The Techier side of house, the Groovier side of techno...

Techy Bukkake

I haven't done a mix in a LONG ASS time. Since I'm recording off of a DJM-900 I'm recording onto a linear PCM, and oops, the memory card wasn't huge...so DJ Spen is my last track and ends kinda like that...Anyhoo, this is a groovy exploration of tech-house and techno - deep, dark, bright, bouncy, fun! Enjoy

Suggit!

So in this day and age of disposable digital music, I thought I dig back a smidge - meaning only 3 years. So this is kinda fun. The tracks in my 2011 file are the ones I thought were worthwhile...which means there was a lot I got rid of as I'll-probably-never-play-again...

'011 Flashback

This is the second installment of a set I created with tracks from my collection back in 2011. Enjoy it. This is a short one.

'011 Flashback Part 2

I haven't done this in a while, so feedback would be appreciated. I decided to delve into my Techno collection, and with a few Sezeracs fueling this venture, I came up with what I'd like to think of as a pretty successful little-nearly-two-hour Techno jammy. Enjoy. And don't expect anything funky in the Tech House sense...this is straight-up Techno...at least in my book.

Pots N' Pans In The Kitchen

An afternoon in protest of St. Patrick's Day with two pints of Guiness at my side. Techy, dubby, then uplifting and almost jacking...

Two Pints Twin Cities

Late one afternoon with the aid of two pints of beer I decided to go a bit deeper, stripped down, and still a bit of a funk and groove to my selection. Its a short one, but there will be more to come. To quote a Plus8 Records condom pack from 1993, "The Deeper We Go the Harder it Gets".

Toxic Gossip

You can't grow up in the Southside of Chicago and NOT be exposed to house music. Even for a little immigrant white boy like me. Our middle school dances had your best in 80s electronic music...and house. Then, in my pre-21 years I discovered Medusa's, and for me the second song on my mix...well back then not knowing who it was, it made etched itself into my ears and consciousness. This is not the greatest mix I've done, they all suck balls compared to the master. I spent my late afternoon for Frankie Knuckles. I am totally honored I got to meet him and talk to him. I tried to play most of the tracks to its entirety. I hope you folks enjoy it, and the last track is my all time favorite track...and its all there.

A Frankie Knuckles Tribute

Get banging! This is straight up techno, the bare minimums, yet still with a groove.
This ain't gonna be a set of banging, crack-head techno at 130 BPM or more...I maintain a groovilicious techno (if that is possible) at a nice, smooth and low 124 BPM. This ain't that uber-techno where a majority of the fans are in the DJ booth, and the peeps that are out on the floor are skinny dudes in black-deep-v tees, with questionable hygiene and the belief that deodorant is a myth. If this shit doesn't make you tingly, then get yourself checked out... 

InterVaginalWaxSecretions

So since I ain't gonna be at Mike Bryant's sendoff to Berlin, Javier Santos's sendoff to Puerto Rico, Kevin Dyal's Birthday, and 34th Street John's birthday on May 9, I've put together this little ditty. Enjoy!

Not In NY Anymore Toto

So after an amazing weekend in New York City on the weekend of May 9, 2014, I felt inspired. The set I played at the beginning of the night was lame (in my mind), but there was a good reason for that...all the love and hugs from my friends I haven't seen in a year and a half. To top it off, there were people there I hadn't seen in three years, five years, and seven years. It was a truly special nigh beyond the music.
So I put together this little ditty...its hard, its groovy, its techy, and its housey. It's a musical journey! One problem, my digital PCM didn't have a memory card big enough for all my musical love, so it ends a bit abruptly...sorry! But enjoy!

Thursday Afternoon Groove

Breaking in some new tracks. I love it when selections come together. This is layered, melodic, dark, groovy, hard, its all fucking there! Enjoy the shit!

Suck My Dashaks

This is part 2 of my Dashaks set. This is slow and low, we're talking about 122 BPM, still hard, still groovy. Enjoy!

My Dashaks Part 2

Yup...went techno the other night. I definitely have more fun playing the dark shit...keeping it at a mellow, dark, and driving 125 BPM-ish. So it's not too scary. Thanks to my brothers and sisters at Mojo at Asian Taste. Still doesn't cease to amaze me how juicy a techno track sounds that's normally 130 or so BPM brought down to just below 125.

TechYes Mojo MPLS

I haven't done a mix in a while. Dark, deep, bouncy...taking you up and down so you can get down! The tracks are the same as the one from the party I played at a couple of weeks ago, tweaked a bit, so you can tweak! 
Enjoy as always!

Rub Me The Right Way

So going through my set archives I dug this up, and realized for some reason I never uploaded this. Wow, sick, crunchy, bouncy, deep and dark techno and tech-house...the track selection, yikes. Okay, I'm tooting my own horn here...but I would get down and boogie to this if I heard this set out somewhere...

Return 2 The Ottoman Empire 2

On March 8 International Women's Day I spun a little set at a groovy little art gallery in Tribeca for a Russian art show, and book release event. The recording is in 3 sections, as there were readings from the book between my sets. Enjoy...they go from groovy to minimal...

One Art Space Set 1

On March 8 International Women's Day I spun a little set at a groovy little art gallery in Tribeca for a Russian art show, and book release event. The recording is in 3 sections, as there were readings from the book between my sets. Enjoy...they go from groovy to minimal...this is part 2...the sections when the volume goes down is when we were making announcements over the PA

One Art Space Set 2

On March 8 International Women's Day I spun a little set at a groovy little art gallery in Tribeca for a Russian art show, and book release event. The recording is in 3 sections, as there were readings from the book between my sets. Enjoy...they go from groovy to minimal...this is the final hour, and this is where I get a bit darker and dirtier...

One Art Space Set 3

It's been a while...too busy enjoying life to do a mix I guess. I've amassed a huge library of new tracks over the past 6 months or so ago. It's like my other mixes, it's a bit techy, it's a bit housey...it gets dark, it gets deep, but it keeps it groovy///

Like A Yoyo

So, big ass snow storm hits, you get drunk at your local bar, and then slide home down the middle of the road...and then go home and put together a little jammy...
This is the first mix I've put together since I've moved back to NYC. Enjoy!

SNOMG Mix - First NYC Set

This is a Sunday afternoon exploration of Tech-House to House and Back to Tech-House. Its all over the place, but it is fun and will keep you wondering!

All Over the Place

This is going to be the first in a series of mixes that I'm putting out from my new home base of Minneapolis...enjoy! This housey, techy, dark, and fun.

MPLS

Twincities

Listen to this House SHIT!

DAMNDEEPRMX

Another one of my MPLS mixes...some groovy tracks on this one. A really amazing one from Goldie (first track), a great DJ Hell remix, and a really good one from John Acquaviva...like surprising hot! Enjoy!

DAMNTECHY

What da FUNK!

Here it is, a groovy little mix to get you rockin'...its housey, its techy, its TECH-HOUSEY baby! Enjoy this shite! Excuse all the FX during the first track, it to bypass Big Bro!

Fuga Daat Shite

This is soulful, deep, groovy, deep house. This mix takes a journey of stripped down, house, all the way up to funkier melodic deep house. This is a journey sure to set the right mood. I'm definitely feeling my Southside Chicago roots on this one...

DEEPHOUSE2

Yo folks, so my by back in Queens (Gangstoria) hooked me up with a bunch of tracks, so I sat down to see what I could do with them. Well, here it is, it will take you up, it will make you get down, and take you back up before making you get down again.
Enjoy!

GimmeGout

This is a live recording of my debut set in Minneapolis at the legendary First Avenue. The night way exceeded anyone's expectations considering it was the Memorial Day weekend. We had the room RAMMED starting from the beginning of the night!
I want to extend huge props to the awesome guys at Hotdish, Nate and Matt for giving me such a amazing opportunity to play in front of such a receptive crowd. I also want to say thanks to Fresko for an amazing set to wrap the night up!

Live @ First Ave. MPLS

I grew up in the South Side of Chicago, and my first memories of house music was in the early 80s having Chicago radio DJ Bad Boy Bill play one of our school dances...HOUSE MUSIC all night long. Okay, till 10pm and with chaperons.
When I went off to college I started defining my musical tastes to combine Industrial, and a generous smattering of Punk. Then in the early 90s, after one of my couple-of-hundred-people-plus house parties got raided by the police, a person that heard about my party reputation approached me to help him organize a party for a bunch of architects and designers. Thus my first Rave in 1991 was born.
In the 3 years I worked closely with the Rave scene in the Midwest, I worked closely with promoters and DJs in Detroit (the birthplace of Techno). My parties brought down talent from Detroit to Muncie, Indiana (which actually became a spot on the map for Raves in the early 90s). Artists like Richie Hawtin, Paris (now of the Detroit Grand Pubas), and Mike Huckaby to name a few.
At this point I also traveled around the Midwest to a wide variety of parties watching the birth of numerous techno and house Godfathers such as Richie Hawtin, Jeff Mills, Derrick May, Derrick Carter and Juan Atkins grow .
It was truly an amazing time for electronic music.
In 1993 I moved to Cyprus and brought my music along with my and tried to introduce a very virgin crowd of people to electronic dance music. This was at a time when dance music was at its VERY fledgling stages in Cyprus and especially Turkey.
I promoted a few parties here and there, and did not graduate from promoting to actually DJing when the hotel that I worked at fired their DJ for their 1000 person plus lavish club.
So it was baptism by fire for me, I had to learn to mix...and I did it.
The rest is history. Since about 1995 I've been DJing regularly, and especially after moving to New York in 2004, I actively promoted and DJed parties. The list of venues and parties are long - most of them I don't remember, some of them don't exist anymore, but nonetheless the memories of the music and the crowds still resonate in many peoples minds.

Gok Tezgor

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