Max HeyraudLimerick’s Jon10 has unveiled his latest project, his new conceptual techno imprint, Relic, emerging from the overlap of club culture and Irish cultural memory.
Relic is a framework for connecting techno’s forward momentum with the weight of ancient Irish history and symbolism. It proposes a slower, more deliberate relationship to electronic music at a time when release cycles are increasingly compressed, and attention spans are increasingly fragmented.
Jon10 curates each release with a focus on conceptual continuity as much as sound design. Relic draws from techno’s early ideological roots, its emphasis on repetition, machine logic, and spatial immersion, while reframing those ideas through a distinctly Irish lens of heritage, ritual, and material culture.
The term “relic” traditionally refers to objects that carry historical or spiritual significance into the present; it becomes a guiding principle for the imprint’s catalogue. Each record is intended to function as a durable object within a wider narrative, rather than a standalone moment in a fast-moving feed.
That philosophy is reflected most clearly in Relic’s commitment to vinyl. Records are positioned as tactile experiences, objects that require engagement, care, and time, reinforcing the idea that music can exist outside of immediacy and disposability.
Across its emerging output, Relic frames itself as an ideology as much as a platform. It is not anchored to trends or seasonal cycles, but to longevity, continuity, and the persistence of cultural memory within electronic music. In that sense, it aligns itself with a broader strain of techno that treats the genre not as a stylistic category, but as an evolving tradition, one that is constantly rewritten, yet never fully detached from its origins.
