At the start of April, I had the pleasure of playing the closing set from 4am, at an excellent, intimate, underground, warehouse party 'Undulate 01' from the Undulate crew here in Sydney. A slamming sound system, minimal lighting, smoke machine, and around 250 people in attendance, enthusiastically ripping it up on the sweaty dance floor.

Sydney DJ talents: Katia, Loveless, Andrew Wowk, TGMN and Nick Nick also played on the night. Musically covering: bass, electro, breaks, broken-beats, rave, EBM, industrial, acid, and many flavours of techno.

This is a post-party recording of the set/mix I played on the night. Same tracks, same order, better pacing.

Like the musical vibe of the party, this set/mix has a variety of sounds/styles. Starting with electro, into harder techno, with rave, melodic, broken-beats, and acid moments. I figured the crowd had had a good dose of harder sounds earlier in the night, so went deeper, hypnotic, melodic, towards the end, as the party travelled towards 6am. 

You'll hear some tracks I've used before in other sets/mixes, probably a bit lazy, but I'm still loving these magic combinations.

This was also the night AU changed out of daylight savings time, and even though my phone said 5am at the end, it still felt like 6am. We're not so used to clubbing at these hours in Sydney any more, since the Lockout Laws began 3 & 1/2 years ago for the majority of our nightclubs. On a positive note it's brought about the rise of excellent, underground, warehouse parties like this one.

Tracklist:

Delectro - Coldness [MFM Records]
Adam Jay & Rebecca Ciaglia - Medulla Oblongata [Nachtstrom Schallplatten]
Lars Huismann - Time Traveler (Unreleased)
JoeFarr - Exposition [Onnset Records]
Splinter (UA) - Explosion Fracture [Credo]
Voidloss - Vapouriser Feelings [Subsist]
Artefakt - Sacrum [Konstrukt] -- Loop
Lars Huismann - Patterns [LHR]
Cleric - Unspoken Rules [Clergy]
Dave Simon - Rattan [Planet Rhythm]
DJ Emerson - Red Dirt [Nonlinear Systems]
Tite - Hungry Man [Fragil Musique] -- Layer/Loop
Kangding Ray - Luna [Stroboscopic Artefacts]
Lars Huismann - R A V E (Unreleased)
Mescal - HAL9K [Abyss Recordings]
Neil Landstrumm - Missing You (Lag Remix) [MORD]
Shaken Opus - Arsenic [Lateral Fragments]
Drvg Cvltvre - The Crazies Are Coming [Tripalium Records]
Shaken Opus - Never [Lateral Fragments]
Lateral - Serac (Lateral's Broken Edit) [Darknet]
Kmyle - Telephatic Synchrony [Skryptöm Records]
100110110 - 3481 (A. Paul Remix) [Naked Lunch Records]
Pjotr G. - Freudian Excuse [Planet Rhythm]
LVCT - Modulate [Resopal Schallware]
Stephan Krus - Spin [Decoy Records]
Tim Jackman - Condition 2 [EUN Record]
Vladw - 012324.92 [Dynamic Reflection]
R.A.S.P - Strong Hold [Blueprint Records]
Rebekah - Unfound Truths [Soma Records]
Christian Gerlach - Aando [Nonlinear Systems]
Joel Mull - Halogen [Parabel]
Pjotr G. & Dubiosity - Poisoning The Well [Planet Rhythm]
Keith Carnal - Sword Play (Shlømo Remix) [Arts]
Function - Against The Wall [Ostgut Ton]
Rrose - Purge [EAUX]
Re:Axis - Synthesize [Planet Rhythm]
Mathew Jonson - Marionette (Adam Beyer Remix) [Wagon Repair]

The first hour of this set/mix was also broadcast on Fnoob Techno Radio, for their Easter Technothon 2017 on Monday 17th April 2017, 3pm Sydney | 6am London | 7am Berlin. 

It was also re-broadcast again on Fnoob Techno Radio in my usual Black+Light monthly timeslot, on Wednesday 19th April 2017, 7pm Sydney | 10am London | 11am Berlin.

Artwork: Kat Stevens

Undulate - 16-04-2017

David McCann - Undulate - 16-04-2017

Next DJ gigs...

Previous DJ gigs...

03.08.2024 : SWARM - Cheap & Nasty (August) - Tokyo Sing Song (Sydney)

14.01.2023 : SWARM - Another Techno Stomper - GOOD SPACE (Sydney)

18.06.2022 : SWARM (Pres. Honeysmack) - The Bridge Hotel Rozelle (Sydney)

26.01.2020 : Electronique (All-Aussie New Wave/Synth Pop Special) w/ Mark Dynamix - Oxford Underground (Sydney)

23.11.2019 : SWARM XX w/ Chris Liberator - The Bridge Hotel Rozelle (Sydney)

07.06.2019 : Nightime Drama Pres... Stefan Vincent - Club 77 (Sydney)

23.02.2019 : Pace Pres... Irregular Synth - Oxford Underground (Sydney)

01.09.2018 : Decoded Magazine Pres... SNTS @ Civic Underground (Sydney)

31.12.2017 : .darkroom Presents Luscious Fuxxx, NYE 2017/2018 @ The Bunk3r (Sydney)

28.10.2017 : .darkroom Pres... UVB @ Portugal Madeira Club (Sydney)

07.09.2017 : Rivet Inna Bunk3R @ The Bunk3r (Sydney)

01.04.2017 : Undulate 01 @ Undisclosed Location (Sydney)

18.03.2017 : Trench DooF @ Outdoor - Southern Highlands (NSW)

26.01.2017 : Trench Returns @ Portugal Madeira Club (Sydney)

29.10.2016 : .darkroom & IF? Records Pres... Sleeparchive & Claudio PRC @ Zoo Project (Sydney)


Bio...

David McCann - 53 years young, a veteran of Adelaide and Sydney (Australia) live band, rave, club, electronic music and party scenes. 

Relocated from Adelaide to Sydney in 1995 with Adelaide/Sydney 90s rap, rock, techno, 6 piece live band - Bliss.

100s of live performances across Australia as keyboard player/songwriter, in dance/rock live bands, late 1980s - late 1990s, as hardware based producer, live performer 'DAMC' (rave, hardcore, techno, jungle, drum'n'bass) 1992 - 1998, and as 'TECHiONE' (funky, melodic, hard, tribal, techno) 1998 - 2005.

Bliss - Live band gigs, with/supporting: The Shamen (UK), Regurgitator, Skunkhour, Def-FX, Renegade Funk Train, Insurge, Sound Unlimited Posse, Caligula, D.I.G, SuperGroove, Swoop, Frenzal Rhomb and more.

Solo live performances as DAMC and TECHiONE at clubs/events with/supporting: DJ HMC, Misjah & Tim, Joey Beltram, Claude Young, CJ Bolland, Cru-L-T, Force Mass Motion, Lenny Dee, UltraSonic, Slipmat, Grooverider, Jeff Mills, Oliver Ho, Deetron, Richie Hawtin, Kevin Saunderson, Heiko Laux, Alexander Kowalski, Andreas Kauffelt and more. 

Vinyl/CD releases on: Rabbit City Records, Vicious Vinyl, Core Magazine, Mindflux, Underground Pressings, Big Dog Records, AdRave, Nine09 Records.

Began vinyl DJing 1998. 

Presented Internet radio shows: 'TechFunked' 2000 - 2005, and 'decoded_' 2005 - 2007 with Pulseradio, mixing up fresh weekly techno, electro-clash, minimal, deep/tech-house sounds, as DJ TECHiONE later as DJ David McCann.

Various DJ gigs in Sydney 1999 - 2005, and a few in 2008.

2007 - 2016 took a step back from music producing/performing, DJing. Continued regularly attending, supporting Sydney techno/music club nights and events. Traveling and clubbing interstate & overseas in Europe.

One-off retro rave live performances as DAMC in 2013, 2014 and 2016 in Adelaide, at Flash Back II, Ultraworld NYE 2014, and Party With A Purpose II events.

2016 got inspired by new sounds in techno music, new friends, Sydney techno DJ Loveless (RIP), and starting doing the digital DJ thing, putting mixes together. Invites to DJ out began.

Monthly Internet radio show: 'Black+Light' on Fnoob Nov 2016 > May 2018,

Passionate about a variety of underground techno music sounds: Deep, dark, atmospheric, brutal, heavy, twisted, minimal, broken, hard, light, beautiful, melodic, hypnotic - all depending on mood.

Loving the industrial, EBM, broken beats, heavy and dark atmospheres in modern techno music right now, still a fan of the rave. Not a fan of the new "hard techno" fast techno, tik-tok techno fad.