This playlist began as a personal challenge: release 1 mix a week for the duration of 2025. As of June, that hasn't been achieved, sadly. 

Work travel has made it too difficult to keep up the weekly pace at a standard I can live with. However, I intend to keep working on this project throughout the year — we'll see how many I can create :)

I take a free approach to genre, moving from house to techno, electro to ambient, and back again, sometimes within one mix. The map is not the territory...

The Map Is Not the Territory Series

Got this one in under the wire and it's definitely on the eclectic side—a real journey through all kinds of techno and house, from very new to 30+ years old. There is even some trance, breakbeat and footwork-inspired stuff in there.

Tracklist: 

Electric Indigo - Roller (Original Mix)
Anastasia Kristensen - All At Once
Jin-Su - Junglewater
Kaiser - Southern Railway
Faustø - Overcontrol (original mix)
Casey Fable - Blumen
Psyk - Rising
Beste Hira - Remember Me
Stroef - Outer Courts
Annie Hall - Yanagi (Original Mix)
Antonio De Angelis - Total Recall
Beste Hira - Observe
Gannein - Initiation Rite
D-Leria - Energia
MYKI - Hikikamuri
Peach - The Art Of Casting Spells
Substructure - Electronik
Cygnus Loop - A2. Golgotta (Part 1)
Vril - Saturn Is A Supercomputer
Deepside - French
Konduku - Hayal
UNIIQU3 feat. R3LL - Unavailable
D.Dan - If Ya Name's Not Dan Ya Not Comin In
Silent Phase - Psychotic Funk
Fierce Ruling Diva - Damnation
Mark Seven - Crank
Jessy Lanza - Face
Low End Theory - L.M.B. (Rmx)
Indio - Blue Fantasy

Map 5 (deep, hypnotic techno and house dj set)

I said last week's Map was my favorite — well, until I recorded this one. This is a collection of hypnotic, deep, ritualistic techno that illustrates my idea of the "dancefloor journey", where each track takes you somewhere new and at the end, having built and released the tension, you're let down gently to reflect. Something like that, anyways. Enjoy the music. 

Tracklist

1. Joachim Spieth, Warmth - Black Marble
2. Artificial Drm & WLM - Fervent
3. Geinst - Flydub
4. Forest on Stasys - Lotus Island (Feral Reconstruction)
5. Feral, Luigi Tozzi - Third Eye
6. Viels - La Fine E L’Inizio
7. Mr. Tron - Crankshaft (Feral Remix)
8. Alpha Tracks - Kaleidoscope Face
9. Hydrous - Corrupted Echo
10. Space Drum Meditation - Water Sirens
11. Svarog - Great Mind
12. Hitam - Kaelago (Rene Wise Remix)
13. Mersel - Modulator
14. Conntex - Bones
15. Fisssh - Panaque
16. Magna Pia - Orpheus
17. Sunju Hargun & Konduku - Mekong
18. Labyrinthine - Obelisk (Forest On Stasys Remix)
19. Mari Mattham - Cambogia
20. Sandra Mosh - 040
21. Stroef - Installation
22. JSPRV35 - Silver
23. Gannein & Ket Robinson - Growing Torment
24. Matrix - Zkj
25. Susumu Yokota - Oh My God

Map 16 (deep and hypnotic techno DJ set)

Absolutely subterranean dub techno for you this week. We start at the mouth of the cave (birdsong!) in the 100bpm range, then head underground, working our way up to about 120bpm, where we find ourselves at the surface again, hearing birdsong once more. I didn't plan that part, but love that it happened.  Just one of those happy accidents that can happen when improvising a set.

Enjoy the music!

Tracklist

1. Docetism - And the wolf knelt down
2. Oreste - Swelling Truth
3. Vytis - Mitas
4. Sraunus - Gas
5. cv313 - Steering By Starlight
6. Otik - God Given
7. Warmth - Output
8. G.R.I.T - Principle
9. Thomas Carmody - So What...
10. Mathimidori - Ork
11. Leftover - Haint Blue
12. Usmev - River of Dreams
13. Deemkeyne - Them
14. VC‐118A - Mapolar
15. Goran Geto - Bedok
16. mon0 - Dialog
17. Grand River - Ecouri

Map 17 (ambient and dub techno DJ set)

Is ritual techno a genre? If it is, this is what I think it might sound like. This Map is deep, trippy, psychedelic in moments. There's an up and down arc, and an unexpected closer. Had a lot of fun with this one. Enjoy the music!

Tracklist:

1. Desiderii Marginis - When Life Shone Warm
2. Polygonia - Dreaming Trees
3. Valentino Mora - Second Skin
4. Null & Vermiculite - Murk
5. Avsluta - Sahatā (Primal Code Reconfigured)
6. Jarguna - Animus Anima
7. Feral - Vishnu
8. Doctrina Natura - Focus (Original Mix)
9. Kaspiann - Tuiskussa Langennut
10. Point of View - Harlem River
11. Atomic Moog - Conversation
12. Boundary - De Mi Ser feat. Cult Exciter


Map 18 (downtempo and deep techno DJ set)

120bpm, unburdened by genre constraints - there's techno, house, even some vaguely electro moments. I had fun making this one. Enjoy the music!

Tracklist

1. Varuna - 3M tm
2. Demdike Stare - Regolith
3. Dasha Rush - Rodrigues Avant-Garde
4. Donato Dozzy & Nuel - Aqua 3
5. En.ka - Mantra
6. Svart1 & Dorian Gray - L'attesa
7. Rrose - Shrouds
8. Michailo - Astral Croon
9. MTRL - Theia's Shard
10. Eliott Litrowski - Festen
11. Valentino Mora & Yoshitake Expe - Trans Format Eurotica (Underwater Rephase)
12. Neural Scape - Cerebral Cortex
13. VC‐118A - Vlucht naar nachtschade (Delta Funktionen remix)
14. PALACE - Element
15. Samo DJ - Leggo
16. Progetto Tribale - Variable Mu
17. Ozel AB - Daisy Bank
18. Red Rack’em - Kalimba
19. Saphileaum - Future Marble
20. Ludowick - Nebula
21. Vril - In Via
22. Call Super - Music Stand

Map 19 (hypnotic, ambient and deep techno DJ set)

Finally, a new Map! While I haven't quit this project, it only took a few weeks of traveling for work to get off track, and eventually I realized I wouldn't be able to keep to the weekly release schedule.

I really enjoyed the challenge though, and I want to keep the momentum going, and this week, I finally was able to. I picked a BPM of 128 and a general vibe, and improvised my way through the set, and in the end I'm happy with the result. 

I had a lot of fun recording this one. It's very hypnotic, immersive and squelchy techno—one of my favorite styles. 

Enjoy the music!

1. Dorisburg & Sebastian Mullaert - Deep water branches
2. Fragmento - Lorenzo
3. Marco Shuttle - Masay Lama
4. Hoedus - Black Echo
5. Ness - In The Meanderings Of Shibuya
6. Motionen - Distant Voices
7. Kalumet - Annual Meeting Of Opposite Magnetic Fields
8. Repart - Ceres
9. r²π - Latomor Fratern
10. Synthek - The Chant of The Divine (Original Mix)
11. Geïnst - Neocitizen
12. !nertia - Parvati
13. Pattrn - Nyx
14. Na Nich - Dune
15. Luigi Tozzi - The Deer Hunter (Original Mix)
16. Milton Bradley - Monochromatic
17. Joachim Spieth - Never Mind (The Plant Worker remix)
18. John Plaza - Persecution
19. Lav - Human Disturbances

Map 20 (deep and hypnotic techno DJ set)

Amsterdam-based DJ, musician, relapsed record collector. 

Give me a follow if you like what you hear, and reach out if you'd like to book me or collaborate!

I'm particularly interested in the deeper side of techno and house, but never feel limited by the constraints of genre. 

Please check out my mix series "The Map Is Not the Territory" to see what I mean by that.

Map 5 (deep, hypnotic techno and house dj set)

Tomaso M.