Mixes for Driving To

.Freq - Lot Radio Show

Radio 📻

Mixes — House / Acid House

This mix was recorded in June 2000, 3 days after the first DEMF. I had just moved into a different place in Detroit, and the last items left in my old downtown apartment were 2 Technics, a tape deck, hi-fi amp + speakers, and a Numark DM-1550 rotary mixer from the 80s. In those days I'd been going out to see Theo Parrish + KDJ play small loft parties around town, and was listening to a ton of old WBMX/WGCI radio mixes and Ron Hardy Music Box recordings......this session, each side recorded directly to cassette in one take, is a reflection of those circumstances and influences.

Patrick Russell - 6.00 AA

Patrick Russell - 6.00 A

A Message From Earth With Nooka Jones | December 1, 2023

Night Shift With Nooka Jones | March 30, 2024

Special guest Nooka Jones brings his interpretation of the comedown: full of cosmic tones, soft ambient, and smooth jazz and quiet storm

The Saturday Morning Comedown

The Saturday Morning Comedown Episode 35: Nooka Jones

https://www.instagram.com/nookajones
https://www.instagram.com/mikeservito

.Freq with Mike Servito and Nooka Jones. @ The Lot Radio 10-22-2024

https://www.instagram.com/_love__letters_
https://www.instagram.com/mikeservito

.Freq with Love Letters and Mike Servito @ The Lot Radio 11-19-2024

.Freq with Love Letters and Mike Servito @ The Lot Radio 12-17-2024

Tracklisting on http://www.legowelt.org yoooooooooo

Legowelt On NTS Radio London 7 April 2015

https://www.instagram.com/jeffreysfire
https://www.instagram.com/mikeservito

.Freq with Mike Servito and Jeffrey Sfire @ The Lot Radio 01-14-2025

https://www.instagram.com/_love__letters_

.Freq with Love Letters @ The Lot Radio 02-11-2025

.Freq with Love Letters and Mike Servito @ The Lot Radio 03-11-2025

We take a trip across the pond for our next podcast, because it comes from the celebrated New York based Detroit that is Mike Servito. Best known for his impressive closing sets, be they at Bunker, where he is resident, or at Berlin’s Panorama Bar, Servito is a passionate vinyl fiend and is said to spend most of his fees on buying more of the stuff. Only in the last year or so has he broken out of local circles in New York and Detroit, and that is purely off the back off his DJing ability because he is not a producer. The DJ sets he does, though, are uncompromising things that he painstakingly researches and puts together for often for a whole week before playing. 

The podcast he has served up for us is just as tight.  It wastes no time in getting down to business and starts with plenty of unhinged acid techno. Of course, the mixing is slick and seamless, records are teased in an out with an expert hand and the beats range from tightly coiled and kinetic to more spaced out and trippy. It’s 90 minutes of expert DJ perfection and proves the Ghostly associate is one of the best there is. 

Dekmantel Podcast 019 - Mike Servito

Special guest Nooka Jones brings an hour of bright morning music from the west coast.

https://www.instagram.com/nookajones 

Bright Patterns with Nooka Jones @ The Lot Radio 05-01-2025

Dan Beaumont is one of the busiest men in the London music scene. Heading up two of East London’s best music focussed clubs, Dance Tunnel and Dalston Superstore as well as warehouse parties, co-running one of the most sought after pizza joints in the city, Voodoo Rays and maintaing a busy DJ and production schedule. The entrepreneur, DJ and producer’s latest release, Spirit Talkin’, is a delicious slice of deep techno released on Work Them Records that comes complete with a weighty remix from UK techno don Spencer Parker. With his Music To… Talk to Spirits, press play on the sound of https://soundcloud.com/danbeaumont

Connect to i-D's world! 
www.facebook.com/iDmagazineofficial
twitter.com/i_D
http://i-d.c

Tracklist

Dan Beaumont:  Music To… Talk To Spirits

Intergalactic Gary is a Dutch DJ and producer who has many miles on his DJ clock. He first started plying his trade on the raw West Coast of the Netherlands back in the early nineties, where he would rock squat parties and amaze club crowds with his widescreen sets. Ever since then he has been a key player in the Dutch scene, is part of cult crew The Parallax Corporation and is never far away from a pirate radio station. As well as this, nowadays he is a regular on the European circuit at places like Panorama Bar and has long been a Dekmantel favourite.  A real mix specialist who has put out countless official compilations over the years, Gary is behind the next podcast, which is a 3,5 hour live recording, for us and it is a typically well formed affair that takes us deep into his world.  

With more than a hint of the cosmic atmospheres you would expect of someone called Intergalactic Gary, his selection is a dark, moody one full of broken disco and whacked out electro. Shades of new wave, Italo and synth pop also colour the grooves he lays down, and the cumulative effect is an absorbing, slightly unsettling ride through fierce textures, prickly percussive patterns and otherworldly atmospheres. 

Dekmantel Podcast 031 - Intergalactic Gary

Very few musical acts achieve the levels of unanimous acclaim of Autechre. The English duo of Rob Brown and Sean Booth are not an act you simply like; they are an act you love, fawn over and dream about. They’ve got themselves here over the course of the last 28 years, and have done so by amassing a discography that’s about as perfect, influential and accomplished as could ever be possible. A key Warp label act from day one, they have released tens of albums, well over a ten EPs and have featured on a dizzying amount of essential compilations, mixes and remixes in that time. Without their contribution to the IDM canon, its fair to say the modern musical landscape would look very different. 

Rhythmic but experimental, absorbing yet abstract, cerebral and psychedelic, their ever evolving output is up there with the likes of fellow luminaries Boards of Canada and Aphex Twin as some of the most important in all of electronic music. As well as being fine craftsmen in the studio, Autechre are also revered live performers who really manage to conjure up captivating and otherworldly soundtracks that marry heavy bass with ethereal melody. The pair themselves do not care for genre, but suffice it to say that they have mastered everything from hardcore to ambient to glitch and plenty of indescribables in between. 

When the pair recently laid down an impressive set at Dekmantel Festival, we asked if they might be up for a doing an early inspiration mix, whereby they put together a collection of the sort of electro and hip hop tracks that turned them on as youths. At first they hesitated, pointing out that "we don't do strictly retro stuff, it's too corny.” But alas, a few days later, a huge file landed in our inbox… That file is a 4 hour and 18 minute mix that basically encapsulates not just Autechre’s own influences, but also acts as a fine anthology of the greatest electro sounds of all time. Every sub genre imaginable gets touched upon along the way, with nods to forefathers like Kraftwerk, killer cuts from Man Parrish, classics from Newcleus and retro gold from the likes of The Beat Club. It is a thrilling ride and a truly rare treat that reminds us just why we love Autechre, as well as shining a light on a vast genre that often pays second fiddle to house and techno.

Dekmantel Podcast 035 - Autechre

the techno genre as we know it today came a long way. i'll be uploading a bunch of mixes over the next few weeks that showcase a certain era in techno, here's the first conceptual mix with just records from 1991 and 1992 - the pre-gabber era. enjoy and thanks for listening

1. Countdown FFM V (B3)
2. Gangsters Of Techno - Lost In A E
3. Two - Rescue Me
4. Bhab & Cas - Pulsiv
5. The Suburban Knight - Infra Red Spectrum
6. Alien Christ - The Art Of Shredding
7. V-Room - G-Hertz
8. Missing Channel - Edge Of Infinity
9. Jimmy Crash - Crash Course
10. Frank De Wulf - I Love You
11. Carl Cox - Let The Bass Kick
12. Poltering Rhythm Traxx - Armed Conflict
13. Nasty Django - Ey Dude (Totally Fucked Up Mix)
14. Program 2 - Twister
15. The Gateway Experience - Living Body Map
16. Jeff Mills - DNA
17. Final Exposure - Vortex
18. Spark - AC3
19. Technotrash - Noise!
20. Teknoboys - Mad Beat
21. Bhab & Cas - Radiate
22. DJPC - Insomniak
23. Ace The Space - 9 Is A Classic (Bay Area Drive-By mix)
24. Noise Factory - Bring Forward The Noise
25. Control DC - Ritmo Dell Diavolo (Inferno Mute mix)
26. Beyond - Bang!

'91/'92 Conceptmix

Paul Woolford’s Special Request alias has developed into so much more than the jungle and breakbeat project it started as. Proof of that comes this month with his Belief System LP, a magnum opus spread across four slabs of vinyl. The first half is a techno trip full of visceral twists and turns scattered with references to his love of pirate radio. The second half is the soundtrack to a fatalist mind movie that is dark and broody. Woolford’s mastery of sound design elevates the whole thing to a new level, and listening to it is as absorbing and complete an experience as you could wish for. 

As a DJ with many years experience under his belt, his work in the booth is just as essential. In his Dekmantel Podcast he takes us on an unpredictable roller coaster that veers from sparkly New York disco through to haunted beats, twisted electro and monstrous techno. Spin backs, face melting basslines, rave and punishing drums make it as much a party starting main room mix as a heads down let’s ‘av it marathon. It’s fun, full on and pushes and pulls you in many different directions without ever letting the energy levels dissipate.