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Part 3 of my 6-hour set at Eagle in Wilton Manors, FL
By hour two we are frying up chuletas in the rainforest

With music from: Sydney Blu; Jerome Sydenham; Datagroove; Victor Calderone; AJ Lora; Rui Da Silva & more.

Eagle (Sept 2021, Part 3: Shaking)

Part 2 of my 6-hour set at Eagle in Wilton Manors, FL

With music from: Nikola Gala; Peter Horrevorts; Danny Tenaglia; Mulder; Technasia; Rawthentic & more.

Eagle (Sept 2021, Part 2: Moving)

Part 1 of my 6-hour set at Eagle in Wilton Manors, FL

With music from: Jimpster; Sascha Dive; Okain; Mr. G; Franck Roger; GummiHz & more.

Eagle (Sept 2021, Part 1: Opening)

Recorded live at Eagle in Wilton Manors, FL

With music from: Franck Roger; Kevin Yost; Rick Silva; Felix Leiter; Ben Walsh; Mark Franciulli & more.

For the full 5-hour set, head this way: https://www.mixcloud.com/dylandrazen/eagle-uncut-apr-2022/

Eagle (Apr, 2022)

What a night. Downtown LA. Old School Vibes. Packed House. One for the books. Proud to open up for Frankie Bones and Joey Beltram. I played some new techno and some old school techno as well. I was bit all over the place with this set but I was just feeling things out as I went along. Hope you enjoy.

Live at Technostate (06/24/2022)

Tony Dee NYC - Unmasked 2 - Recorded Live - 8-13-2022

A couple hours from my all night set at Ramrod FTL’s Underground Invasion party, containing more drummy deep-tech and sweaty tribal.

With music from: DJ Wady; Rick Silva; Stanny Abram; Danny Snowden; Luigi Rocca; Manuel De La Mare & more.

For the full 5-hour set, head this way: www.mixcloud.com/dylandrazen/underground-invasion-oct-21-2023/

Underground Invasion (Oct 21, 2023)

I usually need to open my all night sets at Ramrod more gradually as the crowd slowly shuffles in. Not so during the monthly Pig Dance, where the club is visually and sonically transformed into a more high profile affair. The place was packed by 10:30 and the opening couple of hours of this set represents my vision of what opening tracks should be on a big night. Certain sounds that hype and beckon the crowd in, setting up what’s to come during peak hours.

“Here They Come!” is a quote from a documentary about Junior Vasquez during the peak of his career in the early 90s when he’d play Sound Factory every Saturday. He was filmed from the booth shouting this to the camera early in the night. There is something special about being the only DJ on the night, and as his crowd filed in early as well, he knew what he was going to deliver to those happy folks some hours later.

With music from: Matteo Dentone; Norty Cotto; Rick Silva; DJ PP; Italobros; Gabriel Rojas & more.

Pig Dance 2 (Part 1: Here They Come!)

After attending so many years, what a privilege it was to play my first Bang Tech 12 party at Bookies in Detroit, an annual tradition the day before the Movement Festival. This was an hour of some of my favorite “Techno Files” bangers, freshly cleaned for the podcast, so it was nice to really play them out. No looping, edits or effects, just me & a bag of vinyl on 2 decks.

Bang The Book (May 23, 2025)

Blue
February 13, 1993
Wilmington, MA
produced by Primary Productions

audio from "cassette two" as captured & archived by Jim LoCicero

On-E, Adam X, & Lenny D at "Blue" - Wilmington, MA - February 13, 1993

It's strange that I never made a third Equator mix, since the two of these were pretty popular.  I was just coming down from the tribal bug that bit me pretty hard in 2001, and these mixes were basically my personal answer to where I thought it should go.

In 2003, I wrote:

"equator 2 was recorded on a friday night after eating some bad food. my stomach in knots, i made it a mission to do something constructive with the evening as it was cut short by a rare burger in 90 degree weather. it's best to mix when i don't know where my head is at, and here you have it. one part cunty beats, one part trippy minimal strangeness."

Recorded live at Tetanus Studio, Brooklyn 06.28.2003 

Serious Intention - You Don't Know (Joeski Dub) - Maya 
Tribalation - Do It To The Music - Big Chief 
Dub Monsters - Timewarp - Poodle 
Kevin Freeman - Musicinmylife - Low Pressings 
Logic Box - Home Car - Visitor 
Freaks - I'm An Angry Instrument - Wash House 
LawnChair Generals - One Thing - Westbound 
J&S Productions - The Lift Part 1 (Lance Desardi rmx) - Court Square 
Outta Limits - Mission Control (Montanari & Ruberto rmx) - Azuli 
Dr. Pompeii - Wish - 4th Floor 
Echomen - Thru 2 You (Nova Scotia rmx) - Hooj 
Loudeast - Sonido Profundo (gpal sweet amx rmx) - Shinichi 
Loudeast - Sonido Profundo (gpal etheral rmx) - Shinichi 
Loudeast - Sonido Profundo (loudeast rmx) - Shinichi

Equator 2 (2003)

Original Formula.  A new Factory Mix for July 14, 2020.  Folks, it's really down to the music.  Original Formula isn't about going back to the beginning, it's about the delivery.   The Journey.  I really think the thing that made this series popular was that you never really knew what you were getting, but you knew it was going to be different.  And here we are.  28 years later.  Still delivering.  By the dawns early light.

ORIGINAL FORMULA / FACTORY / 07-14-2020

We did it again kids! Thanks for being there x

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Acid Rave Breakbeat Techno (Twitch 28/02/2021)

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.