Reclaim Your City

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.