Yax Invites (Vinyl Only Mixes)

Stockholm-based upcoming house music talent Anna Kohlin accepted resident Robob's invitation to deliver a guest mix for his Anthems Are Forever series. It’s a great hour of slamming & groovy electronic sounds, perfect for dancing in the burning sun and sweating off the mojitos! Second hour is Robob showing some of the harder and faster tracks from the collection. Another great one for the Stockholm-Ams connection!

Artist: @annakohlin & @robob

Anthems Are Forever w/ Anna Kohlin & Robob

My next guest on Yax Invites is Ethical Governer, a techno producer from Belfast, Northern Ireland, who has formerly released tracks under the Hoth System moniker. In 2018 he set up his own label called Enclosed Order to release his own material as Ethical Governor and has a new album due for release on Diffuse Reality in May 2022. Expect 30 techno bangers in this all vinyl mix for Yax Invites.

https://soundcloud.com/ethical-governor

Yax Invites #012 - Ethical Governor

My next guest on Yax Invites is Dale, a DJ from Adelaide, Australia.

Recorded and mixed with one take on two turntables and a Xone 92, member of Adelaide’s soundcloud.com/visitors618 collective, Dale takes us on a hypnotic journey through the minimal, dubby, and melodic aspects of techno with tracks spanning 30 years, creating a composition of sound equally suited to the dancefloor or loungeroom.

soundcloud.com/dale618

Yax Invites #035 - Dale

My next guest on Yax Invites is Code618.

Residing in Adelaide, Australia, Code618 is a veteran of all things electronic music, obsessive crate digger and curator of techno and house sounds for over 30 years.

After hearing sonic explorations from Detroit, Chicago and Europe over the crackle of late night radio in the early 90s his radar was locked. For this mix he has delved deep into the vinyl archives for a retro inspired set of 90’s classics and newer releases on a similar tip. 

Mixed 100% on vinyl via venerable Technics 1200’s and DJM-600 in between Code618 leverages experience DJing during the 90’s in the burgeoning Adelaide techno scene.  Expect sounds from Jeff Mills, Dave Clarke, Surgeon, DJ Rush, Ausgang, Frozen Border and Joey Beltram to name a few….

https://soundcloud.com/code618

Yax Invites #044 - Code618

My next guest on Yax Invites is 1 auxy.

Birthed from the grit and grime of the mid-nineties Midwest rave scene. Born and currently residing in Akron, Ohio, USA. Inspired by the music and DJ’s coming out of Detroit, Chicago, New York, Berlin, the UK and the parties that were happening across the Midwestern United States during that magickal time. 1 Auxy began his obsession with record collecting and DJ’ing in 1995 in Akron and Cleveland. Warehouse parties and club nights. Late nights and early mornings. Techno, house music and the intersection where they meet. Raw, soulful, psychedelic. Mixing new and old. All for the love of the music. No bullshit. No gimmicks. 

"I really like this one. Starts off with ambient and more experimental jams, builds into a deep super heady techno set and ends with some dub techno from Maurizio and a house cut from Cassy. Really nice flow to it. Kind of like condensing a party into an hour and a half".

soundcloud.com/1auxy

TASCAM DR-05

Yax Invites #051 - 1 auxy

My next guest on Yax Invites is Adelaide techno veteran, Ben Alibi, who has kindly prepared an interesting write up to support his mix for the series below.

Good records offer an insight into another existence - be it here on Earth, or the far flung reaches of our imaginations. Speaking personally, the valuable ones are usually something I continue to find something new in and are as appreciated being played right through, or mixed as a portion in a set. 

When DJing, I feel the focus should be on the music itself; I've only ever used two sources at once and I like to believe that in some ways there's fewer places to hide when it's just you and two tracks. Knowing how to juggle three (or more) decks well would be awesome though! 

I always go back to hearing Jeff Mills play over two nights, during the mid 90's. Night one was his 3-turntable power mix - which was amazing to watch first-hand! However, night two was performed on two decks only, whereby it felt to me like the level of intensity and audience involvement was counter-intuitively higher. Furthermore, it seemed like the track selection went deeper and everything being aired reached its full potential. 

As such, I believe a DJ's role is simply to work productions together, so as to best highlight the standout parts of each track simultaneously - anything more, or less, only detracts from what should be at the core of it all; individual human expression, through techno music. 

This mix has plenty of personal old favourites - tracks that we (my generation) would associate with a night out in Adelaide during the early 90's. I'm old enough to remember this period fondly and with good reason as Adelaide, South Australia truly was the underground techno capital (outpost) of Australia - if not the southern hemisphere - primarily due to being the base for the formative label, Juice Records. 

The current generation of contributors should certainly feel proud of our foundations, but crucially, remember that so much has changed. We're totally just a grain of sand on a beach now, but something big has been achieved here before, so it's certainly possible again.
 
From my perspective, if there's one thing to take from our history here, it's that we be totally confident in our unique way of doing things as that's core to our sustainability; moreover, it's what someone on the receiving end 'buys into'. 

Again, with the sentimentality... but buying records back in the day was like being a tourist - you were taking a ride on someone else's reality. Every point in the globe, every scene within a point, had its own sound and this was a big part of the attraction that techno music originally held. In essence, I wish to continue being part of the movement that (re)focuses on sounding like Adelaide, for us to then communicate outwardly with. 

I love what we had, but I love where we might go next, even more. 

I hope that you enjoy listening to this selection as much as I did laying it down. N.B. keep an ear out for the new (and some unreleased) music within from DMZ and Antony Coppens, on Juice Records.

https://soundcloud.com/squaremile
https://soundcloud.com/user-533127389-978665150
https://www.mixcloud.com/benAlibi/
https://juicerecords-australia.bandcamp.com

Yax Invites #057 - Ben Alibi

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https://instagram.com/raincitygames618
https://soundcloud.com/sharad618

VISITORS.8 - Sharad

A. DDrhode - Ghoroob (Conversation)

stream:
youtube.com/watch?v=FsoDoKaKI80&t=11676s&ab_channel=komrad

soundcloud.com/pendabirmingham
soundcloud.com/afuturedimension
soundcloud.com/lewis-oxley
instagram.com/lewisoxley84

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Dear listeners, please find attached the soundtrack Melody composed for us, which consists of an hour-clocking of electro delights, from eerie ones to naughty ones. This is the perfect exemple of "how to keep up a vibe".
The young Lady has been at the forefront of the parisian scene for years; you may know her for playing with her Berlin-based bestie Ethel.
She got integrated in 2015  into the most respected women-only gang RA+RE, who is responsible of the best daytime party in the french capital: Breakfast Club. 
But more than a party or a DJ collective, RA+RE is also a lovely label that crosses fashion and music worlds. Lastly the girls released the excellent debut EP from the young and gifted Charlotte, and are about to release Denaila's first EP as well. 
Keep Melody and her gang in sight, a lot of new projects are blossoming...

@melody-9
@ra-re-records

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First to step under the gun is Perdition co-founder and longstanding resident DJ, Dr. Watson. 

His podcast is a 66 minute ride from deep to bleep. Dig in.

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