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 ZEMENT