Techno Wednesdays

HADES ╳ HELL PARTY ╳ 2 HR TECHNO SET

01. Pressure Funk - Round Up [Soma Quality Recordings - 1999]
02. Freakazoid - Xexex [The Spacefrogs - 1994]
03. Ferr - Midnight Moods [Nutrition - 1996]
04. Silent Phase - Waterdance [Transmat - 1995]
05. The Orb - U.F.Orb (Bandulu Remix) [Big Life - 1992]
06. Robert Hood - Weight Of The World [M-Plant - 2000]
07. Musicology - Epilion [Warp Records - 1996]
08. Stasis - Point Of No Return [B12 - 1993]
09. Alter Ego - Soulfree (Luke Slater's Ortoe Circuit Rework) [Harthouse - 1994]
10. Trancesetters - The Search (Dobjam Tonex Mix) [Touché - 1996]
11. Guillaume La Tortue - Salinas (Slam Mix) [Music Man Records - 1994]
12. Dobre - Trashcan [Pssst Music - 1995]
13. Complex - Midi Merge [Fragile Records - 1993]
14. Apogee - Inside Above [Peacefrog Records - 1993]
15. Dave Angel - Chicago Emerald City [4th & Broadway - 1997]
16. Wax Scientists - Sonic Blaster [Phuture Wax - 1996]
17. Scan X - Futuristic Funk [F Communications - 1997]
18. Ian Pooley - Twin Gods [Force Inc. Music Works - 1994]

Hjärngymnastik 258: Hemagglutinationssnöröjning

Robert Hood - Outsider PREVIEW

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Following on from the special release of Robert Hood and Femi Kuti's live jazz set "Variations", Robert Hood delivers his latest Techno EP for M-Plant.  This is the first new solo music from him since 2022's "Hectic / Amazon Dust" double-header.  

Although Robert Hood should need little introduction, with his and his daughter, Lyric's Floorplan moniker riding high with a new album forthcoming on Classic, his Techno legacy should not be forgotten.  Throughout the '90s, he helped pave the way for Techno to flourish — giving birth to minimal techno with his seminal album "Minimal Nation".  Since then, he has been consistently forwarding electronic music culture with ground-breaking productions, sensational performances and his M-Plant label.  His style is characterised by minimalist and experimental tones with an assertive groove.  

His "Alpha Key EP" features four driving cuts of characteristically Hood music that prove when it comes to Techno, he's still a high-ranking master.  The EP is out on vinyl and digitally 12 April.

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Alpha Key EP

Premiere: Robert Hood "Pathetic" - M-Plant Music

Full playlist: https://ambermuse.com/amber-muse-radio-show-372-with-taran-lomov-26-apr-2024/

Playlist

Amber Muse Radio Show #372 with Taran & Lomov // 26 Apr 2024

Peryl - Silver Spit
My Nu Leng, MNL. - Vanishing Point
Planetary Assault Systems - Sidewinder
RE:ELECTED - Rip Cord
ROYLE4NINE - DRUNK AT THE RAVE (Hayz Remix)
Whoismarce - Solar Storm
Sandro M. - Dealer
Marco Faraone - Misirlou
J.Deere 420 - Tasteless Turbo Tool (Cosmic G Remix)
Kahai Owens - Junglist
·Corsen - Albino (Fear-E Remix)
STIPP - Jungle Fever
Mari Mattham - ANIMA NASCOSTA
Alan Fitzpatrick - Mind Control
Clotur - Field Detection
Robert Hood - Pathetic
Uncertain - Physical
Hollen - Virtual Balance
KERZ (IE) - Paddy's Had Enough
Slam - Retract
A.Paul, DJ Dextro - Tracing
Planetary Assault Systems - Rip The Cut (Luke Slater Remix 2)
Risa Taniguchi - Emission
Shintarø Kanie - Statics
Andres Gil - Echoes In The Night
S-file - Shrinkwrap
Eric Sneo - Out of Step (2024 Remake)
SAMOH - Logarithmic Curves
Shlomi Aber - Roundground
Wetworks - Red & Gold
Hard Angel - Nocturnal Attack
Ak Morgan - Whore (Zimmerman Remix)
Andres Gil - Robo Pulse 
S-file - Mutant Revisted
DJ Hell, Developer - The Sleep Thief Mover (Developer Tool Mix)
Groef - Lazum (D.A.V.E. The Drummer Remix)
Paul Render, GliBDRIT - 091 (OSCAR SANCHEZ Remix)
Ben Reymann - Wired
I5hi - My Boyfriend Is a Techno DJ

CELL:BIND @ 1Q84

This year I'm kicking off a new mix series to celebrate the first 25 years of this century: 21st Century Music! Each mix will contain only music from this century. To kick things off, here's a mix of proper techno music from the beginning of the century. This is very personal for me, as this is a point at which I was really engaged with techno - listening to it, dancing to it, thinking about it, and playing it. This is the point when I was a student at Edinburgh University, and I was visiting the (sadly no longer with us) Studio 24 on Calton Road practically every weekend with friends to enjoy techno clubs like Dogma, Pillbox, Apex, Subtle Logic, and more. 

This was a time when techno was really fun and interesting, the time of 'hard grooves', of funky techno, of high impact, danceable music, before the walls of minimal closed in and techno got really, really boring for a while. There's been a revival of this style in recent years (see my Stranger tribute mix, for instance), which is not surprising, because this style of techno is just so much more fun than minimal.

Enjoy!

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

Read more about this mix (including my essay Edinburgh Techno Daze): https://sonicrampage.org/blog/2025/05/pearsall-presents-proper-techno-2000-2005-21st-century-music-001/

Recorded in Berlin, March 2025
100% Vinyl
(79:53, 183 MB, 320 KBPS MP3)

Tracklisting:

01. John Selway - Acid Morning [Aciieeed!]
02. Bryan Zentz - D-Clash (Slam Remix) [Intec]
03. Black Odyssey - The Stand [Blackflag]
04. Joris Voorn - Shining [Sino]
05. Eric Borgo & Dani Konig - Konetic [GoodLife]
06. Umek - Voices of Africa (Voice 2) [Primate]
07. Co-Fusion - 6 Angles [Pro-Jex]
08. Dave Clarke - Before I Was So Rudely Interrupted (Part 1 for the Floor) [iCrunch]
09. Sterac - Sinosphere (John Thomas Remix) [Sino]
10. Andrew Richley & Ryan Rivera - Backbiting [Primate]
11. Sonic Perverts - Slag [Punish]
12. Robert Hood - Outlast [M-Plant]
13. Technasia - Nebula Dance [Technasia]
14. Umek - Beroxan [Consumer Recreation]
15. Steve Rachmad - Zero ID 2 A1 [Zero ID]
16. Christian Smith & John Selway - Giant [Bugged Out!]
17. DJ Misjah - Nova [Zync]
18. Mike Wade - Evolution [Archetype]
19. Punisher - Seduction [Seismic]
20. Sonic Perverts - Strip City [Punish]
21. Pounding Grooves vs DJ Jerome - Scratch [Fine Audio]
22. DJ Misjah & Groovehead - Trippin' Out (DJ Steph K & K-Drive Remix) [X-Trax]
23. Lochi - Acid Junkies [Routemaster]
24. Technasia - Acid Storm [Technasia]
25. The Advent - Ice Planet Theme [Kombination Research]

Blog

Proper Techno 2000-2005 [21st Century Music 001]

https://youtu.be/tlDmmPpanSo
~ tracklist ~
0:00:00 Stoik - Rawaqi [132|2m]
0:04:50 Robert Hood - Pathetic [136|1m]
0:08:14 Unbraid - Just Focus [140|2m]
0:09:45 w/ Virtual Self - a.i.ngel (Become God) [140|4m]
0:11:50 w/ D00d - The Filthy Fifties Revisited (100% D00d Edit) [145|2d]
0:14:16 Fenix - Teaching Tommy [147|2m]
0:17:22 DJ Phil Ty - Miami Belch (Polite Mix) [150|8m]
0:20:37 Headhunterz, Abject - Scantraxx Rootz [145|1m]
0:23:12 Coone - Throw Ya Handz [148|1m]
0:26:08 w/ D-Block & S-te-Fan - Rockin Ur Mind [148|1m]
0:31:12 Southstylerz - Pounding Sensations (Deeper Inside Remix) [150|12m]
0:34:31 Jude Bradshaw - UNLOCK IT [kabay_master_44.1k_24b] [148|11m]
0:37:02 Atmozfears, Sound Rush, Casino Break - United As One [150|11m]
0:40:11 DJ Thera - In The Dark (Trance and Acid Pro Mix) [148|11m]
0:41:45 w/ Headhunterz, Malukah - Reignite Ft Malukah (Original Mix) [150|11m]
0:46:22 w/ Dj Thera ft Yuna-X - It's A Fine Day (Hard Bass 2013 Mix) [150|11m]
0:49:20 w/ Coone, Brennan Heart - Fine Day (Extended Mix) [150->165|4m]
0:50:36 Da Tweekaz - Wodka (Destructive Tendencies Remix) [170|3m]
0:52:40 Elizaveta, Stonebank - SOS (Original Mix) [160|2m]
0:55:28 Geck-o & D00d - Hallucinalien (Geck-o's Dark Psy Remix) [150|2m]

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Taking a small break from recording weekly Hjärngymnastik mixes at the moment. I'll be back shortly.

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Hjärngymnastik is my weekly digging project where I search for electronic music released before year 2001, sourced from vinyl, CDs and digital.

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FLOORPAN "THE MASTER'S PLAN" (CLASSIC MUSIC):
https://cmc.lnk.to/cmcd141d

Before I got into this music I wanted to be an originator ; I wanted to be original".
Founding member of the legendary group Underground Resistance as a 'Minister Of Information' with ‘Mad’ Mike Banks & Jeff Mills, his seminal works on Jeff Mill's Axis and his very own M-Plant imprint paved the way for a wave of stripped-down dancefloor minimalism that directed much of techno's path throughout the late Nineties.
Robert Hood makes minimal Detroit techno with an emphasis on soul and experimentation over flash and popularity. 

"Growing up in Detroit, I grew up with Motown in the house - a lot of Motown and Philadelphia soul, artists like Marvin Gaye of course and Curtis Mayfield. I remember Isaac Hayes, the soundtrack from ‘Shaft’ had come out. My father was a jazz musician; he played piano, trumpet and drums. My mother was in an R’n’B group.
We listened to a lot of Motown - in fact, my grandfather’s first cousin is Berry Gordy.
"I was influenced by my father - I wanted to play trumpet like he did."
Robert's father tragically died when he was just 6. The photo of Robert siting down holding a trumpet is his fathers.
"I had to beg my grandmother to let me borrow the trumpet to take a picture with it"

In the early 90's he began to concentrate on his own production 'Vision EP', the 'Riot EP' and X-102 were big stepping-stones for him as they were the first releases he worked 100% on his own. The X-101 to X-102, were Waveform Transmission projects with Mills for Tresor. He slowly progressed to work more and more on his own, but collaberated on some of the first Axis releases with label owner Jeff Mills as H&M (Hood & Mills) with ‘Tranquilizer EP’ and ‘Drama’.

He soon decided it was time for him to start his own label to focus on what was in his soul musically. M-Plant started in ’94. I had developed this “grey area” sound - what I mean by that is that in Detroit, even when the sun is out, there’s something in the atmosphere. I don’t know if its pollution or whatever, but the sky has that grey haze over it. It’s got to be something from the industrial factories there. I’d never really heard a sound like that before and it came from a Roland Juno - it was a chord sound that really went along with my depiction of what Detroit was at that time. A lot of buildings were abandoned and there was a lot of lifelessness in the city, especially downtown. The M-Plant, in minimalism, kind of reflected that. I remember thinking of Detroit like a museum. You know, like a work of art standing still, suspended in time. There wasn’t a whole lot of activity going on.

Releasing singles such as "Internal Empire,", “The Protein Valve” "Music Data," and "Moveable Parts", "The Pace", more recently "Range", "Alpha" and that isn't even touching his other monikers Floorplan, Monobox, The Vision, etc.
"M-Plant is what I've always wanted to hear: the basic stripped down, raw sound. Just drums, basslines and funky grooves and only what's essential. Only what is essential to make people move. I started to look at it as a science, the art of making people move their butts, speaking to their heart, mind and soul. “It's a heart-felt rhythmic techno sound. M-Plant is just M. minimal. “

Although his desire to remain underground has been replaced by an urge to reach a wider audience, mainly via his housier, disco, gospel moniker Floorplan with his daughter Lyric Hood,   Hood remains fiercely critical of artistic and economic movements destructive to inner-city communities and has combined his musical enterprises with outreach and social activist ends.

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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