ESSENTIALS 04

An hour recording including cuts by some of my favourite artists at the moment and also some unreleased tunes by myself.

ESSENTIALS 04 | Dimitar Grozev | November 2022

(tracklist below) 

This is part 2 of 3 of the recording from my set at Nowadays Nonstop on April 7, 2024.

I played from 9am-3pm, between JASSS and Bearcat, and it was one of the most creatively fulfilling sets I can remember playing – one of those sets where the audience, environment, atmosphere, tech setup, phase of the moon, whatever, all somehow lined up for a full 6 hours. And happily, the recording is maybe my favorite I’ve managed to capture to date. Huge thanks to Kristin for inviting me and to everyone who was there that morning.


TRACKLIST – PART 2 – 11am-1pm

Ssiege – Drama Lover
Carrier – Harsh Features
Lithe – Modd
aya – Dexxy Is A Midnight Runner
Commodo – Shadowing
Galtier – Absentia Essentia
DJ Zinc – Unstable
Skee Mask – Dachtekker
David Spanish – One New One
Fadi Mohem – Recess
Konduku – Ebedi
Setaoc Mass – It's never too late, or is it?
T++ – Voices No Bodies
Objekt – ???
Marc Ashken – Size 3 (Skream Remix)
Icicle – Need A Job (Original Mix)
LAS – Mental Judgement
Cyrus (Random Trio) – The Watcher
The Bug – Gutted (Human Filth)
Hoavi – PHASE 10
hashman c3d-e – 0-02B
pretty sneaky – PRSN3 A
pretty sneaky – PRSN1 B
Mike Parker – Radar Signal
Fergus Sweetland – Dub 1
Stanislav Tolkachev – Till you get it off
Aphex Twin – Blackbox Life Recorder 22 [Parallax Mix]
qebrus – ༜°༜ ᓭᘳᓆ⊆⊂⊚⊃⊇ᓏᘰᓯ༜°༜
xupid – Grip
WTCHCRFT – What Do You Call A Flood
ASEC – Traffic
Joline Scheffler – Hathor
Vladimir Dubyshkin – Glucose Guardian
Tracing Xircles – Voyage
Jodey Kendrick – Body Hammer
Squarepusher – Snake Pass
Roma Zuckerman – Like My News
Sympletic – Noname
E-Unity – Avray Link
Arovane – yua:e
Mezey & Nosho – Liverbox Recordings
Phalcon – Foreseen
Ceephax Acid Crew – Red DX Acid
Dolo Percussion – DOLO 27
Dolo Percussion – DOLO 30
Manisdron – Restive Lines
Sepehr – Delicate Senses
Batu – Other Means
Lanark Artefax – Meszthread
RP Boo – Azzoutof Control
Mr. Ho featuring Gedvile Bunikyte – Medicine
DubGuy – Not Massive


Artwork by Brodie Kaman

Live at Nowadays 7 April 2024

Live at Nowadays 7 April 2024 - Part 2

Rrose | Boiler Room: Mumbai

Fernando Sanz aka @orbeartist has been steadfastly dedicated to the craft of beats and breaks since he was a young sprout of 14 years in the sun baked southern Spanish port city of Algeciras. Under the imprint Orbe Records, Sanz has cultivated his own thriving techno community as artist and label head. Since 2014 Orbe Records has been lashing the block rocking techno of Sanz’s comrades Eduardo De La Calle and Steve Stoll, but mostly of Sanz’s own prolific moniker, Orbe. As DJ and producer Orbe keeps the mood surreal and dreamy while deploying understated drum machine patterns to hammer the platonic solids that keep his beloved community in tact.

Alphabet Podcast 050 - Orbe

Tauceti @ The Lot Radio 02-25-2025

The aim of this set is to create a soundscape that merges dubstep’s raw textures and broken beats with the wild, organic energy of the jungle, forming a juxtaposition between city life and nature. It’s about blurring the lines between the two, crafting the kind of music I love to listen to while navigating Berlin’s urban landscape. Unlike my usual techno sets, this mix leans into atmosphere and mood, exploring a broader range of environments rather than focusing on the technical side. I hope you enjoy the journey.

Soundcloud ➟ @kwartz
Instagram ➟ www.instagram.com/kwartz_
Facebook ➟ www.facebook.com/kwartzmusic

Upperberry | Kwartz

This year, the spanish techno legend Oscar Mulero will return to the stage at rural, and we are happy to share the recording of his closing set at “rural at New Acao” in 2022.

This three-hour raging techno set guided the audience to the most intense and deeper world in the otherworldly main floor of “New Acao”, a gorgeous Showa-era building overlooking the sea.

今年、再びruralの舞台に戻ることになったスパニッシュテクノの生きる伝説 Oscar Mulero による2022年の“rural at New Acao”でのクロージングセットを公開します。

来場者の記憶に深く刻まれることになった、海を一望できる豪華絢爛な昭和建築“ニューアカオ”の異世界的なメインフロアの中でも、最も激しく、より深い世界を案内することになった3時間に及ぶ怒涛のテクノセットをお楽しみください。

rural Podcast 014 Oscar Mulero

@Wata Igarashi demonstrates his mastery of driving, psychedelic techno for the Recognise mix series, and speaks to Claire Francis about composing for TV commercials, nature's influence on Japanese rave culture, and the trippy potential of organic sound design

Interview & tracklist: https://djmag.com/features/recognise-081-wata-igarashi

Tracklist & Interview

Recognise 081: Wata Igarashi

Another episode from the 'Unwearied Cycle' series.
Act. IV, dj set by STNDRD.
Every last day of each month a new act will be released, representing the end of a cycle.

Tracklist:
1. Vaeg - Scilicet Desperatione
2. Anthony Linell- To Feed on Ashes
3. Jonas Kopp- Filtration of Experience
4. Tifton - Derea 
5. Neen - Estalido
6. STNDRD - Oscyra
7. DSNGDMANN - After Logic
8. 83 Pause - Venom
9. Structural Form - Zoologic (Aleja Sanchez Remix)
10. Eyvind Blix - Repuisine (Mike Parker Remix)
11. Reeko - Electrical Phenomena (Remake)
12. Neen - Intimo
13. Translate - Electron Cascade
14. François X - Crisp
15. Dimitar Grozev - A dozen shots on the field
16. Pyramidal Decode - Function B 
17. Reeko- Bad Connection
18. Trismus - The Bridge
19. Translate- Vapours (Orbe Remix)
20. Kwartz - Moving Circles
21. STNDRD - UNRELEASED
22. Lakej - Invariants

Set by STNDRD
@stndrd3333
https://www.instagram.com/stndrddddd/

Logo and Artwork by Ana Jorhs
www.instagram.com/anajorhs?igsh=MW…bHVka3I1YnZpNw==

Unwearied Cycle -- Act. IV -- STNDRD

Psyk is a key player in Spanish techno, an acclaimed talent with firm emphasis on deep, repetitive loops. He has become synonymous with high-quality, trippy and smart as a tack rhythms. For the last two decades since he started out on Madrid’s clandestine rave beat, he’s developed and advanced a sound to near perfection: raw and technically agile, pelagic echoes from the abyss that have shifted with their changing times. 2011 saw him launch the widely renowned Non Series, a platform releasing the work of similar vein artists like DJ Nobu, Architectural, Neel, Nastia Reigel, Tauceti, Blawan, Luigi Tozzi, Function and Rrose, generating buzz and ardent following. His own releases on labels like Mote Evolver, Semantica and Tresor, intermittent forays on his own label under the alias Maan, as well as his co-project Second Skin (est. 2022) alongside fellow Madrileño Oscar Mulero have been slowly gaining traction in a contemporary music landscape replete with talent. Though the rate of productions is decelerating his touring schedule marches forward at full tilt, adding recent Bassiani dates to those at a list of must-play venues like Fabric, Berghain, Fuse, Tresor and Amsterdam’s shuttered DeSchool. His expert drones and algorithmic beat patterns are in a process of continuing evolution and whatever comes next is sure to be even better than his already outstanding catalogue of work. Bassiani Podcast 258 is an 80-minute expedition into a murky world of Psyk’s design, sweeping and purist techno from this heavyweight selector. 

@psyk

Bassiani invites Psyk / Podcast #258

A deep dive into subconscious terrains, Midworld Tales is a hypnotic narrative told through grooves, drones, and pulse. Dimitar Grozev crafts a sonic journey where minimalist textures intertwine with dense rhythmic undercurrents.

Rolling percussion guides the listener through shifting layers of tension, while subtle modulation and spectral atmospheres evoke forgotten myths and half-remembered dreams.

For peak-time tunnels or introspective sets, Midworld Tales invites you to step into the in-between. Let the tale unfold.

Release Date : 27-05-2025
Artwork by Ayse Mete

Dimitar Grozev - Midworld Tales - [AM07] Previews

"A deliberate drowning of consciousness by means of rhythmic noise"
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Hivemind / Subsist / Trau-ma / Khoros / Postdynamic
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Contact and bookings: dimitargrozev.dj@gmail.com