Bogdan Raczynski Drops Modular-Driven Minimal Techno EP Blending IDM and Club Textures

Bogdan Raczynski quietly dropped 10026ada on Bandcamp yesterday, a two-track EP that clocks in at just under seventeen and a half minutes and lands at the intersection of minimal techno, electro, and IDM.

The release carries two long-form tracks: 100260403ada at 9:55 and 100260404ada at 7:37. Bandcamp credits and notes point to a hardware-heavy recording session built around a specific constellation of modular and small-format gear: Bastl instruments, Clank modular, Modbap nano modules, New Systems instruments, Plinky, Xodes, and a Torso S-4. That list reads less like studio inventory and more like a performance rig, and the track titles, framed as numbered issues of an ongoing modular experiment, reinforce the idea that what you're hearing is live takes rather than assembled edits inside a DAW.

For anyone who has followed Raczynski since his Rephlex years in the late 1990s, the direction here is consistent with a discography that has never been easy to categorize. He came up in a label context shaped by braindance and the stranger edges of UK rave culture, but 10026ada arrives with RateYourMusic and Discogs tagging it across minimal techno, electro, and IDM simultaneously. That triple classification is not a cataloguing confusion; it is actually a fairly accurate description of what Raczynski does when he points modular hardware at club structures. The grooves are long enough to be functional for a DJ, but the textural restlessness keeps them planted firmly in listening-piece territory.

The run times matter for how this material sits in a set. At 9:55 and 7:37, these tracks are built for patience: slow builds, atmospheric density, and the kind of hypnotic repetition that works as a bridge or a late-night filler rather than a peak-hour tool. Anyone working the 3am-to-close window of a deeper minimal set will find obvious utility here.

What makes the release interesting beyond its sound is the workflow it implies. The gear list, specifically the presence of instruments like Plinky and the Modbap nano modules alongside more established Clank and Bastl systems, suggests a deliberately hybrid approach where pitch, rhythm, and texture are generated and shaped in parallel rather than sequenced and arranged in a conventional sense. That process tends to produce material that breathes differently from quantized production, with timing and dynamics that shift in ways a DAW grid will not generate naturally.

10026ada is available as a digital download in FLAC and MP3 directly through Raczynski's Bandcamp page. Collectors tracking his catalog can find it confirmed in Discogs with the April 5, 2026 release date. It is a short addition to a long and genuinely strange discography, and that is precisely what makes it worth the seventeen minutes.