Marika Rossa stands among techno’s fiercest voices, racking up millions of YouTube plays and dropping chart-ready weapons on Fresh Cut, Kurai, and Chlore. 
That same force now powers SWEETHARD, her new label pushing the scene into harder, faster territory.

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In the space of just four years, English techno act WHYT NOYZ has risen from an unknown name to a staple of some of the world’s biggest electronic music labels.

Now a solo project of David Sidley, WHYT NOYZ was formed in 2010 by two best friends to formulate their take on sleek, hard-grooving techno – having been raised on a shared diet of electronic and black music. Hip-hop, funk and soul all played formative roles before he discovered house music thanks to the likes of Joey Negro and Masters At Work and began playing in local clubs. His passion for techno soon followed. “As I got more into the electronics of sound and this symbiotic relationship between man and machine, I began to dig deeper” he recalls. The powerful rhythmic components of the WHYT NOYZ sound also give a nod to his background as a drummer – something he has been doing since the age of 6. He began producing in 2007.

Fusing the groove of post-minimal techno with live percussive elements, deft rap samples and high-impact effects, WHYT NOYZ’s is a resolutely contemporary sound – but one that still gives subtle nods to his past. “As my creative mind has developed, so has the sound” he says of his blend of digital and analog. “It has evolved into something more considered and memorable. A sound that has a stronghold in something peak-time and driving but with melodic elements to help captivate the mind.”

Catching Richie Hawtin’s ear with early production Volcano made for the perfect start to WHYT NOYZ’s career, with the track signed to his MINUS12 imprint and featured on the label boss’ Mixmag ‘New Horizons’ compilation. This huge seal of approval set Sidley on a fast track into the upper echelons of the techno scene, with Dubfire signing the Homewerk EP to his SCI+TEC Digital imprint after they met in Ibiza. The release landed in Beatport’s Top 40 Techno Chart, and led to a follow-up (They EP).

Releases and remixes for Sian’s Octopus Black Label, Kaiserdisco’s KD Music and Monika Kruse’s Terminal M all followed, plus an appearance on Pan-Pot’s Sonne Mond Sterne compilation, cementing his reputation and vindicating Hawtin’s early belief in the WHYT NOYZ sound. Impressed by the success of Volcano, he signed the act up for a full release: Back To The Future EP. The Minus boss gave all four tracks heavy rotation during the 2013 season of his Space Ibiza night ENTER. He continues to play digital bonus track Meh Meh to this day. The EP hit Beatport’s Techno Chart Top 5, and received support from Pete Tong on Radio 1 - notably during his Glastonbury Essential Mix.

The ongoing success of the partnership with Minus led to another five-track EP in 2014 (It Grows, supported by the likes of Adam Beyer) and a string of tour dates supporting Hawtin across the world. WHYT NOYZ played alongside him at the hallowed Ten Days Off in Belgium, between him and Disclosure at Kappa FuturFestival in Italy and in front of a home crowd at the legendary fabric in London. His sets continue to garner rave reviews, with bookings at Berlin’s Watergate, Paris’ Le Tunnel (“1200 people going totally nuts, sweat dripping off the roof”) and in Ibiza, Amsterdam, Mexico City, Goa and Istanbul to name a few.

With the release of his third SCITEC Ep Dimensions and a host of remixes to boot, it looks very much like WHYT NOYZ’s rapid ascent will continue and place him amongst the big leagues of electronic music. “My goal is simply to continue producing and playing music to stay connected” he says. “As my sound constantly develops, I feel energised to keep pushing to see where it goes. It is a drug for sure.”

More than 30 years in business, over 800 catalogue releases, over 8000 songs + remixes and still going strong!! Compost is one of the most prolific, highly acclaimed and in demand indie labels in Europe. Compost and its sublabels Compost Black Label, Compost Disco, Drumpoet Community, Derwin Recordings and rumpelmusig standing for quality music, a sophisticated mixture of electrifying disco, house, techno, soul, jazz and a little bit of pop. XLR8R wrote: "...top address where electronica meets musicality". Besides internationally respected artist like Robert Owens, Trüby Trio, Koop, Beanfield, Christian Prommer, Felix Laband, Karma, Ben Mono, Kyoto Jazz Massive, Marsmobil, Eddy Meets Yannah, Sepalot, Alif Tree, Shahrokh, Wigald Boning a.o. the label is also well known for its praised compilation series V.A. "Elaste" (Vol.1-4), "Future Sounds Of Jazz" (Vol.1-14), "Partykeller" (Vol.1-3) or "Glücklich" (Vol.1-5). Like Gilles Peterson once said: “With great pleasure I pronounce Compost the most consistent and forward thinking record label of continental Europe.“

What is techno? Scientists and philosophers have long since pondered the concept of its musical definition since it burst out of Detroit in the mid-‘80s. Is it that notion of the “ghost in the machine”, of soul from electronics that its inventors elicited? Or is it more the repetitive throb and thump of 4/4 beats and slow-burning momentum that the Berghain generation are proponents of? Croatian producer Petar Dundov’s stunning music manages to marry both ideals in the most explosive of fashions.

To Dundov, “techno is music that precedes movement. It is dance music, solid enough to carry emotions through the dance floor and abstract enough to be a template for ever”. And indeed his breathtaking productions embody this ethos, serving the inherent function of making your body pulse spontaneously while also challenging your brain with its complex melodies and slow-burning, hypnotic progressions. It’s the antidote for anyone who thinks that techno is about senseless, dull looping.

Although maybe the word “techno” doesn’t give enough detail about his style, it’s probably the nearest ballpark to whose principles his music adheres – and he is keen to expand the horizons of what people know and expect of the genre. But it’s that sense of his tracks being alive, forever evolving and expanding and increasing in intensity, which gives his music its unique sound and has seen his work crossover into a myriad of different areas of the global electronic music scene. The last two years have seen his mind-bending single Oasis (played by everyone from Dubfire to Sasha to Ben Klock to Prins Thomas to Timo Maas) take the scene by storm with its intricate, ever-changing melodies, John Digweed snap him up for an epic rework of Alan Fitzpatrick’s Reflections, and Gregor Tresher squeeze a deep, mesmerising remix of his track The Life Wire out of him.

His music shows you that he’s a producer with more than churning out mindless, functional and dispensable drivel on his mind. There’s a philosophy entrenched in his productions that breathes the very spirit of life and dynamism into them: “My ultimate goal as a producer and musician is to bridge the world of inspiration and physical world to the extent where the listener wouldn't be able to distinguish between the two. Music has this unique property to communicate deep emotions that are inherently in all of us. We just forgot how to use them, and my search is an attempt to revive those emotions where we all resonate as one.”

Born in Zagreb in the early ‘70s, his career in dance music stretches back the best part of 20 years, but it’s only in the new millennium that he’s been using his own name for his productions. Over the years he’s graced many of the world’s most prestigious and best-loved techno institutions – including mega-festivals I Love Techno, EXIT, Awakenings and Wire, and cutting-edge clubs like Berghain, Matter (RIP), Womb, Air, Fuse and Space. He counts a longstanding relationship with Belgium’s legendary Music Man label amongst his achievements, an imprint that has also played host to releases by everyone from Jeff Mills (for whose label Tomorrow he created the Sculptures mini-LP) to Green Velvet to Robert Hood, and after completing his acclaimed debut album Escapements in 2008, he’s got the follow-up in the works (for completion by the end 2010).

Petar Dundov makes intelligent electronic music that breaks boundaries, moves feet and twists minds. He is without a doubt one of the most inspiring, original and daring producers in electronica, and with the likes of Sven Väth, Francois K, Laurent Garnier, Adam Beyer, Josh Wink, Guy J, Glimpse, Hernan Cattaneo, Brendan Moeller, and Danny Tenaglia amongst his fans, it would be hard to disagree.


FLOTEK better known as one part of The A-Brothers is on his techno journey since the mid 90's. My projects are FLOTEK better known as one part of The A-Brothers is on his techno journey since the mid 90's. 

Projects: FLOTEK | A-BROTHA | FLQtECHNO

DJ and producer from Zagreb, Croatia. Active since the late 90s. Likes records but doesn't like talking about himself.

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