Who better than DIAL stalwart Efdemin could wrap up the year on such a distinctly class-act type of note? Probably no one. He who’s become an absolute gem trader over the years through a string of epoch-making efforts, including the time-proof masterpiece that is “Decay” in 2014, drops by to grace us with a mesmeric Xmas tale by way of waving goodbye to 2022. Extruding elements of techno deepness out their usual cast to mingle them with that exploratory, jazz-inflected approach of his - subtly pairing the lingering beauty of stretched-out synths with that of free-flowing 4x4 grooves and haunting melodies, Efdemin entices us on a path of delectably focused and flavourful techno sensibility. An absolute pleasure and honour for us to round off 2022 in such good company. 

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Reclaim Your City 519 | Efdemin

Of all the one-word techno project names out there, Truncate has to be among the most descriptive. The name started as a name for David Flores's most pared-back tracks, different from the stuff he was making as Audio Injection at the time. As happens with people who are really good at techno—or just understand the genre fundamentally—Truncate's DJ tools took off quickly, because people in the scene could recognize the craftsmanship. You don't need more than a few elements to make something pop. Rather quickly, Truncate became Flores's main squeeze, bringing him to a new level of international attention and acclaim.

Flores is part of a vibrant LA techno community that's probably never been more vibrant or diverse. He helped build the scene alongside producers like Drumcell, and now the city is home to several great techno parties every weekend. You'll see his name on the flyer of quite a few of them, though probably less now that he's an international star. His RA Podcast represents the ethos of not just the Truncate project, but his work writ large: stripped-back tunes, yes, but also electro and some choice vocal cuts. It's a vibrant look at capital-T techno, an approach to the genre that's about building on foundations instead of sticking to templates.

@truncate

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RA.890 Truncate

In the early hours of Friday morning, from 7 to 9 am, I had the honour of gracing the stage of this iconic festival – a place that holds a special place in my heart since my first visit in 2001. Fusion has always been the epitome of what a festival should be, and being invited to play on the main stage was a dream coming true.

For this sunrise set, I didn't go straight for the heavy bangers. Instead, I carefully curated a selection of tracks that were meant to ignite that special colourful energy as the festival prepared to take it´s morning rest soon. This set is a mix of vinyl gems, with a few digital exclusives sprinkled in. This warmth and authenticity of vinyl mixing, especially that magical low end quality, on a sound system like Lambda Labs, takes precedence over the perfectly polished digital mixes.

I really hope you have a great time with this set, just like I did when I played it. Unfortunately, we hit some technical snags at the beginning, so that part got cut off...

Title pic was taken on my way to the festival. S - Berlin Gesundbrunnen foreva :)

https://www.fusion-festival.de

Trackliste:

01 Jancen - Chroma - Mitsubasa
02 Arthur Robert - Relentless  - Figure
03 Altinbas & Cirkle - Divergence - Voltage Imprint
04 Albert Zhirnov - Wooden Lessons - Clergy
05 Altinbas vs. Cirkle - Bold - SK_Eleven
06 Decka & Roseen - Missing Link - Frameworks
07 Jacobworld - Division - Emerald
08 Scorp - Take One - Token
09 Rove Ranger - Horses on Acid - Lobster Theremin
10 JakoJako & Ferdinger - Second Nature - Forthcoming
11 Alarico - La Vaca Vega - Neighbourhood
12 Cravo - Arranca - Frenzy
13 Jen Ford & Mr. Sliff - People Say - Jel 
14 Ben Sims - Manipulated - Jel Ford Remix
15 The Cronics - Never End - Zisko Remix
16 Undivulged - Lastig - Undivulged
17 Unknown
18 DJ Shufflemaster - Fourthinter - Tresor
19 Devilfish - Duplex
20 Augusto Taito - No Escape - Suara
21 Chlär - Vital Force - NIX
22 Earwax - 49 Hours - Tar Hallow
23 Disguised - Ace Up The Sleeve - Inherit
24 Jacobworld - Malice - Oecus
25 Chlär - Right Mood Supplier - Cheeky Music Group
26 Sol Ortega - Waiting for you - Narciss Always Late Mix - Unitas Multiplex
27 Beau Didier - Take 4 - Edvvin Remix - Beau 
28 William Arist - Chimborazo - Perseverancia 
29 Bryan Zentz - D-Clash - Intec
30 Humate - 3.1. - 98 Mix - Platipus
31 Utroit & K.O.S - Spectre - Mitsubasa 
32 Stojche - Instinct - a.r.t.less

Mareena @ Turmbühne - Fusion Festival - 30 June 2023

Adam X's illustrious music career began in 1990 in Brooklyn, NYC, where he was born and raised. His earliest productions were released during this period, and he quickly gained momentum as one of the most adept DJs on the global underground techno scene.

Alongside pioneer and brother Frankie Bones, he opened the doors of Groove Records in Brooklyn as America's first true outlet for underground electronic music with a direct focus on the techno genre. The Groove Records team also took part in organizing the first techno events ever to take place in NYC, including the legendary Storm Rave that started in 1991. Storm Rave was the first all-techno warehouse party organized on the East Coast of America, featuring line-ups with many up-and-coming artists who would later become global techno cult figures.

The Sonic Groove label was born in 1995 at the upgraded Manhattan location of the shop (which also changed its name from Groove Records to Sonic Groove during the transition). Adam continues to operate the label in an exemplary and innovative way, with over one hundred releases to date, focusing on an assortment of techno music styles from many well established artists across the electronic music spectrum.

A unique perspective and acute knowledge of music can be recognized in his DJ and live sets, which have always retained a unique sense of an uncompromised approach to the dance floor. Adam's approach facilitated acid techno's dominance in the early to mid-nineties, and he nearly single-handedly put the Industrial and EBM Techno cross-over genres on the map for the first two decades of the millennium. Now, Adam returns to his purist techno roots with a hard but deep thought-provoking sound, one combines the past, present and future of this timeless music.

His Traversable Wormhole, ADMX-71, The Secret Initiative, Mass-X-Odus, and X-Crashed side-projects, along with his collaboration with co-conspirator U.K.-based artist Perc in their project AX&P, and with his techno life partner Maedon as Maedon-X on Tresor Records, have all strongly impacted the most discerning audiences.

Adam X has also released his own work on his seminal imprint, as well as releases on some of the most essential labels to exist, both past and present, such as Wax Trax!, Direct Drive, Magnetic North, Peacefrog, Drop Bass Network, CLR, Hands Productions, as well as preeminent contemporary labels like Aufnahme + Wiedergabe, L.I.E.S, Hospital Production, and Pinkman.

Adam currently resides in the electronic music capital of the world, Berlin, Germany. With unparalleled dedication, his activities never cease as he continues his individual tradition of operating on every vital level, from label activity to organizing events in the legendary Tresor club and performing in some of the world's most credible venues—a practice he has maintained since the early '90s. Adam X is a true force whose contribution has reached far into bringing the future forward for electronic music.

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Sam Coates took to techno like a diligent pupil, falling in love with the genre through labels like CLR in the late '00s. It didn't take long for the student to surpass his proverbial teachers. Almost immediately, the Manchester native was putting out pitch-perfect, functional techno records with everything intricately balanced. The requisite move to Berlin only sealed his fate as a future techno luminary, and by now, based in Kyiv, he's one of techno's most reliable, yet exciting, workhorses. Setaoc Mass records (and those on his label, SK_eleven) are minimalist but colossal, deceptively simple but not easy to pull off. 

We've praised him in these pages for his "sense of economy—how to get the hardest impact out of just a few elements," and that's the idea behind his RA Podcast as well. Put together from records old and new, and intricately layered, Coates's mix is like a time-travelling wormhole connecting disparate eras from techno, and highlighting the genre's most timeless attributes: mechanistic rhythms, careful pacing, rudimentary melodies made out of the strangest sounds and, of course, the power of the bass drop. It's hard to imagine anything that sounds more capital-T techno than this mix, which is a high compliment. It's easy to hear why his records and DJ sets are only more in demand from techno heads across the geographical and generational spectrum.

@setaoc_mass

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RA.931 Setaoc Mass

Drift in de Papierfabriek komt dichterbij. Op 19 april transformeert deze nieuwe locatie in een dampende ravekathedraal, met niemand minder dan Marcel Dettmann achter de decks. Een naam die diep verweven zit in de geschiedenis van Drift.

Met zijn terugkeer in het vooruitzicht doken we de archieven in. En daar vonden we goud: zijn set op Herfstdrift 2014. Marcel Dettmann leverde een set af die in ons collectieve geheugen gegrift staat. Een moment dat de tent deed kolken – en elf jaar later met jullie gedeeld mag worden.

Luister terug, voel de energie, en zet je schrap voor 19 april. Het eerste hoofdstuk van een nieuw boek.

Drift Podcast 070 - Marcel Dettmann | live at Herfstdrift 2014

BLNDR - MOVEMENT STROBE - HYPNUS
LUIGI TOZZI - SILVANUS - MENTAL MODERN
GIORGIO GIGLI&NESS - EON - PLANET RHYTHM
RODHAD - HAUMEA PHASE RMX - TOKEN
REEKO - PASSAGE 171 - MENTAL DISORDER
SLEEPARCHIVE - 5 - TRESOR
LUIGI TOZZI - FAUNUS CASSEGRAIN RMX - MENTAL MODERN
I/Y - OBJECTION ACRONYM RMX 2 - DYNAMIC REFLECTION
VON GRALL - NEXT TO THE NIL - DEEP SOUND CHANNEL
ONIKS - TRIDACNA - FUNK YOU
RUHIG - ALBA LUIGI TOZZI RESHAPE - MIDGAR
EXIUM - ELEMENT - MORD
DEEPBASS - SEQUENCE - EDITSELECT
REEKO - CAPITULO 5 - MENTAL DISORDER
RUHIG - LOST IN THE STABILITY EDITSELECT RMX - MIDGAR
SILENT SERVANT - LUST ABANDON - JEALOUS GOD
S100 - PYGMALION - SEMANTICA
TENSAL CA2 - TENSAL
SAMULI KEMPPI - POWER OF VOLTAGES - M_REC
XHIN - BLADE MOTH - STROBOSCOPIC ARTEFACTS
LEWIS FAUTZI - BOUND - TSUNAMI
ACRONYM - JOTUNHEIM - SEMANTICA
URBANO - ISPEZA - FARTLEK
GIORGIO GIGLI&NESS - RESIN - PLANET RHYTHM
SUBSPACE - BI MACHINE - LABRYNTH
IORI - ARC - TGP EXTRA
LEWIS FAUTZI - UNHEARD - TSUNAMI
DJ NOBU - 2.26 - UNKNOWN
DINO SABATINI - MODULATION A - OUTIS
PLANETARY ASSAULT SYSTEM - TEMPORARY SUSPENSION - MOTE EVOLVER
PETER VAN HOESEN - OBJECTS FROM THE PAST NEEL RMX - TIME TO EXPRESS
CHRISTIAN WUNSCH - BLACK LAB - POLE
CHRISTIAN WUNSCH - AUGER ELECTRONS - POLE
IN AETERNAM VALE - NON - LINDA
BLUEHOUR - COMMON GROUNG - BLUEHOUR
TAKAAKI ITOH - HOUSEHOLD METHOD -WOLS
I/Y - OBJECTION ACRONYM RMX 1 - DYNAMIC REFLECTION
EXIUM - BIPOLAR - MORD
SCALAMERIYA - ALTERNATE OBSERVER REEKO RMX - GENESA
OSCAR MULERO - MENTALLY INDUCED - WARM UP
STEVE BICKNELL - WHY FOR WHOM - LOST
KORRIDOR - BINOCULAR NESS RMX - HYPNUS
CONRAD VAN ORTON - NOVEMBER - TANGRAM
TAKAAKI ITOH - ERROR POLYNOMIAL - WOLS
ALEX COULTON - FREEFALL FUNCTION RMX - BLOC
SVRECA - MOUNTAIN SPLITTER - SEMANTICA
LOKTIBRADA - UNTL REGIS RMX - RSB
PHASE - BINARY OPPOSITION 2 - TOKEN
DONATO DOZZY - 2003 - ELECTRIQUE IT
MIKE PARKER - THERMO - SEMANTICA
POLAR INERTIA - SONIC OUTLAWS - FIELD




Takaaki Itoh - Live At <ADEPT DYNAMIC REFLECTION> RADION Amsterdam Netherland 13.5.2015

TECH CLUBBERS PODCAST W/ MARK WILLIAMS

Mark Williams is a veteran that has paid his dues over more than two decades on the scene as a DJ and producer. Since the 80s, when he started his career at UK hot spots like the Ministry of Sound and Final Frontier, he has been laying the groundwork for his future success. 
His production work has also gained him acclaim the world over and he has released a staggering catalogue of quality tracks on some of the most respected techno labels in the world including: Tortured, Dark House, Pure Plastic, Phont, Primate, Subject Detroit, Beardman, ANAØH and Carl Cox’s Ultimate Trax imprint, to name a few. In addition to releasing on other labels, Mark also has his own imprints: Artificial Vinyl, Real Sessions, Macumba and Real Vinyl. Mark has also gained worldwide recognition with his skilful and distinctive DJing style. 
Mixing tribal, tech house and techno on three decks and CDJs, his rocking performances have helped him to develop a strong fan base and facilitated gigs in places like Berlin, Spain, Turkey, Slovenia, Japan, Brazil, Colombia, Macedonia, Sweden and more.

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Mark Williams - Tech Clubbers Podcast #411

Deniro @ VERTX, RSO.BERLIN, May 18th 2025

I don't care how you feel.

My recorded set from the Fusion 2016, shouts to the Giegling crew for the killer night, i enjoyed every second.

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