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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 and an acute sensibility for the sharpest sound design. Throughout an endless flow of grade-A heaters for some of the scene's most highly-regarded imprints, including Blueprint, Rekids and his own record label, Enemy, Zahn has been sculpting a body of work both ebulliently intense and future-facing, never quite resting on his laurels but throwing all of his nerve and energy into staying relevant in the age of disposability. Ageless, boundless.  

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 eyes set on bringing crowds to a simmer thru and thru, Philippa muscles her way across various techno sub-genres and rhythms with conviction and poise, alternatively pushing classic Detroit-influenced material, Nordic minimalism and more Continental European-informed expressions, as she harnesses the very best of these through uncompromising selections with a pristine mixing technique. Shockwave incoming.  

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 wares both entrancingly hi-NRG (a nod to the early Schranz heroes) and ruggedly abrasive. The result is an effervescing mishmash of rabid uptempo drives, screwed melodies and fiery rhythmic grids, ready to leave all ravers knocked askew.  

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 a cavalcade of true school Detroit-derived tempi and brutalist fractals, leaving no stone unturned in his quest for the beat that haunts and rips. Enter a spooky dystopia in sound, where untamed functionalism rubs shoulders with hypnotic abandon and depth-plumbing adventurism. Full blast.  

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 programming and acid-drenched chromaticism. Walking the tightrope between no-surrender rhythmic attacks and corrosive melodies straight out a rust-gnawed industrial dystopia, Pushmann’s delivery serves up a perfectly balanced blend of infrared spook, intense gravity acceleration and dissonant fractals of sound wrapped into one fiery trial by combat.  

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, Semantica, his own eponymous record label and a host more… Clocking in with a fierce and untamed two-hour sonic safari spanning vast expanses and more claustrophobic spaces, Orbe treats us to a mind-altering whirlwind of echoes and signals, where big-room thrillers rub shoulders with off-piste explorations and brutalist plications. This one hits hard.