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10 YEARS OF GLITCH 👾 Glitch Festival turns a decade old this August, and the programming clearly reflects a dedication to deliberate curation. Here are five pure techno plays you should have on your radar for Malta this summer. 1) Rødhåd — sharing a booth with Ben Klock at Glitch for the first time. Two artists whose histories are deeply woven into this festival’s ten-year identity, in a pairing that defines what this anniversary was built to deliver. 2) DJ Nobu — performing b2b with Wata Igarashi. Both bring a distinctly Japanese sensibility to techno: delicate where Berlin is blunt, detail-obsessed and nuance-centric where others play primarily for impact. Nobu has spent decades building his own sonic universe through Future Terror; Igarashi brings crystalline, psychedelic structures informed by a background in game and film sound design. 3) Elli Acula — performing b2b with ANNĒ. A co-founder of Spandau20, Elli Acula has carved her sound from Berlin’s late-night underground: groovy, high-velocity, and viscerally physical. ANNĒ brings something excavated from deeper in the tradition: her productions and sets are steeped in the emotional grammar of Detroit, the 90s, and the raw pumping energy of the second wave. 4) Human Safari (live) — a Glitch resident and central figure in Malta’s electronic scene, now firmly on the international circuit. His sound folds jazz improvisation directly into the mechanics of techno, earning him standout releases on R&S and his recent seven-track EP Culture Shock on SHDW’s Mutual Rytm. 5) Stef Mendesidis (live) — few artists commune with their machines the way Mendesidis does, or wield them with such unguarded conviction. You will find yourself grooving one moment, and transcending the next. One of the few artists who makes techno feel genuinely boundless. — Festival passes are fully sold out. Limited single day tickets remain. More info → glitchfestival.com @glitchfestival — #technofestival #rodhad #benklock #djnobu #technodj

MIAMI PRESSURE INCOMING 🛸 June 19th, The Nest trades oxygen for groove. Techno Snobs and Innate Rhythms join forces for a night dedicated to drum-heavy, body-forward techno: tribal weight, hardgroove propulsion, and the kind of stripped, muscular rhythm that cuts straight through the room. From Miami, headliners Åre:gone and DJ Prim bring a sound sharpened in sweat, percussion, and movement. Nothing decorative. Nothing diluted. Just rolling pressure, human swing, and the floor slowly tightening around every drum. Mattei and Bullsense set the opening charge. Åre:gone (@_aregone ) DJ Prim (@djprimbeats ) Mattei b2b Bullsense (@matteidj b2b @bullsense___ ) June 19, 2026 — The Nest // St. Petersburg, FL Tickets available now. Limited early birds via link in bio. #technosnobs #stpetenightlife #stpetefl #techno

𝗣𝗛𝗬𝗭𝗜𝗞 𝟬𝟬𝟴 The enigmatic @01111111100000000000.zero reveals a world shaped by his cryptic mantra — Eventually we all return to zero. Each track evolves through subtle shifts in rhythm and atmosphere, culminating in an enigmatic yet cathartic conclusion. A pervasive darkness courses through this journey, punctuated by fleeting moments of light that heighten its intensity. The result is a powerful exploration of emotion and existence that lingers long after the final sound. Mastering @mattiasfridell Artwork @trbvisuals.art

A Legend Named Ryan Wyer 🤍 In 2016, Richard D. James — the Cornish-raised producer known to the world as Aphex Twin — handed creative control of his first official music video in 17 years to a 12-year-old autistic kid from County Dublin. That kid was Ryan Wyer. Wyer had spent years quietly uploading fan-made videos to his YouTube channel, cutting visuals to Aphex Twin tracks on his own time, for no audience in particular. One of them — a DIY video for “minipops 67 [120.2][source field mix]” off Syro — went viral enough to reach James directly. Both James and Chris Cunningham, the director behind “Windowlicker” and “Come to Daddy,” left comments on his channel. Warp Records took notice shortly after. Ahead of the Cheetah EP, Warp sent Wyer all seven tracks and told him to pick one. He chose the eight-minute “CIRKLON3 [Колхозная mix].” He rounded up friends and family in Rush, Co. Dublin, put them in Aphex Twin masks and logo shirts, and filmed them dancing in the streets. The result became the first official Aphex Twin visual since 1999. Ryan’s mother Marie noted that James and Wyer share the same personality architecture: private, unbothered, entirely absorbed in sound. Two people who found their way to music young and never really left. After the video dropped, the two went record shopping together in Dublin. Wyer has autism and is visually impaired. He was being bullied at school for his taste in music while simultaneously earning the respect of one of the most consequential electronic musicians alive. James recognised what the people around Wyer apparently couldn’t: that the kid already had it. Music wasn’t something Ryan was learning; it was something he already knew. In September 2024, Wyer ran an AMA on Reddit, discussing the collaboration with James in depth and giving an interview to District Magazine. He cites David Lynch and Stanley Kubrick as directorial influences. Nearly a decade later, both are still at it: James making music, Wyer making films, and the two still in each other’s orbit. #aphextwin #richarddjames #electronicmusic

The Wizard 🧙🏾‍♂️ Near the end of a two-hour siege. The crowd on a string, still hungry. Three decks, a TR-909, total command, pure commitment. Jeff Mills // Wire Japan — August 30, 2003 @jeff_mills_official #saitama #jeffmills #technojapan #techno #vinyl

Spontaneous Disorder 👽 Charles Accarisi aka Chlär grew up in Switzerland in a household of musicians, teaching himself sound synthesis at 13 on free software with no presets. Physics was the other serious pursuit, and his father steered him toward sound engineering in Berlin instead. His first illegal rave at 16 set everything in motion.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ His interest in how systems behave never dissipated, and Chlär remains a genuine physics enthusiast to this day. Chlär built his craft from every angle of the industry; artist, mastering engineer, label founder, A&R. His sets run three or four decks simultaneously, weaving loops of his own productions into live improvisations that shift depending on the room. Raw and precise in equal measure, his techno carries the weight of someone who understands structure well enough to facilitate the entropy. Time Warp doesn’t just operate anywhere. Since 1994, the German institution has built its reputation as one of the most respected techno brands on the planet — one we personally know to never compromise on production. Partnering with electro-giant Insomniac, its Miami debut at Factory Town was a statement the city needed. Miami has long been written off by serious ravers as a city of excess and pageantry. Time Warp answered that sentiment directly, and Factory Town held the energy from open to close.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ @chlaer_ @time_warp_us @insomniaceast #techno #dj #entropy #dancemusic #technomood

The Blueprint 👽 Forty-six years ago, four men in Düsseldorf were quietly building something no one had a name for yet. This is Kraftwerk performing The Robots in 1980, a year before Computer World would close the most influential run in electronic music history. From Autobahn (1974) through Trans-Europe Express (1977) to The Man-Machine (1978), they had already produced a sound that spread further than anyone anticipated. Juan Atkins called them his gods. Afrika Bambaataa built “Planet Rock” on the bones of Trans-Europe Express. DMC of Run-DMC told NME that kids in the Bronx heard something in the music and followed it; a group from Germany, somehow, had connected. Martin Gore said they were the pioneers for everyone in his generation making electronic music. They did all of it from a small room near Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof, where they had removed the bell from the wall phone so no one could interrupt them. Nearly fifty years later, the conversation still starts here. @kraftwerkofficial #electronicmusic #kraftwerk #electronic

Take the Red Pill 👽 The Matrix is a groundbreaking science fiction film that blends philosophy, action, and cyberpunk aesthetics into a story about reality and control. Directed by The Wachowskis, it follows Neo, a hacker who discovers that the world he lives in is actually a simulated reality created by machines to subdue humanity. As he is guided by Morpheus and joins a group of rebels, Neo begins to question the nature of truth, free will, and identity. The film became iconic for its innovative visual effects, especially the “bullet time” sequences, and its deeper themes inspired by philosophy, religion, and computer science, making it one of the most influential films of its time. The aesthetic alone felt pulled from a warehouse at 4am: the black, the bass, the sense that something is being revealed to you that most people will never see. No surprise the culture adopted it immediately. Track ID: Mike Klubnika - General Release •Credits: bicklefilms2 on TikTok #cinema #cyberpunk #aesthetic #underground

Acid Assault 👽 October 2022, H7 Warehouse, Amsterdam. Cynthia Spiering with a full acid set inside the Intercell x 999999999 Invites daytime showcase. Ninety minutes of rolling acid pressure in a space Intercell has always dialled right. Gym, pregame, late-night rewatch, or a workday that needs a push — the set holds up in any context. Spiering was already one of the more promising talents coming out of the Dutch scene, and this set made the case plainly: acid techno woven through with traces of acid trance, sequenced with a maturity that felt well beyond her years. She took the assignment and executed it clean. @cynthiaspiering @intercell_events Full set available on YouTube & SoundCloud. #cynthiaspiering #technogirl #acidtechno #technorave

Happy Schranz Sunday!! 3 Deck Schranz Mix. Practising and having fun on the decks before Europe Tour this year. Have a Schranzy day and keep safe everyone. TRACK ID’s @triptykh - LOVELY MORNING FOR A RIOT @djbuchecha - The Jumper Matt M Maddox - Meso

A Proper Send-Off 🫡 An Italian raver left a specific, wonderful wish before he died: play “Knights of the Jaguar” as his coffin entered the church. DJ Rolando’s 1999 Underground Resistance record — produced under his alias The Aztec Mystic — has spent twenty-seven years in circulation and it has never once needed an introduction. It appears in peak-hour sets and early sunrise moments alike; the kind of record that finds you at 6am when the light breaks over the horizon and the floor feels weightless. The video has been circulating for weeks now, and it will keep moving. A moment like this doesn’t expire. Somewhere in it is a man who loved music so completely that he made it his final statement… and in doing so, left something that will outlast the funeral, the grief, and probably most of what gets posted this year. That’s legacy. The crowd gathered around him, hands raised, proves he was understood while he was here. Most people who love this music carry a list somewhere in their mind. The tracks for the funeral; the ones for the celebration after. Because it doesn’t have to be grief. It can be exactly what the dancefloor always was: a room full of people feeling something real, unified by sound in a way language rarely manages. To communicate love and devotion to the people you leave behind, through music, even after death... it’s truly magical. RIP O Focó 🕊️ Track ID: DJ Rolando - Knights of the Jaguar 🎥 patricia.manzo0 #technoislove #djrolando #technoculture

Built Different 👽 HÖR Berlin doesn’t broadcast average. The stream has carried some of the most deliberate selector work in contemporary techno, and the booth at Hasenheide 47 holds a standard that separates intention from instinct. These two operate as a single unit. The DNA is Detroit (the architecture, the discipline, the reverence for the machine), but Berlin gives the source material room to breathe, to mutate, to reach somewhere the original coordinates never mapped. That tension between origin and environment is where the best sets live. Nobody in techno sounds quite like FJAAK having a good time. Relaxed in the booth, unmatched on the circuit; effortless in posture, irreplaceable in sound. Every selection lands with the ease of artists who have nothing to prove and every reason to enjoy it.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ @fjaak @spandau20 @hoer.berlin Track ID: Stef Mendesidis - Memorex #fjaak #spandau20 #techno #technomood