As a three-LP gatefold (and cassette) release, Dettmann’s latest contribution to Running Back Records' Mastermix series arrives as the continual motion of a DJ-producer's mind honed by thirty-odd years of subterranean Berlin techno. This Mastermix is not a gathering of club sounds, like past volumes from Wild Pitch Club or Front Classics, but a personal index of dancefloor weapons Dettmann has long been known for, where each tweak or shift delivers a moment of near-violent euphoria.

As a storied label emerging from hibernation, Ostgut Ton faces the dilemma of honoring its famed past while proving necessary in the present. In many ways, this compilation is a careful balancing act. It leans into the label’s history of curating both techno darkness and house light, which will delight those who long for a return of that Ostgut feeling. At the same time, more globally diverse and stylistically varied contributors acknowledge a subtle nudge, at least laterally, beyond the Berlin core.

Little Simz has continuously operated at a slight remove from the UK rap mainstream. Never quite grime, never fully soul, never easily boxed in. She's more akin to polymathic artists like Dev Hynes, whose genre fluidity is matched by their instinct for conceptual coherence.

The thirty-year trajectory of Planet Mu reads like the slow accumulation of a deviant archive; an ongoing catalogue of sonic extremophiles, genre miscreants, and rhythmic heretics. Founded in 1995 by Mike Paradinas, nominally as an outlet for his µ-Ziq productions, the label has long operated as a vector for electronic music's most stubborn nonconformists. Planet Mu 30, a sprawling 25-track compilation of new and previously unreleased material, neither eulogises nor summarises the label's prolific past.

The storied history of trance has long been Eurocentric. While the 1990s trance boom was dominated by European hits, DJ superstars, and megaclubs, a parallel movement was flourishing across the United States.

Felix Manuel, known as Djrum, returns after a six-year hiatus with Under Tangled Silence, a sprawling album of creative reconsitution inspired by a Patti Smith quote: “We go through life.

The 18th instalment of Black Rhino Residency at Control comes in full force on April 19, mixing the sound pressure of dub with the uptempo energy of jungle music.

As we move on to our residencies at Control, we are happy to announce that Aba Shanti will join our curated events on March 8, 2025, marking his first session in Bucharest.

On May 10 2025, Black Rhino Radio celebrates its 4-year anniversary, and the party comes in great style and fashion. The first artists to be announced is the French dub master O.B.F with the Spanish MC Sr. Willson.

We enter the new year in style as we announce Mala who's joining the first Black Rhino Residency at Control on February 22, 2025.

For the last residency of this year at Control, we return to the sound system culture and invites Numa Crew (IT) and the mighty Mc Killa P (UK) to headline the night. The booking follows the fresh album of the two - Killing Time, released this year on November 15.

For the 14th instalment of Black Rhino Residency in Control, we change the tempo and we dig into the synths and electronica realm, by inviting the legendary Legowelt [NL] to headline the night in Room 1 of the club.