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Cartin has been carving out his own space within Ireland’s electronic underground, bringing together guitar-led live performance, emotive songwriting and club-focused production. At its heart, ‘Saturday’ is a celebration of friendship. Built around shimmering Chicago house keys, elastic grooves, pop sensibilities and manipulated vocal fragments, the track radiates an infectious optimism. Beneath its euphoric surface is a tribute to the friendships that carry us through life’s highs and lows. Designed with live performance in mind, ‘Saturday’ thrives in those moments where strangers become friends and entire rooms move as one. Blending live performance with electronic production, Cartin delivers a distinctly Irish take on modern dance music that feels organic, emotional and impossible to stand still to. Cartin ------------------------- SC: @cartinaf IG: www.instagram.com/cartincaolan/ FB: www.facebook.com/CartinAF Four Four Magazine 
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Mijo Sanchez takes the Local Selection series into darker territory, delivering a tightly wound journey through murky atmospheres and coiling tension. With close to a decade behind the decks, Sanchez has become one of Galway’s driving forces and mainstays within the city’s club culture, building a reputation through residencies, club appearances and a commitment to keeping the techno candle burning through the night. His sets move between Acid Techno, Electro, 00s-adjacent Tribal Techno and Trance, a concoction shaped through years spent on the dancefloor. As the founder of Rave Culture Galway, Sanchez has also played an active role in developing the city’s underground community, creating a platform for local DJs and artists while bringing a wider range of electronic sounds to the region. Behind the decks, his approach remains open, with little interest in being pigeonholed by a single sound or aesthetic. He moves fluidly between genres, always maintaining an overwhelming sense of forward motion. Over the years, he has appeared at venues including Electric, Club Cuba, The Cellar Underground and The Loft, alongside a range of independent club nights and events. His contribution to the Local Selection series leans into dark, twisted and hypnotic techno - deep, dynamic and murky. Sanchez flexes his command of the decks through a sense of utter control, an essential quality when pushing this style to its maximum intensity. The tracks are clean yet dark, creating a tunnelling sensation that draws you through meandering atmospheres and coiling textures. Sanchez holds these dynamics tightly, manipulating them with precision and keeping the tension perpetually on a knife’s edge without ever allowing it to spill over. The result is a tightly controlled journey that remains dizzying the full way through. Mijo Sanchez -------------------- SC: https://soundcloud.com/endrew-santos-sanchez IG: https://www.instagram.com/mijosanchez_/ Four Four Magazine 
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Local Selection 316 is soundtracked by Dublin duo Heftie, who share a one-hour journey through high-octane, warped-out hypnotism and heavy low-end pressure. Heftie are an underground electronic music duo from Dublin, crafting a raw, euphoric sound driven by heavy bass, hard-hitting drums and restless energy. Drawing from garage, house, electro and dubstep, their productions sit within a buckled UK hardcore continuum, constantly shifting between influences while looking firmly towards the future. For this mix, the duo draw inspiration from recent time spent in Barcelona and the UK, weaving together dark textures, heavyweight bass and Latin-infused rhythms. Rather than following a fixed formula, the set evolves organically, building a dynamic atmosphere from the pair’s wide-ranging influences. There’s a physicality to their approach. Low frequencies sit at the centre, while tough drums, warped textures and euphoric melodies create a sense of constant forward momentum. The result is a juxtaposed, unpredictable journey that moves between pressure, euphoria and hypnotism, one that asks you to leave your expectations at the door. Heftie -------------------- SC: @user-367291281 IG: www.instagram.com/__heftie/ Four Four Magazine 
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Flip The Lid presents the third chapter in their much-loved compilation series with ‘Rolly Bump Vol. 3’, a high-octane collection of progressive house, trance and tech house built for maximum dancefloor impact. Following the first two instalments, ‘Rolly Bump Vol. 3’ brings together ten fresh cuts from across the Flip The Lid orbit. With progressive as the starting point, the compilation moves across a spectrum of influences and sounds, from driving, uplifting grooves and trance-tinged euphoria to tech house rollers, acid-fuelled energy, deep tribal rhythms and big-room energy. Today we premiere the track from Dublin's own, Collie. COLLIE ---------------------- SC: @collie1996 IG: www.instagram.com/colliemck FLIP THE LID ---------------------- SC: @flipthelid IG: www.instagram.com/flipthelidmusic Four Four Magazine 
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i decided comes through with a rough, twisted take on techno. The EP moves between driving rhythms, abrasive sounds and more unexpected, off-kilter moments, keeping things varied without losing its edge. DJ Ligma and Dara Lee step in on remix duties, taking the tracks somewhere a little different while keeping the pressure and intensity on. i decided ---------------------- SC: @idecidedidecided IG: www.instagram.com/cormacfarlo/ Four Four Magazine 
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This week’s Local Selection comes from Elektra, formerly known as CATZA, the new project of Irish DJ and producer Catherine Verzanova. Bringing a fresh approach to the space between house and techno, she builds a deep, enveloping sound that sits towards the hypnotic end of the club spectrum. Originally from Wicklow and now part of Dublin’s electronic music scene, Verzanova has played at venues including Index, Sound House, Pawnshop and The Racket Space. Her sets move fluidly between house, deep house and techno, drawing on the space between genres to create something rhythmic, atmospheric and immersive. As Elektra, her productions take a deeper, more hypnotic direction, combining dub-infused textures, rolling grooves and spacious sound design. Nature, shifting landscapes and weather are recurring points of reference, with their changing moods informing the emotional character of her music. Her Local Selection mix leans fully into this territory. Vast rolling grooves, dubby chords, lingering atmospheres and tense, meandering strings gradually converge into a dense and immersive whole. Rather than relying on obvious peaks and drops, the mix allows its individual elements to bleed into one another, creating a sense of movement that feels greater than the sum of its parts. The result is a carefully constructed journey through deep, spacious club music, where rhythm, texture and atmosphere continually shift and interact. Elektra -------------------- SC: @elektra_sound IG: www.instagram.com/elektra_sound_ Four Four Magazine 
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Dundalk-based producer and DJ cälpol returns with It Gets Lonely in Hyperspace, a euphoric yet introspective cut blending hard house grooves with trance-influenced energy. Available as a free download. Driving 142 BPM drums, soaring stabs, fragmented vocals and metallic sci-fi FX collide with distant atmospherics, capturing the feeling of euphoria and connection against a backdrop of distance and isolation. cälpol -------------------------- IG: www.instagram.com/calpol.mg/ @calpolmg Four Four Magazine --------------------------- FB: www.facebook.com/FOURFOURDANCE/ IG: www.instagram.com/fourfourmagazine/ Web: www.fourfourmag.com/

Derry’s Connor Young digs deep into the darker end of techno for Local Selection 314, drawing on years spent chasing the sound across dancefloors. Rooted in the darker side of electronic music and shaped by years spent immersed in dimly lit rooms and packed dancefloors, Connor Young’s sound is driven by a deep connection to club culture and the energy of the dancefloor. His sonic palette is eclectic, moving across house, electro, breaks and beyond, but deep, trudging and hypnotic techno is where his heart lies. For Connor, it is more than a sound. It’s a feeling and an ethos. He has immersed himself in the culture surrounding the music, travelling far & wide for parties and absorbing the different ways it can be presented, from the mechanics of tension and release within a DJ set to the more physical relationship between sound, space and movement. That experience feeds directly back into his approach at home in Derry. Behind the decks, Connor is concerned with how a room moves, flows and feels, building sets that develop organically while maintaining a strong sense of tension and momentum. Connor is also a driving force behind Mosaic, the Derry-based collective and event series he co-founded. Built around a shared passion for stripped-back club experiences, Mosaic aims to create intimate, forward-thinking events while providing a platform for emerging and established artists pushing their sound forward. For his local selection, Connor digs deep into a cavernous strain of minimal, stripped-back and muscular techno. Beginning with dizzying, hypnotic sounds before slipping into warped, slippery minimalism and gradually giving way to more driving, ’90s-adjacent cuts. It is a sound shaped through long nights spent in dark rooms, refined through years of listening, travelling and dancing, tried and tested, without the b******t. Real techno, made to make you move. Connor Young -------------------- IG: www.instagram.com/connoryoung22 SC: @connor-young-84799804 Four Four Magazine 
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This week’s Local Selection comes from burgeoning young artist JOR, who weaves potent strains of trance, techno and bounce into a high-energy package that nods to the past while looking towards where the sound can go next. JOR has been making his mark on Ireland’s rapidly evolving club landscape, with a growing presence across the country and a sound that brings together techno, trance and hard bounce into something built for high-intensity moments. His productions channel a pacey, euphoric and physical energy, leaning into the tension-and-release dynamics that sit at the heart of a great dancefloor record. With millions of streams across platforms and growing support from DJs across the world, JOR is quickly establishing himself as a producer with a sharp understanding of what makes a dancefloor move. His rise has been matched by an increasingly recognisable approach behind the decks: fast, forceful and unrelenting. For his Local Selection mix, JOR brings together nostalgic trance influences with the raw energy of modern hard dance, moving through euphoric melodies, driving rhythms and high-impact bursts. Fast-paced and dynamic, the mix captures the tenacity that has become a defining feature of JOR’s sound, both in the studio and behind the decks. JOR IG: www.instagram.com//jor_music SC: @jor_musicc Four Four Magazine 
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Sharpson returns with a Trance infused Speed Garage banger: Taste. The Irish-born, London based producer has drawn inspiration from classic trance acts such as Tiesto, Chicane and Underworld and brought it to the contemporary landscape of modern dance music with a high tempo Speed Garage bassline. Moving away from his usual Jungle and Breakbeat influences, Taste harkens back to his formative years as a Trance-lover growing up in Dublin City. The arpeggiated melodies and repetitive vocals sit this track would nicely fit in with the early 00’s Ministry of Sound and Gatecrasher compilation albums which formulated the producer’s love for electronic music growing up. In terms of releases, the multi-genre producer and DJ has seen releases on the likes of Dirtybird, Solamente, Snatch! and more recently Southpoint and Hot Cake’s Breakbeat sister label Hardcore Energy. Notably, his tracks find support from luminaries like Skream, KiNK, Nastia, Four Tet, Deborah De Luca, Ed Solo, Riva Starr, Spartaque and have found a home on platforms such as BBC Radio1, Rinse FM, Boiler Room, HÖR, Ministry of Sound and more. Taste drops on the 28th of August on his label, Choki Biki Records. SHARPSON ----------------- SC: @sharpsonmusic IG: www.instagram.com/sharpsonmusic Choki Biki Records -------------------------- @chokibikirecords Four Four Magazine --------------------------- FB: www.facebook.com/FOURFOURDANCE/ IG: www.instagram.com/fourfourmagazine/ Web: www.fourfourmag.com/

For the latest edition of our Local Selection series, we welcome Dublin DJ Dylan Shields, aka The Dogfather, to the mix with a spinning selection of smoggy house cuts. At just 21 years old, Dylan has been behind the decks for nearly three years, developing a sound rooted in house music with a growing pull towards darker, deeper territory. His approach is as much about the people around the music as it is the music itself. Placing community, friendship and creating shared experiences at the heart of what it means to be a DJ. Dylan cites Dublin scene pioneer Eric Brown as a major inspiration, highlighting his selfless approach to supporting those around him and making sure everyone has a place at the table. That same ethos runs through Dylan’s own perspective: being part of the scene, rather than simply being in it, and recognising that the moments away from the decks can be just as important as those behind them. Alongside DJing, Dylan has recently begun developing his own productions, with a recent release on Foundations Records and more new material in the works for the months ahead. For this Local Selection guest mix, the young selector delves into murkier, more hypnotic realms of house, weaving together cavernous rolling rhythms, descending chords, string sections and two-stepping grooves. It’s a heads-down approach, with each track melting seamlessly into the next to create a cauldron of smouldering, gnarly sounds. a mix you can sink your teeth into, before slowly finding yourself submerged in the dark, hypnotic ether. IG: www.instagram.com/thedogfather.ie SC: @user-250903053 Four Four Magazine 
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Lorcan Kelly is a young and fast rising talent from Ireland who comfortably sits at the inter- section between house and techno just like we love it and is delivering his strongest work yet for his Safe Space debut EP. 5 quirky originals with shuffled 90's and 00's rhythms and dubby chord stabs. Together with remixes by label boss Ackermann and Aero this pack leaves no prisoners and no floor need untouched. Lorcan Kelly --------------- SC: @lorcan_kelly IG: www.instagram.com/lorcan_kelly Safe Space SC: @safe-space-techno IG: www.instagram.com/safe_space_records Four Four Magazine 
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Karlaa soundtracks Local Selection 311, bringing her lifelong connection to rave culture to the mix for a high-energy power hour. Hailing from Galway, Karlaa is a 29-year-old DJ who has spent the past two years carving out her place within Ireland’s club culture circuit. Her musical palette leans towards high-octane sounds, unapologetically anchored in the emotional side of rave, a sound shaped as much by nostalgia as it is by the harder, more futuristic and contemporary edges of trance. Coming from a family heavily involved in the ’90s rave scene at the peak of the free party movement, she was raised on the music, energy and culture that defined a generation of underground dance music. Those early influences remain at the core of her approach to DJing today. Her selections are driven by momentum, with big melodies and tougher rhythmic elements working together to create sets that feel both euphoric and relentless. There is a clear nostalgic thread running through her sound, but rather than simply recreating the rave music she grew up with, Karla uses those references as a foundation for something distinctly current. That balance between nostalgia and progression is central to Karlaa’s approach. Her music draws on the freedom and intensity of rave culture while embracing the sounds and aesthetics of a new generation of electronic music. The result is a DJ style that feels equally connected to the past and the present — high-energy, emotional and made for the dancefloor. For this Local Selection Mix, Karlaa brings that perspective into the mix, moving through hard-edged trance, euphoric melodies, acid and bounce. It is a snapshot of where her sound is heading: driving, nostalgic and unapologetically rave-focused. Karlaa 
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Step into Nancy Wilde’s deep, chugging and effortlessly tripped-out world as she soundtracks Local Selection 310: a hypnotic trip through rolling prog, psychedelic grooves and kaleidoscopic rhythms built for the dancefloor’s twilight hours. Nancy Wilde is a Portugal-born, Ireland-based DJ, radio host and curator whose sets drift between cosmic disco, italo, deep house, acid and more. She is renowned for creating atmospheric, instinctual excursions that strike a chord between hypnotic rhythms and haunting, after-hours intensity. She is the host of Time Capsule and Polar Disco Radio on Flirt FM. Nancy has brought her distinctive sound to venues across Europe, performing at Koncept in Zagreb, Lemonade in Budva, Kosovo Kolektiv Radio in Prizren, Agimi Underground in Tirana, Chillin Bar in Skopje, Collect Radio (Cais do Sodré) in Lisbon, and Frecuencia in Madrid Nancy’s contribution to the Local Selection Mix series is a fevered blend of kaleidoscopic, tripped-out prog and psychedelic earworms. Mixed with the intuition of someone always thinking three tracks ahead, it unfolds as a seamless journey into dense, humid atmospheres where tribal drums pulse with a life of their own and long, sprawling synths stretch endlessly across rolling rhythms. The result evokes the feeling of stumbling into a hidden clearing at 8am on the final morning of a festival. Blazing sun overhead, scattered bodies submerged in hypnotic grooves, and time dissolving into the music. Nancy Wilde 
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Emerging producer AOIFE announces the release of their debut EP, a dark and hypnotic collection that explores deeply personal themes through powerful low-end pressure, immersive textures and driving rhythms. Drawing inspiration from the techno traditions of Detroit, Birmingham and Spain, the record also incorporates subtle influences from the UK's broken beat and bass music scenes. The release is further strengthened by remix contributions from Anna Kost and label boss RVDMNTL. Anna Kost reimagines the original with a stripped-back, lo-fi approach, introducing dubstep-inspired elements while retaining the EP's atmospheric intensity. AOIFE ------------------ SC: @aoife_ie IG: www.instagram.com/aoife_ie RVDMNTL --------------- IG: https://www.instagram.com/incenserecords SC: @rvdmntlincense Four Four Magazine --------------------------- FB: www.facebook.com/FOURFOURDANCE/ IG: www.instagram.com/fourfourmagazine/ Web: www.fourfourmag.com/