per Shiwei): his own label's credo — "Raw, Hypnotic, Powerful and rolling grooves. No downs, but straight Techno… Playing with the patterns between a 4/4 kick and 5 or 7 or even 3/8 patterns on the bass line" (Casanova Bar, "Que no te eduquen, aprende!" EP CBR010 https://casanovabarberlin.bandcamp.com/album/que-no-te-eduquen-aprende-ep); hardware method "Recordings from the modular + 909" (Casanova Bar, "Donaldo") — NOTE: this is a per-track production note for "Donaldo" ONLY; it was pulled from the slide 2026-07-05 as an over-generalization (his general setup isn't sourced, and the featured item is a DJ mix, not a production); Beatport files his tracks "Techno (Peak Time / Driving)"; own-track tags "dark techno / acid / deep / hypnotic / mental techno" (BAHN, "Modular Talking"); "hypnotic techno in which several simultaneous arpeggios are dissociated from the rhythmic pattern" / "the most penetrating and darkest" (Industrial Complexx review); after-hours framing "1H de techno sombre en direct des afters de Berlin" (Trax Mag headline). → basis for the slide's "raw/hypnotic/relentless, dark + acid-tinged, modular + 909, odd-metre basslines under a 4/4 kick, after-hours." Also "Deeply inspired by Berlin's club culture, heavy sound systems" (Moog). - Region tie: RA "Regions most played" include "Alicante, ES" (Hogueras = the Alicante/Valencia Sant Joan bonfire festival, June). - VENUE — CORRECTED 2026-07-05. "Barraca Skool – Hogueras 26" is NOT the famous Valencia club Barraca (Sueca, 1965). In Alicante's Hogueras (the San Juan bonfire festival, June), "barracas" are the festival's party structures (Federación de Barracas de Alicante), and Skool is an Alicante techno club (https://ra.co/events/1823606, facebook.com/skool.city). So the set is Skool's barraca at Alicante's Hogueras 2026. The earlier slide line — "Barraca, the Valencian institution running since 1965 / one of Spain's foundational floors" — was a MISATTRIBUTION (wrong 'Barraca') and has been removed. Corroborating: RA lists Alicante among his most-played regions. - NOT claimed: the specific "Barraca Skool - Hogueras 26" set listing (only the SoundCloud title confirms it, user-supplied); "Domingo Casanova" as a legal birth name (RA lists it as real name + Moog says "aka", but relationship unexplained); any BPM/tempo number.
Cirkle (alias Ioel; Athens, Greece; he/him) — https://ra.co/dj/cirkle/biography + https://ra.co/dj/cirkle + https://sublunarrecords.bandcamp.com/album/sonic-surge + https://dirty-epic.com/category/podcast/, verbatim: - "Based in Athens, Greece" / "over 12 years of presence in the scene" (RA). - Labels "SKEleven, Sublunar, and Token" (+ Autonome, Float); "Sonic Surge" EP on Sublunar (2024, "curated by Sciahri"). Residencies: "Former resident at Six D.O.G.S. and EON in Athens." - Sound (the slide now LEADS on this, per Shiwei): production style — "a sparse sonic mixture of reverberated atmospheric pads, deep thudding kick drums, ostensibly hollow yet packed low end basslines and dynamic high hats that drive with a percussive ticking rhythm… spacious reverb and crisp distortion… push and pull… a delicate balance of physical movement and psychological inwards reflection"; "blend classic and modern techno elements… one of the most distinctive producers in the scene" (Shiwei-provided press material, paraphrased not lifted). Corroborated by Sublunar tags "deep/groovy/hypnotic/mental techno" + "a hypnotic journey driven by an unstoppable groove" and RA "balancing subtle introspection with peak-time functionality" / "futuristic, loop-driven soundscapes." The slide uses a LESS-technical vibe framing (per Shiwei): "minimalism collides with kinetic energy… electrifying dance floor chemistry… futuristic and the nostalgic… pays homage to old-school roots while driving the crowd into a state of ecstatic motion" (Shiwei-provided press, paraphrased) → basis for the slide's "minimalism + kinetic energy, hypnotic + electric, old-school-to-future, tips a floor into something close to ecstasy." The technical production detail above is retained as sourced backup, not on the slide. - Tracklists / support (basis for the slide's "his name keeps turning up on other artists' tracklists"): RA — "Played and supported by nearly every major figure in modern techno"; + Shiwei's note that his tracks are appearing across other DJs' tracklists. - Recognition: "Played and supported by nearly every major figure in modern techno"; opened for Speedy J. - Dirty Epic = an LA techno platform; its Amplify series = a global underground guest-mix podcast (past guests Silent Servant, Truncate). - GENRE: Hypnotic Techno (well-sourced). Dropped the DB "dub-techno" tag — no primary source supports it (hypnotic + deep are the sourced descriptors). NOT claimed: real/legal name (alias Ioel only); any BPM. Avatar = DB a52fb58e…, eyeball-checked.
