TECHNO

Recording from nitsa night on december 17th 2021

John Talabot dj set @Nitsa (17Dec21)

Berlin based DJ and producer Soela has been on our radar for a while now. She has been known for her mesmerizing, multi-genre mixes and has released on well respected labels such as Dial, Kompakt and Shall Not Fade.  

“I recorded this mix after a gig in Tresor. I was inspired by it but wanted something relaxing, some non-dance, and warm music with a nostalgic spark. I included quite some different genres as I usually do: this mix is a journey between trippy electronica, ambient, minimal and jazzy house, and neoclassic. I included some pieces by Anton Zap, Lusine, Sven Weisemann, Hania Rani, and Kelela.”

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A Far Blue concept by Soela - 'Drowning In The Bed'

Also available on YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWTVByZplIA

As I often play these records alongside newer releases, I realized most of those classics were more than 25 years old, I thought of compiling them together to show where dub tech comes from and how timeless most of these tracks are...Take a record like Round Four, discovered for a lot of people like me on Daniel Bell's mix (2000) The button down mind of Daniel Bell. More than 25 years onwards, you can look at a record like this, alongside Baby Ford and early Ricardo Villalobos as the blueprint for modern minimal and dubby electronic music, but that would imply that those genres later improved upon the overall formula. In reality, few got even close to as good as this. The origins of a genre is often more important than newer releases.  ''If you do not know where you come from, then you don't know where you are, and if you don't know where you are, then you don't know where you're going...''  (Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight)

The Beginning Of The Voyage (Heart Chakra)
Monolake - Amazon (1999) / Interstate /  Monolake / Imbalance Computer Music
Konrad Black - White Cigarettes (2002) / Two Hundred And Forty Volts Volume 2 / Swayzak recordings 
Burger/Ink - Elvism (1996) / [Las Vegas] / Matador / Kompakt klassiks
Round Four featuring Tikiman - Found A Way (1998) /  Find A Way EP / Main street records 
Maurizio - M06a (1996) / M-6 / Maurizio 
Monolake- Ionized (2001) / Cinemascope / Monolake / Imbalance Computer Music
Monolake & Makam - Mass transit railway (1998) / Hong Kong / Chain reaction
Various Artists - No.8 (1997) /  8 8.5 9 EP / Fat Cat records 
Swayzak - Form Is Emptyness (2001)  / Shape Memory Effect / Force tracks 
Swayzak vs Theorem - Break In At Apartment 205 (1999) /  Break In At Apartment 205 EP / M_nus 
Swayzak - Slave to the Hard Drive (2001) / Shape Memory Effect / Force tracks 
The Kooky Scientist - Nite Glide (1997) / Unpopular Science / Plus 8 
Convextion - Miranda (Original '96 Mix) /  Convextion EP / Matrix
Quadrant - Hyperprism (1993) / Quadrant E.P. / R & S Recordings 
David Alvarado Blue (Dub) (2001) / Blue EP 
G-Man - Quo Vadis (1995) / Swim
Ratio - Early Blow (1998) / Preview EP / Central  
Basic Channel - Radiance long (1994) / Basic channel
B.C. - Weird Vibrations ( 1994 ) /  Stronghold Techno EP / i.t.p. recordings
Basic Channel - Phylyps Trak (1994) / Basic channel 
Bandulu - Running time (1995) / Blanco Y Negro
Vainqueur - Lyot (Maurizio Mix) (1992) / Maurizio 
INFINITI-game one (1994) / Metroplex
Mateo Murphy - Inside out (2002) / Epsilonlab
Fluxion - Vibrant Forms 2 (1999) / Bipolar Defect /  Chain Reaction
Parallel 9 - Quadrus (1996) / Q EP / Prime
Sanasol - Matrix Noise (1997) / Thule records 
Thor - Aliens Don't Boogie (1999) / Æ Recordings
Merv - Dust (1998) / Happiness on a string EP / Dancecop
Ricardo Villalobos - Frank Mueller Melodram /  Perlon  
Ricardo Villalobos - Heike  (Villalobos Mood Mix) (1998) / Heike EP / Lo-fi stereo
In Aeternam Vale - Ultrabase (1993) / Machine À Laver / Ultrabase EP / Minimal Wave

Few notes: Sanasol is Yagya (Aðalsteinn Guðmundsson, Thorhallur Skulason aka Thor), Aliens don't boogie was famously used on Richie Hawtin's Deck, efx & 909 in 1999, Parallel 9 is Steve Rachmad famous Dutch electronic musician aka Sterac, Infiniti is Juan Atkins both he and Moritz von Oswald aka Maurizio remixed each other and collaborated many times in the last 30 years. Vainqueur is René Löwe famous from the Chain Reaction label. The B.C. track isn't Basic channel but a moniker which consists of Robert Leiner (Visions of the past) and Cisco Ferreira (The Advent). G-Man, whose productions were way ahead of its time on Force inc is Gez Varley from L.F.O. one half of it (other was Mark Bell), Quadrant is another moniker used by Basic channel, the EP was released in 1993 on R&S records the legendary Belgium label, and later repressed on Carl Craig's Planet E.

The Origins Of Dub Techno

Saturday 18 January 2025, Zurich-based selector @matsssiii performed an all vinyl DJ set at Inverted Audio Record Store in Peckham ahead of his performance at Project Indigo's 'Self Expression' club night at Gaffe in South West London alongside Hame and Boaksi.

Project Indigo: https://inverted-audio.store/collections/vendors?q=Project%20Indigo

matsssiii // Inverted Audio In-Store

His influence is unparalleled; a vinyl only dedication to one of my favourite DJ's and a genius musical producer of electronic and deep house music. 
Welcoming with love: Move D….

Vinyl Sanctuary Sessions Volume 16 - Move D Tribute

A memorable all night set at London's Night Tales Loft 
Big thank you to all the dancers!

Move D @ NT-Loft London 2025-02-21

Phantasy’s long-running mix series continues apace with a contribution from a key figure in London’s electronic and alternative underground, Casper Clark. Perhaps best known under his former Volte-Face alias, this wide-ranging hour finds Clark reigniting his fundamentally eclectic sensibility, seamlessly blending records from Black Merlin, Idjut Boys and The Parallax Corporation, spanning twenty-five years of music at the authentic margins.

 PHANTASYMIX 52 by Casper Clark is available to stream now from Apple Music and on Soundcloud, alongside dozens of mixes from the label archive.

“I started DJing nearly 20 years ago, at least partially inspired by the way Erol used to play at Trash and later Bugged Out and beyond. I was lucky enough to book him over the years at our Adventures In The Beetroot Field parties as well as Field Day and even the Lock Tavern, which I used to programme back then. As I drifted more towards exploring techno under my Volte-Face moniker, our paths diverged somewhat, and a few years went by when I didn't bump into him or see him play all that often. So this mix feels like a homecoming of sorts, and an expression of a rekindled musical freedom and a cherished friendship. I even managed to squeeze in a track by Tiga, who was another formative influence for me. I hope it's as fun to listen to the mix as it was to make it.” - Casper Clark

PHANTASYMIX 52: Casper Clark

Next level business from Batu @batuk

Mistry 005 / Batu
A. Dekalb
B. Collate

digital https://mistrymuzik.bandcamp.com/album/mistry-005
vinyl https://boomkat.com/products/dekalb-collate

Batu - Dekalb / Collate (MSTRY005)

Originally made in 2017, a sunday chill out / downtempo session which features some of my favorites. A laidback trip for the road, ideally in a Westfalia circa 1974 ;-) Selection contains numerous shining gems in the form of slowed-down remixes that you haven't heard in this form before. Be it dubby special versions, or the classic trip-hop and downbeat tunes of the 90's and 2000's.

0:00  	  Nmesh - Neonn Dreamms Infinity
1:00  	  The Orb - Plateau
12:40  	  Hallucinogen - Angelic Particles  ('Buckminster Fullerine' Mix)
20:40  	  Prefuse 73 - Afternoon Love In
23:00  	  Boards of Canada - Aquarius (Version 3)
28:00        Curtis Mayfield - Blue monday people (All Good Funk Alliance Re-Dux)
31:20  	  Thievery Corporation - Resolution
33:40  	  Cutty Ranks - The Stopper (RD Dub)
38:20  	  BoC - Olson (Jester Remix)
40:00  	  Boards of Canada - Sundown
41:20  	  I:Cube - Adore
46:00        Chris Isaak - Wicked games (Trentemoller dub) 
51:00          New Order Blue Monday - John Digweed and Nick Muir's FAC73-13 Remix 
56:00         Jam & Spoon - Heart of Africa (Paul Daley remix aka Leftfield)
1:00:00       G-Corp –	Murder
1:05:40  	  Dubblestandart - Optimism – Oxygene Part 4 (Dub) feat. David Lynch & Lee Scratch Perry
1:10:20  	  Eat Static - The Wreckage
1:15:26      Massive attack - Teardrop (Virgin magnetic material remix)
1:20:00      Massive attack - Teardrop 
1:24:20  	  Noiseshaper - Moving Together feat. Wayne Martin
1:29:20  	  Future Sound Of London - Smokin' Japanese Babe
1:33:20  	  Nils Petter Molvaer - The End
1:35:40  	  Eden Ahbez - Full Moon

Chillax vol 002 - Roadtrip mixtape

Untitled 9

Brand new Matrixxman will blow your socks off

Premiere: Jackie House 'Stydive' (Matrixxman Remixx)

We welcome Rob Hes back for his third EP on Tronic. This time he is delivering three peak time tracks all with different moods. “Raised By Another” focuses on a hypnotic analog sequence that delivers the goods every time when played out. Simple and very effective. “Battlefield” is a more straight forward musical techno for peak time business whereas “Failure” is slightly more minimal but still very effective on the floor. Please try these tracks out on play them LOUD.

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Rob Hes - Failure (Original Mix)

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An exclusive synth-filled rolling techno track from Matt Lange. 'Ripples' is off of Lange's debut album 'Ephemera', which is out September 10 via Mau5trap. 

Premiere: Matt Lange 'Ripples'

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Ténèbre - Construction Random

Jane Fitz's London studio session had it all - from acid bangers and uncomprimising techno to dreamy ambiance and deep psychedelic jams → blrrm.tv/JaneFitz

Jane Fitz Boiler Room London Studio DJ Set

@dannydaze has proven incredibly hard to pin down since he first emerged. After starting down a path that very quickly took him to the best clubs in the world but off the back of a sound that wasn't really his, he has managed to rewrite perceptions. After deciding to do things his own way, at his own pace, he is now known for what he really loves: techno, electro and IDM. Just recently he continued his collaborative work with Brazilian RHR on four dark, gritty and evocative cuts on OmniDisc, and has more music on the way soon on Schematic Records. 

This mix hints at what to expect from that EP, says Danny. "Due to the current conditions, I decided to go with chill zone session for this one mixed live with a bunch of the styles that influenced me over the last 20 years. Went a bit more trip-hop/IDM/electro with it which points to the direction the upcoming EP and album later in the year. Hope everyone has a nice week." So strap in for two freewheeling hours of interplanetary sonics, churning rhythms and otherworldly cinematics that will start your week right.

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Dekmantel Podcast 286 - Danny Daze

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