Deep Minimalism Techno

Biokinetics

Nautical Dub

Release Dates

Album
"Metamorphose" 01 Apr 2022

Single 1 
"Amygdala" 04 Mar 2022

Single 2 
"Objekt"  18 Mar 2022


Via Bigamo Musik

Metamorphose

Amygdala

JakoJako - Amygdala (Metamorphose LP)

Green Trax

aħdar

Sketched for Life

Sketch 1

A few months ago I had the honor to present my live performance behind the cage at the Tresor Club. 
Impossible to explain what I felt that night, accomplishing one of my most important goals, which was to play my own stuff in the first club that hosted the Techno music in Europe.
For those who were not there, here is an hour of sounds coming from my Modular System and the Analog Four.

D-Leria Live @ Tresor Berlin (06.05.23)

Waves of pulsing, layered techno from the revered Mala Junta resident.

If the electronic music industry is caught in the crosshairs of a battle over what makes for true techno, then D.Dan is one of the underground's great modern emissaries.

A figurehead from the new guard of DJs to arise in the '20s, the Berlin-based artist and Mala Junta resident is an ambassador for a sound that is strongly anchored in the classic roots of techno. His productions, like his mixes, are revved-up takes on the hypnotic wormholes that defined dance floors last decade, but with a fresh (and high BPM) millennial twist. 

Originally from Seattle, D.Dan became enamoured with the spectral stylings of psych rock and shoegaze in adolescence. It's not difficult to see how the cosmic tapestry of bands like Cocteau Twins became a blueprint for the entrancing music he's gone on to make as an adult. His releases on Mutant Future and summerpup are latticeworks of loops and layered percussion, custom-tooled for lost hours on the dance floor and drawn-out mixes behind the decks. 

This approach directly extends into his DJ practice, where he pairs song selections from contemporaries that mirror his own reduced, controlled approach to techno. RA.994 is a Grade A display of contemporary four-to-the-floor from flagbearers like Roll Dann and Marcal.

And like D.Dan's standalone records, his RA Podcast finds room for sweetness—the intermittent peal of an open clap, the steady ripening of a chord—while ultimately emphasising the beauty of function and form over flair.

@ddan-sounds

Find the full interview and tracklist at ra.co/podcast/994

RA.994 D.Dan

Loop #4

Loop #5

playlist:
Sven Väth
    Chez Damier - Can You Feel It? [KMS 35]
    Intruder - U Got Me [Murk 01]
    Cajmere - The Percolator [Clubhouse 124]
    Mainx - 88 To Piano, Loop Mix [Hithouse 6.014R]
    Damien Donato - Knowledge [Music Man 9235]
    Mediteria - Is ET On XTC? (Commander-Night-Flight-Mix) [BMG]
    ? Hemaglobien EP [Kold Sweat]
    Marusha - Ravechannel [Low Spirit]
    DJ Gizmo - Claustrofobie [Laser Squad 020]
    Dub Collective - House [Rising High 21]
    Bizarre Inc - Raise Me
    Ontoni - Bass Minded [KMS 39]
    3Phase - Open Your Mind [Space Teddy 01]
    Casseopaya - Trance Themes [ETC 126]
    Barbarella - The Future [Harthouse 05]
    The Tellurians - Art (Core) [See Saw - SW 92007]
    Sven Van Hees - Emotional Rehabilitation [Elektron 3]
    Ronnie - Ron Are You Ready To Bust It? (ID Mix) [PBR 01]
    Futurhythm - Transmanic [MFS 7017]
    Space Trax - Bounce [Stealth 3892]
    Metal Master - Spectrum [Harthouse 002]
    Golden Girls - Kinetic (Orbital Mix)

Kid Paul
    Maximum Peak - Slammin [ESP]
    Vanilla Essence - Vanilla Essence [Gauci]
    A Sides - Untitled (A2) (Mix To The Max) [Share - 003]
    Rush Till Dawn - Oh My God Im A DJ
    DJ Edge - Compnded [Edge 01]
    DJ Red Alert & Pepsi - Something Unreal
    Vienna - Tell Me (InnerSpace Remix)
    ?
    ?
    Structural Damage - Really Livin [Symphony Sound]

Sven Väth
    Zyon - Raindrops [Eye Q]
    Gat Decor - Passion [Effective 1]
    ?
    Ecstasy Orchestra - Paradise [Outer Limits 105]
    XS 1 - Lovetrain [Promo]
    Arpeggiators - Freedom Of Expression [Harthouse 004]
    Precious & Project - ? (A New Kind Of Sound Generated From Our Nevrotic Mind Vol.1) [Energy Productions]
    Cell-U-Loid - Nervous, Tense, Tired (N-R-G RMZ) [Overdrive]
    Station Rose - Dave [Eternity 2]
    Barbarella - The Secret Chamber Of Dreams [Harthouse 005]
    Ecstasy Orchestra - Paradise [Outer Limits 105]

Sven Väth & Kid Paul live at hr3 clubnight 06.06.1992 (HQ)

M-Series

Mø4.5a (Edit)

Gravity

Static

B1.Midnight Creeper (Extended)

Loop #5

Marc Wagenhöfer

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