Over the past few years, German DJ Marie Montexier has built and
cemented her reputation as one of the finest groove merchants around,
gracing the stages of the most highly-regarded clubs and festivals out
there including Berghain, Fabric, De School and more. Her eclectic
selections tap into the broadest spectrum of rhythms and influences,
from tribal-informed electronics to straight out surgical indus-minded
payload onto breaksy delicacies, propulsive house NRG and jagged funk
from outer-space. Highly infectious, here goes an all vinyl mix fusing
wild dynamics with deadeye DJing accuracy, oozing unclouded raving joy
and out-and-out confidence. A no-miss delivery from a DJ in full
possession of her art.
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Reclaim Your City 649 | Atomic moog Live
True to their deep, widescreen approach to both production and
live-performing, Parisian outfit Atomic Moog clock in with a helluva
sleek and lushly relief’d mix, recorded on the occasion of their latest
live performance at Outre Bleu on March 29. Through their releases for
the likes of Delsin, Appian, Lowless or Monument, the French duo has
been carving a niche for itself at the fringes of the dubbed-out techno
tradition and abstract-leaning experimentality. This two-hour jaunt into
their reverb and delay-heavy imaginarium has us moving across narrow
corridors and cathedral-large spaces by turn, exploring the concept of
spatialization in dance music under a new, boundary-pushing light.
Through focal-shifting jumps between acid-drenched beds of rippling
analogue sine waves and sizzling machine circuitry, the constant angle
shifts from macro to micro tell a tale of vibrant sound research, not
quite picking a side between the dance floor’s sense of purpose and
genre-unbound, creative unintentionality.
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Reclaim Your City 648 | Eric Cloutier
Throughout the years, Detroit-born Berlin-based groove operator and
Tresor / Globus resident Eric Cloutier has been honing and refining his
palette as both a producer and a DJ. Not one to engage in dogmatic
restraint, Cloutier keeps developing his vision through carefully
curated selections and an equally impeccable mixing technique. Boasting
the variety and precision of his releases for his own imprint Palinoia,
the present mix was recorded live at The Chinese Laundry in Sydney last
year. Playing the main room open-to-close, Cloutier put together this
mix as an evolving story and, much like the crowd of that night which
proved highly receptive to the narrative, we hope this one will resonate
with you. A most exquisitely complex and deep-diving plunge into
Cloutier’s shape-shifting headspace, alternating heavyweight punch and
dubbed-out minimalism with swashes of textured membranes and
faux-organic, modular-like intricacies, this mix is as elusively
impossible to pigeonhole as it proves sophisticated in its design.
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Reclaim Your City 647 | Perfo
Berlin-based French DJ and producer Perfo is our guest this week with
a special two-hour round of cross-pollinated salvos and anti-normative
grooves. Having made a name for himself through a string of releases for
key imprints including MORD, 47 or Hayes Collective, Perfo serves up a
masterly executed set spanning the breadth of his adventurous scope and
clinical skillset. From faux-tribal polyrhythmic evocations to
future-facing hi-tech stunts, through nods to heavy-lidded machine funk
and the Detroit sound's trademark blend of rough-hewn firepower and
ebullient sensuality. Serious number.
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Reclaim Your City 646 | Setaoc Mass
Right on cue to support the release of his newest EP on SK_eleven,
here comes Manchester via Berlin's own Setaoc Mass with a banger of a
mix to break June in proper, pedal to the metal. Exponent of a sound
both intrinsically rugged yet layered to mind-altering effect, the
British producer has been dishing out unstoppable slices of hi-velocity
techno laced with a signature stripped-back, psychedelic edge. This new
RYC podcast doesn’t veer off from such a direction and we’re graced with
a two-hour mind trip boasting both bass-driven warehouse impact and an
elegantly-woven tapestry of abrasive grooves, leaning by turn towards
atmospheric elation and on other occasions pushing in the direction of
utter fibrous, steel-coated industrial pound. The result is a wilder
than wild ride down a smouldering pit of acid-washed hard hitters.
Brutal.
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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