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• Four Four Premiere: Havik - High Wire Act [Circuit Structure Records]

  Four Four Premiere: Havik - High Wire Act [Circuit Structure Records] by Four Four Magazine

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• Local Selection 267: JUSTDYL

  This week’s Local Selection comes from JUSTDYL, who melds deep and gritty dubby cuts with fluorescent Balearic sun-kissed grooves, toeing the line between glossy progressive house and head-down rave energy. Hailing from North Dublin, JUSTDYL has been embedded in music culture since his early teens. Now 24, his decade-long involvement with DJing has shaped a sound that’s as instinctive as it is considered. A dedicated digger with an ear for detail, he’s spent years refining a style that moves fluidly across genre lines. Effortlessly weaving through progressive, techno, house and the spaces in between. This mix is a snapshot of the club sound that resonates most with him. Playful, propulsive, and rich in progression. “I didn’t want to overthink it,” he says. “It’s just a sound I love, and something that reflects what I enjoy playing out.” What results is a set that feels natural, intuitive, music for dancers and deep listeners alike. It bridges past and present with an ear turned toward movement, progression, and vibe. “I feel this mix represents a glimpse of some of the stuff I love to play while also capturing a progressive sound in music from the past.” SC: @dylanmurphy117 IG: www.instagram.com/justdyl_ Four Four Magazine 
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• Local Selection 266: KSARA

  KSARA steps up to our Local Selection mix series with a high-octane journey through the many corners of techno, from meticulously crafted minimalism to hard-as-nails hardcore. Unpredictable and unforgiving, this mix swerves through styles with bold, deliberate force. Based in Dublin, KSARA has been carving out her space in Ireland’s thriving techno underground. Her sound is fast, hypnotic, and unrelentingly physical, merging the raw, upfront energy of hard dance with the precision and intensity of stripped-back classic techno. Having cut her teeth in some of the country’s most iconic clubs and warehouse raves, she’s earned a reputation for fearless, on-the-cuff mixing. Operating mostly within the faster ends of the techno spectrum, KSARA brings a take-no-prisoners approach to the decks, slamming down relentless rhythms with a closed-fist confidence. For this session, she delivers an hour of pure peak-time pressure — a breakneck-speed ride through haywired modular experiments, slick Berlin-styled minimalism, Belgian rave stompers, and beyond. KSARA plays fast and loose, threading her selections with knife-edge precision and unleashing kinetic bursts of energy in every direction. KSARA ------------------- SC: @sarah-lindsay-427371711 IG: www.instagram.com/ksara_music Four Four Magazine 
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• Local Selection 265: Princess Glitoris

  This week’s entry to the Local Selection comes from Belfast tribal techno and house-tinged techno connoisseur Princess Glitoris. Emerging onto the scene in late 2023, the 25-year-old DJ has quickly carved out a presence with a sound rooted in percussive techno and hypnotic, groove-heavy club tools. Her sets carry a raw, kinetic energy, designed for movement but nuanced in rhythm and atmosphere. Despite being a fresh name, Princess Glitoris has already shared the stage with heavy-hitters like Skin On Skin and X CLUB., signalling a fast-rising trajectory that’s hard to ignore. A recent feature on our “Mix Of The Week” series further cemented her as one to watch, showcasing an hour of precise blends, leftfield selections and confident pacing that speaks to a deep understanding of dance floor dynamics. Her contribution to the Local Selection series is a brisk, high-impact ride through party-driven sounds, anchored in the housier edges of the techno cannon. Drawing from a house party mixing style, she prioritises bounce over blend, aiming to make the room shake rather than settle. It’s a style that Princess Glitoris has quickly become known for: unapologetically bold, rhythm-forward, and built for bodies in motion. There’s no interest in a smooth, seamless journey here—and that’s exactly the point. This is upfront, in-your-face energy: compressed grooves, sampled chaos, disco-adjacent swing and tribal techno flair all colliding in real time. It’s hard-edged power with a singular mission—maximum fun on the dance floor. Princess Glitoris ------------------- SC: @princessglitoris IG: www.instagram.com/princessglitoris Four Four Magazine 
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• Four Four Premiere: Sam Binga & Sister Zo - Let's Giggle [Pineapple]

  'A Break From The Psychic Torment' encapsulates a lot about our collaborative, and somewhat contradictory, approach to making dance music together - it's wonky sound design meets joyous hooks and grooves. Basically, we take the fun seriously, because creating art designed for cathartic release in such challenging times requires commitment to joy. Both 'Ooh Sorbet' and 'Prego' are designed for dark rooms and late nights, but began life in the bucolic woods behind Zo's then-home in upstate New York, with us both rooting through the undergrowth and recording the sounds of stick hitting rock, or twig thwacking bottle, all of which became the percussive building blocks behind the tracks. Again, this was definitely a fun process - but more importantly, it gave these tracks a unique sonic identity. 'Sorbet' works around an almost Todd Edwards style cut-up of a vocal, while 'Prego' builds to a breakdown made from another field recording, this time from a park in Beijing. 'Panda Beef' and 'Let's Giggle' were both languishing on Zo's hard drive, clearly sick ideas but just not quite gelling into cohesive tracks. Between marathon bouts of 'Alone' and essential trips to the bakery in Woodstock for almond croissants, we reworked and fashioned them into something much closer to finished products. Mexican vocalist Sirius Soundz sent over some raw vocals, which we chopped up over the slightly Dembow-feeling beat of 'Panda'; an extra layer of Dance Mania-style bleeps brought out the cheeky wink lurking above the bassline of 'Giggle'; and a final session back in Binga's studio in Bristol locked everything in place. And finally, the dog in the artwork is the ultimate Executive Producer behind the whole project, Sadie, who is a very good dog indeed.

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