out soon: Steve Rachmad - 3-6-9 EP [Dekmantel]

Artist:
Steve Rachmad

Title:
3-6-9 EP

Label:
Dekmantel

Cat#:
DKMNTL121

Release Date:
19th June 2026

Format:
vinyl, download & streaming

Tracklist:
A1.
3 Creation Energy

A2.
6 Physical Manifestation

B1.
9 Completion And Delivery

Press Info:
One of the true, undisputed pioneers of Dutch techno, Steve Rachmad appears on Dekmantel for an EP of peerless machine music. On the ‘3-6-9’ EP, the artist also known as Sterac, Parallel 9 and many other names plies a powerful trade in funked up, gritty and soulful techno made the proper way.

The connection between Rachmad and Dekmantel reaches back many years via his frequent appearances at the Dekmantel Festival — he has two performances at the 2026 edition as well as sets at Dekmantel Selectors lined up later in the summer. The ‘3-6-9’ EP lands ahead of an album and world tour that marks 45 years in service to electronic music, nodding to Rachmad’s earliest roots in electro funk through to his day- one embrace of house and techno as it made its way across the Atlantic from Chicago and Detroit.

There’s a rowdy, rave-spirited energy to the synth hook bucking its way through the centre of ‘3 Creation Energy’, coming on in brassy tones laced with artful distortion while the drums dutifully jack the way they ought to. There’s a more linear, pressure cooker quality to the tidal filter work guiding ‘6 Physical Manifestation’ to its own energetic peaks, while ‘9 Completion and Delivery’ surfs on coursing waves of arpeggiated lead lines before breaking through to the oceanic calm of grandiose pad tones.

There’s no mystery to unpick here — this is quite simply techno perfection made with the instinct and experience of a master of the form, whose life is synonymous with every inch of the culture.

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