With his new album, his first in six years, Yore Records founder Andy Vaz makes an impressive case for timeless house music. We caught up with the Düsseldorf-based producer right before he went straight vacationing.

Andy Vaz is a man attached to distant places. One is India, where part of his family is from and where Vaz travels once a year, the other is Detroit, his secret musical home. In the geographic middle between the two lies Düsseldorf, the West-German city known as the home of Kraftwerk and the focal point of Andy Vaz's musical endeavours. Since 1998 Andy Vaz has been busy running...

For this week's podcast we're pleased to have a true veteran player show off his skills and eclectic music taste: Christian Kreuz a.k.a. Dakar. Originally hailing from Munich, Dakar has been a resident DJ in the city's legendary Ultraschall club for eight years and has recorded his music for labels such as Get Physical, Disko B, and most recently Gomma. Many will further know the charismatic neo-Berliner as part of Dakar & Grinser, the electro pop...