CCL, Regularfantasy, Ploy, Russel E.L Butler

For the first day of the year, we’ve carved a space for feeling and safe passage from the full speed rollers into mind swathing grooves. Local hero Russell E.L. Butler opens the day, guiding the floor with their astute touch through deep house and techno currents, long arcs, and measured releases. Timedance and Hessle Audio regular, Ploy follows, layering subtle tension, textural shifts, and evolving rhythms that move the room from an afternoon haze into the shadows on the night. Vancouverite Regularfantasy glides in next, with bright-eyed rhythms, sparkling piano stabs, and lush percussion, building the haze into a glistening veil of levity. Closing the house down is Berlin-based producer CCL, whose genre-agnostic approach manifests rhythmic wormholes that take listeners through wide expanses of ​​shapeshifting textures, liquefied atmospheres, and buoyant percussion. We can’t think of a better way to start our year than this.