Techno music is part of my life. I can't stand still and not feel its call. It whispers to me to persevere and trust it. I strongly believe in techno music; it gives me the strength to endure.

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Firstly, thanks for inaugurating our podcast series, we know online mixes from you are few and far between so we appreciate you taking the time out for this.

Thanks for having me! (MH)

Where and how was the mix recorded?

In my studio in Berlin on 2xCDJ 2000nxs and an Allen and Heath Xone 92. (MH)

How do you prepare for your DJ sets and is this mix a good representation of how you sound in the club?

Record store digging, file hunting, promo checking, and choosing which of my productions in development are ready for a road test develops the pool for on the fly selection. I wanted to reflect some of the slightly tougher stuff which works well in some of the bigger rooms I’ve been playing more recently, whilst obviously keeping a bit of funk/soul influence in there. So I’d say it’s definitely representative of what I’ve been playing out of late.

Following the release of your debut album 'Social Housing' you've played Heidegluhen, Panorama Bar, fabric, Sub Club, Weather festival & Le Sucre to name a few, which out of those stands as a personal highlight and why?

I’d say as much as all those places you mention have been great, the absolute standouts for me were Dour festival in Belgium, which was very intense, and very impressive, in regard to audience response for such a big crowd. Heideglühen and Panorama bar are as ever my Berlin party stalwarts, with Heideglühen being a particularly special, given it’s lesser known status. Opening fabric room 1 was definitely the best set I ever played there, at least in my own opinion, and really really enjoyed gigs in Paisley and Trondheim. Sometimes the small outposts where the audience is really hungry for touring artists with good music are the best experiences. (MH)

What's on the horizon for Marquis Hawkes/Hawkes & Blake/Juxta Position in 2017?
As you know, we have the new record from me on Aus in the coming weeks, tentative steps towards starting work on the next album, and a few remixes I’ve done due to drop soon. Hawkes and Blake just happens when me & Tim are in the studio and we just hit the right vibe, I really hope we hit on something soon, but we never know when the magic is going to appear, and we won’t put anything out we don’t think is absolutely exceptional, so it could be a while. But you never know, sometimes it just comes in a flash! I have a LOT coming up with Juxta Position, we kickstart the new label I’ve formed for releasing Juxta Position material in the next weeks. The label is called Failsafe, and the first record comes at the end of January. The second release is already finalised and ready to go into production also, on top of which I have a rather large caché of Juxta Position tracks which I’m still deciding what to do with, whether to release myself, or find other outlets. We’ll see soon enough, either way, 2017 is already shaping up to be a very exciting year for my different projects. (MH)

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Mix 100% vinyls without traktor & serato
1) JEFF MILLS – Utopia
2) JEFF MILLS – The Extremist (Retro mix)
3) JOEY BELTRAM – The Start It Up
4) JEFF MILLS – The Bells
5) DJ FUNK – Work That Body
6) DJ FUNK – Run
7) JOE T. VANELLI – Play With The Voice in USA
8) JEFF MILLS – I9
9) JEFF MILLS – DNA
10)  JEFF MILLS – Changes of Life
11)  FELIX DA HOUSECAT – Thee Morning After (Drumdrum mix)
12)  APHROHEAD -  In The Dark We Live (Dave Clarke's 313 Mix) 
13)  ROBERT ARMANI – Score Board
14)  JEFF MILLS – The Extremist (DNA mix)
15)  KEN ISHII – Extra (Luke Slater remix)
16)  3 PHASE featuring DR MOTTE – Der Klang Der Familie
17)  JEFF MILLS - Gift Of The Hills (Reworked) 
18) JEFF MILLS – Berlin
19)  DESPERATION – Our Reservation

All tracks mixed by DJ Hloloczx (RIND webradio resident)

Jeff Mills Style

Tracklist:

01. Thomas Köner – Teimo (Type)
02. TMFDJC – Three (Denovali Records)
03. Jon Porras – Into Midnight (Thrill Jockey)
04. Nova Scotian Arms – Gathering / Composition (Digitalis Recordings)
05. Tim Hecker – In the Fog (Kranky)
06. Max Richter – Iconography (130701)
07. *AR – Decline (Type)
08. Ben Frost – Leo Needs A New Pair Of Shoes (Bedroom Community)
09. Aphex Twin – Selected Ambient Works Vol. II (D-2) (Warp Records)
10. Ø – Muistetun palaava taajuus (Sähkö Recordings)
11. Bersarin Quartett – Niemals Zurück (Denovali Records)
12. Portishead – Pedestal (Go! Beat)
13. Undr P – Sub Ghetto Live (Freund Der Familie Remix) (Koax Records)
14. Monolake – Ghosts (Monolake / Imbalance Computer Music)
15. Massive Attack – Safe from Harm (Wild Bunch Records)



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recorded at triboro studio, nyc 03.2008

Underworld – Play Pig (Pig & Dan Remix 2)
Pig & Dan – After Ibiza – Cocoon
D. Diggler – Nitronome (Marko Fuerstenberg Remix) – Reposal
Pig & Dan – Monjon – Weave
Nagano Kitchen – Asama (West) – Apotek
Ariel & Elliot – The Rhythm – Wavetec
Marco Carola – Work It
Mauro Picotto – Contaminato (Meganite Mix) – Alchemy
Chris Liebing – B – CLR
Ercy Mirage – My World – X List
Shuffle Progression – Clear Your Mind (Tribalishious Low Level Mix)
Mastiksoul – Macaron – Hoshi
Fauvrelle & Jiggy – Road Tracks – Meridua
Twizted Nation – Sexy (Alternative Mix) – Kult
Kike Mayor – Believe Me – Drum Central
Moshic – Don’t Be Shy – Contrast
Mitch Boys – Brought Back
DJ Wope – Welcome To The Flash Area – Musik X Press
Delrubbio – Out There (DJ Cytric Remix)
Zur-Face – Braziland – Eightrax
DJ Henry Guzman – Acid Trip – Bearlin
The Southern Brothers – Missing Pieces (Latin Players Remix) – South Records
Latin Players – Tribal Attack – Congos
Latin Players – Zombay Mambo – Avenue
Latin Players – Tumaco Drums – Digital Jaxx
DJ Luis Caballero – Good Tribal – Latin Tronix
Antoine Clamaran – Pereira Is Crazy – Congos
Saeed Younan – Work That (Mix 2) – Younan Music
Eduardo Perez – Embrujada (Tribalishious Low Frequency Mix) – Bellarine
Tribalishious – Everybody – Kult
AB feat. Amalia – Make Luv 2 Da Music – Dutchie
Nikos Toscani – Set U Free – Kult
Armin Van Buuren – Who Is Watching (DJ Remy & Roland K Remix) – Ultra

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Podcast 101  - Jack de Marseille  26.06.2020

Ahead of their new album Colour Burn being released later this month Dense & Pika takeover Casual Swim's show for an hour of downtempo electronica, synth and ambient. They used water as an overarching theme to the mix using field recordings of streams, waves and rain throughout.

Casual Swim w/ Dense & Pika - February 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.

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