All of a sudden, like a clap of thunder in a clear sky, house music exploded in Amsterdam. It was September 1988, the end of the summer that the British had already dubbed "The Summer Of Love," and the birth of a new era in the capital.

Shrouded in steam and smoke, lit by furious, flashing strobes, Eddy de Clercq stands behind the turntables at the RoXY. Beaded with sweat, in deep concentration and completely at one with the music, he builds a compelling, hypnotising soundtrack of electronic beats and basslines. Uplifting house tracks alternate with beautiful, vocal garage and abstract, futuristic Detroit techno. Waves of energy shudder through the crowd, who whoop and cheer with each subsequent track. Football whistles blare, a siren begins to wail. Can you feeeel it? The temperature reaches boiling point as the dance floor explodes in yet another ecstatic climax. But then the DJ makes a radical change in tack. The musical rollercoaster hurtles on into the depths of the night, driven forward by an intense, biting acid track that makes the floor shake. Strange and estranging and going so deep that we seem for a moment to step into an intoxicating dreamworld where time no longer exists.

In the late summer of 1988, over the course of only a few weeks, the RoXY, a stylish, former cinema on the Singel in Amsterdam, grew into a veritable house temple: the dazzling centre of the capital's young house scene and a club whose fame in the years that followed would take on almost mythical proportions. Not only because of the music, but also due to the extravagant clientele, who knew how to create an amazing party atmosphere.

[00:00] Rhythm Is Rhythm - Strings Of Life
[03:48] Djum Djum - Difference
[05:33] Nightmares On Wax - Aftermath
[07:06] ?
[10:27] 4 For Money - Its A Moment In Time (Rising High Dub)
[13:07] Liaisons Dangereuses - Peut Etre...Pas
[18:12] Jamie Principle - Your Love
[22:25] Pete Shelley - Witness The Change
[26:31] The D.O.C. - Portrait Of A Masterpiece (Hip Hop 12" Extended Mix)
[30:45] ?
[33:50] Master C&J - Face It 
[35:55] Reese - Just Want Another Chance
[39:22] Lovechild - Sweet Ambience (Deep Dub)
[46:50] ?
[42:54] Chapter 1 - Unleash The Groove (E-Funk Mix)
[48:58] Suburban Knight - The Art Of Stalking
[51:01] Tyree - Acid Crash
[56:15] Ron Trent - Altered States

Comments, hints and suggestions are always welcome!

Derrick May @ RoXY, Amsterdam   28.09.1990

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30 Minute Techno Mix

IFM 30 Min Techno Challenge

End of year chill with vibes of The Art of Noise. Out on all other platforms early 2024.

Take A Moment For A Change

Also available on YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWTVByZplIA

As I often play these records alongside newer releases, I realized most of those classics were more than 25 years old, I thought of compiling them together to show where dub tech comes from and how timeless most of these tracks are...Take a record like Round Four, discovered for a lot of people like me on Daniel Bell's mix (2000) The button down mind of Daniel Bell. More than 25 years onwards, you can look at a record like this, alongside Baby Ford and early Ricardo Villalobos as the blueprint for modern minimal and dubby electronic music, but that would imply that those genres later improved upon the overall formula. In reality, few got even close to as good as this. The origins of a genre is often more important than newer releases.  ''If you do not know where you come from, then you don't know where you are, and if you don't know where you are, then you don't know where you're going...''  (Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight)

The Beginning Of The Voyage (Heart Chakra)
Monolake - Amazon (1999) / Interstate /  Monolake / Imbalance Computer Music
Konrad Black - White Cigarettes (2002) / Two Hundred And Forty Volts Volume 2 / Swayzak recordings 
Burger/Ink - Elvism (1996) / [Las Vegas] / Matador / Kompakt klassiks
Round Four featuring Tikiman - Found A Way (1998) /  Find A Way EP / Main street records 
Maurizio - M06a (1996) / M-6 / Maurizio 
Monolake- Ionized (2001) / Cinemascope / Monolake / Imbalance Computer Music
Monolake & Makam - Mass transit railway (1998) / Hong Kong / Chain reaction
Various Artists - No.8 (1997) /  8 8.5 9 EP / Fat Cat records 
Swayzak - Form Is Emptyness (2001)  / Shape Memory Effect / Force tracks 
Swayzak vs Theorem - Break In At Apartment 205 (1999) /  Break In At Apartment 205 EP / M_nus 
Swayzak - Slave to the Hard Drive (2001) / Shape Memory Effect / Force tracks 
The Kooky Scientist - Nite Glide (1997) / Unpopular Science / Plus 8 
Convextion - Miranda (Original '96 Mix) /  Convextion EP / Matrix
Quadrant - Hyperprism (1993) / Quadrant E.P. / R & S Recordings 
David Alvarado Blue (Dub) (2001) / Blue EP 
G-Man - Quo Vadis (1995) / Swim
Ratio - Early Blow (1998) / Preview EP / Central  
Basic Channel - Radiance long (1994) / Basic channel
B.C. - Weird Vibrations ( 1994 ) /  Stronghold Techno EP / i.t.p. recordings
Basic Channel - Phylyps Trak (1994) / Basic channel 
Bandulu - Running time (1995) / Blanco Y Negro
Vainqueur - Lyot (Maurizio Mix) (1992) / Maurizio 
INFINITI-game one (1994) / Metroplex
Mateo Murphy - Inside out (2002) / Epsilonlab
Fluxion - Vibrant Forms 2 (1999) / Bipolar Defect /  Chain Reaction
Parallel 9 - Quadrus (1996) / Q EP / Prime
Sanasol - Matrix Noise (1997) / Thule records 
Thor - Aliens Don't Boogie (1999) / Æ Recordings
Merv - Dust (1998) / Happiness on a string EP / Dancecop
Ricardo Villalobos - Frank Mueller Melodram /  Perlon  
Ricardo Villalobos - Heike  (Villalobos Mood Mix) (1998) / Heike EP / Lo-fi stereo
In Aeternam Vale - Ultrabase (1993) / Machine À Laver / Ultrabase EP / Minimal Wave

Few notes: Sanasol is Yagya (Aðalsteinn Guðmundsson, Thorhallur Skulason aka Thor), Aliens don't boogie was famously used on Richie Hawtin's Deck, efx & 909 in 1999, Parallel 9 is Steve Rachmad famous Dutch electronic musician aka Sterac, Infiniti is Juan Atkins both he and Moritz von Oswald aka Maurizio remixed each other and collaborated many times in the last 30 years. Vainqueur is René Löwe famous from the Chain Reaction label. The B.C. track isn't Basic channel but a moniker which consists of Robert Leiner (Visions of the past) and Cisco Ferreira (The Advent). G-Man, whose productions were way ahead of its time on Force inc is Gez Varley from L.F.O. one half of it (other was Mark Bell), Quadrant is another moniker used by Basic channel, the EP was released in 1993 on R&S records the legendary Belgium label, and later repressed on Carl Craig's Planet E.

The Origins Of Dub Techno

Goodbye to the people who cry tears of concrete

Live PA Playlist:
00:00 “Sunset Live Version” (Coldest Season) 
03:47 “Amsterdam Remnant #3” (Soma 319) 
10:45 “DC13 - A: Live Reconstruction” (DC13) 
15:15 “Wind Farm” (Sommer - Soma CD099) 
17:35 “BCN Dub Live Version” (Liumin)
20:00 “Aquatic” (Sommer - Soma CD099) 
24:10 “City Centre” (Hash Bar Loops) 
28:10 “Body Sonic” (Incense & Blacklight) 
31:10 “Overnight Flight”
35:22 “DC13 - B1: Live Rework” (DC13)
40:40 “Electromagnetic Dowsing: Mike Huckaby Mix” (SYNTH 01/C) 
46:00 “Misc Loops” w/ Steve Hitchell 
52:15 “Starlight (Juan Atkins) Dub” w/ Steve Hitchell 
56:30 “Empyrean Live Version” (Coldest Season)

Deepchord - Live PA

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"Glick Glock by Kessler sets the scene for this EP, a heavy broken sound that crafts together gunshot samples, ominous ticking and furious fast paced percussion in a classic breakbeat composition with a modern twist."

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Written by Various Artists
Artwork by OFF → KORZ
Distributed by Unearthed Sounds

Right Place, Wrong Time

Glick Glock

Fiddling with machines and an 8-track recorder. 

Goodbye to the people who cry tears of concrete

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