Lars Huismann

Berlin-based producer and DJ Lars Huismann began his techno journey in 2011, though his musical roots run deeper – a trained drummer from the age of eleven, he moved through jazz, fusion and progressive metal before translating that rhythmic instinct into electronic production. That percussive foundation still defines his work. In 2015 he founded his own label, LHR, releasing raw, warehouse-leaning techno with a release party at Berlin's Tresor. Over the following years his sound sharpened across EPs for Soma – Slam's long-running Glasgow institution – where "Infinite Dimension" (2019) and "Embraced By Shadows" (2020) established him as a producer of hard-hitting, futuristic techno.

His signature crystallized on Mutual Rytm, where the three-part "Sounds From The Past" series (2022-2023) marked the point at which Huismann found the aesthetic he'd been reaching for: early-2000s techno rebuilt through tape recording, hardware filtering and sampling, filtered through his own perspective rather than mere revival. "Catharsis" (2024) pushed that language into harder, darker territory without surrendering its depth.

On the "Mechanized" EP (Monnom Black, 2024) – his debut for Dax J's label – Huismann moves fully into Dub & tribal techno, treating it as a hinge between the genre's strands and its darker edges. While hardgroove has dominated recent attention, his aim isn't to join that current; drawing instead on the deeper roots of tribal rhythm, a return to the drumming that shaped him. A second Monnom Black EP follows in summer 2026.