Reclaim Your City

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!