In the early 90s, techno hits Japan. Surprised and intrigued, Takaaki Itoh was impressed with this sound. This unique style of beats revealed the gateway to a world of underground music in Japan, something he had never heard before.
Surprise slowly gave way to addiction when Takaaki Itoh heard the sound of such artists like UR, Derrick May, Axis, Hardfloor, Sven Väth, Harthouse, Warp and Rising High. 
Finding out he just couldn't get enough of it, in 1994 Takaaki Itoh began to organise his own techno parties in Norioka Iwate, having success by providing fantastic line ups.

In 1996, he decided that it was time to start making his own tracks, so he went out, purchased the vital instruments and began producing. 
After sending out 3 finished tracks to various labels, Electracom UK made the first contact with him, and followed to release his first track. This moment was something he will never forget, as for the first time in his life he was able to finally release his own record. 
Then several releases followed and he began to appear in DJ charts and magazines all over the world.

Takaaki Itoh's Japanese style of techno is purely unique, underground and nothing that had been heard before in Europe. 
In a couple of years, he became recognized as the most underground and expected japanese Techno DJ.
Takaaki Itoh has now taken the next step and started his own label Wols, whilst keep playing in great venues wolrdwide.

Source: DJ Guide

GUEST SERIES : Takaaki Itoh

Portuguese techno buff Cisco Ferreira got his start way back in the late 80s as Space Opera alongside cult electronic figure C.J. Bolland, The brief collaboration set the stage for his own releases, and later those signed off as The Advent, a name he coined for the work he produced shoulder to shoulder with Colin McBean (aka Mr. G). The alliance ended a few years later, but Cisco forged ahead, developing a tenacious brand of techno that has stood the test of time, with more recent LPs distributed by the likes of Tresor, Mord and Klockworks (and a stream of releases published under self-run imprint Kombination Research). The Detroit-aficionado offers tireless, clobbering compositions, scratchy textures, and punishing mechanical rhythms to which Bassiani Podcast 172 is no stranger. This is a veteran studio mix packed with peak-hour frequencies, driving loops and a whole lot of renegade energy, enough to last for many more decades to come.

@ciscoadvent

Bassiani invites The Advent / Podcast #172

PoleGroup Radio - Ribé 14.09

Dynamical Mechanisms

Function’s tale begins with a gregarious mother who would keep him occupied as rookie selector for neighbourhood gatherings while growing up in Brooklyn and New Jersey. Music was his world, and it wasn’t long before he found himself standing in awe before Jeff Mills in 90s NYC at the infamous nerve centre of Club Kid hedonism Limelight, where he went on to pick up a Thursday-night residency himself. Few DJs can claim to have been around during such a moment in club history, but ten years later came another. His friendships with Regis, Silent Servant and Female turned into the much acclaimed collective Sandwell District, a pivotal sound for an era that forced everyone’s attention towards Berlin. There he became Berghain resident and played a role in shaping the club’s fabled musical opus. In the years since (and following Sandwell’s dissolution) he’s matured in his own right, with a number of mesmeric releases (most recently ‘Green EP’ released on his self-run imprint Infrastructure back in May), collaborations with the likes of Vatican Shadow, Luke Slater and Steve Bicknell, a heavy touring schedule that criss-crosses the world at rapid clip and Bassiani residency to boot. Function’s techno is an ambient fog in which sinister arctic synths and perilous rhythms collide to produce an exquisite fusion that would be hard to mistake for anyone else. Those grainy textures, subterranean ripples and punishing kick drums are a hypnotic rework of his many influences: 90s loops with a more modern and sharper industrial edge. Bassiani Podcast 186 is an impassioned live-recording from the club that weaves through a number of hammering tracks and steadily climbs towards its furious climax. A hair-raising three-hour beast courtesy of this decorated techno behemoth.

BASSIANI PODCAST SERIES

Bassiani invites Function / Podcast #186

06.10.23

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Listen to Mareena's vibey two hour onslaught at The White Hotel from our last 24 hour party x

Mareena  [2hr Live mix] at The White Hotel // 06.10.23

Press Release

Label: Thoughts.
Artist(s): Jonas Kopp, Ricardo Garduno
Remixer(s): N/A
Album/Single: Parallel Thoughts: Two
Track(s): Misinformation Codes, Strange Communication, Nanofractal, Just Holograms
Genre: Techno
Format: 10' Vinyl / Digital WAV/MP3/AIFF
Catalogue Number: THGHTS009
Release Date: December 11th, 2023

Jonas Kopp / Ricardo Garduno 'Parallel Thoughts: Two' THGHTS009

A1. Jonas Kopp - Misinformation Codes
A2. Ricardo Garduno - Strange Communication
B1. Jonas Kopp - Nanofractal
B2. Ricardo Garduno - Just Holograms


Written & Produced by Jonas Kopp / Ricardo Garduno
Mastered by Dig-it at Fractal Sono Lab, Mexico City
Artwork Design by Rommulo
10' Vinyl
Limited Copies

Thoughts. 2023 | Published by Copyright Control

THGHTS009 - Parallel Thoughts: Two w/ Jonas Kopp | Ricardo Garduno

Hailing from Buenos Aires, Argentina, Teo Pellegrino AKA Translate has been pushing some serious heat as of late, including prime heaters for the likes of Semantica, KEY, Axis, Edit Select, Nachtstrom Schallplatten and his own record label, SRIE. Cutting his lane at the fringe of iron-fisted industrial percussion and intricate dub mind-games, Translate has us diving deep into claustrophobic environments and across mesmerizing layers of FX-soaked dementia. Stormy and highly energetic, his style combines the ruthlessness of uptempo tech assault and eerie, post-apocalyptic audio scenarios. Fierce and uncompromising thru and thru, there goes techno at its most brutally corrosive. 

soundcloud.com/etalsnart

Reclaim Your City  

Reclaim Your City 566 | Translate

116th guest of KHIDI’s podcast series is TWR72 - Amsterdam based DJ and producer, founder of the labels Float Records and OOM Records, whose music appears on labels such as: Turbo, Hayes, SK_Eleven and others.

TWR72 pioneers a forward thinking approach towards electronic music: a fusing and pulsing rhythm with a cutting drive, binding it with a strong signature groove

@twr72

KHIDI Podcast 116: TWR72

Steve Rachmad’s techno project STERAC has for many years been a seminal force in his native Netherlands and beyond. Releasing over 100 releases across the much feted Delsin, Klockworks, Mote-Evolver, Tresor and others, he’s become something of a cult figure, and dubbed a father of Detroit in The Netherlands for added points. It’s hard to imagine a more venerated artist and there’s good reason why, Rachmad’s fearless approach to production puts him a cut above many of his peers, often taking pure feeling and a collection of well worn machines as a starting point and trusting his gut along the path to finished product. For Bassiani Podcast 190, the Dutch master of techno delivers a thorough lesson in expert mixing. From orchestral strings to utilitarian bleeps, Rachmad’s sound bridges a gap no one else can. An ode to the motor city with a healthy measure of string composition thrown in, recorded live at the club during the Token X Reclaim Your City night on November 3rd.

@steverachmad

Bassiani invites Sterac / Podcast #190

A1- Philokalist
A2- Beams and rays
B1- Frames of time
B2- Act of valor
Digital Bonus: Melodie du nature


Dj Surgeles is here again with his orchestra of bleeps and abstract grooves that we love so badly. Five exercises of music from the future, delivered with care and sense, bringing us to unknown dimensions never touched by humans.
 
Philokalist sets on the spaceship’s engine, solitary bleeps to begin with and when unexpectedly a super busy 909 rhythm takes control. Add super reverberated Fx and spacious washes and, suddenly, you are out there in the galaxies.
 
Beams and Rays is like translating a black hole into sound, phrenetic but meditative at the same time, ideal to put the dancefloor into tension, to expect the unexpected.
 
Frames of Time uses synthetic pads to create the required tension, the groove here is broken and shuffled, non conventional at all, Surgeless is a master of this discipline, we all know that.
 
Act of Valor goes non linear, with all the sonic components somehow disassembled, being the 4/4 the compass to guide it all. Another voyage into the future.
 
Last cut Melodie du Nature brings combat techno to the soundtrack, fast, punchy but as always spiced with lots of alien sounds that are never the same.

Dynamical Mechanisms

Dark Quadrant