Adam Beyer’s Drumcode juggernaut attracts more fans and critical plaudits with each passing year. Holding firm on its future facing ethos, techno’s number one label presents a new volume in its acclaimed A-Sides series with 20 prime tracks to signify its 20th anniversary. 

Such is the volume of quality music Adam Beyer receives throughout the course of the year, releasing all of it would be impossible. Enter the blue chip A-Sides series: a chance for the quality-obsessive label head to issue a collection of outstanding tracks that couldn’t fit in their regular EP release schedule. 

With an eye on future talent, as much as the label’s established roster of heavy-hitters, the compilation showcases the full breadth of Drumcode’s multifaceted techno sound, equal parts inspiring and functional. 

Led by the stealth techno funk of ‘Nine of You’, Beyer’s deft collaboration with Mark Reeve, the compilation takes in exciting highlights from big guns such as Alan Fitzpatrick, Dustin Zahn, Bart Skils, Pleasurekraft, Luca Agnelli, Jay Lumen, Kaiserdisco and Gary Beck. 

The rich vein of form displayed by emerging techno talent is similarly given prime position. Rising DJ/producer Boxia makes his Drumcode debut, fresh from a well-received warm up set for the crew at the hugely successful Junction 2 festival in London, while the likes of Enrico Sangiuliano, Juan Sanchez, Ian O’Donovan and Timmo also drop fire, establishing their credentials as some of the most promising talent breaking through the ranks in 2016. 

Reinforcing the global scope of the label, artists such as The Junkies from Toronto and Layton Giordani from New York, prove techno is winning a place in the heart of the new generation of artists coming out of North America. 

Bart Skils - Voodoo Child - Drumcode - DC159

A party animal from the early 90s where I experienced the beginnings of the entire house scene, regular visitor to Belgian house temples where I also worked and then of course skim the great after parties to let myself be carried away by the hypnotic tones and great trance music. After house and trance I slowly started to get a huge appreciation for the more harder music styles like hardstyle, hardtrance, hardbass and than suddenly there was hardtechno! God I like the beats of techno  the industrial sounds, the rhythm and the whole scene. So if you think that if you're over 50 you should act 'normal'....I don't think so ;-)  A few months ago I heard a set by Kiki Solvej and I was instant a big big fan. Wow what a talent, she takes techno to a higher and very special unique level...you go girl BTW I'm so glad that so many female DJ's finally have an equal place in the whole scene

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to be cont;nued..
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