Green Velvet is the daddy of the mack-daddies.

One of the all-time greatest records in techno. Surely!

Techno! It's not just black-clad Berlin hipsters with weird quasi-mullets, it's also (lest you forget) ... really American! So for my latest mix I have dug into my record collection to put together a 35 track feast of clanking techno from the halcyon days of the 90's, all by American artists. I'm American, sure, but this is not some kind of weird nationalistic project ... it's just a fun theme. :)

And sure, obviously, there are lots of artists I've missed out on, and many major tracks ... but then again this isn't supposed to be *the* mix of 90's American techno, merely *a* mix of 90's American techno.

Read more about the mix here: http://sonicrampage.org/blog/2021/06/pearsall-presents-drum-machines-and-post-industrial-dreams-american-techno-in-the-90s/

My epic 4 hour techno mix from last year, Fake Berghain in My Spare Room: https://soundcloud.com/sonicrampage/fake-berghain-in-my-spare-room-epic-4-hour-techno-journey-100-vinyl

More techno mixes from myself: https://soundcloud.com/sonicrampage/sets/techno-mixes

Tracklisting:

01. Mark the 909 King - Acid Rain [Sex Trax]
02. Moby - Bring Back My Happiness (Wink's Acid Interpretation) [Elektra]
03. Mike Dearborn - An Acid Memory [Djax-Up-Beats]
04. DJ Funk - Knock Knock [Cosmic]
05. Joey Beltram - 252 [Trax]
06. Green Velvet - Land of the Lost [Relief]
07. DJ Deeon - House-O-Matic [Dance Mania]
08. Robert Armani - Ghost [Dance Mania]
09. Adam X - 600 Volts [Scandinavian]
10. Jeff Mills - Medusa [React]
11. DJ Rolando - Aztec Mystic [Underground Resistance]
12. Ausgang - Robotics [Synewave]
13. Frankie Bones - In The Eyes of a Child (Tripp 4 Daze Mix) [Groove World]
14. Jeff Mills - Kat Race [Axis]
15. Vice - Damn [Black Nation]
16. Mike Wade - Mercy [High Octane]
17. Joey Beltram - Caliber [Warp]
18. Voltage 9 - Candema [Synewave]
19. Tim Taylor & Dan Zamani - Acid Over Manhattan [Planet of Drums]
20. Wink - Liquid Summer [Ovum]
21. DJ Rolando - Ascesion [Underground Resistance]
22. DJ Skull - Serial Killer [Djax-Up-Beats]
23. DJ Funk - Run (UK Extended Mix) [Pro-Jex]
24. Mike Dearborn - Gaschamber [Djax-Up-Beats]
25. Jeff MIlls - DNA [Tresor]
26. Stare 5 - Bloodloop 2 [Clashbackk]
27. Cracked - Strobot (Joey Beltram's Remix) [The Spacefrogs]
28. Morgan Wild - Phat Man [Music Man]
29. The Rising Sons - Afghan Acid (Toxic 2 Remix) [Extortion]
30. The Pump Panel - Ego Acid (Original Mix) [Synewave]
31. The Blunted Boy Wonder - Circuit Sex [NovaMute]
32. Nico - Alpha [IST]
33. DJ Skull - Acid Wiss L [Djax-Up-Beats]
34. Millsart - Step to Enchantment (Stringent) [Axis]
35. Underground Resistance - Message to the Majors [Underground Resistance]

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More Techno Mixes

Drum Machines & Post-Industrial Dreams (American Techno in the 90's)

For this months show, it’s an excursion into some forgotten 90s Techno gems. It was a very much off the cuff session with no planning, just pulling records off the shelf and mixing them as I found them so it’s a bit rough round the edges, but there’s some real memories in there. Mostly 93-96 material, The sort of tunes I played at Eurobeat 2000, Helter Skelter and Analogue City around that time. It was a real rediscovery for me so I hope you enjoy the journey. Top tracks from Cristian Vogel, Subhead, Claude Young, Mark Bell, DJ Hell, Djungle Fever and the like.

Picture taken in Belgrade 1995/96.

Show downloadable.

90s Techno Special - Threads Radio Sept 2021

A part of the very fabric of the UK techno scene, Dave Angel’s status as an erudite for electronic culture is not based upon hyperbole or smothered in exhausting superlatives but cemented in facts and encased in the endless memories of those who have lived, loved and danced to the astonishing output of music he has created over the years.

Born the son of a Jazz musician and elder brother to British hip-hop artist Monie Love, Dave’s path in music came to the fore during the explosion of the acid house scene in London back in the late 80’s. Hosting one of the zeitgeist shows of its time, Dave’s weekly broadcast on pirate radio station Phaze One saw him champion a new sound that was gradually captivating the youth of the country and which would later catapult him into the media spot light with notable publications like Mixmag, DJ Magazine and The Guardian all proclaiming Dave as a one of the major forces in the UK techno/acid house scene.

DJing formed a natural progression into the recording process and in 1989 after tinkering at home with a basic set-up of a keyboard and two tape decks Dave’s first attempts at production created a somewhat controversial remix of Eurhythmics ‘Sweet Dreams’, which Dave called his ‘Nightmare Mix’.

https://soundcloud.com/daveangel

Comments, hints and suggestions are always welcome!

Dave Angel @ The Orbit, Morley, Leeds, U.K.  08.1992

Another 100 hour session I did for BBC Radio 6 in England if you dig these mixes (done before computers were a "thing" painstakingly by hand and turntables, edits, MPCs etc.. then go to buy page pleez and there are many many (did I say many) more

Freddy Fresh Worldwide Vinyl Radio/Club Mastermixes

Millennium Mastermix BBC Radio 6 London

This is a mix I originally recorded in 2018 for the @acidwaverec podcast series; anyways, as five years have passed, I've decided to throw it up on my own Soundcloud. Some pretty cool tunes on this mix! Thank you to @robintasi for the invite all those years back.

Tracklisting:

01. Posthuman - Nightride to New Reno (Balkan Vinyl)
02. Neville Watson - De-Basement (I Love Acid)
03. Photonz - Blood Is Life (Acid Avengers)
04. Boston 168 - J The Master (Attic Music)
05. Alien Rain - Alienated 2A (Alien Rain)
06. Dax J - Zion (Monnom Black)
07. Nite Fleit - Partly Sunny (Steel City Dance Discs)
08. Nonentity - Granite City Acid (Source Material)
09. No Moon - Acid IX (Mechatronica)
10. Locked Club - Electro Raw (Private Persons)
11. Andreas Gehm - Two Times More (I Love Acid)
12. Collin Strange - Private Thoughts (Long Island Electrical Systems)
13. Regal - Acid Is The Answer (Involve)
14. Dax J - Reign Of Terror (Electric Deluxe)
15. 88 Mindcraft - Deletion (Drill Hall)
16. 88 Mindcraft - Direct Sound (Drill Hall)
17. Regal - Still Raving (Involve)
18. SMD - SMD5 (A) (SMD)

Season Four

Acid Wave #39: Pearsall [2018 Banging Acid Techno Mix]

Special Sechzger Series Vol.11 - DJ ESP   (15.7.2023)

Amazing double CD mix from the genius Dave Angel. CD1 features his trademark melodic/jazzy techno style throughout, beginning on a slightly housier tip, CD2 to follow. Don't miss out!
If anyone has any Dave Angel mixes from the same kind of era (93-95ish) please hook a brother up!

Disc 2 here https://soundcloud.com/selectabwoy/dave-angel-trance-lunar-paradise-disc-2?in=selectabwoy/sets/techno-house-garage-ambient

1-01 Chez Damier  &  Stacey Pullen - Serious Groove (Forever Mix)
1-02 Carl Craig & Chez Damier - Help Myself
1-03 Carl Craig - Relativity
1-04 Bango - Sphinx
1-05 Chez Damier - White Label
1-06 Trancesetters - Neurodisco 
1-07 Tim Harper - Sooner Or Later
1-08 Esser'ay - Forces
1-09 Dave Angel - Artech
1-10 Dave Angel - Lagoon
1-11 Dave Angel - Airborne
1-12 Fix - Flash
1-13 Dave Angel - Rotation
1-14 Juan Atkins - Game One

Trance Lunar Paradise [Disc 1]

Dave Angel: Trance Lunar Paradise [Disc 1] - 1994

A neck-snapping mix of hardcore, rave and breakbeat from the man behind the day-glo mask.

More info here: crackm.ag/2wDZ8aT

Crack Magazine 

Crack Mix 227 – Mark Archer

Thought I might as well get some more mixes up after those Ruffneck Ting bad boys... here's a classic Dave Angel Dreamscape set, boosted and with a bit of volume balancing but otherwise natural as god intended, dancefloor trance/techno in its purest form. 
Thanks to JJ at Rolldabeats for the tracklist.

Vaporspace - Gravitational Arch Of Ten [Plus 8]
H&M - 88 [Axis]
H&M - Real Life [Axis]
Structure - We Are Structure (Praise The Structure)  [Structure]
Millsart - Step To Enchantment (Stringent) [Axis]
Nico - Darkstar (Positive Outlook)  [ESP]
Martian - Star Dancer [Red Planet]
Tretek - Born Again [Death]
Holographic - Klystron [80 Aum]
Drax - Drax One [Trope]

More here https://soundcloud.com/selectabwoy/sets/techno-house-garage-ambient

Dreamscape VI

Dave Angel & MC Ribbz - Dreamscape VI (28/05/1993)

Diving into the earlier and deeper side of legendary Djax-Up-Beats. Founded by Miss Djax in 1989

01. [00:00:00] Planet Gong - Humid Empire - DJAX-UP-196 (1994)
02. [00:06:37] Glenn Underground - F. Shock - DJAX-UP-162 (1993)
03. [00:12:25] Glenn Underground - May Day - DJAX-UP-162 (1993)
04. [00:18:18] Felix Da Housecat - Temptation (Color Mix) - DJAX-UP-182 (1993)
05. [00:22:46] Planet Gong - Aircheck - DJAX-UP-209 (1994)
06. [00:26:36] Proteus Generation - Just In Time (Version 2) - DJAX-UP-191 (1993)
07. [00:31:08] Hexagone - Float Baby - DJAX-UP-193 (1994)
08. [00:35:47] Terrace - Bewitched - DJAX-UP-123 (1991)
09. [00:39:40] Ismistik - Flow Charts - DJAX-UP-140 (1992)
10. [00:42:26] Ron Trent - Altered States - DJAX-UP-160 (1992)
11. [00:55:08] Robert Armani - Circus Bells (Hardfloor Remix) - DJAX-UP-177 (1993)
12. [01:01:56] Terrace - Seventh City - DJAX-UP-123 (1991)
13. [01:07:44] Glenn Underground - Real Space - DJAX-UP-162 (1993)
14. [01:12:52] Mike Dearborn - An Acid Memory - DJAX-UP-218 (1995)
15. [01:18:24] Clementine - Fast Lane - DJAX-UP-187 (1995)
16. [01:23:43] Purple Plejade - Blanche - DJAX-UP-183 (1993)
17. [01:31:22] Random XS - Give Your Body - DJAX-UP-136 (1992)
18. [01:43:18] Acid Junkies - Theme From The Acid Junkies - DJAX-UP-192 (1994)
19. [01:50:24] Proteus Generation - Just In Time (Version 1) - DJAX-UP-191 (1993)
20. [01:58:09] Hexagone - Burning Trash Floor - DJAX-UP-193 (1994)
21. [02:05:10] Greyhawk - Future Embracement - DJAX-UP-217 (1995)
22. [02:10:34] Clementine - Cryptic Symphony (First Sight) - DJAX-UP-187 (1994)
23. [02:15:53] Planet Gong - Handmade Material - DJAX-UP-209 (1994)
24. [02:20:45] Purple Plejade - Realms - DJAX-UP-199 (1994)
25. [02:24:52] Stephen Brown - First Snow - 257 (1996)
26. [02:30:46] Edge Of Motion - Set-up-707 - DJAX-UP-135 (1992)
27. [02:35:37] Greyhawk - Acid Report - DJAX-UP-180 (1993)
28. [02:40:56] Stephen Brown - Endless - DJAX-UP-237 (1995)

Essential Guide To Djax-Up-Beats (1991-1996)

I think i did this mix around 2006/7 (All vinyl as always) and its been around the internet a fair bit but never on soundcloud so thought i'd upload it.. Enjoy !!
And if you like this sort of thing, tune into my radio show every Wednesday, 11.00 - 14.00 GMT on www.KoolLondon.com  or if you're in or around London, search the dial !!

Tracklist:

Panic - voices of energy 1 - ozone - 1990
Eon - Spice - vinyl Solution- 1990
Direct - Techno gone mad (remix) - R&S - 1990
Jungle Brothers - Houseapella - Idlers - 1988
Rhythmatic - Take me back (extra bass edit) - Network - 1990
Ital Rockers - Ital's anthem - Bassic - 1990
Autonation - Inside your mind - R&S - 1991
Project 86 - Industrial bass - Nu Groove - 1990
LFO - Nurture - Warp - 1991
Mental Cube - Chile of the bass generation - Debut - 1990
Bleep - A byte of AMC - SSR - 1990
Unique 3 - The Theme (Unique re-edit) - Ten records - 1990
DJ Mink - Hey Hey Can you relate - Ozone - 1990
Homeboy Hippie & a Funky dredd - Total confusion (Heavenly mix) - Tam tam - 1990
Charles B - Lack of love - Desire - 1988
Autonation - Sit on the bass - R&S - 1991
*Hardnoise - Untitled (accapella) - Music of life - 1990
Bobby Konders - Nervous acid - Nu Groove - 1990
Asmo - Music Please - Tek - 1990
Forgemasters - Shall we - Warp - 1989
Lost Entity - Bring that back - Nu Groove - 1990
Looney Tunes - Just as long as i got you - XL - 1989
Bitin Back - She's breakin up - Fokus - 1991
Little little - Tickle me - MG - 1989
Steve Poindexter/Mike Dunn - Computer Madness - Musique - 1989
The Party Boy - The Twighlight zone - Urban - 1988
Phuture - Your only friend - Trax - 1988/Fierce re-release

Jerome Hill: Classic Bleep, Bass & Acid mix (With Tracklist)

American in Berlin! I've been a dj since 1997, playing across a wide range of dance music genres, as you can see from the variety of mixes. I love it all! 

Want recommendations? Drop me a DM and I'll hook you up. 

I sometimes play at Berlin clubs, but mostly I am a hardcore vinyl collector and bedroom mixer. Check out my blog at www.sonicrampage.org/blog

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