Reclaim Your City 590 | Uväll (Tbilisi)Hailing from Tbilisi, Georgia, Uväll epitomizes his hometown's fearless approach towards quality club music. Pushing sounds that transcend the mere scope of techno per se, Uväll's blends stretch from no-nonsense gridlocked firepower onto off-piste digressions into brooding atmospherics and further heavy-duty e…

Reclaim Your City 589 | Cressida (London)Perhaps one of techno’s best kept secrets these days, London born-and-raised groove manipulator Cressida isn’t your typical merchant of quality 4x4 smack. His sound, nurtured on a variety of genres and approaches - from jungle to grime and dubstep (which he keeps on repping through his mixes), flexes a diffe…

Reclaim Your City 588 | Dustin Zahn (Berlin)Active since the turn of the millennium, Wisconsin-born / Berlin-based DJ and producer Dustin Zahn has been trading some of the most consistently powerful techno blends over the past twenty years. Incisive and empowering, his sound epitomizes the perfect balance between strenuous, big-room-focussed wares …

Reclaim Your City 587 | Philippa Pacho (Berlin)Born in Sweden but operating out of Berlin, Philippa Pacho has been making waves in the scene as of late, notably amassing a stream of incendiary performances at some of the world’s finest (and most demanding) clubs, including Bassiani and Fuse. Herald of a fast-paced, no-surrender type of DJing, all e…

Reclaim Your City 586 | Sev Dah (Helsingborg)Bosnian-born, Sweden-based producer and jockey Sev Dah has been carving a niche truly personal and distinctive into techno’s growingly standardized on and off-stage realm. Boss of his own imprint, Proletarijat, with releases for Mote-Evolver, Random Island or K S R under his belt, Sev has been pushing wa…

Reclaim Your City 585 | Roseen (Berlin)Inbound with a mental two-hour ride down the darker end of the techno spectrum, Berlin’s Roseen makes his debut in the RYC podcast series with a hair-raising smorgasbord of industrial-informed grooves and no-prisoner, 909-fuelled pound. All in on the heavy-duty, warehouse-busting ordnance, Roseen treats us to …

Reclaim Your City 584 | Pushmann (Zaragoza)March will have given Spain a pretty solid close-up with three artists involved, and here is Pushmann rounding the month off with a cutting-edge finale. Muscling in with that trademark hypnotic approach of his, the Axis, Soma and Symbolism alum propels us headfirst into a maelstrom of hi-velocity programmi…

Reclaim Your City 583 | ORBE (Madrid)In less than a decade of total devotion to DJing and production, Spanish artist Orbe has dropped more material than some shall ever dream of putting out in a lifetime. Obviously not just quantity, but quality at that, as dispensed through key techno imprints of our age including Axis, Token, Mote-Evolver, Semant…

Reclaim Your City 582 | Anika Kunst (Barcelona)Pulling out the heavy floor artillery on the next round of our podcast series, here comes Spanish talent and Chapter Rcrds boss Anika Kunst. Known for her highly energetic and uncompromising productions, which have graced the likes of Rekids and Symbolism, Anika steps in with a two-hour mind boggler of…

Reclaim Your City 581 | Takaaki Itoh (Sendai)Active for nearly three decades, Japanese DJ and producer Takaaki Itoh has been carving out a niche truly his own in the realm of deep techno. Pumping out multi-sensory DJ tools for breakfast, Itoh champions a sound highly dynamic yet infused with the kind of minute textural work and layers of modular co…

Reclaim Your City 580 | Chami (Berlin)Some will be familiar and some won’t be just yet, but one thing is certain, Chami should be on your radar. A spectacularly dextrous groove manipulator in his own right, the Berlin-based jockey has been harnessing some fierce dance floor moments over at the world’s most well-known club (guess which, it starts wi…

Reclaim Your City 579 | Ketch (Tuscany)Co-head of SYXT and Glukkon Records, Romania-born artist Ketch steps in the series with two hours of full-fledged big-room-oriented dynamics. Combining the dark and brute side of steely industrial music with that of more deep-minded electronics, halfway dub immersion and further left-field acid eccentricities,…

Reclaim Your City 578 | Cecilia Tosh (Berlin)Emerging DJ and producer Cecilia Tosh has a keen ear for sleek and streamlined sonic combinations. Her sets, just as much as her own compositions, are testaments to her love for well-oiled structures and engineerings. A regular of Tresor, where she’s learned to hone her skills and precision, Tosh deliver…

Reclaim Your City 577 | Zadig (Paris)Continually pushing the boundaries between plain DJ-friendly functionality and abstract-leaning tendencies, Parisian producer Zadig has carved a niche for himself at the forefront of the European techno scene thanks to his quality-driven approach and keenness to explore the uncharted. Boss of the ever future-fac…

Reclaim Your City 576 | Dold (Stockholm)One of Sweden’s most monitored prospects within the techno realm, Dold has been making waves thanks to a stream of boundary-pushing rippers for the likes of KEY, Float, MindTrip and his Arsenik label this past couple of years. Adding his playful spin to the gridlocked tech continuum, Dold - real name Patrik E…

Reclaim Your City 575 | Windfuhr (Berlin)A rising name in Berlin’s ever crowded pool of talents, Eerste Communie resident Windfuhr has been developing his own idiosyncratic persona at the junction of heavy-traction 4x4 rhythms and deep, hypnotic folds of intricate melodies and exotica-laced electronics. Minimal in essence but maximal in effect, his…

Reclaim Your City 574 | Lewis Fautzi (Barcelos)An habitué of seminal techno labels such as Rotterdamian outlet Mord Records and Spanish imprint PoleGroup, Portuguese producer Lewis Fautzi has been dishing out warehouse rippers one after the other this past decade. Now at the helm of his own structure, Faut Section, Fautzi keeps on serving up that f…

Reclaim Your City 573 | Sandrien (Amsterdam)A key exponent of Amsterdam’s techno scene, Sandrien definitely counts as one of the finest jockeys around. A gifted selector and just as skilled groove manipulator, she has been a constant in a world full of variables, quietly making it to the top of the game thanks to her impeccably crafted sets, both a…

Reclaim Your City 572 | .VRILKicking off the year under the best auspices, here comes a threat of a mix from German producer Vril. Known for his nostalgia-soaked strain of big-room techno and impeccably textured audio trips, the Giegling and Delsin stalwart lays down a proper magnetic hour-and-a-half of floor-focussed dynamics, packing the very typ…

Reclaim Your City 571 | Rrose (London)Ho ho ho, the mystery-shrouded Rrose - named after Marcel Duchamp’s eponymous persona, punches in right on cue for Xmas with an absolute monster of a two-hour jaunt into their exquisitely twisted headspace. Having served up some of the finest techno slabs of the past decade through the likes of Sandwell Distric…

Reclaim Your City 570 | HVL (Tbilisi)Undoubtedly one of today’s most gifted visionaries of the electronic scene, Bassiani’s beloved resident HVL has to be one of the best-kept secrets. But for how long? His sound sculptures, spanning everything ranging from kosmische-indebted downtempo to ethereal dub techno to murky, post-industrial ambient conjur…

Reclaim Your City 569 | Albert van Abbe (Eindhoven)A leading figure of vanguard electronics for well over the past two decades, Albert van Abbe is the epitome of a tireless, innovation-craving trailblazer, continually seeking to open new windows for the sound he loves. From early hardcore blasts to institutional commissions, evidence says there’s n…

Reclaim Your City 568 | Artefakt (Berlin)Ceaselessly pushing the boundaries between proper enslaving music for the mind and straight out incendiary floor dynamics bound to wreak havoc down the basement, Dutch production unit Artefakt counts as one of the country’s finest exponents of that sleek, hypnotic school of techno. Having carved out their ni…

Reclaim Your City 567 | Kai van Dongen (London)Revving up towards wider recognition the past couple of years, South Africa-born / London-based producer Kai van Dongen has been dishing out peak-time bangers one after the other in recent memory, including top-of-the-range floor-destroying weaponry on labels as diverse as Truncate, 1Ø Pills Mate and N…

Reclaim Your City 566 | Translate (Buenos Aires)Hailing from Buenos Aires, Argentina, Teo Pellegrino AKA Translate has been pushing some serious heat as of late, including prime heaters for the likes of Semantica, KEY, Axis, Edit Select, Nachtstrom Schallplatten and his own record label, SRIE. Cutting his lane at the fringe of iron-fisted industria…