The arrival of — Vexel.

Vexel started cutting at fifteen, on two borrowed CDJs, in a bomb-shelter basement in Maribor that none of the neighbours ever reported. A decade on, the residencies have multiplied — Berlin, Ljubljana, Brussels, Prague — but the principle has not. Keep it physical. Keep it strange. Keep the break long enough that the room has to earn its way back.

The live rig is four-deck now: two CDJs, a modular rig, a Eurorack sequencer running in parallel. Shifts from 138 to 148 mid-set happen without warning. Kick patterns drop out for minutes at a time. Dub chains do the work of the kick. It is, people keep saying, very deliberate, and not for everyone.

First releases on Kontakt Records (Ljubljana) and Schranzwerk (Berlin). A remix for Ultrared on the way. Currently booked through summer — three slots left for autumn.