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Harre's Timeless003 Arrives on Beatport, Targeting Minimal Techno Selectors

Harre's Timeless003 landed on Beatport on March 28, the third release in five months from Berlin's TIMELESS By 925 and a direct continuation of the label's vinyl-minded minimal house template.

Nina Kowalski2 min read
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Harre's Timeless003 Arrives on Beatport, Targeting Minimal Techno Selectors
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Three entries in five months is a deliberate pace by anyone's measure, and TIMELESS By 925 has earned it. Harre's Timeless003, live on Beatport since March 28, is the Berlin imprint's latest catalogue entry in a tightly sequenced run that opened with TIMELESS001 in November 2025 and continued with ROTSCH's TIMELESS002 on January 30, 2026. Released roughly two months apart, each entry has built a picture of what this label is and is not.

That picture is legible from the first catalogue number. TIMELESS By 925 operates under a clear curatorial brief: functional, stripped-back, vinyl-informed house music produced by artists embedded in the same working-class DJ circuit the label calls home. The collective describes itself as "a crew of Berlin friends balancing day jobs and house music dreams," running parties and a radio programme called 925 Jams alongside the releases. The imprint is not trying to flood the feed.

The sonic DNA established by ROTSCH's Timeless002 made the template explicit. That EP was built from "kick, hat, clap, bass, chords, vocal," with the label specifying it was mixed and mastered "strictly in vinyl-cut mode" and that "modern sounds and polished techniques are intentionally left aside." The brief is late-1990s minimal house, raw and functional.

Harre's Timeless003 is a continuation, not a pivot. Harre draws on classic house swing crossed with minimal textures, landing precisely inside the intersection of Beatport's Minimal, Deep Tech, and House taxonomies where TIMELESS By 925 has staked its territory. Juno's separate classification of the release as Funky/Club House adds a useful qualifier: this is not the austere, near-beatless end of minimal. It carries swing, which changes how and where it plays.

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For selectors, that distinction determines placement. Timeless003 is built for the middle hour of a small-club or late-night festival slot, not the opening approach or the closing push. Harre's minimal-house axis rewards long transitions rather than short cuts: where Beatport provides key and BPM data, harmonic matching can sustain the mix across several minutes without breaking the spell. The practical move is to bring it in after something leaner and more hypnotic, let the swing gradually open the room, then step toward material with a more pronounced low-end or a denser chord structure. Imprints working the same late-1990s-informed groove sit naturally on either side of it in a selector's crate.

The March 28 Beatport landing is well-timed. Spring is the window when DJs are most actively refreshing sets ahead of outdoor season, and a catalogue-stamped Beatport listing makes Timeless003 immediately discoverable and purchasable in a single click.

The larger signal from Timeless003 is that TIMELESS By 925 has locked its identity across three releases with unusual speed. Boutique labels often spend years finding their sound. This one found it on the first number and has not drifted. Harre's entry confirms the formula rather than testing it.

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