CHRIS ANDERSEN - Funkin Maniac

Techno craftsman Andrei Morant holds a focus as sharp and abductive as his sound.  A paramount figure in the Houston underground since the early 90s, the North American artist also known as Jack Mackrel quickly established himself as a professional.  Morant started DJing in 1986, and only three years after his first gig in 1990, embarked on his production career.  Over 50 releases later, he is now recognized world round for his catalog of insurgent beats, and is featured on respected labels such as Planet Rhythm Records , Starkstrom Schallplatten, and Gynoid Audio.  Never faltering in his commitment to innovative techno, Morant unleashed a creature of his own machination – Scope Recordings.   His new label and recent production endeavors reflect his weighty history, as well as his knowledge of avant media and style, resulting in a finely tailored, powerful impression.

*Tracklist not available

5 Questions Interview:

1.  You've been around as a DJ for a long time, starting in 1986.  What was the impetus for starting back then and what kind of music were you playing?       

I started playing the drums at a very early age, 3 or 4 years old i think, by the time I was 15 I had really gotten into dance music, being introduced to it by my older brother and his friends, they where avid clubbers and collectors of records. I basically became the resident d.j. at all of their house parties, which where about twice a week.  I was playing all the typical 80's dance tracks from the time.

2.  Fast forward 28 years and here you are, still at it.  In fact, this Studio Session you just played at a certain well known club in Berlin is clear evidence.  How was that show, and in all your time as a DJ, how does it rank?       

It was great, staff is extremely professional and accommodating. The crowd is intense and very responsive, everyone there dances their ass off!!  I will say that playing from 9 am till noon on a Sunday afternoon is a different experience all together.  As far as how I would rank it, man I really have no idea.  I've had so many great gigs over the years, it's really hard to make a list.  But it'd definitely be way up there.

3)  Being involved in DJing and producing Techno for as long as you have, are there times where you've ever wanted to walk away from it?       

Yeah, actually I have walked away twice.  The first time was in about 1993 I quit for about three years, I still dabbled in the studio but was not really active in the music scene. Then in 2004 I quit again, I had extremely busy years before and kind of got burnt out.  The lifestyle is a lot harder then most people imagine.  I think it's important to have a balance  between family life and your music career, and I feel now i can do it the way I want, take the gigs I want, make the music I want ,when I want to.  Music is not my career it's my hobby now and I have a lot more freedom and have a clearer head, no pressure.

 4)  What's your message to people when it comes to staying inspired and interested in all things Techno?         

For me it's just finding those tracks, you know the ones you hear and you say to your self "Well shit, back to the drawing board for me". Those are the thing that keep me inspired.  There are thousands of great techno producers out there and everyone of them is an inspiration to me.

5) Here at From 0-1 we are happy to have you on board as an artist, not only for this exclusive podcast, but also as a remixer for Milkplant's 'This is not Reality' 12" EP coming midyear.  Are there any other notable releases you have in the works you can leak to us right now?

Ha ha, you should have asked me two months ago, I had tons of releases , 'Falling Down' on my imprint Scope Recordings, and 'Density' also on Scope.  A great E.P. 'No Sterile Plans' on Take More Music, also I just had my debut release on Naked Lunch "Game Over".  A remix for DJ Shiva on Different is Different, remix for Unn on Teggno, pretty much all in the last 6 weeks. I do have about 4 E.P.'s I'm compiling for other labels right now but I can't really go into them. Oh! I'm returning to one of my my old label groups run by a very good friend of mine from the late 90's, currently working on some 133 bpm bangers that will be sure to "PUNISH" some dance floors. Very excited about that. All in all i can say that I am having a blast, and really excited about the future.


Andrei Morant (Live in Berlin)- From 0-1 Studio Session Vol 067

Sinestro - Plastik Toys Angel Alanis Maria Goetz Remix (Clip) (Chicago JAXX)

Hats off to @clonedzach (*Zach Williams*) for influencing the vibe of this set. 👊🤠
Track List Available on all sets to support producers of this fine music.
Track List: After Hours Architect
Title	   Artist	Label
-Purple Soul (Original Mix) @carlolio	SCI+TEC
-Rage (Alfred Heinrichs Remix) @carloruetz Clepsydra
-Propaganda (Original Mix)	Single Cell Scope Recordings
-You Got To Be Grooving (Original Mix) @djborisnyc Rawthentic
-Break It Down (Original Mix) @djborisnyc,@carlolio Truesoul
-Disturb The Bird (@garybeck Remix) Harvey McKay Soma Records
-IWANNA (Original Mix)	@adrianhour	Mindshake Records
-The Urge (@harryromero Remix) Christian Smith Tronic
-Shake (Original Mix) @jewelkid, @djborisnyc	Alleanza
-Divergence (@carloruetz Remix) Stiv Hey, Ricky Ebner Moonplay Records
-Mimosa (Original Mix)	@d_unity	Hi Tek Records
-Ten Days of Falling (Original Mix) Dutek, Tanori Catamount Records
-Jar (Original Mix)	@alexmineofc Waveform Recordings

After Hours Architect

Quarks - Unreleased - pre

Steel Grooves DJ Promo 08/2024
Tracklist TBC

CTR Sessions 8_2024

Steel Grooves_CTR Sessions_08-2024

Happy Christmas and Seasonal Greetings all! 

Here's a treat for ya, recorded at the 2nd Tribology event at The Cause in London back in May 2024, this is our all night B2B session in full. Featuring Techno in all it's various guises, plus Acid House, Rave Days faves and more, collected and selected by two of the UK's finest mixologists, enjoy!

The next Tribology is on Feb 8th at The Cause, in the top room and is an all night B2B with myself and the amazing, Josey Rebelle. Tickets available here: https://ra.co/events/2065467

Ben Sims B2B Jerome Hill @ Tribology, The Cause, London. May 2024

Out With The Old EP

Friends Like These

Steel Grooves / Capital Techno Recordings /Austin TX. / 512

Put this in your pipe and smoke it… 

1. Mauro Picotto - Asian Bells - Alchemy
2. Arnaud Le Texier - Ribosome - Children of Tomorrow 
3. Programma 101 - New Droid (Ket Robinson rmx) KR Rec
4. Sigvard - Tempest - Children of Tomorrow 
5. Lars Huismann - Submerged - Mutual Rytm
6. Luciano Esse - Scream - Children of Tomorrow 
7. Obscure Shape - Leave Me Alone - Clergy
8. Hermann Bravo & Mr. Coalman - Rave Wars - Transfiguration Rec
9. MarAxe - Agenda - Naked Lunch 
10. Goncalo M - Black Ops - Intuition Rec
11. Steel Grooves - Rhythm Cycle - UKR Promo
12. Sandro Mure - Back To the Rhythm - Transfiguration Rec
13. Axel Karakasis - Timed Flight - Suara
14. Luciano Esse - Melting - Suara
15. Andy BSK & Sandro Mure - Mehr Nodle Bitte - Transfiguration Rec
16. Frank Biazzi - Electrik - Tronic 
17. A.P. - Detached - Refined Format
18. Sandro Mure - Tribal A - Transfiguration Rec
19. MarAxe - Terminate - Neuroshocked
20. Goncalo M - Digital Vortex - Intuition Rec
21. Luciano Esse - Money Transfer - Beardman
22. Steel Grooves - Rhythm Section - Unreleased 
23. Sandro Mure - No Chance - Transfiguration Rec
24. Steel Grooves - Fire & Brimstone - Keep On Techno
25. Eric Sneo - Ancient Power - MOD
26. Steel Grooves- Red Dawn - Capital Techno
27. Glenn Wilson- Vodik - Compound (UK) 
28. Jean Agoria - Independenza (Steel Grooves rmx) - Yin Yang
29. Polyvinyl - Da Flute - 1605
30. Steel Grooves - Isolator - Keep On Techno

Steel Grooves_Summer_2025_CTR Sessions

Track List

1. Nothing Is Happening - Angel Alanis & Maria Goetz
2. Ruff Cut (Original Mix) - Exos
3. Targa - Kamen
4. Dope Shit - Angel Alanis & Maria Goetz
5. My Soul - Angel Alanis & Maria Goetz
6. Sensation of Raw (Original Mix) - Oscar Escapa, Lostrego
7. Navigator - Angel Alanis & Maria Goetz
8. One Finger - Dj Dextro_RE EDIT
9. Clap Your Hands - Justin Neal
10. Combination (Original Mix) - Mark Broom, Thomas Hoffknecht
11. As Clouds Vaporate (R.M.K Remix) - Qindek
12. Speleon (Ben Sims Remix) - Cave
13. Syndrome Control (Original Mix) - Gene Richards Jr
14. What i Want (Original Mix) - Marck D
15. INYOMOUF (FILTHYMIX) - Mezer (the architect)
16. Test ride - Angel Alanis & Maria Goetz

Angel Alanis - Maria Goetz - Spring Mix 2025

Me and Ben thought it would be fun to play a long DJ set together at Globus, the upstairs floor at Tresor in Berlin. 
We last played together (as Frequency 7) in May 2013. This time we played a ‘back to back’ DJ set, I’m pretty sure playing 2 tracks each for the whole six and a half hour set. All we had in mind beforehand was to start with some Dub and ‘see where it goes’. 

It was a lot of fun so we wanted to share the recording with you.



Ben Sims b2b Surgeon at Globus, Berlin 10th of May, 2025

Tribal Sides 1 + 2 (mixtape)

Test Two Side 1 (mixtape)

Test Two Side 2 (mixtape)

Area 51 March 25 1995 Side A (mixtape)

Area 51 March 25 1995 Side B (mixtape)

Prog 2 - Side 1 (mixtape)

🤘😛🤘I Was a DJ For Many Years...I Had a Few Gigs In The Downtown Core of TORONTO, ONTARIO, Where I Was Part of The Underground/Warehouse Nightlife Club Industry Scene For Nearly 30 Years! & I Also Had Gigs at Many After Parties & Events In My Stompin Grounds of Sudbury, Ontario aka Da Big Nickel!!....I Always Loved Droppin The Underground Vibes of The Finest In TECHNO & HOUSE MUZIK 2 Offer For My People aka My Crowd, Back In The Day!......My Genre - THE TECHNO SIDE: Bangin, Funky, Italian, Tribal & German.....THE HOUSE SIDE: Progressive, Electro, Jackin, Tech, Chicago, Funky, Disco & Acid!🤩💯🫵

💋💯💓𝗝𝗘𝗦𝗦𝗜𝗞𝗔 𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗜𝗘 𝗟𝗨𝗠: 𝗠𝗬 𝗪𝗜𝗙𝗘, 𝗠𝗬 𝗥𝗜𝗗𝗘 𝗢𝗥 𝗗𝗜𝗘, 𝗠𝗬 𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗡𝗘𝗥 𝗜𝗡 𝗖𝗥𝗜𝗠𝗘, 𝗠𝗬 𝗕𝗙𝗙 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗟𝗜𝗙𝗘!😍😀🙏

💯😍ℙ𝕣𝕠𝕦𝕕 𝕊𝕥𝕖𝕡𝔽𝕒𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣 𝕋𝕠 𝔼𝕄𝕀𝕃𝕐, 𝕂𝕀ℝ𝕂 & ℂℍ𝕃𝕆𝔼 𝕒𝕜𝕒 𝕄𝕪 ℂ𝕙𝕝𝕠𝕖𝔹𝕖𝕒𝕟 & ℙ𝕣𝕠𝕦𝕕 𝔾𝕣𝕒𝕟𝕕𝕡𝕒 𝕋𝕠 𝕄𝕪 𝕃𝕚𝕝 𝕁𝕒𝕓𝕣𝕠𝕟𝕚 𝕃𝔼𝕆ℕ & 𝕄𝕪 ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕣𝕝𝕠𝕥𝕥𝕖'𝕤 𝕎𝕖𝕓❤️😃

💯𝙏𝒉𝒆 𝙇𝒊𝒇𝒆 & 𝙎𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝙀𝒍𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒄 𝙐𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒈𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝙈𝒖𝒛𝒊𝒌 𝙄𝒔 𝙈𝒚 𝙇𝒊𝒇𝒆🙌

🫶💯😜......A Special Thanks Over The Years of Being a DJ and being Involved With The Underground Sound of ELECTRONIC MUZIK and Being Apart of The Club/Warehouse Industry Scene In Toronto!, What a Journey It Was To Say The Least! And Too These DJ'z & Producers Who Made That Happen & Were a Huge Inspiration Towards Me & To The Few Who I Was Very Close With and To Some I Had The Pleasure of Opening Up For at Several Venues, Plus The Late Late Nights.....Kenny Glasgow, Paul Van Toss - (THE PIT RECORDS), Eugene Tam (OWNER of PLAY DE RECORD), Rawle Dawes - R.I.P. - (TRAXX RECORDS & THE PIT RECORDS), Nasty Nav - (PLAY DE RECORD), Miz Megz, Lady Bass, Mz Demeaner, Sydney Blu, Mike Conradi, Paranoid Jack, Josh The Funky 1, Mio Rodic, DJ K-West - (METROPOLIS/METROGROOVE RECORDS), Joee Cons, Jason Palma (PLAY DE RECORD), Brock Edwards, Greg Gow, Goldfinger, Jeff Hurst, Rob Gregorini, Giovanni James, Livingstone Diamond, Christisn Poulsen a.k.a. Unabomber - (2 DA BEAT RECORDS), Chad Sparrow a.k.a. Kamikaze, Pat Boogie, Jeff Dufresne a.k.a. Navigator, Chris Sheppard, Jerome Robins - (RELEASE RECORDS), Joe Giuseppe, MC Flipside - (TRAXX RECORDS), Michael Babb a.k.a. Deko-ze - (EASTERN BLOC RECORDS), Josh Obront a.k.a. Jelo, Chris Vench, Bruce Churchill a.k.a. Ela Mental, Che Dubois, Kim of Diamonds, George a.k.a. Hatiras - (SPACEDISCO RECORDS), Mark Oliver, Christian Lawrence a.k.a. Lairdriver, DJ Impact, Rekka, DJ Elycit, Jayforce, Mark Grimace, Evan Gee, David John Castonguay, Patrick Wilcox a.k.a. Patrixx, Sean Crandall a.k.a. Stattixx & Matt Shaw a.k.a. LIMIX🫵💯......and Last But Not Least, most importantly, there is one final person i would like to send a huge shout out to, and that freaky funkin unique crazy mutha fuckin dj/old skool friend of mine for many many years, would be nothing more than the legendary!, DJ MYKAL MAYHEM aka MYKAL POIRIER a.k.a. Psyko Myko!!, who hails from the same stompín grounds as myself and that is the big nickel aka Sudbury & Chelmsford, Ontario, if there is any indication on who was a huge inspiration to me and gave me the introduction when it came to the real underground sound of electronic muzik, clubs, warehouse venues and every record shop in the heart of downtown TORONTO and most of all tought me the ropes on how to spín vinyl on the tech 1200'z!, it was Mykal. I watched this dancefloor destroyer throw down some intense raw, jackin, groovin boogie monster bangin sets at many parties/venues in our hometown of SUDBURY! back in the late 90'z and early 2000'z, and he is mostly known for throwing down the true sounds of Bangin Ass Rapin, Driving Chuggy Techno & Jackin House with some Funk, Disco & Dutch to go along with the mix. Today he is groovin & movin around in the city of k-dub aka Kitchener, Ontario where he is still droppin dope sets & keepin dem beatz slammin like nobodies bíznass in the nightlife scene downtown Waterloo!

Prog 2 - Side 1 (mixtape)

Chris Anderson _

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