Bryan Martell - Happy Birthday

A groovy techno mix straight from the bedroom on a FLX4

Groove Techno #01

Stone Techno Festival 24 - ANNĒ B2B Sol Ortega - ARTE Concert

Our return to Lisbon last year featured some of techno's most exciting breakthrough acts including Nørbak, Grace Dahl and Rene Wise.

Rene Wise | Boiler Room: Lisbon

US-born and Berlin-based, Dustin Zahn has been a force in techno’s global underground for over two decades. His sound is punishing yet precise—big-room power shaped by hypnotic loops, sharp sound design often layered with haunting vocals and an unshakable sense of momentum.

With releases on Blueprint, Rekids, and his own imprints—Enemy Records and the American-rooted Abiotic Recordings— Zahn’s output is consistently high-caliber. Behind the decks, from Berghain to basements,  his work is a masterclass in high-impact techno that never sacrifices depth.

For Podcast #243, he delivers a 2.5-hour journey that doesn’t let up. No compromises. Just techno. 

Artwork by @ankhsious

Vault Sessions #243 - Dustin Zahn

This is one of my most-requested live recordings in a while! For 4 days at Fusion, ~80,000 people grow a tail and run free in the German forest. It’s what happens when uncompromising art collides with anti-capitalistic freedom. I was invited to play on Saturday night from 2:30am-4:30am on Fusions biggest stage, Turmbühne. Soundtracked by heavy, intense psychedelia, this is a story of moving everybody from the darkest hour straight into sunrise. I wanted to push people’s limits, but I also wanted it to be fun. Thank you to those still standing and especially to the Fusion crew.

Dustin Zahn - Live @ Fusion Festival 2025 (Turmbühne Stage)

Three hours of incendiary techno, as two veterans go head-to-head.

When Speedy J described his studio dynamic with Chris Liebing back in 2014, he put it bluntly: "I try to piss him off a little." The result? Dance music that's as functional and precise as Liebing demands, with just enough chaos to keep it interesting. That tension has defined the duo's partnership, Collabs 3000, since their first releases, and it's alive and well on their debut RA Mix. 

Both artists are techno heavyweights in their own right. Jochem Paap, AKA Speedy J, helped Europe slow down after the breakneck '90s, proving that techno could chug as well as pummel. Liebing, meanwhile, commanded his popular label CLR and went from transforming schranz into the hard techno sound that recently swept up a younger generation of ravers. 

As a pair, Collabs 3000 undeniably has its ear trained on the big room. Paap and Liebing are both former Berghain regulars, and the Berlin club's influence is clear across RA.1006: taut, muscular techno, or "effective and structured" in Liebing's words, with Paap injecting the right amount of unpredictability. Their 2005 full-length, Metalism, remains a landmark: polished, uncompromising and dynamite for any large sound system. 

With the album now remastered for its 20th anniversary, Collabs 3000's RA Mix brings that same ferocious energy into sharp focus: smouldering textures, peak-time pressure and three unrelenting hours of classic techno.

@chris-liebing
@jochempaap
Read the interview at ra.co/podcast/1025

RA.1006 Collabs 3000

Buy us a coffee to support the page: www.buymeacoffee.com/theclassicmixcdseries
Facebook: www.facebook.com/theclassicmixcdseries
Instagram: www.instagram.com/theclassicmixcdseries

---

Massive shout out to Scott from Tillicoultry in Scotland for the share on this one. Epic recommendations mate!

MIX-UP VOL.2 Live at The Liquid Room - Tokyo

Buy on Discogs

259 - Jeff Mills ‎– Live At The Liquid Room - Tokyo (1996)

Richie Hawtin: Decks, Efx & 909 CD Version (Full Mix) (1999) MINUS4CD

NMNDA

BLISS 303

Bringing the groove with ŪMËR and playing amazing stuff with Unsafe Space Garden

Groove Techno #01

Lecos