TSVI’s Dance Tripping EP channels London rave roots into minimal club grooves

TSVI has used Dance Tripping to make a sharp creative correction. Released on April 17, 2026, the five-track EP moves him away from the percussion-first approach he has been known for and into a more exacting zone built on sound design, texture, movement and club functionality. For readers watching minimal techno’s edges blur into tech-house, the record feels like a useful signal: the groove is still the engine, but the detail work is now doing more of the talking.

The London backstory gives that shift real weight. TSVI said the title points to DanceTrippingTV, a pre-Boiler Room YouTube channel for DJ sets, and that revisiting that era helped him re-learn tech-house’s lineage. He also linked the EP to his own formative nights in the city, from his first New Year’s Eve in London at a Wiggle party in a skyscraper to one of his earliest club experiences, the first Fuse party at 93 Feet East in Brick Lane. Those memories sit inside the record rather than outside it, as if the EP is trying to translate old-floor euphoria into cleaner, more controlled club tools.

The sequencing makes that intent easy to hear. Music is Moving opens with a high-energy surge, built around a groovy bassline, UK garage swing and a restless lead that keeps reaching for a euphoric payoff. The Wasp Track pulls the mood tighter, using pitched-down leads and rolling tech-house tension. The title track strips things back further, leaning into loopy analog textures and hypnotic repetition before the final two cuts, Kataklisma and Turbo Motion, push the release into heavier terrain with reeses and harder beats. It is not a fixed mood piece; it keeps pivoting between lift, tension and pressure.

That range matters because TSVI arrives here with plenty of history behind him. Resident Advisor identifies him as Guglielmo Barzacchini, an Italian DJ and producer based in London, and notes that he co-founded Nervous Horizon and launched the Anunaku project in 2019. His debut album Inner Worlds came out in October 2018. Nervous Horizon itself, founded in 2015 by TSVI and Tommy Wallwork, grew into a key force in London club music, with DJ Mag tracing their partnership back to a queue at Fabric in 2012. Dance Tripping therefore reads less like a side step than a label-head statement, one that folds London’s rave memory into a sharper, more polished set of minimal club grooves.