Tracks & sets by artists booked to play in Phoenix in May.

Techno Snobs May 2025

My track on the Amniote x Ute Fundraiser Compilation. 
All the proceeds will be donated to The Red Van: a volunteer-run NGO working with harm reduction and human rights for street based sex workers in Copenhagen.

"Sidewinder" is my reptilian alias for Mama Snake's label, Amniote Editions. All artists are invited to create their own reptilian alter ego for the project. My last release there was the "Ripple Effect" EP in 2019. I first met her in Autumn 2018 in Copenhagen to play at Jolene, as well as attend in-person sessions for the mastering+lacquer cut for the record. We mastered with Joel at Six Bit Deep and cut the lacquer with Hari (HVAD) at Kommunal Dubplate. Proper stuff. Few weeks later we shared the lineup on Sustain Release Festival in NYC, it was all a blast. 

I had the pleasure to first meet the Ute crew in Spring 2019, playing their club night at Blå in Oslo. Already had a good feeling when they picked me up from the airport and were playing Global Communication while driving through misty evergreen trees. Oslo freakishly reminded me a lot of my hometown of Seattle, just a bit less mountainous and hilly. That summer, we shared a lineup in Säule Berghain and at the end of season I was invited to play at one of their forest parties (bless) alongside their residents and Alpha Tracks - it was a really fun run! :~)

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Sidewinder aka D.Dan - Can You Float? [Amniote x Ute Compilation]

Recording from Vault Sessions Weekender July 3-5 2021
15-19h Sunday at BRET Amsterdam 
xxx

📷 Clemens Wildschut
@vault-sessions-collective

D.Dan at Vault Sessions, Amsterdam [July 4, 2021]

We can’t imagine a better way to close out the year than to have one of our heroes and all time favorites on the Spandau20 mixtape series. 
There are few people that have inspired us as much as Surgeon @dynamic-tension, be it with his timeless, forward thinking productions or one of his out of this world live sets that he is so famous for 🎛️
Although it's been a tough year,  moments like this and many others in 2021 make us feel incredibly happy and inspire us to keep on pushing forward ⚡ 
Thanks to everyone (fans, artists, promoters, friends etc.)
who is supporting us on this journey, you are the best, and please enjoy the Surgeon Mix!

SPND20 Mixtape by Surgeon

50,000+ watts of sound!! Huge thanks to the @technosnobs for inviting me, playing alongside one of my favorite live acts in a private warehouse is hard to beat.

Closing Support at Techno Snobs Presents: Uun (Warehouse)

My remix for LSDXOXO's track "Mutant Exotic" 😈

LSDXOXO - Mutant Exotic (D.Dan Remix)

Recording from my HÖR Berlin stream on June 14, 2023. 
Went into a deeper, more paced out trip for this one :)
DL Enabled. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2Moo18V020

Tracklist:

1. Neutral Gravity - Toru Katsuta
2. Black Art (Coefficient Remix) - Deepbass
3. Radiation Effects - Angelo Stasi
4. Unreleased - D.Dan
5. Unreleased - Lasse
6. The Athlete - Danny Isola
7. Tunnel - Jacobworld
8. Unreleased - Xupid
9. Rampage (Modēm Remix) - Deranged
10. I Want To Lick Your Brains - Ocirala
11. The Alarm - Rosati
12. Nothing To Undo - Nikos
13. Solar Prominence (sunspot mix) - Toru Katsura
14. Synthesized Society - Ben Reymann
15. Poison - Ketch
16. La Buena Suerte - BLANKA
17. Unreleased - D.Dan
18. The Fool - Freeman 713
19. Celestial Dance - Brandon Braun

D.Dan at HÖR BERLIN, June 14 2023

Episode 10 of our monthly ‘Snobcast’ series features a mix from Techno Snobs resident, Tavoo. This set was captured live on 9.8.23 at our warehouse event featuring Setaoc Mass.

Visit the links below to hear more from Tavoo and stay up to date with upcoming events and releases.

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Snobcast | Episode 10 | Tavoo

The November 2023 'Monthly Techno Mixshow' features a mix from Techno Snobs resident, 3 Star.  This set was captured live at a warehouse location in Phoenix, AZ for the Techno Snobs event featuring Ancient Methods (11.4.23)

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Monthly Techno Mixshow: November 2023 - 3 Star

Birmingham Crew!

Introducing our latest offering from the esteemed UK electronic music icon, Surgeon. Dubbed 'the finest techno DJ in the world' by Fact Magazine, and after we heard this one we're definitely inclined to agree!

This one is a proper journey, so crank up the volume and let Surgeon show you why he's seen as one of the most innovative and forward-thinking players in the UK techno scene since '94.

Tracklist:

Bas Dobbelaer - Layers of Territory
Rebolledo - Raid a la Joya
Stanislav Tolkachev - Frozen No More
Teste - The Wipe (Rrose remix)
Temudo - U Were My Second First Choice
Architectural - Rare Ceremony Tapes
Leod - Untitled 03
Deetron presents Soulmate - Screen
KTM - Love Dem
Rhyw - Wolf Town
Surgeon - Return
Temudo - 2029
Material Object - Cobalt
Porter Ricks - Shoal Beat
Atrice - CN3
Jurango - PSI
Architectural - Love Drums Massacre
Al Wootton - Natural Forward
Grovskopa - Sex And Violins (Surgeon remix)
Surgeon - Klonk pt2
Peverelist & Kowton - Raw Code (Surgeon remix)
Roska - No Sense
Sylvere - Ah Oui Ah Oui
Scion - Emerge (British Murder Boys Remix 1
Surgeon - Second Magnitude Stars

Soundcloud : https://soundcloud.com/dynamic-tension
Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/tony_surgeon/
Spotify : https://shorturl.at/nBGPR

Surgeon - Minirig Mix

Opening Set for Cleric and Madwoman [08.10.24]

Original Artist: TonalTheory
Remixer: Carlos Raúl
Undertone Records [UT018]
[09.19.2024]

TonalTheory - Can You Hear Me Now? (Carlos Raúl Remix) [UT018]

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Played-A-Live [The Bongo Song] (BAUGRUPPE90 Edit)

Hailing from Berlin, BAUGRUPPE90—which consists of founding members Louis Köhler and Paul Vogler—channels all the history and innovation from electronic music’s longstanding techno mecca into their first release of 2025. The low-end of “Flight Tracker” will push the limits of any sound system with a kick and bassline that seamlessly meld into a united force of sheer power. Higher up in the frequency range, the duo explores their widespread influences, integrating coruscating deep house chord blasts, drum & bass MC vocal chops, and warm, body-moving pads. @hardfest

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BAUGRUPPE90 - Flight Tracker

HEAL ME B2B ESCHER - AFTER AFTER PARTY

Next up on the SPND20 Mixtape series: @baugruppe90!📼

The duo, made up of Louis Köhler and Paul Vogler, has been carving out a distinct sonic identity, merging futuristic precision with a raw, old-school edge. Their sound takes cues from mid-90s DNB, House, and early 2000s techno - fusing these influences into a high-impact, groove-driven experience that refuses to be boxed into a single style.🔊

For their SPND20 Mixtape, they deliver an hour of club-fuelled intensity, packed with freshly built BAUGRUPPE90 IDs. This set is a superb class in rhythm and energy, weaving together tribal percussive grooves, rolling baselines, and big-room pressure, all while staying true to their signature old-school touch with a modern twist.🌀

This one’s designed for peak-time moments and relentless movement - turn it up and get lost in the sound.🖤

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SPND20 Mixtape by BAUGRUPPE90

Two years after releasing the acclaimed Crash Recoil, Anthony Child aka Surgeon returns to Tresor with new LP, Shell~Wave. Retaining the minimal equipment list and studio-version-of-live-show-sets approach of the previous album in order to focus on the work itself, Shell~Wave is a deeply personal document of both where Surgeon is and has been, converging three decades of experience with a continued curiosity in the untested.

"To make this project, I had to dig really deep in terms of what my relationship was to techno; I've been involved with it for a really long time and there's a lot about it I feel dislocated from, so I had to really think hard about what techno is to me. I often get asked "what is techno to you?" but I can't answer that with words; this album is the answer."

From the complex, twisting track Infinite Eye to the caustic Soul Fire, the eight tracks that make up the body of the album are single-take explorations of the vast, hard yet minimal techno Child is synonymous with. 

Neatly dividing the record in two, the emotional centre of the record comes in the form of Dying, a vibrating, beatless piece that with a mantra-like vocal loop steeped in reverberating effects.

Further echoes of dub production appear throughout the record as tracks like Divine Shadow, and Empty Cloud have an almost ever-present mist of reverberation, driven by the appearance of a new delay unit in the equipment list; while much of the philosophy of Crash Recoil's creation is present, the process and the instruments have changed as Child again switches up his approach to studio work.

This insistence on trying novel techniques doesn't preclude returning to old ones, as this use of modern digital machines with live, hands-on takes that are as inspired by 60s producer Joe Meek and 70s reggae as they are by this year's synthesiser expos.

"For me, it's an interesting experience returning to old techniques again after 30 years. [I'm] always exploring and finding myself back at the beginning. Connecting the present with the past."

This philosophy of 'time travel' is inherent to the music itself as the synchronised loops repeat while the delay and effects branch out, forming unique eddies; distinct quantum moments within the circular whole; the future leaking through the spaces between the sounds. All of the concepts on the album are perfectly communicated through the painting by Taiwanese artist Jazz Szu-Ying Chen which suggests the movement of water, sound waves, and the chitinous shells of sea creatures.

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Surgeon - Empty Cloud

TRACKLIST:

1	No Fear - Tehotu
2	Ipso Facto - Kr!z
3	Imaginary Beef - Villaseñor 	
4	When They Fall - Stephen Disario (incl. Ketch Remix)
5	ID - Carlos Raúl
6	Echoform - Kevin Villa
7	Echoes Of Eternity - Cirkle
8	EXPOSITION D (Mark Broom Remix) - Volster
9	FRYCTION - Talismann
10	Refill - Jnks
11	Selezione Parziale - POST PARANOIA
12	Subsonic - Cirkle
13	Yuuta - Tierra (Original Mix)	
14	EXPOSITION L (Linear System Remix) - Volster
15	Dark Light - Exos
16	1-90128	- Fabrizio De Santis
17	Submechanophobia - POST PARANOIA
18	We Should Just - Ādam
19	Unseen Fall - Tehotu
20	Tor 8 - Len Faki

HÖR x VOLTAGE.LABS - Maximum Heat 2025

For more than two decades, Surgeon has been a pillar of the UK techno scene, exploring industrial-leaning and noise-inflected sounds long before it was fashionable. On May 25, the Birmingham producer will be releasing 'Luminosity Device,' a new album inspired by the infamous Tibetan Book of the Dead. Ahead of its arrival, we premiered the barreling rhythms of "The Etheric Body" on Red Bull Radio's First Floor, our weekly look at what's new in electronic music.

@dynamictension
http://redbullradio.com/shows/first-floor-shawn-reynaldo
http://redbullmusicacademy.com

Luminosity Device

Surgeon "The Etheric Body" [First Floor Premiere]

Time sure does fly when you’re having fun, and so it is that we’ve already raced up to podcast number 200. We’ve managed to call upon a suitably large name for the honour; someone who has very much shaped the techno scene over the course of the last 20 years and continues to excite people every time he plays. That man is Surgeon. As a performer, Birmingham’s Anthony Childs was one of the first men to embrace and exploit the possibilities of Ableton Live and Final Scratch. His mastery of that technology made his sets even more improvised and innovative, and over the years he has never compromised his vision. He plays with a sense of devastation and destruction that explores the very outer edges of what is possible, while always keeping the dance floor absolutely locked in. It’s been the same since he founded his hometown’s first techno club, House of God, at the start of the 90s. 

As a producer—whether solo or in celebrated collaborations with Regis as British Murder Boys or Ben Sims as Frequency 7—he seems to be getting better with age. Right from his first EP on Karl O’Connor’s Downwards in 1994, surgeon has had a hard hitting, linear style that remains to this day. Recent years saw him return to a primitive rave style and incorporate the gritty industrial influences of his youth. But in 2018 he evolved again and served up what many consider to be his best album in years. Luminosity Device features a more rhythmic, playful sense of drum programming next to his meticulously crafted synths and enthralling sense of urgency and future paranoia. The nuance in his tracks is now as intriguing as the visceral power of the kicks, and it all adds up to an album that works as well on headphones, at home, as it does on the dance floor. It’s proper techno by a proper techno head. 

And so is the mix he has put together for us. Over 1 hour 45 minutes, the man calls upon plenty of pivotal names from Juan Atkins and Oscar Mulero to Donato Dozzy and James Ruskin. There are plenty of twists and turns along the way, so that zoned out passages of dubbed out drums are followed by intergalactic space battles and moments of synth laden intensity. It’s a testament to Surgeon’s skills that he can take you to such far ranging corners of the techno world without ever getting lost.

Dekmantel Podcast

Dekmantel Podcast 200 - Surgeon

A music platform that hosts intimate live music sessions catering mainly to the underground House and Techno genres