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For When We Dip Magazine’s Main Mix series, we’re delighted to welcome Brina Knauss for episode #194, a live recording captured at UNVRS in Ibiza where she opened for Carl Cox. The set arrives to celebrate her latest release, ‘Take Me Higher’, a three-track EP that lands on her own imprint EMPATH. Brina has spent... Read more »

There are producers who chase whatever the dancefloor is doing this month, and there are producers who simply keep sharpening the same blade until nobody else can touch it. Cristoph has always belonged firmly to the second group, and ‘Elements’ is another reminder of how much power he can wring out of very few moving... Read more »

Roman takes his time on ‘My Side’. Running just under eight minutes, the track is built for the long game, unfolding in patient layers rather than rushing toward a hook. It sits squarely in progressive house territory, melodic and warm without ever losing the momentum that keeps a floor moving, and that runtime gives it... Read more »

Some records feel like the last warm evening of the season, and ‘Night Time Cove’ is exactly that. UK duo Death on the Balcony return as DOTB with a sun-soaked slice of deep house designed to close out September in style. Written and produced by Mark Caramelli and Paul Hargreaves, the track arrives as DOTB/005... Read more »

Belgian DJ and producer Nikka Lorak steps up for our Prima Lux series with a relentless, high octane techno mix built for the peak of the night. Before turning her full attention to the booth, Nikka Lorak built a career as a film director, and that cinematic instinct still shapes everything she does, from production... Read more »

Tommahawk is a German-born DJ and producer based in Hamburg who has spent the last few years turning a reputation for uncompromising, high-energy sets into a catalogue that matches. Her name sits alongside rooms and institutions like Terminal M, Electric Ballroom and Rave The Planet, and she has carried her sound through Germany, the Netherlands,... Read more »

Julian Fox has quietly built one of the more dependable names in contemporary tech house, a producer whose records sit comfortably between underground grit and the kind of hook that lifts a room. Splitting his time between Ibiza and the wider club circuit, he has spent recent seasons behind the decks at rooms like Bora... Read more »

Sprout has spent the last few years quietly building one of the most dependable catalogues in melodic progressive house, and the label’s newest release brings two of its most respected figures into the same room. Label founder D-Nox joins forces with M.O.S. for the ‘Dream On’ EP, a two track outing that pairs D-Nox’s dancefloor... Read more »

Toronto-born and Bali-based, Brodie Nero has spent the last few years building one of the more well-travelled catalogues in house music. A DJ, producer and the founder of KONTRAS Records, he moves comfortably between melodic, afro and deeper shades of the genre, and his sets from Bali have become a calling card of their own.... Read more »

Every so often a record arrives that simply radiates good energy, and ‘Dreamliner’ is exactly that. Italian producer Roel joins forces with UK house heavyweight Low Steppa for a feel-good club cut built on infectious disco loops, warm filtered house textures and crisp, tech-driven rhythms. Equal parts jackin’ house, disco and peak-time dancefloor weapon, it... Read more »