Live Recording from Bushweek, in beautiful FNQ. One of the most lush festival sites and awesome events I've been to. This was a 3am slot so a pretty heavy set from me.  Deep voodoo tribal techno forest journey <3

My iPad stopped sending signal for some reason so the mixing is a bit more basic than usual but still pretty happy with it. Enjoy :)

Paul Abad Dj Set - Bush Week 2013

Paul Abad @ Earth Frequency 2021

My dj set from Saturday night at Mushroom Valley 2021 - dark/acid/progressive techno vibes.  This is always such a wonderful event and one of my favourites in the yearly festival flow, but this year in such uncertain times, it was even more perfect and a much needed reconnection to music, community and joy. Thank you Nat, Ben, Ash, Sami and all the crew for making it so awesome 💚

Paul Abad DJ Set @ Mushroom Valley 2021

This set was one for the books. Between the lockouts and then the lockdowns, it's definitely been a while since I've been able to attend or play at a techno party in a raw warehouse setting that pushed on til 7am.  Closing out the Dragonfruit 7th anniversary party as the morning sun streamed through the windows in a no holds barred session was a true honour.  This set is made up of some dark techno vibes, moving in to morning acid, pushing it a bit harder than a usual festival set, but with a dedicated techno crowd and a perfect environment, it was a dream to put this set together.  Big love Dragonfruit 🖤
📸Luis Ibañez

[Sadly the live recording didn't work but I had so much fun I had to do a studio recording of this set and it definitely captures the mood!]

Paul Abad @ Dragonfruit 7th Anniversary

Paul Abad DJ Set - Recorded at Earth Freq Festival 2011. Sunday Afternoon - 4.00-5.30pm (after SQL before Monoloc). Played through 50k EAW System :)

Paul Abad - Earth Freq 2011 Set

My set from Dragon Dreaming Festival 2022.  Recorded live on Sunday night on the main stage. This was an outstanding and vibrant festival weekend, and it was a total honour to bring some vibes to the Sunday night techno session. Thank you to the DD team for a wonderful weekend, it was a heap of fun! 🖤 🐉
Photo by Wink @WINK.phot0graphy

Paul Abad DJ Set - Dragon Dreaming 2022

Here's my set from Earth Frequency Festival 2022 at the Vertex. The live recording didn't work from this set unfortunately, but it was a very special set for me so I decided to do a studio recording. Sunday night at Earth Frequency has become such an enjoyable time for me to play a set, and I have to thank Jesse from Open Records for helping to build the Sunday Open Records session at Earth Frequency for quite a few years now. 

This set is a meeting point journey between a range of influences and styles, under the framework of strong techno grooves, some more progressive and even trance sounds find their place, and it's easy in a festival setting to be able to bring different sounds together because the crowd is already so diverse and open-minded. A bit of light and dark, tough and moody, slamming and spacious moments ... exploring dualities is something I really like to do when putting a set together. It makes it so much more fun to have a welcoming audience who will go on the ride with you through some different vibes. 

Playing this set was so therapeutic after a big few days managing the festival with my team, and it's always a big release moment for me. I'm full of gratitude every time that it's possible to make these events and these moments happen 💚

Big thanks to The Pain Proof Pixie whose performance collab was super awesome once again and definitely raised the vibe !!

Paul Abad DJ Set @ Earth Frequency 2022

This was an incredibly enjoyable set to play ⛪️ The return of the Sydney institution that is Church of Techno after it's pandemic hiatus was always going to be an epic night, and I was super grateful to be trusted with the closing set of the main room kicking off at 4.30am. The set ended up being a 2.5 hour journey of light and dark acid drenched rave bangers, and the vibe in the room was absolutely mint right up until a 7am close. Thank you for being there with me all you excellent church goers 🔥

Paul Abad DJ Set - Church Of Techno - July 2022

Here's my set from Splendour in the Grass 2022.  So fun to lay down a peak time 2 hour set on the Saturday night.  The Tipi Forest was packed and the crew worked so hard in exceptionally challenging circumstances to pull this one off.  Big thank you's to all involved.
📸 Storm Gale

Paul Abad DJ Set - Splendour in the Grass 2022

Mushroom Valley is always a special festival and set for me each year, and this was their 10th anniversary edition so it was an extra sepcial one. I put a lot of effort in to this set and it was a lot of fun to play. Mushroom Valley is a psychedelic intention party for sure, and being booked to play techno on the main night, I wanted to work a flow that would speak to the crowd and the vibe but still bring out the strong techno rhythms I love so much.  

This set has a range of influences from dark techno, progressive, rave, acid, trance, and warehouse techno, but is designed for a night time doof floor.  It was an absolute pleasure to deliver these vibes for Mushroom Valley, which is always year to year, one of the happiest and most supportive dancefloors to play to. Thank you everyone involved, happy 10 years Mushy! 🍄

Paul Abad Dj Set - Mushroom Valley 2022

Tuesday throwback!!

I found an old mix from 2008 of deep and dark minimal. I didn't record many sets back in these years so it's a bit of a rare gem to share 💎

Paul Abad Dj Mix - Technoir - VoodooTechHouse - March 2008

Here's my set from Dent_002. A 2 hour set exploring some faster raw and deep techno. It's been a while since i have hit the mid 130bpm range and this was a lot of fun to put something together for the team at Dent, with the freedom to go a bit harder and weirder in the Laruche attic. Enjoy !

Paul Abad Dj Sent - Dent - November 2022

Here's my set from Dragonfruit's 8th anniversary Industrial Warehouse party. Once again an incredible vibe - a true underground warehouse party with an unstoppable vibe.  It was an absolute pleasure to share this music with the Dragonfruit team and the crowd that were there .. playing after the legendary Space 92 and hitting the mid 130bpms for some proper warehouse vibes was so much fun and an absolute honour.  This mix came in a bit hot on the recorder at a few moments and has the microphone mix on it too so it's a true document of the night.  Enjoy !! ⭕️❤️🔥

Paul Abad DJ Set - Dragonfruit Industrial Warehouse 4 - November 2022

Here's my set from the epic True Faith event in Brisbane with Richie Hawtin, Joseph Capriati, Sama' Abdulhadi, Victor Ruiz and many more.  It was an honour to share some music as part of the 30th anniversary of the Australian touring and events juggernaut that is Hardware.

Paul Abad DJ Set - Hardware 30 True Faith

My first time in the cage and it didn't disappoint!  Thank you Steph Wiser for the invite down for Shadows, it was a lot of fun to come down and deliver a 2 hour set of rolling 135bpm techno vibes.  Great music through the whole night, thanks Melbourne for an awesome experience 🖤

Enjoy !

Paul Abad Dj Set - Shadows @ Revolver Upstairs

Here’s my set from Esoteric Festival 2023 🚀

This was my first Eso and it was an honour to be asked to play on the Sun Temple and bring some psychedelic techno vibes to the festival.

It really was a pleasure to land in to a wonderland of art and quality humans and great music with no expectations and to just be blown away. I take my hat off the team and community behind this festival.  Keep on levelling up !

Apparently this was the first ever techno set on the Sun Temple at Esoteric, which is an honour, and I used this opportunity to try and present some of the best forward thinking psychedelic modern techno that sounds great outdoors.

Seeing many old friends and making some new ones was the icing on the cake for the weekend. 

Enjoy the set - Esoteric 2023 - Sun Temple - Sunday Midday.

Paul Abad - Esoteric Festival 2023

Here's my set from Here's my set from Earth Frequency Festival 2023! 🔥

As always it's a big moment in the year for me .. the festival is a bit of a whirlwind experience, and it's an apex of all the work involved in bringing everything together to then be able to drop in to the moment and share some music with the incredible dancefloor on the Vertex stage. It was a huge year this year moving to a new location, but the incredible community and vibes were unchanged and it is a true honour to be able to share moments like this. 

Once again I was collaborating with the Pain-proof Pixie as a performer and a friend Dylan also jumped up for some robot rave dance moves so I want to especially thank both Bek and Dylan for adding to the vibe for this set. Everyone on the lineup for the Sunday techno session played incredible sets too .. thank you Jesse Kuch, William Olsen, April Kerry, Jay Lumen.  Big love and thanks also to everyone who brought together such an incredible production setup for the Vertex stage this year 🖤

📸 Luis Ibañez

Paul Abad DJ Set - Earth Frequency Festival 2023

Mushroom Valley is one of my favourite places in the world and the festival keeps on levelling up this year.  It was an absolute honour to share music and vibes with this incredible dancefloor once again this year.  Thank you Ben and Ash and all the wonderful Mushy fam 🍄

Paul Abad DJ Set - Mushroom Valley 2023

BRLN has been going from strength to strength in Brisbane and this last one was just incredible. It's an honour to be part of this event and for BRLN_005 I enjoyed pushing the tempos up a bit higher towards 140bpm, and getting straight in to some heavy and dark techno that sits somewhere between peak time and hard techno vibes. Playing to such a wild and up for it crowd is always a blast. Keen for the next one already 🔥⛓️

Paul Abad - DJ Set - BRLN 005

My 2 hour techno set on the Market Stage, Sunday night at Rainbow Serpent. It has to be my favourite place to play techno, this 4am-6am set was full of energy on the dancefloor and it was a very special set for me to play. Thank you to the rainbow crew, full throttle for the awesome sound, and to everyone who was there to dance. Thanks and <3

Track List ::
Timmo - Never Stop (Luigi Madonna remix)
ReAxis - Terminal
Kardinal & Lowkey - Mandragora
Maido & Thomas Evans - Area (Kardinal & Lowkey remix)
Tom Hades - Juices
Samuel L Session - Crash Planet
Roberto Capuano - Dissolve
Kostas Maskalides - Sodom
Seismal D - Fallagrossa (Audio Injection remix)
Repete - Atomic Groove (Justin Schumaker remix)
Mars Bill - Mental Condition
Kardinal & Lowkey - London Eye
Sutter Kane - Omega (Kardinal & Lowkey remix)
Minicoolboys & NHB - Hundred Times
Luigi Madonna - Subliminal Message
Filterheads - Alive
Forest People - Azrael
Adrian Hour - Again Faster (Tom Hades remix)
Spektre - Dust and Echoes (dub mix)
Cari Golden, Dimitri Nakov, John Monkman - Don't Stop (Alan Fitzpatrick remix)
Adam Beyer & Ida Engberg - Unanswered Question
The Advent - Veron (Luis Flores remix)
Maceo Plex - Conjure Dreams

Paul Abad - Rainbow Serpent 2015 - Market Stage DJ Set

Paul Abad - Bush Week 2015

After an 18 months break, it was nice to be back out there with a DJ set to follow after Stephan Bodzin's amazing live set at the first edition of Open:Source, a new concept in Brisbane for techno.  Thanks to everyone who came and supported ... super fun night !

Photo by AXLIMAGING

Paul Abad - Open:Source:01 ft. Stephan Bodzin - November 20th 2016

Live Recording from Open:Source:02, my warm up set for Markantonio B2B Luigi Madonna.  Flight delays meant my set went from 1.5hrs to almost 3 hours so this is an extended techno journey.  Definitely a great energy on the dancefloor to play to .. thank you everyone who came out and supported !

Paul Abad @ Open Source 02 - April 9th 2017

The first hour from a 2 hour set at the launch of the new techno Brisbane night Oxytocin.  More on the deep trippy and spacey side of techno.

Paul Abad Dj Set Oxytocin Launch September 1st 2017

A studio re-recording of my set from Mushroom Valley (sadly the live recording came in a bit clipped).  This was an awesome event full of love and good vibes, big thanks to Nat and Ben for the experience - loved every minute of it!

Photo by AXL Imaging

Paul Abad Dj Set Mushroom Valley 2017

My Dj set from Earth Frequency Festival 2018 on Sunday afternoon between Victor Ruiz and Symbolico. Very awesome to share the stage with artists and performers Chris Dyer, Adam Scott Miller, and the Crystaloids. This was my first set on the new setup using the Model1 mixer which is a fantastic tool. This is a studio recording as the live recording had some interruptions, but it definitely captures the vibes. This is a new direction I'm exploring of more melodic progressive techno sounds, while still maintaining the deep techno groove I love building my sets with.

Paul Abad Dj Set - Earth Frequency Festival 2018

It's not every day one of your best mates asks you to play an extended set of warehouse/acid techno at a birthday party in one of the most beautiful intimate outdoor party spots in Australia ... so this one is definitely worth an upload.  Recorded in the studio on the Model1 Mixer.  Happy Birthday Victor, keen on ravin'.

Paul Abad Dj Set - Victor’s Birthday Acid Techno Megamix

Freqs of Nature was an amazing experience. I can only describe it as a supremely artful three way car crash between the Berlin techno scene, a dark psychedelic outdoor festival and some sort of mad max fine art exhibition. Truly inspiring, and it was an honour to be invited to play by my old friend Naty Seres. This set was played on the groove floor on Saturday evening. I took my inspiration from the first 24 hours at the festival and put together a set which flowed from deeper purist hypnotic techno to dark progressive techno. My reflection back to an excellent event on all levels. Thank you FON18 !! 🖤

Paul Abad DJ Set - Freqs Of Nature Festival 2018 [Germany]

Live recording from Pure Brisbane 2019.  A pleasure to do this B2B set with Vinny Xavier, and a massive honour to warm up the night for Carl Cox, Joseph Capriati, Enrico Sangiuliano, Marco Carola, Eric Powell.  Mix created with Ableton Live, Play Differently Model One and Eventide Space. Enjoy !

Paul Abad B2B Vinny Xavier - Pure Brisbane 2019

After a long lockdown year, this was my first proper gig since February.  It was a massive honour to close off Brisbane first proper techno night as we come out of a highly restricted year, and the vibe was incredible.  Big thanks to Sub Rosa, IWTFA and all the Brisbane party people that were there for it 🖤

Paul Abad @ Technique - Sub Rosa - December 2020

Resident of S.E.QLD, Australia, Paul Abad has been part of the electronic music scene for the past 20 years.In that time, he has explored a wide range of sounds and influences, but these days it's the many flavours of techno grooves at the heart of Paul's musical activities.

Paul takes a unique and sculptural approach to the art of DJing, with a multi channel ableton setup incorporating tracks, loops and effects, brought together on the model one mixer. Flow, groove, space, tension and progression are key themes in Paul's sets, but of primary importance is the mix - recombining and layering, responding to an audience, and being present in the moment.

With a sonic range covering everything from warehouse/acid, to progressive and melodic techno, and deeper k-house and voodoo tech- house grooves, Paul’s sets are deeply steeped in the soul of techno, and inspired by the Australian outdoor festival dance music culture.

Paul is also the driving force behind S.E.QLD's Earth Frequency Festival and has been a label dj for Open Records since 2007.

For bookings - email paulabad@open-records.net

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