Robert Hood 'Rare Species' mix released on Logistic Records in 2002.  

TRACKLIST
1. Intro - Raekwon
2. Robert Hood 'Stereotype B2'
3. Mark Broom 'Upside Down'
4. Robert Hood 'Technatural B1'
5. Robert Hood 'Dark Room'
6. Pulsinger & Tunakan 'I.O Sustain'
7. John Thomas 'Paint'
8. Robert Hood 'Unix'
9. Rhythm Is Rhythm 'Kaos (Juice Bar mix)'
10. Moments By Murat - white label - 
11. Robert Hood 'Loft'
12. Vice 'Temptations'
13. Robert Hood 'In Basements'
14. John Thomas 'Vision'
15. D. Wachman & HD Sub 'Move My Body'
16. Christian Smith vs Block 'Thors Message'
17. Robert Hood 'Red Passion 3 (B1)'
18. Robert Hood 'Red Passion 2 (B)'
19. Recyled Loops 'Reloop 200'
20. The Cause 'Raid'
21. John Thomas 'Magic'
22. G.M Cole 'Regiment'
23. Robert Hood 'Hard To Kill'
24. Grudge 'Andronicus'
25. Robert Hood 'Technatural (A2)'
26. Robert Hood 'Moveable Parts (untitled)'
27. John Thomas 'Square (Robert Hood remix)'
28. John Bacto remix 3 - DJ G Force (Wild EFX)
29 Outro - GhostFace Killah

Robert Hood 'Rare Species' Mix - from 2002

Kicking off 2025 in the best company as Tokyo-born, Amsterdam-based don Wata Igarashi takes over with a masterclass in pulsating futuristic techno and widescreen sonics. Through a flurry of top-of-the-range releases for the likes of Dekmantel, Kompakt, Figure and his own imprint, WIP, the Japanese producer has been cementing his position as a true innovator of techno music. His unparalleled knack for crafting big-room-ready tunes that engineer a complex cocktail of cutting-edge elegance, modular intuitivity and hi-impact punch has logically made him a much sought-after talent in the scene. Not departing from that polymathic approach, his RYC mix, recorded at the PURE G event at FINAL Taipei on December 7, treats us to a storm of shape-shifting grooves and brutalist fractals of sound. Beware, high voltage.

soundcloud.com/wata

Reclaim Your City

Reclaim Your City 625 | Wata Igarashi

The long running stirrings of Surgeon (Anthony Child) and Regis (Karl O’Connor) under the conjunct British Murder Boys are not for the faint of heart. Their alleged final act came before a Tokyo crowd in 2012, but the goodbye only lasted three years and with their Amsterdam return, a reformulation of their signature industrial sound. The duo, both at their acme with little signs of descent, have together found a hybrid techno that scales high and large, bringing together thumping bass and hissing feedback for a distinctly belligerent and primal club sound. It’s not all obvious, their 2020 cover of Lou Reed’s Real Good Time Together offered a machine-inflected spin on the original, and opened the door for their debut LP Active Agents And House Boys (2024). At the heart is a provocative, sexually-charged and punkish techno that offloads bristling rhythms and defiant energy, one that’s a little more controlled and mathematical in practice. Following on from their show at Bassiani back in November comes this next mix. Bassiani Podcast 250 is an hour-long and live recorded assault: thrashing beats, crazed and bleepy arps, EBM-style shouts, a decadent and rageful call to arms and one of the most important instalments in this long running series. Back-breaking industrial techno from these two heavyweights and originators of the Birmingham sound.

Bassiani invites British Murder Boys [live] / Podcast #250

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

New SPND20 Mixtape in: welcome @annazwerk! 📼

A core member of the SPANDAU20 family, ANNA Z. steps up with a mix that mirrors her fearless approach to sound and art. Rooted in architecture and code-driven visual work, her world is one where hardware, modular synths, and bold experimentation collide.

Her signature sound has carved out a space across some of Europe’s most iconic clubs - from Fuse and Blitz to Berghain and La Gaîté Lyrique - always delivering sets that are both hyper-detailed and wildly imaginative.✨

She also runs KOMI, her monthly show on Munich’s Radio80k. A free-spirited platform where Anna explores electronic and experimental music with the same curiosity and edge that define her live sets.

This mixtape is no exception: precision meets chaos, a journey 46 tracks deep, hardwired with analog and IDM textures, and stitched together with three unreleased tracks from Anna herself - jammed straight from the machines.

Expect a tactile, free, future-facing rollercoaster ride: juicy, alive, and full of surprises. This mix pulls you in and doesn’t let go. Tune in 🖤

SPND20 Mixtape by Anna Z.

The only Live recording from Club "Motor" - Detroit 1998.. This Set was recorded thru a mic to capture the ambiance of the night.. quality is not the best, but I'm sure you will Enjoy..

The Advent (Live at Motor - Detroit)

Boss of Madrid’s seminal imprint Semantica, Spanish DJ and producer Svreca steps in the series with a monster two-hour jaunt into his multi-faceted techno headspace. As ever busy pushing the club sound’s envelope with great loads of heavyweight kicks and trenchant snares, Svreca has us all kitted out for a breathtaking dive into gravityless territories and cragged moonscapes. Flush with hair-raising momenti, unsuspected plot twists and climactic rollercoasting, his mix shifts the focus constantly betwixt textural magnification and rhythm-enslaved abandon, having you wading into the instant’s XTC to most mesmeric effect. A rough, Indus-minded masterclass from one of the finest to ever do it. Rampage mode on.

soundcloud.com/semantica-records


Reclaim Your City 659 | Svreca

Concept:  To create industrial electronic music seemingly crafted in a metal shop out of the sanding, grinding and barrel spinning finishing of  metal parts. 

Mastered on 11-26-2025 using Bandlab Mastering:  Master Preset is Universal, Intensity is 50%, Input Gain is -3.3 dB. Mastering was done after the effects were changed to improve the sound.

Instruments:  Bastl Kastle 1.5 modular patchable synthesizer, Korg NTS-1 Ribbon Synthesizer, Bastl Dude Mixer

Signal path:  Kastle 1.5 synth audio-out to Korg NTS-1 -audio-in,  NTS-1 headphone-out to Dude Mixer Chnl-1 in, Dude Mixer audio-out to mix/line-in of USB Audio Adapter into Chromebook to Bandlab DAW. 

Kastle 1.5  Patches: 

Mode to LFO Rst
Wave shape to Triangle LFO
Wave shape to Osc Out

I turned the following knobs while recording:  Pitch Mod, Wave shape, Osc Pitch, Osc Timbre

Korg NTS-1 Effects section only used:  (adjusted the other knobs for each before recording)

Mod setting:  Chorus
Delay setting:  Stereo
Reverb settings:  Riser

Bandlab Effects: 

- Guitar input, 120 BPM, 4/4 timing
- Gain is +9.3 dB
- Dimension B Chorus is 01
- Graphic EQ:  100 Hz is +6.2 dB, 200 Hz is +1.1 dB, 400 Hz is -5.9 dB, 800 Hz is -8.9 dB, 1.6 kHz is -3.8 dB, 3.2 kHz is +2.9 dB, 6.4 kHz is +4.2 dB
- Vintage Limiter:  Gain is -5.76, Attack is 3.54, Release is 3.28, Knee is -12.80, Enhance is -0.35, Volume is +0.58
- Feedback Killer is 1.0
- Univerb:  Type is Dorm Hall, Mix is 22%

File Format:  WAV, 16-bit, 44.1 kHz 
Photo  "Man, Working, Metal Worker" by unknown, Pixelbay License.  Photo modified by jtechno electronic music.

"Sand Grind Spin It" is copyright by jtechno electronic music.  Email for permission to use.

Sand Grind Spin It

Regis @ Π13: 2 years of π (Six Dogs, Athens) 22.01.16

Surgeon at the mighty The Orbit in Leeds, from 1997.

Tracklist taken from mixesdb.com
https://www.mixesdb.com/w/1997-12-31_-_Surgeon_@_NYE_Special,_The_Orbit,_The_Afterdark_Club,_Morley

Jeff Mills - Automatic
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Fumiya Tanaka - One Sparkle
Dan Morgan - Flowerchild
Hardfloor - Strikeout (Surgeon Remix)
Surgeon - Fivo
Surgeon - Argon
Surgeon - Magneze
Millsart - Step To Enchantment (Stringent)
Chester Beatty vs DJ Shufflemaster - Beat Boxx
Mescalinum United - We Have Arrived
The Subjects vs Jeff Mills - Dark Matter
Jeff Mills - Changes Of Life
The Subjects vs Jeff Mills - Beyond...
Jeff Mills - The Bells
Marco Carola - Tang
Jeff Mills - Wrath Of The Punisher
Jeff Mills - Life Cycle
Shift Control - Scania
Luke Slater - Quad Fonik
Brother's Yard - Lourinya
Aphrohead - In The Dark We Live (Dave Clarke 312 Mix)
E-Dancer - Velocity Funk
Sulfurex - Point Break
Steve Bicknell - Untitled (Planetary Assault Systems Remix)
Paul Damage Tina Never Had A Teddy Bear (which track?)
Spy - Bloodstrike
Koenig Cylinders - 99.9
Paul Damage - Josie & Her Beautiful Hair A1
Zekt - External
Clementine - Syn-Son
Vapourspace - Gravitational Arch Of 10

Surgeon @ The Orbit, Morley, Leeds - 1997

Relive one of the highlights from RA’s final subterranean tunnel party at Dimensions Festival with this full-throttle hour from Blawan.

@ternesc
@dimensions-fest

RA Live - 31.08.19 - Blawan, Dimensions Festival, Croatia

Advent – A coming, or an arrival, a coming into being or use. 

Quite an appropriate name for Cisco Ferreira, a man who has played a big part in the creation and development of Techno from the very beginning of this genre’s history. Indeed, his Techno CV is the stuff of legend. Cisco was producing Techno and performing live Techno shows years before the rest of the world had even heard of the genre. He released his first track in 1988, was a pioneer of the Live PA (or Live Public Address – performing Techno live in front of an audience using electronic music gear), and, if all that wasn’t enough, he even worked as the sound engineer on some of Derrick May’s, Adonis & Fingers Inc’s recording sessions! 

The list goes on, and so does Cisco. Unlike other Techno pioneers from the early years, Cisco continues to produce with as much passion and frequency as he did back in the day. His releases on Labels Like Tresor, Rotation, Electrix, Kanzleramt, Dj Gigolos, Pure Plastic, Synewave plus many more is just another example of his ongoing pursuit to keep making music and pushing Techno to new boundaries. 

Cisco was born to Portuguese parents on the island of Madeira (Portugal). His family moved to London (1975) when he was five years old, setting the stage for his musical career. While at Paddington College (1986) in West London, he studied sound engineering and secured a job after graduation as an assistant sound engineer at ZOLOU Then later WALL Studios.  

At this period is when he really started to learn about Sound & Production, his 1st main recording sessions as an engineer were rock & “Inde” based bands & the studio owners being in successful rock bands. Matt Dangerfield & John Payne “ASIA” this 1st step was a start in learning about balancing & mixing down the rock way, which had a lot of intense & Raw energy especially on drums & Guitars.. 

Other bands Cisco did sessions for: P.I.L. (John Lydon - sex pistols) – Robert Plant (Led Zeppelin) – That petrol emotion. Then Later Pop, Dance, Soul & reggae groups like: Wild Bunch (Nelly hopper & Massive Attack) – Marco Pirroni (Adam & the ants) - Maxi Priest – Sly Dunbar (Sly & Robbie) – Loose Ends – Cheryl Lynn… 

1987 Cisco began going to clubs and learning about this new thing called Acid House, which was spreading like crazy throughout London’s underground scene, culminating in the famous “Summer of Love” in 1988, the genre’s golden period. 

Around this time, a record label called, Jack Trax, “One of the 1st to release Acid House, House & techno in UK” moved in next door and began using the same studio for recording sessions, with Cisco as the engineer working with Fingers Inc, Adonis, Marshall Jefferson & Derrick May. Cisco released his first record in 1988 on Ferrari records (R&S records) Then later “Cisco Ferreira” EP on Fragile. 

His first big break came in 1994, when he and fellow Londonite Colin McBean (a.k.a. Mr. G) were brought on by Internal Records to help co-produce a group called Salt Tank. A record contract with Internal/FFRR soon followed, committing The Advent to 12 EP’s and 3 albums.

Today, The Advent goes on just as Cisco Ferreira. While he has had a long history with tons of accomplishments to hang his hat on, he continues to make history. The Advent is fulfilling Cisco’s vision as much as ever. He is busy touring as both a DJ and a live performer, producing for numerous labels, and running his own Techno imprint, Kombination Research. 

As Cisco moves forward, striving to fulfill the ambitious goals he has set one can look back at his storied past and see how he has come full circle… The Saga continues.

The Advent (Live at Motor - Detroit)

The Advent / G Flame