Dirty Epic welcomes aboard @amx313 for the 129th installment of Amplify Series.

The AM , more recently known as AMX, comes from the Detroit - Berlin school of techno. She began to release electro tracks with catchy vocals under the monicker AMX while touring Europe and South America in 2023, starting out with “Ride.” On NYC’s Haus of Altr label. Followed by the “Werk it” collaboration on International Chrome. She returned to the Tresor label in spring of 2024 as AMX for their collaboration with Carhartt WIP for a various artists compilation that celebrates two music metropolises, Detroit, and Berlin.

In March 2025, AMX merged her monthly residency in Detroit, into her own record label under the same moniker ‘Realms of Techno’ featuring artists like Detroit in Effect and Father Dukes.

LINKS:

AMX:

Soundcloud: @amx313

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/amx313/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/i.am.amx/

DIRTY EPIC:

Website: www.dirty-epic.com

Merch: shopby6am.com/collections/dirty-epic-collection

Facebook: www.facebook.com/DirtyepicLA

Twitter: twitter.com/dirtyepicla

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Cuba's Åre:gone & Uruguayan William Arist return to Lady Tazz's Mind Medizin with shadowy deep techno excellence.

Åre:gone is Havana-born but now Miami-based, having left the repression of his homeland in search of creative freedom. Before leaving, he was a core part of the national scene with both the Vórtice and Rusty Nails collectives, which promoted proper underground techno. He has been crafting his own groovy, organic, and heady sounds for a decade and was last on this label back in 2023 with his ‘Latin Lover’ EP.'

Sorry, But I Don't Understand' is his fantastic opener, a spacious affair driven by deep kicks and glitchy claps scattered throughout the mix, next to warped synths and sultry spoken words. 'Minimo Tecnico' has a tougher undercurrent but remains stripped back. Deft details evoke deserted, post-human landscapes that keep the mind busy as the body succumbs to the rhythm of the drums.

Espacio Sonoro music school teacher William Arist has also landed here before with his Neo Groove EP in 2023. The Montevideo native operates at the heavier end of the techno spectrum on labels such as Uncage, Planet Rhythm, and Bek Audio, and also has his own label, Perseverancia Records. He kicks off with 'Universal Language', which mixes up tribal hits and unresolved loops that lock you in a moment where time dissolves. Closer 'Tecnica Ancestral' cuts loose with a jumbled off off-grid hits and wiry synths darting about the mix like pinballs. It's cerebral, gently unhinged techno for the moments when mischief takes over.

Åre:gone & William Arist's 'Fallos En El Sistema' EP comes on Mind Medizin on 19th December 2025.

Tracklist:

01. Åre:gone - Sorry, But I Don’t Understand

02. Åre:gone - Minimo Tecnico

03. William Arist - Universal Language

04. William Arist - Tecnica Ancestral

Support the release: https://www.beatport.com/release/fallos-en-el-sistema-ep/5647221

Follow Åre:gone:

Soundcloud: @aregone

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_aregone/

Follow Mind Medizin:

Soundcloud: @mindmedizinrecords

Facebook: www.facebook.com/mindmedizin/

Instagram: www.instagram.com/mindmedizin/

Bandcamp: mindmedizinrecords.bandcamp.com/music

Beatport: www.beatport.com/label/mind-medizin-records/99820

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Mary Yuzovskaya’s Monday Off rounds out 2025 with its eighth vinyl-only various artists compilation, arriving 12th December, featuring Feph, Rasser, Mathys Lenne, and Xhato. Opening the record is Florida’s Feph, co-operator of Alchemista Records and Zosimos, with ‘A Realization’, where wild electric currents crackle over a subtle, sharp beat as shocks and zaps scatter into the darkness. Spanish DJ and producer Rasser follows with ‘Constant Pulse’, a hulking techno chugger of warped rhythms and hammering metallic hits. On the flip, France-born Germany-based Mathys Lenne, known for outings on Mord, ORBE, and Blue Hour, offers ‘A Gentle Singularity’, its tumbling percussion and drone-like synth casting a hypnotic spell while sparkling high-end shimmers above. Previous Monday Off contributor Xhato then closes with ‘Lemon Swirl’ , a mystical finisher where soft sequences snake through brooding ambience, providing a guiding light as the kick drum marches resolutely. Launched while working at the now-closed Brooklyn record store Halcyon The Shop in 2017, Mary Yuzovskaya’s Monday Off has since become a home for hypnotic excellence on wax, matching her own reputation as a formidable vinyl-only DJ and Techno producer. Across its now eighteen releases, the label has featured the likes of Blazej Malinowski, D-Leria, Milena Glowacka, ORBE, Soramimi, Viels, and Yuzovskaya herself, with each release continuing to cement her reputation as one of the genre’s most trusted curatorial voices.

Various Artists ‘VA Vol. 8’ releases via Monday Off 12th December 2025 Tracklist A1. Feph - A Realization

A2. Rasser - Constant Pulse

B1. Mathys Lenne - A Gentle Singularity

B2. Xhato - Lemon Swirl

Support the release: https://mondayoff.bandcamp.com/album/pre-order-various-artists-vol-8

Follow Xhato:

Soundcloud: @xhato

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/xhatomusic/

Follow Monday Off:

Soundcloud: @monday-off

Facebook: www.facebook.com/mondayoffrecords

Instagram: www.instagram.com/monday_off_records/

Bandcamp: mondayoff.bandcamp.com/merch

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Dirty Epic welcomes aboard @xiorro for the 128th installment of Amplify Series.

Xiorro is a Berlin-based DJ, producer, and label head whose all-vinyl sets and unmistakable presence have made him a defining force in contemporary techno. He first emerged from Brooklyn’s underground in 2017, where his work with ALKHEMY and the warehouse/off-site rave series The Black Hole became central pillars of the city’s DIY nightlife.

Now firmly rooted in Berlin, Xiorro has become a core resident at RSO, continuing the trajectory he began during the club’s previous era as Griessmuehle in Neukölln. His regular appearances during RSO’s intense weekender programming have earned him a reputation as one of the venue’s most trusted and versatile selectors—known for extended, vinyl-driven sets that balance precision, stamina, and narrative depth.

A self-taught artist with a sharp instinct for tension, groove, and acceleration, Xiorro crafts long-form journeys that reflect both technical mastery and the rhythmic sensibility of his Puerto Rican heritage. His tactile command of vinyl allows him to move fluidly between hypnotic introspection and peak-time intensity, preserving the raw energy of underground rave culture while pushing it forward. With an ear tuned to otherworldly textures and a drive that anchors every performance, Xiorro continues to leave an unmistakable imprint on RSO’s identity and on dance floors across the global techno circuit.

LINKS:

XIORRO:

Soundcloud: @xiorro

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/xiorrodj/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/xiorro_/

RA: https://ra.co/dj/xiorro

DIRTY EPIC:

Website: www.dirty-epic.com

Merch: shopby6am.com/collections/dirty-epic-collection

Facebook: www.facebook.com/DirtyepicLA

Twitter: twitter.com/dirtyepicla

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Second release on 13130 series,

Always the same process featuring old-school artists and current techno finest.

This time 13130 offers: Frazi.er, Invexis, Elyas, SERA J, AK1 & Benkhlifa.

Release date: Dec 18 - 2025

Mastering: Paul Mac "Hardgroove Mastering"

Support the release: https://seclusion13130.bandcamp.com

Follow Invexis:

Soundcloud: @invexis_official

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/invexis_live/

Follow 13130:

Facebook: www.facebook.com/seclusion13130

Instagram: www.instagram.com/seclusion13130/

Bandcamp: seclusion13130.bandcamp.com

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For the sixth release, "Expression EP", Kmyle & Ramon Tapia delivered 3 original tracks + 2 remixes from Moteka & Exos to write the sixth lines of Sotor's story.

KMYLE & RAMON TAPIA ”EXPRESSION EP” incl. remixes from Moteka & Exos lands on SOTOR - سطور on 28th November 2025.

Support the release: sotor.bandcamp.com

Follow Kmyle:

Soundcloud: @kmyle

Facebook: www.facebook.com/kmylemusic

Instagram: www.instagram.com/kmyle_music/

RA: ra.co/dj/kmyle

Follow Ramon Tapia:

Soundcloud: @ramon-tapia

Instagram: www.instagram.com/ramontapiaofc/

RA: ra.co/dj/ramontapia

Follow Sotor Records:

Soundcloud: @paradox-sotorrecords

Facebook: www.facebook.com/paradoxtechno

Instagram: www.instagram.com/paradox.techno

Bandcamp: sotor.bandcamp.com

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Dirty Epic welcomes aboard @shantievanti for the 127th installment of Amplify Series.

Shanti has made textured waves in Chicago’s techno scene with her curation of dark, sinister, and ethereal soundscapes. Music has always been a means of coping with the otherness and hybridity Shanti experienced throughout her life. She has been deeply moved by the transcendent ability of music to express concepts, states of consciousness, and conflicting emotions. Shanti’s sets weave a story of the simultaneous despair and yearning that are intertwined with the human condition and illustrate an intentional trajectory through combining and cultivating surreal, atmospheric, and haunting sounds.

Enamored by the liminal dynamics of sound, she cohosts Otherworldly Ambiguity with Scum.ee –an experience that is centered around the phenomenon of existing in between and outside of pre-existing concepts and rigid categories. She is also a member of techno collective Research & Development and hosts a monthly radio show, “Liminal Radio” on WIIT 88.9 FM featuring thoughtful artists at the core of Chicago’s underground music scene.

Experiencing music outside of the confines of a club or the underground is extremely important to Shanti as she had initially discovered her favorite artists through online podcasts and radio. The universalizability of podcasts and radio enable music to be experienced by more humans situated in different contexts. This is why she has contributed to many notable online mix series and radio channels. Her mixes have been featured on The Black Lodge Radio, SutroFM, Mutant Radio, PPRZ, Distant Signals, Death Decay & Magic, Braid Records, Low Visibility, Dance All Day, and m50’s etc radio among other podcasts and shows.

"For this closing set, I wanted to cultivate an atmosphere of releasing the turbulent emotions we have been experiencing in Chicago as a community. I anticipated the desire for this release but experiencing it in the subterranean context of Smartbar - in the darkness - in real time- felt so powerful and transcendent. This experience was not merely an escape, but a channeling of the heaviness within us - how do the mind and body cope and grasp what is happening? I was fueled by the defiantly heavy energy from the dancers and it was such a testament to the healing power of music during these dark times."

LINKS:

SHANTI:

Soundcloud: @shantievanti

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shantiism/

RA: https://ra.co/dj/shanti

DIRTY EPIC:

Website: www.dirty-epic.com

Merch: shopby6am.com/collections/dirty-epic-collection

Facebook: www.facebook.com/DirtyepicLA

Twitter: twitter.com/dirtyepicla

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Dirty Epic welcomes aboard @raffaele_attanasio for the 126th installment of Amplify Series.

"My trajectory, I hope, will always be uphill, in continuous musical evolution... I’m always hungry for new sound experiences, and I’ll put all my soul into it." - Raffaele Attanasio

The confines of contemporary music often ensnare a musician in a particular sound. Wrapped up in a box that defines and sells the 'product', that it's easier to digest for the modern consumer. It operates on a plane where it is assimilated in tiny soundbites that are quickly digested and moved on. Sound can get lost amongst trying to 'make it' or get likes. Music is not lost though; it exists as it always has and the passion for composing transcendent and transportive tracks exists in an artist like Raffaele Attanasio.

Born to a musician father in his home city of Naples, Attanasio was only satiated when listening to virtuoso maestros like Il Guardiano del Faro and Keith Emerson. Developing his prodigious ear, he trained on drums and then piano and his auspicious ability become apparent early. In his late teens, he ventured into DJing and electronic music production and has garnered plaudits from Jeff Mills, Len Faki and Ben Sims; even performing with Mills in a B2B live set and also Octave One. He found a home within the electronic music community, heading his own label Letter From Jerusalem, and releasing on others, such as Third Wave Black and Non Series. His label even released music from Douglas McCarthy of the band Nitzer Ebb.

What has never been lost on Attanasio is his eclectic flair. His releases span from nefarious techno - even releasing under his X-501 alias - to riveting Detroit inspired dance music with soulful piano. That piano may encapsulate a sound not many may equate to the Italian, but he now threads down a course that garners influences from his native Naples and musicians like Keith Jarret Duke Ellington and even Hans Zimmer. His artistic mould is shaped from by his experiences, and these are laid bare in his jazz-tinged sound on his album Nuovo Futuro, which was released on Axis records. Kaleidoscopic in his quenching of musical thirst, Attanasio keeps music in its purest form. These melodic air vibrations evoke something opaque, yet wildly pulchritudinous, regardless of the audience.

LINKS:

RAFFAELE ATTANASIO:

Soundcloud: @raffaele_attanasio

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/attanasioraffaele/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/raffaele_attanasio_ofc/

DIRTY EPIC:

Website: www.dirty-epic.com

Merch: shopby6am.com/collections/dirty-epic-collection

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Twitter: twitter.com/dirtyepicla

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The Moroccan label SOTOR RECORDS is moving a step forward with a new release.

For the Fifth release, "Filter Science", Fhase 87 delivers 5 original tracks to write the fifth lines of Sotor's story.

Born in 1987 in the North of France, François has been immersed in electronic music since a young age. His debut in Mix took place in 2001, and it was quite natural that he turned to composition in 2005.The year 2019 marks his emergence under the pseudonym "Fhase 87"

After a few months and numerous releases on different labels, he acquired the support of many DJs from the Techno scene such as Laurent Garnier, Dave Clarke, Ben Klock, Ellen Alien , Sam Paganini, Anetha, Dax.J or Robert Hood, to name but a few.

FHASE 87 ”FILTER SCIENCE EP” lands on SOTOR - سطور on 17th October 2025.

Support the release: https://sotor.bandcamp.com

Follow Fhase87:

Soundcloud: @fhase87

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fhase87/

Follow Sotor Records:

Soundcloud: @paradox-sotorrecords

Facebook: www.facebook.com/paradoxtechno

Instagram: www.instagram.com/paradox.techno

Bandcamp: sotor.bandcamp.com

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Dirty Epic welcomes aboard @dimi-angelis for the 125th installment of Amplify Series.

The mix is a live recording played at one of Dimi's Illegal Parties back in the day. It was recorded on the 18th of August 2002 and is part of a 5 hour set, vinyl only.

Thinking of Dimi Angelis, we quickly associate his name with pounding sounds, high-quality releases, and an iconic trajectory. Staying true to his sound, Dimi has evolved over the years into one of the most renowned producers and DJs worldwide.

Looking back to the nineties, Dimi has been one of the key figures shaping the Dutch techno scene as we know it today. His career has been marked by releases on top-tier labels such as Axis Records, Warm Up Recordings, Mord, KEY Vinyl, Tar Hallow, and the co-owned label A&S with Jeroen Search. This has led him to perform at major techno institutions such as Berghain, Awakenings, Dekmantel, and Tresor.

Another product of Dimi’s creativity is his solo label, ANGLS, which delivers raw and uncompromising techno. In recent years, Dimi has been a regular presence across different continents, frequently performing in Latin America, Asia, and the USA.

LINKS:

DIMI ANGELIS:

Soundcloud: @dimi-angelis

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dimiangelis1

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dimiangelis/

ANGLS:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ANGLS.Records

Bandcamp: https://anglsrecords.bandcamp.com

DIRTY EPIC:

Website: www.dirty-epic.com

Merch: shopby6am.com/collections/dirty-epic-collection

Facebook: www.facebook.com/DirtyepicLA

Twitter: twitter.com/dirtyepicla

Instagram: www.instagram.com/dirtyepicla/