Earlier this year I had the honour of pulling together a club mix for the ever-wonderful Lockdown Radio crew.. This is the result, two hours of jackin club tracks slapped together haphazardly on two vinyl turntables and a mixer... head-nodding shenanigans for sure...

Alex Knight - Lockdown Radio -

Depths of Winter 2022

Playlist:

01. Robert Hood – Nighttime World (Cheap)
02. DBX  – Losing Control (Robert Hood Remix) (Peacefrog)
03. Robert Hood  – The Pace (M-Plant)
04. Robert Hood – Protein Valve (Edit 1) (M-Plant)
05. H&M – 88 (Axis)
06. Robert Hood – And Then We Planned Our Escape (Music Man)
07. Robert Hood – Master Builder (Sandman Option) (Tresor)
08. Floorplan – Baby Baby (M-Plant)
09. Robert Hood – Museum (M-Plant)
10. Robert Hood – Patternist (M-Plant)
11. The Vision – Can’t Wait (Underground Resistance)
12. Robert Hood – A Force Of One (Hardwax)
13. Robert Hood – In Basements (Logistic)
14. Monobox – Realm (M-Plant)
15. Robert Hood – Black Man’s Word (M-Plant)
16. Floorplan – Funky Souls (Rush Hour)
17. Robert Hood – A.M. Track (M-Plant)
18. Floorplan – Altered Ego (M-Plant)
19. H&M – Suspense (Axis)
20. Robert Hood & Florrplan – The Struggle (M-Plant)
21. Robert Hood – Invincible (M-Plant)
22. Floorplan – Phobia (M-Plant)
23. Floorplan – Music (M-Plant)
24. The Vision – Detroit: One Circle (Metroplex)
25. Floorplan – Never Grow Old (M-Plant)

#185 - A Tribute To Robert Hood - mixed by Veloziped

Luca Vera @://About Blank Berlin 14.04.2022

My next guest on Yax Invites is Adelaide techno veteran, Ben Alibi, who has kindly prepared an interesting write up to support his mix for the series below.

Good records offer an insight into another existence - be it here on Earth, or the far flung reaches of our imaginations. Speaking personally, the valuable ones are usually something I continue to find something new in and are as appreciated being played right through, or mixed as a portion in a set. 

When DJing, I feel the focus should be on the music itself; I've only ever used two sources at once and I like to believe that in some ways there's fewer places to hide when it's just you and two tracks. Knowing how to juggle three (or more) decks well would be awesome though! 

I always go back to hearing Jeff Mills play over two nights, during the mid 90's. Night one was his 3-turntable power mix - which was amazing to watch first-hand! However, night two was performed on two decks only, whereby it felt to me like the level of intensity and audience involvement was counter-intuitively higher. Furthermore, it seemed like the track selection went deeper and everything being aired reached its full potential. 

As such, I believe a DJ's role is simply to work productions together, so as to best highlight the standout parts of each track simultaneously - anything more, or less, only detracts from what should be at the core of it all; individual human expression, through techno music. 

This mix has plenty of personal old favourites - tracks that we (my generation) would associate with a night out in Adelaide during the early 90's. I'm old enough to remember this period fondly and with good reason as Adelaide, South Australia truly was the underground techno capital (outpost) of Australia - if not the southern hemisphere - primarily due to being the base for the formative label, Juice Records. 

The current generation of contributors should certainly feel proud of our foundations, but crucially, remember that so much has changed. We're totally just a grain of sand on a beach now, but something big has been achieved here before, so it's certainly possible again.
 
From my perspective, if there's one thing to take from our history here, it's that we be totally confident in our unique way of doing things as that's core to our sustainability; moreover, it's what someone on the receiving end 'buys into'. 

Again, with the sentimentality... but buying records back in the day was like being a tourist - you were taking a ride on someone else's reality. Every point in the globe, every scene within a point, had its own sound and this was a big part of the attraction that techno music originally held. In essence, I wish to continue being part of the movement that (re)focuses on sounding like Adelaide, for us to then communicate outwardly with. 

I love what we had, but I love where we might go next, even more. 

I hope that you enjoy listening to this selection as much as I did laying it down. N.B. keep an ear out for the new (and some unreleased) music within from DMZ and Antony Coppens, on Juice Records.

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Le Bizarre Festival continue ce week-end à la Villette, entre La Folie, Le Pavillon, et le studio de Tsugi Radio! Diane Wurtz et Mira Ló s'occupent d'ambiancer le studio de Tsugi, entre techno, house, et set ensoleillé.

Bizarre Festival avec Diane Wurtz

A transatlantic trip through house and techno.

RA.275 DJ Deep

Markus Suckut has established himself as one of techno’s greatest storytellers through his near 20-year career, known for sets that take listeners on a wide-ranging journey whilst straddling the line between dub techno and the genre in its purest form.

In 2017, through his work with Johannes Heil on the pair’s discerning Exile imprint, as well as a schedule that sees him spin across Europe, he shows no signs of slowing down either.

He lands on Andre Kronert’s ODD/EVEN imprint next month with his ‘Your Body’ EP, four tracks made up of the lights out techno that has become his trademark, ranging from minimalistic to acid.

For his DJ Mag podcast, Suckut has delivered an hour-long masterclass that shifts from a dreamy melancholy before working through to a measured industrial clatter - the perfect day-to-night set.

Listen to Markus Suckut’s exclusive DJ Mag Podcast above.

PODCAST: Markus Suckut

EPM Podcast 133 comes from DJ and producer Marco Passarani. One of Rome’s finest electronic exponents and Final Frontier, Nature, Pigna mastermind mixes up a storm of house, electro, techno all infused with his trademark bounce and funk. Featuring Fingers Inc, Radio Slave, Jensen Interceptor, Posthuman, Rude 66, Furious Frank, Reznik, Datassette, Passarani’s own productions and more.

After his latest solo adventures on Jackmaster’s related Numbers label and Fort Romeau’s Cin Cin, his restless journey continues with an album that came out in early 2019 on the highly revered Vladimir Ivkovic’s Offen Music: Marco’s first solo album in more than 10 years called “WOW”! Last but not least, he just started a brand new label called Unrelatable, reviving that Finalfrontier spirit of the early days of his musical life.  

To read to the exclusive interview here: https://s.epm-music.com/331sAZP

EPM Podcast 133 – Tracklist

Reznik - Human Factor
Fingers Inc - The Children's House
Radio Slave - Silent Witness
Furious Frank - No Escape
Passarani - Katra's Groove
Alex Cortex - We Run Your Life
Jordan Passmore - Violet Wings of Rndmz
Posthuman - 707 Heaven 
Passarani - Road to P'Jem
Jensen Interceptor - Promise
Lazy Pluto - Temple Of Jupiter
Dance System - Ur Flange Or Mine
Palace - Codex
Datassette - Kestrel Maoeuvres In The Dark
Obergman - Chronostatis
Shan - Schlagzeug
Passarani - Needlegroove
Dataless - Instajam (Shadow Child Acid Funk Mix)
Third Son - The Brain Named Itself
Passarani - Exit Velocity 
Rude 66 - Resurrection 
XY0815 - Rigid Body 

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EPM podcast #133 - Marco Passarani

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Luca Vera,dj e produttore nasce alla fine degli anni 70 e vive l'inizio di una evoluzione musicale che attraversa gli anni ottanta fino ad arrivare agli anni novanta,in questa fase di crescita acquisisce e si appassiona alla disco attraversando e immergendosi nella italo disco degli anni 80 fino alla maturità musicale che arriva negli anni novanta con l'esplosione della sua passione per la musica house con la quale vive e convive in un amore per essa che lo porta a vivere di persona il provare il brivido della console,passione che vive e persiste da oltre vent'anni e che pervade il suo stato d'animo in un continuo di emozioni che lo portano ad affrontare ogni esperienza come se fosse sempre la prima volta. Dopo anni passati in console inizia a immergersi nel mondo delle produzioni per cui comincia ad appassionarsi e ad avvicinarsi alla musica in modo sempre più profondo,quasi morboso,che lo porta e lo spinge a cercare di sperimentare sempre e cercare quel qualcosa di nuovo,di diverso che lo distingua o che per lo meno provi a distinguerlo.La voglia di fare sempre qualcosa di nuovo e di spaziare nei diversi angoli nascosti della musica fa si che si completi la sua fase di crescita e maturità musicale rendendolo un artista a tutto tondo con conoscenza tale da poter confrontarsi con la realtà di questo mondo con la consapevolezza di un veterano e la voglia di scoprire e conoscere di un bambino. Da poco inizia il percorso da Label Manager della sua etichetta discografica “Spazio Tempo”,nata con l’intento di far esprimere agli artisti attraverso i loro brani il loro punto di vista e l’immagine di una musica senza limiti, barriere o stereotipi.


Luca Vera, Italian DJ and producer comes to life in the late seventies in a small city between Rome and Naples.

He starts tasting music during his childhood in the eighties, quickly acquires a strong passion for the Italian disco then comes to musical maturity during the nineties with the explosion of house music for which he starts living.

That love becomes so strong that it that makes him want to experience the thrill of the decks. This passion lives and persists for over twenty years now and maintains his mood in a continuum of emotions that lead him to face every experience as if it was the first time.

After years on stage he plunges into the world of production in order to approach music in a more profound way which pushes him to always experiment and try something new that differentiates him.

The desire to do something new and different and to search for creation in hidden corners of music completes his growth and musical maturity, making him a complete artist with knowledge that he can face the reality of this world as a veteran while still keeping the desire to discover of a child. He has recently begun his journey as Label Manager of his record label "Spazio Tempo", born with the aim of expressing himself and making artists express their point of view through songs conveying the idea of boundless music, without barriers or stereotypes.

Luca Vera @://About Blank Berlin 14.04.2022

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