Born and raised in Tokyo, Risa Taniguchi is the classically trained and skilled musician turned leading techno queen, making a serious impact on the scene with her electrifying releases and DJ sets. Drawing inspiration from the underground scene of her home city, and playing clubs such as Vent, Contact and Womb, Risa is making all the right noises in all the right places.
Dense & Pikaâs Delta System was originally released back in 2015 on their then, fledgeling, Kneaded Pains label. Four years later, and both artist and label have become a tour de force within the techno scene, with Dense & Pika hitting all four corners of the globe with a relentless touring schedule, and the label releasing music from the likes of Eats Everything, Perc, Truncate, Boys Noize and many more.
Dense & Pika launched their imprint Kneaded Pains back in 2014, with a focus on “a shared love of bullish and brazen techno.â Since then acts such as Truncate, VONDA7 and Billy Turner have all offered work through the labels, with the label bosses contributing also of course.
It is the label bosses themselves who join up with label regulars Melodyâs Enemy for an epic collaboration called From Nothing, due out this month. To top it off, Perc takes it to another level with his trademark harder, more streamlined take on the original.
Hailing from Poland but living in Berlin, there is serious buzz around VONDA7 at the moment. Not only has she previously had releases on labels such as RUMORS and Second State, but 2017 has been a key breakthrough period for her, with her debut on Last Night On Earth, the EP Decompression dropping earlier in the year.
Decompression was championed all over, gaining support and playtime everywhere from BPM to Ibiza, with Sasha also picking her as one of his “New Names” for 2017 for Pete Tong on Radio 1. With recent releases on Virgin EMI and Lauter Unfug, sheâs a chameleon producing tracks that both indie and heavyweight labels are loving, but her signature nod to Detroit mixed with trippy techno remains always present.
More recently she has debuted on Kneaded Pains with Cuckoo Night, the start of another exciting chapter for her. Listen to the brand-new release below and read on for our exclusive interview with VONDA7.
