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Reclaim Your City

Reclaim Your City

Rotterdam-via-Berlin based outlet reuniting underground purveyors across the globe as they methodically scan and showcase various nerve centers from the techno Internationale.

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  • Monday · length unknown

    Reclaim Your City 711 | Joline Scheffler

    On the rise towards wider recognition and duly so, Swedish DJ and producer Joline Scheffler - whose path may cross that of RYC in other ways soon *wink wink* - has been making waves with her highly dynamic, exhilarating take on classic techno motifs, pushing grooves that bridge the gap betwixt entrancing cavalcades and more intimate sonic explorations. Dexterously swinging the pendulum from immersive 4x4-spoken poetics to verbed-out refraction, through more spacious, cosmic-leaning developments

  • August 24 · length unknown

    Reclaim Your City 710 | Nawaz

    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

  • August 17 · length unknown

    Reclaim Your City 709 | Wala

    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

  • August 10 · length unknown

    Reclaim Your City 708 | Sonhan

    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 heightene

  • August 3 · length unknown

    Reclaim Your City 707 | Phemia

    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 hav

  • July 27 · length unknown

    Reclaim Your City 706 | Fergus Sweetland

    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

  • July 22 · length unknown

    Reclaim Your City 705 | Dotdat

    Championing a sound both high-octane and propulsive, Dotdat has established himself as one of India's leading techno acts with releases for acclaimed international imprints including Symbolism, Truncate, KSR and more. Tapping in Goa's all-engulfing psychedelia, Dotdat pushes wild uptempo grooves that go straight for the crowd's jugular with its feverish mix of heavy-duty pound, hypnotic buildups and immersive tribal-esque patterns. An epic-sized, trance-inducing tapestry of frantic grooves and i

  • July 13 · length unknown

    Reclaim Your City 704 | Maemm

    Stepping up with two hours of entrancingly deep and immersive techno folds, emerging French DJ Maemm beckons us onto a riveting sonic voyage spanning dubbed-out scapes, eerie atmospheres and eruptive rhythmic interplays. Exploring the confines of polymorphic abstraction through reverb-soaked environments and shape-shifting architectonics, her mix pays tribute to the complex, transcendental nature of techno music. As she cuts a path of thought-provoking instruction with every bar, the groove rema

  • July 6 · length unknown

    Reclaim Your City 703 | Chontane

    Punching in this week, German-Ukrainian DJ and producer David Natochen alias Chontane storms our waves with two hours spanning über-dynamic grooves, choppy freqs, and further psychoactive uptempo sonics. Pulling out all the stops as he beckons us down the path of entranced abandon, Chontane puts on a wild parade of muscular kick drums, heavy-duty snares and fevered analogue bursts out a hair-raising sci-fi narrative. Expect a massive adrenaline rush at every junction, with every bar being a susp

  • June 29 · length unknown

    Reclaim Your City 702 | Rosati

    Championing a deeply inward-gazing, psychoactive strain of techno, Amsterdam-based Italian DJ and producer Rosati steps in the series with two hours spanning his largely cinematic, emotion-driven headspace. All in on the looped-out psychedelia and hypnosis-inducing ostinatos, Rosati’s sound is an ode to the narrative-building quality of pioneering techno, reaching for that cosmic depth and driven by the urge to create a utopian space for all to express and feel safe again. Whether it is at the h

  • June 22 · length unknown

    Reclaim Your City 701 | Esposito

    Expert in bass-heavy arsonism and heavily dubbed-out stunts, REEF resident Esposito clocks in with a most massive two-hour rollout of blazing riddims and stripped-down techno voodooism. Engineering a surgical mix of sub-fueled menace, steely horsepower and rattling drumwork on the prowl, Esposito has us submerged in an all-engulfing, woofer-busting blast of dub esotericism and prototypical UK bass assault. Dishing out a turbulent blend of aggressive machine funk, stormy breaks and liquid reverbs

  • June 17 · length unknown

    Reclaim Your City 700 | Dasha Rush

    A beautiful milestone to celebrate, our 700th number comes from an artist we've long been looking up to and whose cross-curricular approach matches that of RYC's scope-widening vista effortlessly. Whether you find her pushing the boundaries of techno solo, shifting angles and perspectives with LADA together with Lars Hemmerling, or steering crowds into ecstasy via her Berghain event series, Hunger to Create, Dasha Rush is the kind of artist who simply can't rest on her laurels, rather feeling th

  • June 8 · length unknown

    Reclaim Your City 699 | Mor Elian

    Protean and boundary-pushing, Mor Elian’s body of work proves frisky and unpindownable by nature. Tapping into the widest array of influences, from abstract techno groovers to jacking house reliefs, via acid-dripping bass and fiery polyrhythms, the Fever AM co-founder enters the melee with a two-hour sonic cruise sweeping incendiary club material and more introspective moments, seamlessly rolled into a gravity-defying floor narrative. Her sense of construction and maneuvering, deftly shifting ge

  • June 1 · length unknown

    Reclaim Your City 698 | Andy Martin

    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 h

  • May 25 · length unknown

    Reclaim Your City 697 | Clara D

    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 m

  • May 18 · length unknown

    Reclaim Your City 696 | SAMA

    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

  • May 11 · length unknown

    Reclaim Your City 695 | Obstructor

    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 ab

  • May 4 · length unknown

    Reclaim Your City 694 | Norman Nodge

    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 fu

  • April 27 · length unknown

    Reclaim Your City 693 | Audrey Danza

    Jumping onboard the RYC podcast series this week, Swiss-born, Berlin-based DJ and producer Audrey Danza steps up with a two-hour sonic feast fusing pure cross-dimensional propulsion with textured psychedelia, hi-intensity body jack and further afield tempi. Carving out a lane of her own through her record label, Proxima, where she experiments with eerie, esoteric electronics and more straightforward techno numbers, Audrey has cemented her position as one of the most unique and thrilling artists

  • April 20 · length unknown

    Reclaim Your City 692 | Function

    David Sumner, alias DMO, alias VEX, member of Regis’ seminal Sandwell District collective, belongs to this category of legendary producers who withstood the test of time with durably impressive poise. The man behind some of Ostgut Ton, Tresor, Sandwell District, Stoor and his own imprint, Infrastructure New York’s most enlightening releases, has been dishing out game-changing releases one after the other. Championing a sound that swings the pendulum between pure groove cerebrality and superior f

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