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Dave Angel live at 909 Festival, Amsterdamse Bos - 28th May 2022

Anyone who has experienced a Mark Broom techno session will know full well that as well as bean famous for deploying the harder persuasions of his adopted genre he also has a way to maintain an energy and vibrancy that can drive a room at any portion of a night. Even in the final hours when energy reserves are typically spent, he is pretty damn apt at locking in listeners to any dancefloor he has charge of. An integral part of the UK's techno story Broom began his journey in the early 90's inspired by the emerging sound of Chicago and Detroit, he then went onto lend his own take to the style going onto release across some of the world's most respected imprints, Mo'wax, Warp, R&S included, over the last two decades and becoming a firm part of his home land's pioneering scene. Earning the respect of those that first inspired him, Broom has also spent this year alongside Robert Hood as part of his 20 Years of M Plant tour - a compatriot he will be joining in Room Two this November. In anticipation of this huge Detroit - UK hook up Broom has recorded an exclusive promo mix to show us what he's filling his sets with at the moment the perfect anticipation builder for the night ahead...

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Mark Broom - fabric Promo Mix

DJ Hell, born Helmut Josef Geier, is an electronic music pioneer with decades of influence. From his roots in Bavaria Hell has pushed dance music boundaries since the late ’70s, shaping underground movements and leaving a lasting impact on the industry.

DJ Hell @ Kiosk Radio 01.03.2025

Underground Resistance out of Detroit. 

Most of what we think of as "techno" came directly from them. It's hard to think of a more influential, more powerful collective in all of electronic music.

Making music since 1990, a group of young men in Detroit picked up musical instruments, rudimentary drum machines, and early computer technology and fused it with an independent and political ethos that defines the genre to this day.

But the story doesn't stop there.

Alan Oldham a.k.a. DJ T-1000 (like the rest of UR) grew up in Detroit and was the collective's primary visual communicator - making art, logos, record covers for not just his own crew but also for Miss Djax and Djax-Up-Beats among many others. As Jeff Mills and Robert Hood stepped farther away from the crew due to increased demands from solo careers, Mr. Oldham became the crew's primary DJ, playing records on Detroit's WDET-FM. His own productions and releases increased in volume and influence, and by the late 90s he was releasing and playing regularly for Tresor in Berlin.

This 'Detroit to Berlin connection' cannot be overstated in terms of influence.

Mr. Oldham began to use Berlin as a base around a decade ago, and he tours and releases regularly - bringing authentic techno sounds and ideas to new generations of people. We were honored to have him in the THF Radio studio booth, playing some classic tracks along with some of his unreleased techno and electro productions.

This episode of Honest Work is hosted by @johncrosbyprojects.
Link in bio. THF Radio is a community radio station broadcasting live from Torhaus at the Tempelhof Airport in Berlin. Follow us @thfradio

Honest Work feat. Alan Oldham / DJ T-1000 // 06.06.2025.

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

Second edition of PYRAMID NIGHT CUTS — raw live recordings from the heart of Pyramid.

For this episode, Berlin-based Spanish DJ and producer Anika Kunst delivers a vinyl-only set blending groovy, old-school techno with subtle electro touches. Warm, hypnotic, and deeply rhythmic, her performance captures the essence of late-night movement — no frills, just pure analog flow

PYRAMID Night Cuts: Anika Kunst

A gifted, sure-handed groove manipulator, Alienata has been carving out a niche for herself as one of the scene’s most reliable DJs in both actual floor impact and mixing skillset. Also curating the ever consistent Discos Atónicos, which she founded in 2017, she keeps on delivering sets that combine a wide array of styles, from dark disco to acid, through D-town electro, industrial and IDM outbursts with equal poise and gusto, time and again. Expert in chiselled transitions and pristine track selections, the Spanish born DJ builds her mixes like one creates mosaics, building a cohesive whole out of disparate rhythmic elements and tempi, while she snaps ankles and flips brains by the dozen along the way. Yet another faultless mix from a DJ whose palette and perspective here surface in all their abrasive, unadulterated glory. Jet propulsion activated.

soundcloud.com/alienata

Reclaim Your City 658 | Alienata

Dustin Zahn @ 14 Jahre tanztag. 05.07.25

Here's a sampling of the re-edits and remixes Leon and I worked on for "Quintannum - 5 Years of Lost In House."

Coming soon to Beatport.

A.Paul - Poltergeist (Annihilated Mix)

More of Derrick May:

Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/derrick-may
Facebook: www.facebook.com/derrickmayday

Derrick May @ DGTL São Paulo 06.05.2017

Here we are with the new edition of the Club Room! This week I am very proud to say we have the next hour together with Markus Suckut who’s new EP is out now on Sous Music but I am sure you already know him from his album on Rekids and may releases for lots of great labels. Enjoy!

Club Room 66 with Markus Suckut

No discussion of underground techno purism and technical DJ mastery would be complete without the mention of Dylan Drazen’s uniquely remarkable life and career, and the myriad of musical influences it has brought. Conforming to no one person, genre or entity, Dylan has fiercely charted his own path since his sonic journey began over thirty years ago.

With the outset of Drazen’s path arriving in the early 90’s at the age of 18, a crescendo would already manifest by the late 90’s when Spain took note of his visionary methods and pioneering sound during the earliest days of the Internet, and he quickly became an originating stalwart of its nationwide underground techno scene for years, putting in over a million air miles commuting from his New York base, crisscrossing the Iberian peninsula many times over, as fans couldn’t get enough of his relentlessly energetic, organic and authentic rhythms that were so novel to a generation of partygoers.

Yet at the height of all this in the mid 2000s Dylan became swept up in the worldwide poker boom and found himself at a crossroads with dual careers. Maintaining both for nearly a decade, he decided to relocate to South Florida in 2012 to take poker more seriously and music took a back seat. By 2020, Dylan’s poker talent would bring him over $1 million in cash and tournament winnings. Then the pandemic hit, the world ground to a halt and everything was reset as he noticed fans begging for his return, bringing him to yet another crossroads…

So let’s reset.

Dylan’s exposure to multiple forms of music began at the age of 16 getting his first job working at his local record store on Long Island, NY. He quickly gravitated to electronic music, heavily inspired by what New York’s FM airwaves had to offer well before the hiphop era would take over. That summer he would sneak out to NYC and into his first club experience, The Limelight, where he instantly fell in love with its debaucherous environment and DJ booth, which he vowed to get into.

By graduation in 1993 he was beyond hooked. Before heading off to college, he took that summer to intern at a few Manhattan based labels: Todd Terry’s Freeze Records, as well as Astralwerks and Instinct Records. All the while insatiably crate digging through NY’s various vinyl shops, Dylan’s teen self was already swimming in local contacts and influences.

But college awaited, and throughout his time at Boston’s Emerson College (obtaining a degree in audio engineering) he launched a weekly radio mix show called “Underground 88” on WERS 88.9 FM through 1997, working his contacts and continuing to hone his technical skills live on air. During these formative years Dylan maintained working at various vinyl shops in NY and Boston doggedly advancing his exposure to every genre imaginable, thus contributing to his encyclopedic knowledge of electronic dance music and all of the wide-ranging influences it would bring him. As a byproduct, his position enabled him to recommend tracks to and influence the taste of bedroom DJs and a myriad of luminaries alike.

Through these years, he even made good on his promise to play at The Limelight before it shuttered, as well as other infamous New York megaclubs like The Tunnel, Twilo and Save The Robots. And thanks to his stint as assistant engineer at The Looking Glass Studios where David Bowie was recording his latest album in 1997, Dylan was hired to DJ Mr. Bowie’s private 50th birthday party after his sold out birthday performance at Madison Square Garden.

But by the turn of the millennium it was off to the races and Dylan was spending more time on the road than at home, as he found himself in demand not only in Spain, but also in The Netherlands headlining the Awakenings festival three times, as well as other major events and festivals in Germany, Brazil, Japan, and Colombia, spreading his unique form of techno gospel one city at a time. 

Between journeys Dylan made the most of his audio degree by building out his own studio in Brooklyn, releasing a handful of original releases and remixes on some of America’s more influential labels of the era: François K.’s Clicktracks; Ascend; Blueline; Remains; and Ultra Records. Even after moving to South Florida in 2012, Dylan continued to work on remixes for other Spanish and European labels.

Then as Dylan began to go dark quietly diving head first into South Florida’s world of high stakes poker, he made sure to finalize the curation of his life’s work on his website and SoundCloud page, with that nagging feeling he would one day return…

That day arrived in 2021 when Dylan decided to look for work as a local DJ in Fort Lauderdale and its saturation of gay nightlife. His bimonthly residency at the legendary Ramrod helped pave his way back, growing just as comfortable in today’s booths as he did 20 years prior.

After a couple years of this and then launching The Techno Files podcast, he realized it was time for more. So in 2025 Dylan decided to relocate once again, this time to the birthplace of where it all began: Detroit.

Within his first year as Detroit resident, Dylan was already playing events for Detroit Techno Militia & Bang Tech 12, along with multiple appearances at Spot Lite, Spkrbox & TV Lounge.

New York-born, Miami-tested, now Detroit-welcomed: Dylan Drazen is primed and ready to return to the world’s electronic stage showing modern audiences how 30 years of sonic mastery, experience and musical influence can be put on brilliant display in a single set.

A.Paul - Poltergeist (Annihilated Mix)

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