Reclaim Your City

Actively pushing back the borders of techno language for the past fifteen years, German DJ and producer Thomas Hessler chose to relocate to Tbilisi, Georgia a few years ago and given the current state of the local scene, there is little wonder why. Tireless provider of equally hard-hitting and cerebral grooves that have taken him to play the best stages out there including Berghain, Fabric, Bassiani and Tresor, Hessler’s name has become synonymous with stunt-filled, hi-octane sets and productions that operate in the gap between kevlar-coated payload, mind-bending loops and raging sub-bass drive. Expect a fiery, laser-precise deluge of ultra-dynamic psychedelia and rattling machine funk. No surrender. soundcloud.com/thomas-hesslerberlin

All the way from Colombia, Zemög turns up in our weekly podcast series with a vengeance. Explosive and sharp, this two-hour salvo summons a versatile array of floor-busting ordnance: from acid-soaked heaters to atmospheric escapology, through proto-techno chuggers and non-formulaic, abstract-leaning grooves. Boasting a deft hand for these full-immersion sorties into techno deep space, this mix swings the pendulum betwixt laser-like engineering and eerily synthetic emotion, beckoning us onto the path of total subjugation in a near-somnambular state. Channeling energies and brainwaves like a puppeteer, here’s Zemög with the trance-inducing hoodoo. Don’t sleep. soundcloud.com/zemog0

Punching in with a two-hour round of deep sonic immersion, Rome-via-Berlin up-and-comer Costanza steps in to serve up a glimpse of her highly eclectic, boundary-pushing artistic headspace. Operating at the confines of atmospheric techno and further leftfield-leaning electronics, Costanza has been laying the foundation to a rivetingly profound body of work, extrapolating the functional requirements of dance floor maneuvering into the realm of pure sound-borne elevation. A true herald of techno quality expressing herself through stripped-down introspective pieces, here she goes with a deep, mesmeric dive into her ominous and highly intoxicating soundscapes. Blast it out loud. soundcloud.com/costanza-acernese

Up this week in our podcast series, Argentinian DJ and producer Pulso steps up with a two-hour ride spanning dark, brooding floor material and verbed-out oddities. Championing a sound both unremittingly abrasive and truly hypnotic, sitting at the junction of hard-hitting big room ballistics and abstract-leaning dub groovers, Pulso dishes out a masterclass in trippy, pulsating sonic tapestries. Wild rhythms and sci-fi-informed atmospheres coalesce in a furnace-hot environment, all set at triggering off the crowd’s most buried raving instincts. Expect a suspenseful workout of a set, rife with massive twists and turns. Fiery! soundcloud.com/pul_so

Hailing from the lands of ‘Nordic swamp psychedelica’ as he likes to call it, Finnish DJ and producer Kaspiann fractures his way into our weekly podcast series with a special hour-and-a-half-long sonic rodeo spanning frosted hi-tech minimalistic architectures, playful polyrhythmic debauchery and further genre-unbound incursions into icy proto-futuristic territories. Unleashing a vibrant outpour of experimental-leaning rollers, jagged zero-G maneuvers and straight out effusive dubs from down deep, Kaspiann beckons us on the path of sheer multi-sensory abandon and inescapable full body & soul immersion throughout. Expect a deluge of heavily textured envelopes, polychromatic fractals and tribal folk-informed percussive hoodoo to wrap your ears around at various tempi and in various configurations. Monster versatility, monster execution, monster impact. soundcloud.com/soundsofkaspiann

This week’s guest in our podcast series is Australian-born / London-based Zara, a name that’s been making waves in the underground UK techno scene and now graces us with her debut two-hour RYC mix. A versatile juggler of styles and tempi, Zara dishes out a multi-faceted set spanning jagged hi-tech grooves, faux-organic downtempo ambiences and further cross-pollinated dubs from outer space. Never quite limiting herself to straitjacketed protocols, the Kinesis Recordings boss pulls out a wealth of unsuspected moves and maneuvers, blurring the line constantly between club adaptation and non-formulaic musical detours bordering on experimental and leftfield. The result is a mix that hums and throbs like nothing else, a proper sound UFO if you prefer, rebellious by nature and rogue by necessity. Beware, shockwave coming in hot. soundcloud.com/zaraolsen

Irish DJ and producer Mode_1 is our guest this week with a two-hour sonic cruise running the gamut from psychedelic post-industrial soundscapes to stripped-down brutalist grooves. Cutting a path of destruction across the dance floor, this mix is designed to have all ravers’ adrenaline levels topped out as they wait for the next bar’s own idiosyncratic thrill with blind obedience. Championing a sound both clinically crisp and entrancingly dynamic, Mode_1 is your guide for a deep dive across fractured 4x4 atmospheres and effervescing peak-time jousts. Leaving no stone unturned in his quest for the most hair-raising crescendo, there goes the Dublin whiz firing on all cylinders, ready to buckle knees by the dozen. soundcloud.com/mode_1

Queens-based DJ and Volnost resident Clarisa Kimskii takes the helm this week with two hours of proper mind-expanding wares, acid-drenched psychedelia and rugged, industrial-informed grooves. Known for her intrepid sonic journeys and hi-impact blends, the US artist takes us on a bumpy ride fusing hi-octane big room momenti, aesthetic style clash and proper eruptive floor combustion. Hold onto your seats and hunch your shoulders. Acceleration is happening, takeoff is imminent. soundcloud.com/kimskii

Serial havoc-wreaker Amotik punches in this week with a hi-velocity two-hour round running the gamut from mind-expanding minimalism to claustrophobic dubs onto proper heavy-duty, industrial-informed big room wares. Unleashing wave after wave of unrelenting synth undulations and clinical basswork that'll send shivers down your spine, his set is pure techno NRG in a bottle. Ease yourself into Amotik's shape-shifting cyclonic architectures and doomed hi-tech atmospheres, the ride ahead ticks all the boxes of an entrancingly memorable sonic voyage. Lock in and lift off. soundcloud.com/amotikmusic

Swinging by with her debut RYC transmission this week is Giegling affiliate and Blitz resident jockey Yamour, a DJ who blends the finest of classic Chicago house joints with Detroit style churners to decisively compelling effect. Showing a particularly deft hand for building soulful sonic narratives with a truly hypnotic edge to them, Yamour digs far and deep into heritage grooves and newly released heaters to form her own floor-focussed musical alphabet, bridging hypnagogic house, eclectic machine funk and muscular techno dubs throughout complex, intricately woven tableaux. Never quite where you’d expect to find her at, cutting her own singular path away from formulaic criterions and run-of-the-mill genre-boundness. A joy to hear from start to finish, Yamour’s versatility blazes with every bar and every beat, writing its own idiosyncratic chapter in the big book of electronic music with unparalleled swagger and chemistry. Hectic. soundcloud.com/yamour030

Up this week is FUSE resident DJ and Phaaar label owner Phara treating us to a whirlwind of gusty minimal groovers and relentless big-room punchers. With a solid bunch of quality records on the likes of Token, Soma or SK_Eleven under his belt, the Brussels-based DJ and producer delivers a two-hour mix right in line with his signature stripped-down floor mystique and deadeye, hi-velocity style behind the decks. Running the gamut from strapping, 909-fuelled pound to choppy dubbed-out swells, via jagged prog-technoid momentums and acid-informed psychedelia, Phara’s mix is a vibrantly trippy, inch-perfectly engineered ode to techno’s dual essence, combining spontaneous combustion with future-facing innovation to riveting effect. Saddle up and brace yourself for this incoming number shall leave you gasping for air. soundcloud.com/phara-6

Herald of a darker, more opaque style of deep-diving techno music, RYC alum Ruben Ganev (he's got a debut solo transmission on the way but shhhh) punches in with his second podcast for us. Dwelling the frontier betwixt sunken dub mechanisms and full-immersion atmospheric industrialism, Ganev pulls the strings to a fascinating shadow play rife with textured analogue stunts, verbed-out hoodoo and hair-raising crescendos out a cinematic tale. Continually slacklining between faux-organic sound membranes, laser precise scape-sculpting and haunted brutalist architectonics, his set maintains a complex equilibrium throughout, vibrating with suspenseful constructions and unsuspected developments that’ll keep you on your toes through the whole of this shape-shifting journey. soundcloud.com/rbngnv

Who better than the man, the legend Ben Sims to get 2026 rolling in proper spectacular and ever thought-provoking fashion? As we’re slowly finding our feet into this odd new revolution ahead, the London legend clocks in with a most solid bunch of psychoactive wares and chiseled big-room pumpers bound to have you enter flow state from first minute to last. Channeling the hard-boiled NRG of his prime and trusted grit of today’s self, Sims has us surfing a massive comber of fractalized uptempo motifs, raging machine funk and ruthless, iron-clad grooves. Having lost nothing of his boundary-pushing verve and floor-harnessing savor faire, the UK born-and-raised maestro dishes out a fiery two-hour buffet of unstoppable hi-tech rollers and no-surrender material that pledges to reunite 90s heyday buffs, hardcore purists and techno newcomers alike. Slapping and banging ride all the way, with all best wishes from RYC and co. soundcloud.com/ben-sims

Clocking in for our last round of the year, and ready to shut 2025 off on a proper high note, here comes SPE:C, Reef and Biofield boss Darwin with two hours of hi-velocity yet cerebral material for the heads. Loaded with the steel-hard fury of future-facing techno wares and breaks-informed combinations of sci-fi atmospheres, alien emotional spaces, and impactful weight in the low end, this mix makes for a proper sendoff party to 2025 so we transition from this long-ass year into the new one with renewed energy and focus. All in on the 4x4 and adjacent pumpers, bass-heavy depth charges and zero-G, dub-leaning stunts, the former Griessmuehle resident and habituée at some of the scene's most illustrious bastions - including our friends of Berghain and Bassiani - dishes out a mind-boggling set packing not just the most massive punch but also a deadeye accuracy in her mixing technique and pristine curation, sure to please lovers of fast-paced and hedonistically havoc-wreaking blends, fully zeroed in on bringing back the true pioneering spirit of techno to the fore. RUFFFFF. soundcloud.com/darwinspec

Championing a sound intrinsically deep and leaning towards lo-fi dub techno, St. Odes co-founder and Dial Records alum Ben Kaczor stops by to deliver his first ever RYC podcast. Laying down a mix rife with the slo-churning, micro house-esque jams and eerily contemplative boogie that’s come to define his style, Kaczor treats us to a two-hour jaunt into a fractured headspace, organic and synthetic at once, inhabited by odd creatures and ghostly silhouettes. Evocative and lush, his mix conjures up the most haunting reverb-drenched melodies and esoteric grooves to shape a uniquely engaging, cinematic voyage. Give in to this slo-evolving buildup of dusty ambiences and falsely serene harmonies, as they teem with the kind of held-in magnetic power and subjugating potential to get any crowd wading in a weird, awry sense of XTC. soundcloud.com/benkaczor

A sonic explorer connecting the dots between spaced-out abstraction and trippy techno sorties, Shoal has been cruising the scene’s hyperspace for the past ten years with his eyes set on a new horizon of musical possibilities, eager to clear the ground for further audacious expeditions in the uncharted nooks and crannies of atmospheric electronics. Combining spacious and layered envelopes with finely textured, FX-soaked membranes of sound and forward-rushing dynamics, Shoal beckons us on the path of fearless time and space traveling through sound. Immersive and uncompromising, his present mix takes us on a bumpy ride across alien-engineered megastructures and subterranean drifts, in search for the unheard ore concealed at the heart of techno’s paling mainstream veinstone. soundcloud.com/shoall

For the past decade, Rhyw has been trading monster floor twisters, inherently bold and inch-perfectly engineered to whip up crowds into a frenzy with its UK bass-y chassis and post-industrial bodywork. Blending in rugged percussion with hard steel machine funk and hip-swaying grooves, the Fever AM co-founder keeps on carving out a lane truly his own in today’s oft tepid techno landscape. Aiming to trigger off yet unfelt sensations amongst ravers, Rhyw puts together mixes that defy gravity and genre-bound limitations, sculpting momentums and harnessing the crowd’s NRG like no one else. Sweeping his wide spectrum of influences, from two-step rhythms and Garage culture to classic steely techno punch, through Latin-inflected swing and electroid propulsion, Rhyw’s RYC mix ushers us down a volcanic vent flush with the wildest floor pyrotechnics and straight slapping bursts of untamed audio synthesis. Fiery. soundcloud.com/rhyw

Hailing from Sapporo, Japan, Occa is no typical big room DJ but a master acrobat in sound, expertly pushing the envelope of electronics as a transcending means of expression. Shifting gears constantly between conceptual abstraction and functional architecture, seeking effect in every move and sniffing out substance in any sine, Occa dwells his own sonic continuum, hermetic to stiff norms and creatively hampering conventions. Laser-like and seamless, be ready for a descent into a cyclonic tempest of FX-splattered loops and verbed-out tactile, nimbly moving the cursor between ominous dubs, hi-tech floor destroyers and experimental-leaning detours. A masterclass in sound design, boasting both impeccable curation and mind-bending construction thru and thru, it’s Occa taking over with one of this year’s most hair-raising highlights. HARD. soundcloud.com/oooccaaa

Diving deeper into reverb-soaked environments and subterranean sonic strata, Berlin-based producer and ungesund co-founder Elias. graces us with a mix bound to have all listeners zone out in a flash. A bold explorer of hyper-textured fractals and submerged post-industrial atmospheres, Elias. embarks us on a trip down the infra-visible and infra-audible, into the heart of our world’s pulsating matter and across FX-coated membranes of sound. Getting ever closer to the organic throb of it all, we’re ushered through an in-limbo kind of headspace, sitting at the junction of proper floor entrancement and abstract-leaning escapology. Prepare for a sense-awakening plunge into a sonic realm seemingly bleached-out and tenebrous at first, yet incredibly vivid upon closer inspection. Mesmerising and deep as it gets. soundcloud.com/eliasartist

Championing a sound both entrancingly serene and deep-diving, Blazej Malinowski joins us for a two-hour journey across dubbed-out psychedelic folds and straightforward cinematic crescendos he holds the secret to. Through a string of hypnotic releases for the likes of Semantica, The Gods Planet, Kvalia and his own imprint, Inner Tension, the Polish DJ and producer has been minting a sound signature both impeccably fuel-efficient and immersive to the full. Seeking the meditative thrill of sensory entanglement through contrasting dynamic forces and melodic chiaroscuros, Malinowski treats us to a rivetingly evocative outpour of shape-shifting techno epics and sunken, reverb-drenched atmospherics spiraling in and out of focus. Expect a deluge of mazy, claustrophobic 4x4 corridors and further unhindered panoramas of layered, swelling synthesis. Wild. soundcloud.com/blazejmalinowskiofficial

Herald of a sound both punishingly jagged and haunted by the long heritage of Dutch industrial music, U.F.F. boss and Axis alum Kole Leijen aka DJ Surgeles steps in with a two hour mix reflecting his hard-boiled headspace, sprawling steely uptempo landscapes and further rapid-fire bursts of enslaving machine funk. Running the hoodoo down with masterly precision and undeniable flair, Kole amps up the pressure through a chiselled montage of titanium-coated big room wares, kaleidoscopic hi-tech motifs and abstract-leaning analogue techno stunts. Prime yourself for a wild ride across metamorphic, future-proof atmospheres and whirring fractals of sound. soundcloud.com/dj-surgeles

This week we’re blessed to welcome a true legend of the techno game with Rolando taking over RYC waves for a two-hour jaunt into otherworldly floor narratives and lushly-forested sonic landscapes. Now operating out of Edinburgh, the former Underground Resistance member - forever associated with the timeless classic ‘Knights of the Jaguar’ - has laid the foundation to a ceaselessly compelling body of work, including key releases on Ostgut Ton, Delsin and his own imprint, R3. Championing a sound most entrancingly dynamic, largely informed by groove, jazz and Latin percussions, Rolando graces us with a mix that combines the finest of his signature mystic-imbued vision and sixth sense for crafting some of the most memorable club experiences to be had. Tapping in his love for polyamorous Detroit techno and house combinations, mostly leaning into the more soulful side of his hometown’s heritage rather than the industrial edge, Rolando embarks us on a ride across shape-shifting technoid boogie reliefs and further uncharted routes. Brace yourselves for some of the lushest, most immersive and distinctive techno heroics around. soundcloud.com/rolando000

Bringing this month of Clone-ruled brilliance to a closure, legendary German act The Exaltics treat us to a face-melting avalanche of abrasive kick-n-snare-heavy assault and future-proof sound engineering. Championing that no-surrender electro pulse and the same acid-soaked dystopian atmospheres that innervate their whole discography, the two-hour set here presented showcases the uncompromising nature of The Exaltics sound: both rugged to the core and infinitely complex in its musical phrasing. The result is a highly corrosive and equally dynamic mosaic of paced-up fragments, polychromatic ambiences and that signature in-your-face punch wrapped in a post-apocalyptic cinematic envelope. Steel yourself for liftoff. soundcloud.com/the-exaltics

Third artist to grace us in this Clone-curated month of October, The Hague’s one-and-only analogue wizard Legowelt surfaces with a mix sprawling from esoteric proto-techno to hallucinogenic electro, via trance-infused dreamscapes, eerie pop and mystique-imbued downtempo. As the true master of the synths he is, Legowelt has us traveling far and deep into a layered multiverse of dazzling hardware stutter and iridescent machine funk out a frizzling, VHS-supported headspace. Effusively vivid and durably haunting 8-bit-informed tapestries succeed through this glitchy maze of fractured tempi and vectorial stunts, cascading seamlessly as Legowelt pulls off yet another magnetic expression of retro-laced granularity and enhanced organic synthesis. Mythical. soundcloud.com/legowelt-official

Taking the helm for the second number in Clone’s October takeover, here goes the mastermind himself, Serge with an ever epic selection of hard-nosed bangers and boundary-pushing ordnance. Having built an absolute monument to electronic music in the broadest, most widely eclectic sense of the term, Serge remains a driving force without equivalent both within and well beyond the borders of Netherlands. His much anticipated mix for RYC attests to the evergreen quality of his selections and precision of his mixing, diving deep into his own label’s catalogue and like-minded repertoires to once again deliver the most compelling club-destroying transmission you could think of. Expect torrents of acid-drenched psychedelia, rough-hewn analogue bursts, cutting-edge slices and laser-precise groovers on a post-industrial tip. BEEG. soundcloud.com/sergeclone

Brace yourselves for a breakneck ride this month as our longtime friends and distributor Clone hijack RYC frequencies with a massive takeover for the whole month of October. Breaking this four-part installment in, Amsterdam’s Afra cuts in with two-hours of old-school Detroit electro vibrations, hi-velocity breaks and future-facing floor narratives beckoning us onto a whole distinct dimension entirely. All in finessed vortical dynamics and rapid-fire bass deluge, the Dutch DJ pulls out an absolute charge of a chiseled and finely-curated mix, locked-and-loaded on having ravers lose their mind to this effervescing fusion of frantic sci-fi-like atmosphere and proper nuclear propulsion. Buckle your belt. soundcloud.com/aframusic