X-TRA.SERVICES: Lea Occhi / Sev Dah / LYDO / Alex Kassian / JADALAREIGN / Dee Diggs at Basement - Friday, May 2 2025 | Discotech

Sev Dah makes his debut at BASEMENT for X-TRA.Services. Active since the late ‘90s, Dah’s righteously grimy tracks sound like they’re caked in a few layers of soot and ash. His vision encompasses the raw urgency of punk, the severity of harder, warehouse strains of techno and the funk of electro. Some producers imagine a post-apocalyptic future as inspiration for their worldbuilding, but Sev Dah’s ruthless, jacking tracks suggest we’re already living in the aftermath. If that sounds bleak, Dah finds plenty of radiance in the shadows. Lea Occhi is a French-born, German based DJ who is a co-founder of the Spectrum Waves party series. Advancing an agenda of queer liberation and pulsating, raw techno, Occhi’s creatine and DJing is tinged with a radicalized energy. She draws on the uncanny and hypnotic, but keeping a propulsive drive that rivetes the dancefloor. LYDO returns to the room to do what they do best: rippling techno that dances on the knife’s edge between frenetic catharsis and blissful submersion. Alex Kassian joins from Berlin. An artist of rare, intuitive talent, Kassian’s work drifts through languid grooves and bright, sun-dappled euphoria, but always with a heartfelt earnestness that catches you off guard. His discography includes an incredible rendition of Manuel Göttsching’s “E2-E4” (with a remix from Mad Professor), the rolling uptempo modern ital of “Voices” and many other moments where penetrating ambience meets dancefloor bliss. JADALAREIGN returns to the room to take you deeper. A true paragon of house music, LAREIGN’s sets swim in heady, dubby textures, explosive jacking percussion and bass so thick it feels like it’s emanating from the ocean floor. Dee Diggs extends the vibe further. Diggs draws on the foundational Black lineages that gave birth to house & techno. “I could actually hear the Black expression coming through all of this music,” she said in an interview, “It's not just happy, it's sad, it’s wistful. It has its own emotional world and its own kind of energy.”