With 20 plus something years in the game, Mike has handled many roles in the industry. From running an artist management agency in the early 2000’s, promoting events, DJ’ing and producing, Mike has done a lot and seen a lot. Mike’s DJ sets are unique with a blend of deep, hypnotic, spaced out and driving style of techno.

In 2017, he launched his label, Northern Parallels. Focusing on deep, trippy, spaced out, hypnotic techno. The label features well respected veteran producers DJ Hyperactive, Dustin Zahn, Myles Serge, Hiroko Yamamura, Ray Kajioka and up and coming producers Jason Patrick, Allana Letm, Lindsey Herbert Joshua Calleja with also providing a home for new faces that are making exceptional music.

Tracklist - 

Oscar Mulero - Disappear Inside [Warm Up]
Metapattern - Cleansing [Mord]
Heliosphere - Photon Belt (Jason Patrick Remix) [Unreleased Northern Parallels]
Linear System - 0724am [Balders Audio]
Skjold.- Path Of Tonality [Soma]
Chris Rubbra - Lost Signal [Prtl Wrx]
Alla - Tristesse [Syncopated]
Singular Anomalies - Parallel FM [Greta]
DJ Hi-C - Yao [Aum]
Hurdslenk - Mayhem (Bailey Ibbs Remix) [Frenzy]
Oscar Mulero - Take The Pleasures From The Serpent [Warm Up]
Heliosphere - Blackhole [Unreleased Northern Parallels]
Michael Ferrell - Subdivisions [Illegal Alien]
Håwgk & Denø - Sapientia [Aesir]
Allana Letm - Tempos Multiplos [Northern Parallels]
Phyxx - Grito al Cielo [Dark Forest]
Mariano DC - Beskar [Enux]
Allan Gallego - Wormhole [Infra]
T.A.M - Sequenz IV [The Acid Mind]
Burden - Strings of Sorrow [Syncopated]
Qwëzall - Static Movement [Krad]
Klint - Kaos Temple [CLR]
Joey Beltram.- Drome [Warp]
Mike Derer - Pecatonica [MS]

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Blank Code Podcast 234 - Mike Derer

Nadir - Claudio PRC,
Balder - Dycide,
Subatomic - Efdemin,
Flesh of the Gods - Ness,
Vent - Xhin,
Dejection - JLTZ,
Night Current - Psyk,
Portal - Valentino Mora,
Selocine - Amandra,
Pathologically Bored - Deru,
Tranducer - Efdemin,
Mjøsa - Stephanie Sykes,
The Dismal Truth - Trevino,
Boiler - Pfirter,
Perplexed - Rødhåd remix

perplexed [mix]

Northern Parallels Podcast 001 - Mike Derer

A monthly journey into the deeper realms of techno with guest mixes from all corners of the world. Curated by label owner, Mike Derer.

www.northernparallels.com

Tracklist:
Emily Jeanne - Wet Skin
Emily Jeanne - Integrate
DJ Clea - Love Is So Confusing (Anthony Linell Remix)
Deepbass - Sietch
Apart - Cells
Crossing Avenue - Rimbalzo
Erik Luebs - Melting Synthetics
Orbe - Experimental
Blazej Malinowski - In Reverse
Anthony Linell - Luz
Rrose X Bob Ostertag - The Surgeon General
Kobe Dupree - Untitled [Unreleased Northern Parallels]
D-Leria - Collisione
Kvest - Saris (Jason Patrick Remix)
Decoder - Soil
Antonio Ruscito & Luigi Tozzi - Cube
Sandwell District - Immolare (First-Main-Final)
Psyk - Scope Drift 
Lucy - Beautiful People
D-Leria - Junglism 
Goru Toshina - Gator
Ben Reymann - Distant Echoes
Albert Zhirnov - Old Malt (Cleric 6/10 Remix)
PWCCA - Eclipse Mechanism 
Kaiser (KSR) - Pressure Funk
Ray Kajioka & Hekio Laux - Resuscitate
Spencer Hardwick - Are These My Memories (Mike Derer Remix)
Translate - Notation
P.E.A.R.L. - On Balance
Oscar Mulero - La Loma
Rene Wise - Anxiety
Dustin Zahn - Mid 90s
Valentino Mora & In Half Light - Hello
Porteix - 1961
Jack Fresia - Three-Brained Beings
Jason Patrick - Cycle Guide
Jay York - Deform
Eman - Shepha
Skjold - Forbidden City

Northern Parallels Podcast 001 - Mike Derer

Into cinematic depths.

Read more: https://www.orbmag.com/music/podcast/orb-podcast-097-azu-tiwaline/

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Tracklist

Orb Podcast 097: Azu Tiwaline

Born and raised in Rome, Luigi Tozzi is undoubtedly one of the most prolific and outstanding talents of his generation to come out of Italy. Slip into any record store worth its salt, or clubs from Tbilisi to Lisbon and you’ll find traces of his work there; his signature sound has sold its share of records true, but also deeply influenced the work of many of his contemporaries. His expansive compositions intimately tied to the space they’re heard in, circling in perfect arcs below the water’s surface, where sunlight becomes scarce and a connection with sound paramount. Reformulating not only dub. techno and ambient, but a trove of memories diving off the coast of Sicily’s neighbour Salina (and with the help of analog digital tools, VSTs and controllers during live performances), Tozzi has developed a mastery for hypnotic rhythms like nothing you’ve heard before. His close working relationship with Swedish output Hypnus, as well as Outis and Non-Series have pushed his aquatic sound to it’s absolute limit, creating a world of poignant textures that have given his genre the gift of new horizons. Here he visits the Podcast for an epic 128 minutes that delve into his abyssal world, haunting rumbles and immersive techno, a ghostly, shimmering live-set recorded at Bassiani.

@luigitozzi

Bassiani invites Luigi Tozzi [live] / Podcast #280

Vindya is a Manchester-based interdisciplinary artist working as both a DJ and a composer. As a composer, Vinthya Perinpanathan researches ancient ritual music from her Tamil-Sinhalese roots in Sri Lanka, which heavily shapes her contemporary compositions.

As a DJ, she performs dark, soulful, and sound design-oriented techno. Her sets emphasize the parallels between techno and her ancestral music—repetition, percussion, and tension—underlining her overarching theme of unity and border transcendence.

This formula has taken her to dancefloors including FOLD, Tresor, and Radion. Vindya also incorporates hybrid elements like live violin and field recordings from Sri Lanka into her performances. She is scheduled to return to her country of heritage to perform in 2026.

Enjoy xx

Playhaus: 014 Vindya

got many requests for this one from a few years back, italy, pic with my love from scilly recently...need sun...relentlessly raining in uk...mixed down on the zahl, think theres better mixes, will upload if i find em,

perplexed [mix]

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