A producer with a growing catalogue of club weapons, Viv follows up his recent ‘Let It Roll’ EP on V55 Records and builds on a standout 2024 that saw him appear on labels like Altra Moda, Diynamic, and Insomniac. Known for his seamless fusion of driving rhythms, deep grooves, and nostalgic nods to classic Rave music, he continues to define his own lane in the Tech House scene.

‘The Funk’ is a masterclass in groove, offering an intricate blend of pulsating basslines, crisp percussion, and hypnotic synths. The track’s infectious energy is fuelled by rolling low-end movement and tight, punchy drum programming, creating a driving force that feels both raw and refined. Rave-inspired elements add an extra edge, ensuring its place in peak-time club sets.

R3WIRE takes the track into deeper, harder-hitting territory with a remix that dials up the intensity. By emphasising rolling percussion and deep bass pressure, he delivers a remix built for late-night sessions and underground spaces. While staying true to the essence of the original, this version adds a darker, heavier feel, offering a dynamic alternative for DJs who love weighty, groove-driven Tech House.

Check out ‘The Funk’ live in action below at one of Viv Castle’s recent club shows in Atlanta, USA:

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Viv Castle continues to refine and expand his sound with every release. ‘The Funk’ is a testament to his ability to fuse underground Tech House roots with forward-thinking production, keeping his music both timeless and cutting-edge. Whether through his own originals or high-profile collaborations, his name is fast becoming a staple in the scene.

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Saturday’s Café Mambo Ibiza ‘Classics Under The Bridge’ serves up timeless Ibiza vibes. Toolroom’s Mark Knight leads the charge, joined by tech house favourite Gok Wan, Space Ibiza icon Brandon Block, and rave pioneers Shades Of Rhythm. Rising star Carly Carmen, who made her debut on Toolroom, adds fresh energy to a lineup built for house lovers. With a unique urban-meets-industrial backdrop, expect an unforgettable atmosphere.

Sunday’s Unitee brings serious bass energy, curated by Radio 1’s Charlie Tee. She’s joined by MC Savvy B, plus Mozey, fresh off his world tour, and Kings Of The Rollers—Serum, Voltage, Bladerunner & Inja—who will tear up the stage. Kool FM’s AMA delivers everything from liquid to heavy rollers, while genre-bending vocalist Catching Cairo adds a fresh twist. Expect sound system-shaking energy throughout the day.

Since launching as a one-day event four years ago, UNDER has evolved into a key player in UK clubbing, attracting global names like Bicep, Michael Bibi, Sub Focus, and Hedex. Its raw under-the-bridge setting contrasts with the beauty of the nearby River Nene, creating an unparalleled rave atmosphere. Giant murals of headline DJs, created by renowned graffiti artists, add to its underground aesthetic.

Tickets are selling fast, with standard tickets at £34.95 + booking fee. VIP options offer queue jump, a raised platform with prime views, private amenities, and a free drink. Payment plans make it accessible for all. Direct trains to Peterborough run regularly, with a 46-minute journey from London Kings Cross.

For an unforgettable rave experience, head to UNDER this May. Secure tickets now at www.under.events.

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Turning the BPMs up for this one its huge off-beat rolling bassline, super sexy vocals, trance atmospherics, rave piano & warping synths set the pace from the off with a serious BANG! Taken from RAVE HOUSE DISCO ‘The Mixtape Collection Volume 1’, a mixtape/album with a difference, featuring all the up & coming talents surrounding the label ATM with the collective dropping a number of singles throughout the coming months building up to the full release midway through.

Expect the high-octane RAVE, HOUSE & DISCO fueled cuts Rob and his brand, Sleazy Deep has been known for a while now, all packaged up and presented across digital & somewhat physical formats giving our quality music a longer lease of life, that it so rightly deserves… THIS WILL BE ESSENTIAL !!!

We premiere ‘Fired Up!’ on Data Transmission, check it out here and grab it on Beatport.

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The duo were responsible for bringing the underground to the mainstream, gaining notable chart success with the now-timeless singles Something Good (later re-issued by Ministry of Sound in 2008) and What Can You Do For Me.

With the revival of rave house and all things rave culture in general, Utah Saints are as relevant as ever.  They’re currently working on new music and a special 30th anniversary re-release of their original album, available as a limited-edition vinyl along with re-issues and re-masters of all the early Utah Saints remixes from fellow-legends such as C.J. Bolland and Todd Terry.

But first things first. Utah Saints are about to head off to join one of the biggest parties of the summer – Slip Back In Time Presents Old Skool Ibiza. This week-long rave holiday packs out various hotspots including Eden, Es Paradis, Ibiza Rocks and The Palm Star with club, boat and pool parties from 17 – 24 May. There are over 100 originators of UK rave on the bill including Slipmatt, Graeme Park, Nicky Blackmarket, Shades Of Rhythm, Alex P, Brandon Block, Mark Archer and so many more! 

To mark the occasion, Utah Saints have put together a meaty selection of tracks that they’ll be sound tracking over the week. Turn it up, loud.

For tickets and hotel packages to Slip Back In Time Presents Old Skool Ibiza, see here.

Frankie Knuckles – Your Love

This record is timeless and an all-time classic. We still remember to this day getting the Trax records version on import back in 1987. Back then when it was played in DJ sets it was more of an early doors track for us, but we then remember going into Eastern Bloc in Manchester where we used to buy a lot of our records and getting the bootleg with the Candi Staton vocal on. It took the track to another level and crossed it over into the mainstream. There is still something special about this original version though.

Lil Louis & Josh Wink – How’s Your Evening So Far (Chris Lake Remix)

French Kiss has always been a favourite track of ours. It has in our opinion the ultimate groove. This version that we play out has taken the version that Josh Wink did with the new vocal and then this is a great re-work by Chris Lake where he has taken the essence of both versions and completely nailed the arrangement. This record, again, is timeless and never leaves our crate.

Crystal Waters – Gypsy Woman (DieMantle Rave Yard Mix)

DieMantle flips Crystal Waters ‘Gypsy Woman’ completely on its head and turns this classic into full on rave assault. This is a really clever version of this tune as the original was always a bit too mellow for a Utah Saints DJ set. This brings back great memories though as we played a gig in Copenhagen back in the day on New Year’s with Crystal, and it was a great time as we brought all our friends over for it and just had a big party.

Electric Choc – Shock The Beat (Piano Mix)

With 90’s piano and rave being so popular again right now and everything going full circle, this was one of the best piano tunes made in that era in our opinion and still sounds great today.

The original version is changing hands for high prices on eBay as the version on digital seems to be a re-recording and doesn’t have the same vibe. This reminds us of our days when we promoted a night in Leeds at a club called The Gallery and we did a night called Bliss, which was at the height of rave and was just a great time for music and to be going out.

Friends of Matthew – Out There

This was a seminal tune back in the day and we remember hearing it first on a cassette of Sasha DJing at Shelley’s in Stoke. Sampling the bassline from The Human League’s ‘The Lebanon’ and also ‘Automatic Lover’ by Dee.D Jackson. As a record, it was totally up our street.  We were both big fans of the early Human League and the whole Sheffield sound. They were ground-breaking pioneers of electronic music.

A few years down the line, we ended up sampling them as well on our track ‘Believe in Me’ which took a line from ‘Love Action’ and also used a sample from Crown Heights Affair and Sylvester. We had a top 10 record with it.

U.S.U.R.A – Open Your Mind – (Sleeperhold’s Recall Booty)

This track originally came out on a label called Deconstruction back in the 90’s, but we play this version in our sets which came out as a cheeky free download in or around 2017. We have a strong connection with this track as it samples a track by Simple Minds called ‘New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84)’ which we also covered on our first album before we had heard this. This version has just taken the original track and re-worked it really well and made it sound current. Great arrangement and production that we drop in our sets quite a lot still to this day.

Donna Summer – I Feel Little Pills – (Super Disco Club Bootie)

This takes the groove from probably the greatest piece of electronic music ever made in our opinion and mixes it with Green Velvet’s ‘La La Land’ – this record just works. It never leaves our crate and is one of those records that as a DJ, you can always rely on if you need to bring the crowd right up. However, if you need to move your car parked outside the club during your set, then your best option is still the 15-minute Patrick Cowley version.

We have always tried to keep our DJ sets full of energy, dynamics, and eclectic across the different genres of dance. We make a lot of our own edits and re-works to still keep tracks relevant to different crowds. It’s really important to us as DJs which is what we both started out as first and foremost.

Orbital – Belfast (ANNA Techno Remix)

We have been friends and label mates with Orbital since 1991 and this track brings back so many memories. Tim toured with Orbital, Moby and Aphex Twin around the USA on the legendary tour called ’See The Light’ in 1993, which was one of the first touring rave line ups in the USA. This remix from ANNA keeps the essence of the original but takes it on a more 4/4 pounding techno journey; she has done an amazing job on this mix.

We were both signed to London records back in the day and it was Pete Tong who signed us after hearing ‘What Can You Do For Me’ and he was our A&R man. We still see the Orbital guys and keep in touch and are back on the same label again. Like them, we plan to re-release all of our early back catalogue and remixes for the first time as many of them have not yet been available on digital platforms.

Modeā – Shine

This is a favourite of ours but not a track we always get to drop in our sets. Modeā is from Donegal in Ireland and is making some awesome music at the moment. He is definitely a name to watch out for. 

This track is simple yet genius and has so much soul and emotion to it. We have always had a massive soft spot for techno and love to throw tracks like this into our sets to switch things up.

Utah Saints – What Can You Do For Me

It’s only right that we put in one of our own. ‘What Can You Do For Me’ was the record that started everything for us, released in August 1991. We made this record in a bedroom in Leeds on an old Atari computer and Akai Sampler and pressed up a thousand copies on 12 inch and hoped we would sell them so that we could make another. We got in the car and took the record around all the shops in the north of England, and it blew up and ended up going Top 10 without any daytime radio support or big budgets behind it.

It sampled Annie Lennox and Gwen Guthrie and we have to give them both full props for clearing the samples on this track as it was in the early days of sampling and we never expected them to clear it.

Catch Utah Saints at Slip Back In Time Presents Old Skool Ibiza from 17 – 24 May. Grab tickets here.

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Liam sent it to Rob as a funky house demo at first, who took it on pushing its BPM, elevating it’s sonics, and adding some classic jungle vocals & rave feels throughout. Pure party starter vibes from start to finish.

We premiere ‘HERE 4 U (COM WID IT)’ on Data Transmission, check it out here and grab it here!

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Argentinian DJ & Producer Romina Cohn has been collaborating with Felix Da Housecat on his latest album and has been a firm favourite of DJ Hell’s own Gigolo Records as a producer, and DJ in her own right,

And then as if coming through a worm-hole like an alien spaceship, is this extremely interesting three tracker which leads with the absolute canon shot of a record ‘Let It Go’.

If energetic, melancholy techno was a genre ‘Let It Go’ would be thrusting its hand up first and asking to be counted. The sheer cataclysm of sounds is enough to make me sit up and listen.

A bouncing ‘Energy Flash’ style bassline, huge 909 kick, grooving hats, big bouncing floor toms, distorted stabs, ethereal tinkling effects and cello. Pardon? I know odd, right? This should not work. Oh hang on, what’s that there? You brass style synth sound, you have no business here! Mmm hang on that’s rather good. Actually that’s completely firing. Oh bollocks that’s a tune of the night. If you’re a purist look away now. If you like interesting and quirky techno that will detach your roof from your walls, come in on, this is for you.

‘Rave On’ is a heavy techno number with a homage to some of this big rave tracks from back in the day. There’s no pulling punches here, ‘Rave On’, whilst I suspect is somewhat tongue in cheek is big synths, big kick, big tune. It’s simple, and I suspect effective too.

‘Stay With Me‘ rounds up the package with an eloquent, tribal techno cut which is beautifully scenic, wonderfully vibey and 3 minutes long. In addition to that it fades out at the end making it almost unplayable as a track to play in a club. Call it a ditty. Bonkers and intruiging.

May I raise a glass to arthouse techno. I’m not sure I know what this is all about but I’m going to say it’s playful, nostalgic and above all effective. Divisive yes, banging – yes.

Score: 8.5/10

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Stepping away from the break-driven madness of lead single ‘Regicide’, newly shared cut ‘Gravity’ half-steps its way through the seedy underworld of electronic music. Stream the track below and head over to the Tectonic store to pre-order.

Depatterning Tracklist:

01. Regicide
02. Technicolour
03. Gravity
04. IPA
05. Last One In The In The
06. ¥
07. Ø
08. Ü
09. Strong Ones

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What’s that? You thought the we’d up and left you without a Mix of the Day, just because it’s the weekend? As if! It’s Saturday, which means most of you need to prepare for a night out, and the few that remain need a pick me up. Well, say hello to our exclusive mix from Melé.

Yes, it’s that loveable Liverpudlian who shot to fame with his fusion of rave, hip hop and bass. Bringing together old and new, underground and mainstream, Melé’s music has earned him spots on Rinse FM, BBC Radio 1 and Boiler Room, along with releases on the like’s of Grizzly and Mixpak Records. 2014 saw Melé take yet another step in his record game too, when the producer set up his own label Quadrants.

On August 4th, Melé is set to pay homage to the dance history that he loves so very, very much, as he takes over the main room at Amnesia, Ibiza. With big guns, Andy C and Rudimental, and special guest, Fono, in the booth as well, you won’t want to miss this one. Tickets are available here.

In the meantime, crank up your system, get on your feet and check out our Melé Mix of the Day. Come on, you deserve it!

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