Fresh from last weeks performance in Belgium comes this recording of Welsh electro producer Dez Williams set laying down his brand of electro tech hard and proper.

Williams is one of those reliable producers of dancefloor electro, giving his own slant on the underground genre. Well respected and with a decade’s worth of releases under his belt, together with his own label Elektronik Religion he’s a musician whose tracks form stable parts of many a decent DJs setlist notably Rob Hall, Dave Clarke and Adam X.

This is his set recorded last week in Brussels at Café Central where his electro/techno pushed all the right buttons. All 1 hour and 42 minutes of it of button pushing.

Dez Williams – Live at Cafe Central 11/05/2012
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BRAWLcast 71 comes to us courtesy of Edinburgh’s Ingen.

Ingen is a live DJ and producer based in Edinburgh UK. He uses an Ableton live setup mixed with ever changing midi gear to produce a diverse, forward thinking melting pot of sound.

He has been a long standing resident with Split at Cabaret Voltaire and Coalition at Sneaky Pete’s which has been one of the most popular techno and drum n bass nights in the capital’s history.Moving people to fresh and uncompromising sounds since 2005.

Look out for a track on the forthcoming Digital Distortions dd50 compilation followed by a full release later this year…

BRAWLcast #071 Ingen – Taking Stock
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Aphex Twin – Flim [Warp]
Ingen – Loop
Ingen – Dawn Song
Monolake – Plumbicon – Loop [Monolake]
Savier – Alright Moldies
2562 – Lost [Tectonic]
Savier – Richard’s Civilisation
Ingen – Loop
Ed Chamberlain – Trapeze [BaseLogic]
Clark – Penultimate Persian [Warp]
Cursor Miner – Everybody Want Power [Combat Recordings]
Regis – Blood Witness [Blackest Ever Black]
Tommy Four Seven – Track 5 [ITH]
Traversable Wormhole – Spacetime Symmetries [Traversable Wormhole]
Mike Dehnert – A4 [Fachwerk]
LFO – Freeze [Warp]
Boggart – Drum
Instant
Ingen – Subway [Tribal Waves]
Reeko – Selection Natural – Parte 1 [Mental Disorder]
Tessela – D-Jane [Punch Drunk]
Extrawelt – Added Planet [Cocoon]
Bryan Black presents Black Asteroid – Engine 1 [CLR]
Alva Noto – Uni Dia [Raster-Noton]
British Murder Boys – Don’t Give Way To Fear [Counterbalance]
Blawan – What You Do With What You Have [R&S]
Drexciya – The Plankton Organization [Tresor]
Boys Noize – Trooper [Boysnoize]
Justin Maxwell – The Windey Man [palette]
Ingen – Loop
Dust Bowl
Whitehouse – Killing Hurts Give You The Secrets [Susan Lawly]
Emmanuel Jal – Kuar (Olof Dreijer Remix) [Innervisons]
Vex’d – Fire [Planet Mu]
Eight Frozen Modules – Datacasting [Planet Mu]
Lone – Explorers [R&S]
Ingen – Snap The Tilt [Digital Distortions]
GoldFFinch – Groove Panda [Saigon Recordings]
Clark – Violenl [Warp]
Ingen – TRYC9 [Digital Distortions]
DBX – Losing Control [Peacefrog]
Tessela – Darlene Please [2nd Drop]
Stagga – Prehistoric UFO Rhythm [Rag & Bone]
Milanese – Billy Electron (Venger Remix) [Planet Mu]
Distal – Boss Of The South [Grizzly]
Mike Dehnert – Pneumatic [Ann Aimee]
Chordata – Griffin [Militent Science]
Ital Tek – Topaz [Atom River]
Dom & Roland – Clip Kill [Moving Shadow]
Ochre – Circadies [Benbecula]

The London producer Ben Gibson serves up an hour of cold, desolate techno with an edge of industrial glimmer. Shouldn’t really come as any surprise our posting of CLFT0040 then should it.

I haven’t really been following the work of Gibson since his 2009, Perc Trax released, In a Realized Luck Of Immanence album. Though I didn’t hear it until the following year. And that’s nothing against the album which is a fine longplayer of stripped to the basics drone doused dark techno, indeed some described it at the time as Auschwitz techno; reinforcing the bleak and desolate landscape it summons up.

Simply, since I listened I’ve been distracted by other music. I’m confident that in your mind as you read this you shouldn’t be expecting uplifting melody sections, catchy hooks and bubblegum pop motifs. If you are then you’re in the wrong place.

So in part this is a re-introduction or refresher into the sound and style of Gibson, and it features two recent-ish cuts of his from January’s More Than Milk on Milan’s M_REC LTD.

CLFT0040 contains Samuli Kemppi’s remix of Implex and the original version of Florentine. Also featured is work from William Bennett’s awesome Cut Hands, Manchester’s Casual Violence, Orphx, Sandwell District, RRose, Surgeon, Voidloss, Monolake, Mala, Grovskopa, Robert Hood and sleeparchive.

Ben Gibson – CLFT0040
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Tracklist
Cut Hands – Rain Washes Away Everything [Very Friendly]
Casual Violence – Borne [Biomechanics]
Orphx – Cracktest [Sonic Groove]
Kalon – Man is the Superior Animal [Sandwell District]
Ill Blu – Bellion [Hyperdub]
Ben Gibson – Implex (Samulli Kempi Remix) [M_REC Ltd]
Rrose – Pointilism (Variation One) [Sandwell District]
Surgeon – The Crawling Frog is Torn and Smiles [Dynamic Tension]
Voidloss – Dominion [Singularity]
Monolake – Titan [Imbalance Computer Music]
Jeroen Search – Section One [Sect]
Mala – New Life Baby Paris [Deep Medi Musik]
James Ruskin – Sabre [Blueprint]
Sleeparchive – Hospital 2 [Sleeparchive]
Ben Gibson – Florentine [M_REC Ltd]
Oscar Mulero – Like I’ve Been Here Before [Warm Up]
Robert Hood – The Family [M-Plant]
Grovskopa – Atopic (Lag Remix) [Sect]
Terrence Parker – Love’s Got Me High [Seventh Sign]
Actress – Green Gal [Werk Discs]

Dublin producer and DJ Peadar Ó Brádaigh is currently to be found lurking around London; as P-Hocto he’s a man you’re going to be hearing more from in 2012. Fresh blood with fresh ideas.

Until then you need to hit this mix of his; a re-record of his set at Bigwar 8 where he shared sound system space with King Cannibal and EOMAC.

In his own words:

The larger part of my set from Bigwar8. King Cannibal, Eomac and myself played in the basement, Pet Duo, Fran Hartnett and Rob Hatchell played upstairs. Considering the room I was in this mix is less techno and more bass than usual. This is actually a re-recording I did the next day as needle troubles on the night ruined my own recording, but Eomac and King Cannibal’s mixes came out fine and should be available online soon so keep an eye out.

An keep an eye out we shall.

P-Hocto – Bigwar 8
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Tracklist
Luke’s Anger – Badman Get Badder
Michael Forshaw – The Joint
Override – Machines Do The Work
Ben Pest & Wulfe – Chaouenian Sole
Chris Clark – The Magnet Mine
Exzakt – Transfusion (Dexorcist remix)
Buckfunk 3000 – 2 Much Booty (Product 1 remix)
The Dexorcist – Africadub
Dark Sky – Zoom
Tessela – D Jane
Bassbin Twins – Woppa
Cursor Miner – Grimewatch
Addison Groove – Work It
Bill Youngman – Cells Regenerate (Hanno Hinkelbein remix)
Author – The City
Uninerves – Black Ops
Neil Landstrumm – Energy Flush
Stormfield – Haiku (Ed Chamberlain remix)
Ed Chamberlain – Does Ape
Itsu Uno – B-Boy Rave for the Aging Hipster – Part 2

Techno blog and home to the Unseen Selectors Graphite North drop a bomb, in the shape of a new mix from Patrick Walker.

Patrick Walker, half of Perc Trax signed Forward Strategy Group, is no stranger to the deep and bleak industrially honed techno that is finding increasing space on the dancefloors of the underground.

The duo’s debut longplayer, Labour Division, is slated for release next month on London imprint Perc Trax (check RA for the tracklist). And whilst preparations are underway for that, including a launch party in Amsterdam on June 15th, Patrick (the Scottish wing of the team, with Smear hailing from Leeds) is to be resident at Edinburgh’s forthcoming UNSEEN night. A collaboration between the Graphite North / Unseen crew, Studio24 and Club Dogma.

Described as pushing “pitch black techno” with an admiration of simplicity UNSEEN launches on May 4th with a free entry residents night. Dogma’s Neil Templar also joining the team as in-house resident.

Laying the ground work, and the actual purpose of this piece, is Patrick’s promo mix for the aforementioned night in question. Sixty four minutes ish of machined techno from the darker realms working into more of a tribal vibe two thirds in. Featuring the work of Casual Violence, Regis, Xhin, Hu, Developer, Ctrls, Exium, Claudio PRC, Silent Servant, Phase, and FSG.

Patrick Walker – Unseen Extracts 01
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Tracklist
Casual Violence – She
Silent Servant – Mad Youth
Claudio Prc & Svart1 – Black Moon
Exium – Recycler
Developer – Hexmode
Marcel Fengler – Thwack – Pas Mix
Xhin – Through the Line
Hu – Untitled
Raoul Delgardo – Steelworks 3
Regis – It’s a Man’s World
Ctrls – Socket
Raoul Delgardo – The Feeling
User 06 – A2
Santos Rodriguez – Road to Rio
Phase – Binary Opposition
Kenaz – Uncud
Woo York – Gradient
Emanuel Top – Le Sous Sol
Forward Strategy Group – A Greyed Out Life

Of all the many showcases we’ve had on Mantis Radio over the years, describing an artists work as epic is often tempting but never quite justified. That’s not saying the guest sessions haven’t been awesome, upfront, intense, extreme, deep and ultimately fantastic, just that the work of Javier Barrero and his Logical Disorder project does deserve the term epic to help describe his particular facet of unique sound.

Laying down a mix of 48 minutes of sound inspirational to him for Spanish mix series Concepto Radio. You can grab his Mantis Radio session from our archives where he was showcased alongside Romanian’s Sorin Paun aka Datacrashrobot, featured in this mix with his track Abandonware.

complex electronics and branching of influences in their DNA, from the literal IDM and the Golden Age of Artificial Intelligence in the 90, to the aesthetics Post-Industrial, Ambient Techno or synthetic, minimalist and experimental approaches digital or electro draft.

Logical Disorder – Concepto MIX #69
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Tracklist
01. Byetone – Capture This (I)
02. Architect – Episode 7 (Tympanik Edit)
03. Klangstabil – Beziehungsohr (Subheim Remix)
04. CJ Liquid – Outbreak
05. Pan Sonic – Radio Qurghonteppa
06. Datacrashrobot – Abandonware
07. Diaphane – Insight
08. Huron – Cruto
09. Nikka – Host
10. Dryft – Clustr2
11. Pina – Stimme

Happening across this mix quite by accident it’s far too good a selection to keep to myself. It is the work of Belgium’s Derrick Scheerlinck, aka Derlich. I came to find it whilst listening to his work following on from hearing the latest release on Singularity Recordings; his Cult of Static EP.

The label whose recent and brilliant album from Villain, Escapade, I wrote about last week. This isn’t an industrially textured techno session but rather a serene and beautiful trip into the drone darkness.

Featuring work from Biosphere, Cut Hands, Blind Summit, Mika Vainio, his Ø alias, Pan Sonic, Senking, Robert Henke, Vromb and others, Quantum Chemistry II Dark Reflections is just the right kind of mix to put on to wind down to; to get lost in, to reflect upon, or simply to just enjoy.

Derlich – Quantum Chemistry II Dark Reflections
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Tracklist
Biosphere – As the sun kissed the horizon
Eligi – Rak
Robert Henke & Gerhard Behles – Chowning Island
Mika Vainio – Omerta
Biosphere – Hyperborea
Blind Summit – Casseopeia
Biosphere – Silene
Piotr Kurek – Part i
Pan Sonic – Väinämöisen Uni/Väinämöinen Dreams
Jana Winderen – Sense of latent power
Anduin – The black line (Forever waiting)
Cut Hands – ++++ (Four crosses)
Biosphere – Uva/Ursi
MikaVainio – Half awake half asleep
Zazie Von Einem Anderen Stern – Raum ohne zeit
Vromb – Urgence
Masayoshi Fujita & Jan Jelinek – Change your life
Vromb – Les Débris De L’Appareil
Ø – Kertomus Kaukomailta
Ø – Äänikuva/Sound Picture
Senking – Pathogenic agent
Jasper TX – Mute Harbour Part 2
Cut Hands – Bia Mintatu
John Murphy – In the House in a Heartbeat (28 Days Later theme)

Being half of the mighty Ancient Methods, Baeks is a man who knows his techno.

He’s put together this 50 minute all vinyl session for the Robot Army crew in Berlin, ahead of his DJ set there on April 13th together with a live set with Trias as Ancient Methods.

No tracklist but expect deep, headspace techno that builds. Perfect to get lost into. Shouts to Perc for giving me the heads up earlier this morning.

Baeks – Wintertechno
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A year ago, almost to the day, I wrote about Panacea‘s rather stupendous hardcore breaks mix Big Bad Head from 2002. Well here’s the followup, a seriously slamming selection of rave from yesteryear.

Sure some there is a fair old helping of pianos and the odd chipmunk pitched vocal sample but there is no denying this is ‘rave’ rinsed hard and proper. Big, bassy and fun rave. What more do you need for a Friday? Exactly. Enjoy.

Panacea – Big Bad Head Part II
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Tracklist
01. Wishdokta & James Hyman – Flavourings [Kickin Records]
02. Undercover Elephant – I Got The Key [Bogwoppa Records]
03. Smith & Brown – Do It Now [Homegrown Records]
04. Formula 7 – Dark Star [Quayside Records]
05. DJ Red Alert & Mike Slammer – 1-2-3 [Slammin' Vinyl]
06. Kid Andy – Baby Stop Spinning Me Around (Late Summer Remix) [Bizy Boy Recordings]
07. Stu J. – Gadjet Part Deux [Adrenalin Records]
08. Remarc – One 4 Da Vibes [Dollar Records]
09. DJ Dance – Death By Stereo [Yo!Yo! Records]
10. Mr. E. Pressure, Stakker & Spindizzy – Palace Pier [Uridium Records]
11. Noise Factory – Future II (The Remix) [3rd Party]
12. China White – High And Dry [Vicious Pumpin' Plastic]
13. Cybernetic Empire – Ozone Storm (Remix) [Paradise Records]
14. Overdubb – Eruption (Original Mix) [Impact]
15. DJ Solo – Axis [Production House]
16. Mega City 2 – Dark Child [Extra Terrestrial Recordings]
17. Diplomat & Safe T. – Giving My House What It Deserves [Immunity Records]
18. Sonz Of A Loop Da Loop Era – Calm Downizm [Suburban Base Records]
19. Essence Of Aura – Can I Dream [Outstanding Productions]
20. Satin Storm – Let’s Get Together [Satin Storm]
21. Curly Greylox – Fools Rushin [Buzz Records]
22. Atomu Shinzo – Heredia EP A1 [Not On Label]
23. Tight Control – Stormtrooper [Bear Necessities]
24. Subject 13 – Armageddon Countdown (Blatant Remix) [Underground Level Recordings]
25. Bay B Kane – Giant Steps [White House Records]
26. Smooth But Hazzardous – Push Up The Levels [Sound Entity Records]
27. DJ Pooch – Reincarnation [Skrufneck]
28. M-Beat – Dark Dub [Renk Records]
29. Bribe – Goldseal [Headhunters Recordings]
30. RJ – Love Is What We Need [Labello Blanco Recordings]
31. Rhythm Section – Dreamworld [Rhythm Section Recordings]
32. Skanna – Ceasefire [White House Records]
33. The 2 – Lovin’ You [Not On Label]
34. Space Cube – Kool Killer [Force Inc. Music Works]
35. Oktiv – Feeling The Desire [Sound Asylum Records]
36. DJ Red Alert & Pepsi – Somthing Unreal [Brain Records]
37. Skoffin Allsorts – Love II Love It [PM Recordings]
38. Ionosphere – Just 4 Me (Infra-Red Mix) [Ionosphere Recordings]
39. Essence Of Aura – Destiny [Outstanding Productions]
40. A Guy Called Gerald – This Is The Right Time [Juice Box]
41. Wishdokta – Joy (No Bogle Mix) [Kickin Records]
42. Jungle Terror Productions – Girls [Future Vinyl]
43. Exit 100 – Louie Frantic [Force Inc. Music Works]
44. Hardware – Night Stalker (DJ SS Remix) [Face Records]
45. Dubb Hustlers – Poison EP A1 [Armshouse Crew Records]
46. DJ Lee – A Touch Of Darkness [Impact]
47. Ellis Dee – Big Up Your Chest [Not On Label]
48. Chatta B. – Journey Into Sound [Redskin Records]
49. TDK – This Song Is 4 You [Not On Label]
50. The Panacea – “Taking Needle Off The Record Just To Have 50 Tunes In 1 Mix” Tune [Not On Label]

I’ve written about Bufo just the once before, back in November 2010, highlighting his Industricity Session no.29 mix.

That mix was very good, and compared to this one it was all too brief (despite that session being some 97 minutes). You’re What You’re is a 2 part upload collectively weighing in the other side of four hours.

I’ve tried to find some information about Bufo, but my search has so far, been fruitless. All I have is his SoundCloud profile which plays host to several of his mixes. Going out on a limb here I’m thinking he’s based in Poland. Still, as interesting as it can be to read a little bit about folk the music is the important aspect and here we have a mountain of sweetly dark and deep industrially dipped technoid sound, or techno for your headspace if you prefer.

It’s a mammoth session taking in some of the upfront edge of new producers carving out their sound, artists like Death Abyss, Lucy, Voidloss, Jon Convex, Xhin, Dead Sound, Kangding Ray, Ancient Methods and Roly Porter together with the established old guard. Cristian Vogel, Nitzer Ebb, Oscar Mulero, Ben Sims, James Ruskin, Inigo Kennedy, The Bug, Surgeon are but a few.

This then is You’re What You’re.

Bufo – You’re What You’re I
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Tracklist
Black Knight – Capita
L.B. Dub Corp – Lurchers Dub
Conrad Van Orton, Vilix – Coppergreen Project
Subjected – Vault Series 008.2
Michaelangelo – The Thaumaturgist (Exium Remix)
Dj Rush – The Breaks
Carl Craig – At Les
Kenaz – Ungewis
Xhin – Teeth (Surgeon Remix)
Reeko – Thick Matter
Frankie Bones – I Love It
Jeff Mills – The Bells (Grovskopa Remix)
Steve Glencross – Jd’s Cartell
Obtane & Giorgio Gigli – Contextualised In Monochrome (Smear Remix)
Dead Sound – Dead Slater
Cristian Vogel – Alien Conversation
Monolake – Hitting the Surface
British Murder Boys – Be Like I Am
KiNK – I Don’t Play Piano
Grovskopa – Haas
Pacific Blue – Industry (Rrose Remix)
Voidloss – Scar Glamour
Jeff Mills – Gamma Player
Jon Convex – Your Mind (or Mine)
Dead Sound & Videohead – Degree
Phase – Binary Opposition (Process 1)
Dead Sound & Videohead – Rails
ASC – Magnetic
Casual Violence – Acceptance Of The Fact At Hand
Exium – Frontline (Inigo Kennedy Remix)
Function & Jerome Sydenham – Drift (Xhin Remix)
NIL – NIL (Kazuya Kawakami Remix)
Surgeon – Waiting For Me B1
Robert Hood – Unix (Alive)
Skudge – Overture (Substance Remix)
Sbtrk – Wildfire (Objekt Dub Mix)
Kangding Ray – Odd Sympathy
Kangding Ray – OR
Ancient Methods – Fifth Method B1
FBK – Nanomal
Claude Young – How Is Your DNA (James Ruskin Remix)
3ST & Dash – Getting Divorced
Death Abyss – Thee Grey Book
Various Artist – No. 8
Lucy – Eon (Truss Remix)
Voidloss – Diaphanous Fever of Dreams
Raiz And Truncate – Rhythm
Sigha – I Am Apathy, I Am Submission
Go Hiyama – Concrete Advance (Dead Sound & Videohead Remix)
Edge Of Motion – Set-Up 707
Scion – Emerge (BMB Remix 2)
Surgeon Meets Outline – Golden Age
Karenn – Chaste Down
Reeko – Miracle
Arovane – Tascel 7
Autechre – Laughing Quarter
Rhythm & Sound With Chosen Brothers – Mash Down Babylon
Sian – Coup De’tat (Xhin Remix)
Zomby – Godzilla
Patrick Cowley & Jorge Socarras – Soon (Kink Remix)
Dash – You Surf
Nitzer Ebb – Smear Body

Bufo – You’re What You’re I [2012-03-24] by bufodj

Bufo – You’re What You’re II
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Tracklist
Nitzer Ebb – Smear Body
Tadeo – Winds Of Glory (Marcel Dettmann Remix)
Shiver – Subsonic Soundscape
Oscar Mulero – After All
Maad – 313 Dremaadream
Exium – Dummies
Cristian Vogel – Absolute
Rivet – Inside Looking Out
Dave Tarrida – Horrormone (The Horrorist Remix)
Dave Tarrida – Dry Red
Dead Sound – Shuffle
Smear – Form Constant
Surgeon – The Crawling Frog Is Torn And Smiles
James Ruskin – Confession
Silent Servant – Discipline
Blind Summit – Metrical Constants (Allan Nonamaka’s Proprietary Sequence Mix)
Inigo Kennedy – Lagrange Point
The Black Dog – Black Chamber Order (Blawan Remix)
Ital Tek – Manhattan
Unspecified Enemies – Multi Ordinal Tracking Unit
Apologist – Sorry (Dub)
Breach – Fatherless
Addison Groove – Footcrab
Modern Heads & Perc – Moddax
Jimmy Edgar – Sleight Of Mouth (Subtle)
The Bug – Politicians Version
Surgeon – Transparent Radiation
Monolake – Alaska (Substance Remix 1)
Pfirter & Dadub – Metropolis
Ben Sims – Slow Motion (Skudge Mix)
Jolka – Inception
Modeselektor – Dancing Box (Sleeparchive Rmx)
Kritical Audio – Spandex
Bufo – Chaos (Unit:B Remix)
Ochre – Rem Sleep Research
Dubkasm – More Jah Songs (RSD Remix)
Bufo – Rozplywa Sie W Ustach
MNK – Ransome
Battles – Toddler (Kangding Ray Remix)
Roly Porter – Rossak

Bufo – You’re What You’re II [2012-03-24] by bufodj

Whilst many DJs can lay claim to playing a ‘banging’ set, dropping their bass heavy trusted dancefloor bombs and hold the session together with some slapdash mixing; maybe a few of them will even use some EQ and the crossfader, few, in fact just one, can claim to be Jerome Hill.

A DJs DJ who is much loved by those who know him and have bore witness to his selection, programming and dexterous fingers. This man can scratch like a demon and just kills it each and every.

Few years back he delivered a mammoth and diverse session for our own Mantis Radio and whilst you should check that out, something a bit fresher is this; a recent set of his from March 23rd over in Berlin at the Suicide Circus club for record label Killekill’s 7th release party. Coming in just over the 3 hour mark this is technically, in the trade, classed as dynamite.

Also, those of you who are fans of Old Skool UK Hop and Britcore then he also re-upped a sterling mix of the stuff he recorded last year.

Jerome says of the mix

So here’s my techno set from the KilleKill party at Suicide Circus, Berlin. I played 12-3am and as the club opened at 12 I got to warm up for myself which was fun as i don’t often get to play some of these records.. Big thanks to Mark Hawkins for the recording.

All tracks are on vinyl and i’ll try to put together a tracklist when i have time, but feel free to ask for IDs and as always all comments are appreciated.
This was the release party for the Killekill 007 EP by Bill Youngman (who can be heard at the close of the set)

Jerome Hill – Live at Suicide Circus, Berlin 23/03/2012
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For the 70th mix of the BRAWLcast series Bushby smashes together this 2 hour mix of dubstep and bass heavy breaks.

BRAWLcast #070 Bushby – Crush Depth
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Fault – 2034 [Terminal Dusk]
Blawan – Iddy [Hessle Audio]
Jack Sparrow – Regress [Tectonic]
Djunya – Moonwalker [Dubstep Records]
Slaughter Mob – Dub Weapon [Rephlex]
Modeselektor – VW Jetta [Monkeytown]
Jack Sparrow – The Chase [Tectonic]
Spac Hand Luke – Grave [Rephlex]
Milanese – Billy Electron (Venger Remix) [Planet Mu]
Atki2 – Crowsteppah [WerkDiscs]
unkown – Dead Letter Drop #1
Boris Noize – Inceptive Point [Yellow Machines]
Blackmass Plastics – Futurepast
Warlock – Black Bag Of Doom [Coin Operated]
ScanOne – Skip (Cursor Miner VIP) [Combat Recordings]
Gremino – Bleak Rocking [Rag & Bone]
Baobinga & Randomer – Crom2 [Build Recordings]
The Squire of Gothos – Cum Wid Dat [Rag & Bone]
JDS – London Town (Serious Danger ‘Groove’ Mix) [Pepper]
Bracket – Butters Bounce [Coin Operated]
Submerse – Need To Know [Sounds of Sumo]
ScanOne – Feep [Yellow Machines]
Ku Bo ft. Joyce Muniz – And You [Man Recordings]
Mark One – Stargate 92 [Rephlex]
Merlin – Whoz In Da House (DJ Controlled Weirdness Remix)
Warlock – Perana [Rag & Bone]
Search & Destroy – Espionage [Destructive]
Warlock – The Horror [i-o-inc]
Vex’d vs. Search & Destroy – End Of Line [Planet Mu]
FZV – Assimilator [Rag & Bone]
Toasty – The Knowledge (Vex’d Remix) [Hotflush]
TRG – Your Friends Like Techno [Subway]
Spookhouse – Break Yoself Fool!!! (Mad-Tek Remix) [Digital Distortions]
Mad-Tek – When The Wheels Fall Off [Digital Distortions]
Badaszewski – Future Dictator [Digital Distortions]
L.J. Harvey – Def Ender [Western Panorama]
Kanji Kinetic – Southern Cross [Mutant Bass]
Blame – 2 Bad Mice Take You [Moving Shadow]
Rufige Kru – Jim Skreech [Reinforced]
Metalheadz – Terminator [Synthetic]

BRAWLcast070 Bushby – Crush Depth by Digital Distortions

Ireland’s Tony McMurray, better known around Darkfloor Towers as Hoth System has unleashed a new mix.

20 Lashes is a well mixed selection, that as with Hoth’s production work; is take no prisoners, heads down gnarly techno. It’s not fast and hard, but it packs a punch. Amongst new work from his studio there are tracks from WJ Henze, Johan Bacto, Robert Hood, Duality’s Systemic, Christian Wunsch, Anton Pieete, Tuomas Rantanen, Forward Strategy Group and Miller & Keane.

If you’re looking for an hour to blast away your brain without resorting to ringing that back alley pharmacist some bloke in a pub gave you the ‘business card’ of you’ll be in capable hands with 20 Lashes. If anything the choice of image to accompany the mix should make an impression.

Hoth System – 20 Lashes
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Tracklist
01. Hoth System – Stripped of Dignity [unreleased]
02. WJ Henze – B H10 [H-Ten]
03. Hoth System – Bone of a Saint [unreleased]
04. Johan Bacto – B2 [Mankind004]
05. Johan Bacto – B1 [Mankind001]
06. Robert Hood – Strobe Light [Music Man]
07. Hoth System – Grim Acceptance [Audioexit]
08. Systemic – Synesthesia [Duality]
09. Hoth System – Foreign Object [Audioexit]
10. Christian Wunsch – B Master Avalanche [IM]
11. Fanon Flowers – B1 Slovakian Nights [Mechanisms Industries]
12. Virgil Enzinger – Lifestream (Robert Natus remix) [Killaz]
13. Hoth System – Pilot Error [C24]
14. Anton Pieete – Karate [Manuke]
15. Tuomas Rantanen – Concrete Symbol [Aftertaste]
16. Carlos Rios – Propane [Zwart]
17. Hoth System – The Gnashing of Teeth [C24]
18. Forward Strategy Group – Code#1 [Perc Trax]
19. Hoth System – Official Myth [unreleased]
20. Miller & Keane – Depth Charge [Audiosculpture]

Hoth System – 20 Lashes [mix] by hoth system

One artist we’ve been keeping tabs on since, and well, even before his Mantis Radio showcase session appearance last summer has been the Stuttgart based producer Scott Robinson.

His session for us was rather special, so to have what is in effect an updated session giving us some of his fresher work in a set makes sense for us to post up here. It also happens to be pretty darn good.

Recorded for MONOKULTUR and the Wartburg-Radio Eisenach comes this hour long recording of Scott doing what Scott does, that being his unique take on techno. You’ll also notice a certain forthcoming label is mentioned in the tracklisting, so, yea, we are somewhat bias, but then writing and promoting stuff you’re into is always going to be. Music is quite the subjective issue afterall.

Scott Robinson – feierAbend- Kombinat meets MONOKULTUR at Wartburg-Radio Eisenach
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Tracklist
01 Scott Robinson – you only see what you want to see [Darkfloor Sound]
02 Scott Robinson – Fierce Objective
03 Scott Robinson – Benny Fits [Darkfloor Sound]
04 Scott Robinson – Underground Persistence
05 Scott Robinson – Front of House [Darkfloor Sound]
06 Scott Robinson – Before the end of the world [free download]
07 Scott Robinson – The Things people say
08 Scott Robinson – 720 4
09 Scott Robinson – Extra Time [free download]
10 Mike Holmes – Drax (Scott Robinson remix) [Control Room]
11 Scott Robinson – I haven’t got all day [Russian Techno]
12 Scott Robinson – Perplexed
13 Scott Robinson – Speaking of that
14 Scott Robinson – Every Body’s Freaky
15 Scott Robinson – Senf [Darkfloor Sound]
16 Scott Robinson – Field of Strings [Darkfloor Sound]
17 Scott Robinson – Field Trip ([Russian Techno]
18 Scott Robinson – It lives in the Wardrobe [Darkfloor Sound]
19 Scott Robinson – Hidden Structures [Darkfloor Sound]
20 Scott Robinson – Epidural [Russian Techno]
21 Scott Robinson – Burger Van

Scott Robinson – feierAbend- Kombinat meets MONOKULTUR @ Wartburg-Radio Eisenach by Scott Robinson

The sound of acid is at the heart of Joshu Doherty; one half of production duo Posthuman with cousin Richard Bevan; the man responsible for old skool obsessed AGT Rave Cru and the man behind the west London acid house revivalist club night I Love Acid.

It shouldn’t really come as a surprise then to see Jupiter Acid both surface and be a strong selection of current with a dabble in classic.

Starting off with Abe Duque & Paris The Black Fu (who’ll you know better as Mack Goudy Jr. of the Detroit Grand Pubahs); we travel through the work of C-System, Planetary Assault Systems, the ever shimmering beauty that is Global Goon, Italianbeat Guys, Ben Sims, Mr. Jones, Posthuman, Phuture, Paul Mac, LFO and one of the all time best cuts of techno out there from the Baron himself; Dave Clarke.

You can catch Posthuman playing a live+DJ set at I Love Acid in London on the 25th Feb.

Posthuman – Jupiter Acid
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Tracklist
Abe Duque & Paris The Black Fu – 9mm Monk
C-System – Hypnotica
Planetary Assault Systems – GT (Function & Jerome Sydenham Remix)
Global Goon – Gonweh
Toru Ikemotu – A76D7C
Jeroen Search – Rotation
Italianbeat Guys – Who’s That?
Ben Sims – Barrow Boy Acid
Bam Bam – Where’s Your Child?
Mr Jones – Zoom 42 (Luke Creed Remix)
Posthuman – Eruder
Yutaka Iwahara – Boot Anima
Phuture – Acid Traxx
Ben Sims feat. DJ Rush – Beat The Box
Simone Tavazzi – Acid (Mark Broom Remix)
Dupre – Mad Monkey (Mattias Fridell Dark & Low Remix)
Paul Mac – Acid Jam
LFO – I Love Acid
Dave Clarke – Wisdom to the Wise

Dublin native, London based producer and DJ P-Hocto drops a superb 76 minutes of gritty industrially textured techno.

Friend of Darkfloor, Parisien Mike Stern (himself a reliable source for darkfloor electronica mixes) highlighted this mix over on our Darkforum last week. Its taken me a few days to get around to listening to it but more than worth the wait.

A wall to wall vinyl mix with some of the best darker techno producers around. Orphx, Bas Mooy, Casual Violence, Grovskopa, Go Hiyama, Makaton, Adam X, Female, British Murder Boys, Sunil Sharpe… cracking stuff indeed.

P-Hocto – No Kissing
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Tracklist
01. Orphx – Critical Mass
02. Bas Mooy – Bloedneus
03. Casual Violence – Dilute To Taste
04. Grovskopa – Strapped On Luka
05. Agony Forces – Migration
06. Kuniaki Takenaga – Meltybladdia
07. Grovskopa – Jahuar
08. Go Hiyama – First Hind Leg
09. 2nd Reality – Ed_Gein_Style
10. Makaton – Swarms Of New Flies
11. Adam X – Second Mission
12. Stanislav Tolkachev – Rudiment 4 (Grovskopa remix)
13. Bas Mooy & Charlton – Ibogaine
14. Delusions – Human Mistake
15. Female – Back Lash (female eDit)
16. British Murder Boys – Splinter
17. Grovskopa – Vund
18. Arrestar – Thoughts & Emotions
19. Dustin Zahn – American Revolver
20. Sunil Sharpe – Let Christy Take It
21. Go Hiyama – Residual Set (Radial remix)
22. Kyoudai Itsumo – Of The Flesh
23. Celluloid Mata – Eastern Works (with Drahomira Song Orchestra)

You know how some things completely pass by you and you just straight up miss them. Well I guess I was looking the other way or something because about 6 months ago when one of my favourite techno DJ duos; Dead Baby In A Plastic Bag released parts two and three to their Clouds Of Sorrow And Confidence triptych mix I never noticed.

I wrote about part one back in April with positive adoration and these subsequent continuing and concluding parts are equally essential.

Unclean and Pripad, the team behind the Dead Baby project have an approach to programming dark techno based electronics that ensures they stay on my iPod for many many months. And as such I’m still miffed about just how I missed these two mixes.

Nevertheless here we are; two mixes weighing in with some 3.5 hours of darkfloor approved techno industrial electronica. You’ll be hard pushed to find a better mix/series, you need these in your life. Taking a look at the tracklists will present you with a guide to what to expect but it’s how they mix and program the sounds that makes them, for me, so good.

Dead Baby In A Plastic Bag – Clouds Of Sorrow And Confidence Part 2
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Tracklist
Cut Hands – Rain Washes Away Everything
Zero Point Energy – Structure
The End Of All Existence – Endzeit
Antonym – Corcusate
Daily Fauli – Speed
Traject – Metropolis
Cyclo. – Id#08
Roman Lindau – Sub Suggestion
Kangding Ray – Mojave
O/V/R – Post-Traumatic Son (Marcel Dettmann Construction 1)
Anthony ‘Shake’ Shakir – Sonar 123 (Edit)
Basqiam – Mantra
Silent Servant – El Mar (Svreca Remix 2)
Truncate – Jack
Emptyset – Point
Sandwell District – Svar (Live In Graz)
Violence FM – Perspectives
Voices From The Lake Feat. Donato Dozzy & Neel – Drop 3
Kryptic Universe – Diffusion Decay (313 Mix)
Autechre – PCE Freeze 2.8i
Sendai – Northeast
Demdike Stare – Filtered Through Prejudice
Starkey – Cockroach (Distal Remix)
Van Rivers – Wood Sequence (DVS1 Remix)
Unltd – Subversion
John Giorno – Purple Heart (Extract)
Tommy Four Seven – G (Regis Remix)
Mania – Mercenary
HTRK – HA

Dead Baby In A Plastic Bag – Clouds Of Sorrow And Confidence Part 3
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Tracklist
Mordant Music – Travelogues 9: TiMe BegriMed
Submania/Ekmoah – Armagedon
Marcel Fengler – Shiraz
Perc – My Head Is Slowly Exploding (Ancient Methods Remix)
Sandra Electronics – Protection Now! (Demo – Boomkat Exclusive)
Kangding Ray – Pruitt Igoe (Fall)
Mark Broom & James Ruskin – Night Nurse
Inigo Kennedy – Cloudless
Kentolevi – Imola
Sonic Youth – Shaking Hell
The Great Taitor – The Great Traitor
Sigha – Politics Of Dying (James Ruskin Remix)
Radio Slave – Absolute Absolute
Surgeon – Radiance
Badawi – Anlan
AQF – Rhythm Bomb II (Art Greenwood Edit)
Agony Forces – Kybalion (Kero Remix)
Scorn – Shake Hand
Iesope Drift – Untitled
Vorheit – Norsk
Equinox – Into Battle (Joey Beltram Remix)
Silent Servant – El Salvaje
Samuli Kemppi – Quantum Mechanics (P.A.S. Quantum Dub Edit)
Truncate – Truncate 7
Regis/Female – Against Nature (11 Reclaimed Fragments)
Puzzleweazle & Richard Devine – Mad Bonce
Anstam – Albert
Fluid – Infected Memory (Eggblood Remix)
Anthony Child – Youknowiloveyou
Shackleton – Fireworks (T++ Remix)
Mira Calix – The Wolf, The Sheep & The Door
Various Artists – No. 8

The name Mike Shiflet might not be that familiar to you but he’s an artist signed to the avant-garde and experimental label type.

A label home to amongst others; Yellow Swans, Xela, Deaf Center, Grouper and Thomas Köner. Shiflet is a fairly recent addition to my own music collection; I found him late last year when I picked up his excellent, at times intense EP; Sufferers (Extended Mixes). A collection of drone and noise both delicate and powerful. Spatially aware and taunt.

His RRRighteous mix approaches things similarly, type say of the recording:

A blistering blend of fuzzy noise from Ron Lessard’s legendary RRR label (based out of New England’s Lowell), expertly pieced together by noise survivor Mike Shiflet. This is no mere patchwork of tracks, either – Mike has layered and sculpted this mix as if it was one of his own records, and the result is breathtaking.

Mike Shiflet – RRRighteous
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Tracklist
01. Asmus Tietchens : Ptomaine / Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock : Dein Mund
So Rot / (Lockgroove)
02. Prick Decay : Mud Sound for Car Stereos
03. Impact Test : The Zone / Pain Jerk : SSPK-DSPK
04. Merzbow : This Dying Toad Become Forth… / Howard Stelzer &
Jason Talbot : temp.
05. Thomas Dimuzio : Sonicism / (Lockgroove)
06. Can’t : New Secret
07. Due Process : RRRadio Six / R.H.Y. Yau : Contiguous
08. Emil Beaulieau : Moonlight in Vermont / Chop Shop : Plays Emil Beaulieau
09. Alan Licht & Tamio Shirashi : Our Lips Are Sealed / Prurient : Three Sisters
10. Busratch : ????? / MSBR : Destructive Locomotion
11. (Lockgroove) / Kiyoshi Mizutani : Millstone
12. Runzelstirn & Merzbow & Gurgelstock / Haters : Ordinarily Nowhere
13. Jason Lescalleet : Accidental – Oriental
14. Masonna : Noisextra

So last week I wrote a heads up about the new Imaginary Forces LP from Anthoney J Hart & Balázs Pándi: Uppstigande, this is its Ascension.

The album recently dropped on Ohm Resistance and should at the top of your to buy list.

Anyways, earlier tonight I came across the following mix recording Uppstigande (Ascension) and it’s built with tracks too good not to share. It, together with four other transmissions can be found over at Hart’s Entropy and Energy site.

As a primer for my forthcoming album Uppstigande I have compiled this special podcast of music that inspired and informed me during the process of making this album.

Featuring Coil, Pan Sonic, Sleeparchive, Masami Akita & Russell Haswell, Autechre, Alvin Lucier, Whitehouse, Karl O Conner & Mick Harris, and one of my personal favourite pieces of synth work from John Carpenter; this not a selection to miss.

Imaginary Forces – Uppstigande (Ascension)
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Tracklist
01 Kenneth Kirschner – 100810
02 Alan Vega – Future Sex
03 Antti Rannisto – Ääniesineitä 7
04 Ilpo Väisänen – Asumaton
05 Pan Sonic – Uranokemia
06 Masami Akita & Russell Haswell – Fend Off Your Miserable Grief
07 Alvin Lucier – Bird & Person Dyning
08 The Ashante & Ewe of Ghana – Akom
09 Songhay Gulu Drummers (Niger)
10 Whitehouse – Dyad
11 Sleeparchive – 10 Years, 3 Beers, 3 Albums And No Seat
12 Autechre – pce freeze 28i
13 Sleeparchive – Hospital 03
14 Karl O’Connor & Mick Harris – We Can Elude Control
15 Autechre – LCC
16 Pan Sonic – Kierto
17 Closed Circuits – The River
18 Consumer Electronics – Grubbing
19 Sleeparchive – 10 Years, 3 Beers, 3 Albums And No Seat
20 Coil – Something
21 John Carpenter – Assault on Precinct 13 (Main Title)

Put together by the DJ and producer Jerome Hill, New Beats the House is the first part of his Belgian Odyssey mix series. I can think of few people better suited to educate and illustrate this often overlooked part of dance musics history.

My knowledge of the New Beat scene is tiny compared to what I know about Detroit and the origins of techno in the 80s; and I’m hardly the expert on the Belleville Three or UR either. Jerome:

People talk about Detroit as being the place that shaped the techno sound, but you don’t often hear about the Belgians, who for me and many others were equally important and had their own individual and harder sound which gradually morphed through New Beat and Hard Beat to Acid, Rave, Techno and even Trance…

He continues:

These are some of my favourite New Beats to come out of Belgium in the late 80′s and there are a couple of later Techno/New Beat tracks on there too.. Two tracks on this mix weren’t made in Belgium, but could have been…

How many parts this series will run for, I don’t know yet. In the meantime here’s an article from a 1991 issue of NME written by The Grid’s Richard Noise.

Jerome Hill – New Beats the House (Belgian Odyssey part 1)
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Just over 2 years ago now I was asked by Paul Blackford, label head of Militant Science and UK electrobass producer extraordinaire; to program and record a retrospective mix of his labels releases to date.

My first commercially available mix, Data Terrorists was an exciting project to undertake especially when presented with the back catalogue of a label that released EP after EP of upfront bass heavy hi-tek electro such as Militant Science were and still are.

Towards the end of last year Paul contacted me to say he was going to get the mix re-mastered and republish it which he did a few weeks ago.

You can grab it for just £0.40 (to cover the bandcamp hosting costs).

It’s a mix I’m very proud of.

DVNT Presents – Data Terrorists Volume One [Militant Science]
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Tracklist
01: Paul Blackford – Plasma Energy
02: Paul Blackford – Renegade Bassline
03: Torq – Change Up’s (Headnoaks remix)
04: Scrase – Stakker
05: Headnoaks / Synapse – Power 2 Da Beatz / Jedi Nights
06: Synapse – Jedi Nights
07: Galaxian – Warhead
08: Synapse / Paul Blackford – Back The Fuck Up / G-Force
09: Paul Blackford – G-Force / Brain Dead FM
10: Vadz / Paul Blackford – Bees On Speed / Kaoss Theory
11: Paul Blackford / Scrase / Sound Synthesis – Kaoss Theory / Ford / Bass Maze
12: Sound Synthesis – Bass Maze
13: Paul Blackford / D-Bud – Crime Wave / Unlawful Entry
14: Synth Alien – Straylight Operation
15: Sound Synthesis – Spin
16: Beagle – Scanning Date
17: Badaszewski – Perfect Simulation
18: Fullspectrum – Replicant
19: The Exaltics – No Turning Back
20: Zen Robots – T Galaxy Lifeforms
21: Soundex Phonetic – Shoot 2 Kill
22: Paul Blackford / Chromia – We Have The Technology / Draisienne
23: Beagle – Crazy Person
24: Smashback – Banksters
cat# MSIA039 / MSR 022

Seems like a Placid mix is long overdue. So here’s one he recorded in mid December.

Bristol’s Paul Wise has quite the collection of acid house records as this mix proves yet again (can you tell I’m jealous). Standby for two hours of proper acid house mixed on the original vinyl by an ambassador of the classic sound.

Proper. no nonsense acid house. There is some absolute filth on here.. I’ll do a tracklist in the New Year.

If you like it please share it, pass it on to fellow acid lovers.

Placid – The Art of Acid
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Tracklist
Plastikman
Joe R lewis
White label promo
Omar S
Humanoid
Russ Gabriel
CCO
Random XS
Elec Pt1
Ricky Smith
Jared Wilson
State 808
Hienostunut Sonni
TinMan
CCO
Gene Hunt
Mike Dearborn
James Martin
Social Disco Club
A Guy called Gerald
Sequential
Armando
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Lory D
Technodelia
James Martin
Seldom felt
Underground Resistance

Something of a legend was Chicago’s Wax Trax.

Jim Nash and Dannie Flesher’s label has its routes in their 70s record store with releases from 1981 up until the end of the 90s. The label closed in 2001 after its final release: KMFDM’s Beat By Beat By Beat DVD.

Pushing the early work of Ministry and Revolting Cocks, together with their licensing of European releases from KMFDM, Front 242, Front Line Assembly, Coil, Chris & Cosey, My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, Suicide and Meat Beat Manifesto (and a whole lot more) meant that Wax Trax! will be forever cemented as one of the important electro/industrial labels.

“As important as Chess Records was to blues and soul music, Chicago’s Wax Trax imprint was just as significant to the punk rock, new wave and industrial genres.” (Richard Giraldi, Chicago Sun-Times)

The label suffered difficulties in the early 90s

Following a bankruptcy filing, Wax Trax! was bought by New York-based TVT Records in 1992, with Nash and Flesher retaining creative control of the label. TVT continued to use the Wax Trax! imprint for years, even after Nash’s death from AIDS-related complications on October 10, 1995.

Rude 66, an artist I came across as a remixer on a great piece of italo/electro from Raiders of the Lost ARP on Dublin’s Lunar Disko Records, recorded this last year for his Cosmic Overdrive show on Intergalactic FM.

Sixty minutes of 80s/90s industrial from a label at the forefront of the sound.

Rude 66 – Wax Trax Megamix (Cosmic Overdrive special)
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It’s been ages since we posted up a mix focusing on ambient and more drone based sound. Here’s a recent one from the Budapest based Hungarian producer oiseaux.

imaginary places, distant shores, twilight woods, forgotten moorland, atlantic trade winds, spectral forests, ancestral memory. shit im super listening to in january as a means of escape

I happened across his mix via the mix behemoth that is the ninjamixdump, and it’s a lovely blend of artists most of which you’ll have heard of. Artists like Boards of Canada, King Crimson, Aphex Twin, Tim Hecker, Demdike Stare, Brian Eno, Two Lone Swordsmen and Burial who opens this short but calming mix recording.

oiseaux – January 2012 Ambient/Drone
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Tracklist
Burial – Untitled
cLOUDDEAD – Apt. A (side A)
Aphex Twin – Mould
Boards Of Canada – Niagara
Tim Hecker – Border Lines, Pt 1
Edward Artemiev – Stalker Soundtrack: “Meditation”
Demdike Stare – Matilda’s Dream
Brian Eno – Dark Waters
Stars Of The Lid – Low Level Listening, Part 2
King Crimson – The Sheltering Sky
Pink Floyd – Echoes
Two Lone Swordsmen – Six Underground (remix)
William Basinski – Melancholia III
Earth – Crooked Axis For String Quartet
Talk Talk – Myrrhman
Brian Eno – Unfamiliar Wind (Leeks Hills)
Boards Of Canada – Corsair

New live PA by Digital Distortions latest signing Alavux. Premiered, performed and recorded on 4th November 2011 in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Look out for Alavux’s Time Zones EP (DDD049) released 19 January 2012 on Digital Distortions.

BRAWLcast #065 Alavux – Live @ Gumitwist 04/11/2011
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TRACKLIST
Alavux – Floating
Alavux – Volvo
Alavux – Fiat500
Alavux – Yugo
Alavux – Minimal Expression
Alavux – Tha One
Alavux – Roller
Alavux – Watt
Alavux – Elektromagnetni Branovi
Alavux – Phome Home

BRAWLcast065 Alavux – Live @ Gumitwist 04 11 2011 by Digital Distortions

I know. I know. I’ve seen the date. In the past, yes, I have posted these at the beginning of the month. However, seeing as Inigo only uploaded it on the 10th and well, since then. OK, I forgot.

Right, so we all know that what follows is going to be another 90 minutes of dark cerebral, masterfully mixed techno don’t we. A big thank you from us here at Darkfloor to Inigo Kennedy for a great series of mixes this year that I hope he continues with in 2012.

If you’re in the UK you can catch him playing at the next Plex event on February 3rd down at London’s Corsica Studios.

Inigo Kennedy – live at TS0012, London, 10/12/2011
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Tracklist
Svreca – Jade (Skirt remix) [Semantica18z]
Fingers – Aqui [BR003]
FBK – Nanomal [4-Diam.]
Paul Mac & Mark Broom – Remember When [BMD005]
Actress – Get Ohn (Fairlight Mix) [HJRCD49]
Roman Lindau – Raumgestaltung [FW005]
Shapednoise – Lightness [KEY002]
Guise – Incision [ARCH002]
Perthro – Adfaru [RUNE004d]
Oktored – Ease Up 1 [Yo-100]
Perthro – Dimscua [RUNE004d]
Yoshihiro Arikawa – Karusuto [MGREY013]
I1 Ambivalent – After Midnight [LTP011]
Unbalance – Freeze (Inigo Kennedy remix III) [dub]
Inigo Kennedy – Insist [dub]
Dax J & Chris Stanford – Programm (Shifted Mix) [ETG001]
F.U.S.E. – F.U [WARPCD012]
Adverse Event – Onim [LTP010]
Perthro – Carung [RUNE004d]
Auction For The Promise Club – Dancer (Inigo Kennedy remix II) [dub]
Actress – Let’s Fly [HJRCD49]
Delta Funktionen – Minds Into Meltdown [ANN015]
Jake Conlon – P Sequence [LTP010]
Jeff Mills – The Extremist (Retro Mix) [TRESOR023]
Inigo Kennedy – Revenge [TOKEN019]
Mike Dehnert – Blattwerk [FW022]
Xhin – Teeth [SACD002]
Aiken – Silent Knowledge [Semantica30.4]
P.E.A.R.L. – Hideout [AAR039]
Ben Gibson – Implex (Samuli Kemppi remix) [MRECLTD010]
Conrad Van Orton & Vilix – Coppergreen Project [CRS016]
Svreca – Narratif [Semantica18z]
Svreca – Post Madrid [Semantica18z]
Stanislav Tolkachev – Fadeout [Sub-D08]
Svreca – Utero (Regis Invisible Mix) [Semantica18z]
Inigo Kennedy – Obsidian [TOKEN014]

So, I for one am really glad that Dylan Richards’ King Cannibal has decided to share his hour long mega set: Cannibalism 2011 with his fans.

Recorded on August 27th ahead of his performance at l’Usine in Geneva Switzerland which was featuring a big AV hookup for his set. As a favour to the visual crew he put this together to help familarize them with what he would be dropping on the night. It is fit to burst with bass and features a slew of Ninja Tune cuts. Essential listening from an artist and DJ that’s going to go to 11 in 2012.

Cannibal:

As we’re reaching the end of the year and i’m looking towards developing my set in to my newer productions in 2012 i thought it timely to take a glance back at the kind of sets i was playing out this year, for those who didn’t get a chance to see me or want to re-live one of the shows they caught me at.

No tracklist, simply due to the amount of tracks thrown down. Cannibal continues:

Its somewhat of an expansion of The Way Of The Ninja mix cd released at the end of last year, but goes way beyond that.

Way too many tracks to list, feel free to tag and name them!

King Cannibal – Cannibalism 2011 by King Cannibal 3

It’s been about a year since we last heard a session from the mysterious Unseen Selectors for their Graphite North blog. This week 2 mixes have surfaced for their series; numbers 9 and 10. The last one I posted here was their 7th session back in October 2010 (number 8 from December last year can be got here).

So why has there been a year since we last heard a recording from these guys, turns out:

Performng live, Producing, DJ-ing, Blagging, Travelling, Occasionally getting naked….

Musically we’re going deep, bleak and cold with work from The Haxan Cloak, Demdike Stare, Tropic of Cancer, Ekoplekz, Forest Swords and Godspeed You Black Emperor gracing mix 10. Mix 9 goes for the techno framework with sound from Regis, Robert Armani, Silent Servant, Oscar Mulero and Heiko Laux constructing a sharp cerebral session.

Definitely some sound to lose yourself in during these wintry days laid down before us.

Graphite North Mix Volume 010 mixed by Unseen Selectors
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Tracklist
Intro – Illuminati 1_1
Haxan Cloak – Fall
Tropic Of Cancer – Dive Wheel Of The Law
Demdike Stare – Hashashin Chant
Interlude – AM_FM
Duppy Gun Productions – Earth (Version)
Sandra Electronics – New Purpose
Powell – The Ongoing Significance Of Steel & Flesh
Ekoplekz – Narco Samba
Yves De Mey – Past To A Halt
Iesope Drift – Korot
Interlude – Mechanisms
Forest Swords – Miarches
Godspeed You Black Emperor – Dead Flag Blues
John Cohen – Tar River
Haxan Cloak – Memoriam

Graphite North Mix Volume 009 mixed by Unseen Selectors
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Tracklist
Zadig – Reform
Antigone – The Machinist (Zadig mix)
Marcellus – 24_7
Developer – Edifico
Robert Armani – Ambulance (DJ Hyperactive mix)
Punto – 3tempo3
Silent Servant – Mad Youth
Heiko Laux – Re_Televised
Unknown – B1 – Edit
Unknown – A1 – Edit
Mike Parker – Pulse Trader
Oscar Mulero – Tidal Acceleration
Emmanuel Jal – Kuar (Olof Dreijer remix)
Emmanuel Top – Brutal Drum
Regis – Blinding Horses
Robert Armani – Winter (Dave Clarke mix)
Sapiano & The Partycrashers – Signal

Nearly 1 hour and 20 minutes of upfront dubs from Gordon Sweeney, better known as Threnody; together with fresh plates from his extended fam come together for his Music is Process mix.

If you like heavy bass, broken beats and an ever present sense of the grimey then you’ll find much to love. Taking in sound from breakstep, dubstep, grime, mutant bass, dark house and bleep together with a few of Gordon’s upcoming cuts.

The tracklist reads like a who’s who of producers carving their own brutal bassrave path: Dexplicit, Rrritalin, Kanji Kinetic, Succulent-C, Geiom, Side9000, Luke’s Anger, Toasty, Mad EP, Blackmass Plasics and Wascal.

Threnody – Music is Process
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Tracklist
Threnody – Bash [dub]
Shimano – An Unusual Sound [Blueprint]
Lucid – Shh (Sam Tiba remix) [Nightshifters dub]
Dexplicit – The Centaur [DXP dub]
Yeahhbuzz – Killinger (Rrritalin remix) [dub]
Kanji Kinetic – Bang Harder (Threnody remix) [dub]
Succulent-C – Grime Time [UK Trends dub]
Threnody – A Certain Space [dub]
Geiom – Row2Land [dub]
Side9000 – Ants [dub]
Luke’s Anger – Earthworm [dub]
Lucid – Togo [Nightshifters dub]
Threnody – Hologram [dub]
Wascal – 12 Sided Dice [dub]
Geiom – Know U [dub]
Bugz In The Attic – Booty La La (Toasty remix) [dub]
Threnody – Fractured [dub]
Blackmass Plastics – Non Ionic [dub]
Mad EP – Haunted (Threnody remix) [Mutate dub]
Moova – Smash Time [UK Trends dub]
The S.K & TMP – Looters [UK Trends dub]
Dexplicit – Pirate cave [DXP dub]
Threnody – Slo Motion [dub]

Threnody – Music is Process Mix by threnody

My personal history into electronic music from the casual to the more serious (some might say obsessive) starts with breakbeats; from drum ‘n’ bass and jungle to 135/140 bpm breaks and breakstep.

Baobinga (himself a member of the breaks/breakstep scene from its early manifestations) put together this 34 minute fast cut and somewhat essential sound lineup covering some of the core tracks of ‘breakstep’ spilling over into some dark garage and grime inspired plates.

Some have debated (internet and back room chin stroking mostly) and discussed the sonic makeup of the genre, where it started and so on. Some believe it to be a recent thing that followed the rise of dubstep, others know it existed before and was if you excuse the pun, instrumental in the early dubstep dubs.

To be honest it doesn’t really matter as much as some balding 30 something blokes might have you believe. What does matter, in the context of me writing this piece, is Baobinga, Sam Simpson to his mum, knows how to pick a deep dark rolling selection laying down many classics of the genre. From Mark One, Darqwan’s huge Said The Spider, Plastician when he was still Plasticman (which confused me as the first 12″ of his I bought I bought blind thinking it was the work of Richie Hawtin’s Plastikman). To Zinc’s alias Jammin’, Search and Destroy, the mighty Vex’d, the much applauded and still sought after Freeze instrumental from Grime kingpin Wiley; Geeneus, early Skream and finally ending up Loefah’s Twisup VIP with a remix lick from Youngsta and Task.

So there we go. Put together for the good folk over at Crazylegs.

“Although it never really got the props it deserved, the music loosely known as breakstep is one of the defining influences on what I do. Chopped up drums with a slight jungle / dnb edge (without being referential to the point of parody), plenty of bass, but with the mid-range held back enough to imply darkness rather than pile the rage on with a spade, and a bit of swing and bounce to the beats to link it with the emerging dark garage and dubstep scenes. J Da Flex’s much-missed show on 1Xtra was the place for the weekly update on these bits, and one of my career highlights is the fact that J played one of my bits on his mix for John Peel’s show way back when.

Anyway, all these tunes kind of came out as garage was dying, grime was starting to move away from hype instrumentals into more MC-dominated territory, and as dubstep was still figuring out what it was supposed to sound like – ie. a time of massive musical flux. Which is sort of where we’re at right now – in a bit of a state of flux, not entirely sure where things are going to go next… So this mix is a bit of tribute to the last time things felt like this. All done on vinyl, and for some random reason on a rotary mixer, which is categorically NOT the right kind of mixer for this kind of stuff!”

Baobinga’s Breakstep Brukout
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Tracklist
Mos Def, Nate Dogg, Pharoah Monche – Oh No (Dj Hype RMX)
Darqwan – Cold Symptoms
SLT Mob – Stopper
Chase & Status – Wise Up
Mark One – Rain Dance
Shimano – Blues
Darqwan – Said The Spider
Bogeyman vs DJ Lombardo – Through The Keyhole
Wiley – Flat Derik
Plasticman – Anger
Darqwan – Taiwan Ink
Shimano – Roll The Drums
Jammin – Hold On
Search & Destroy – Mark Of The Beast
Wiley – Freez Instrumental
Vex’d – Lion
Geeneus – The Journey (Shimano RMX)
Fyrus – Jaws
Daluq – Supafine
Skream – Who R Those Guys
Loefah – Twisup VIP (Youngsta & Task RMX)

I’ll keep this one real short. One of Manchester’s finest; techno producer Casual Violence, lays out 70 minutes for Ab Intra. A high fidelity industrially coloured techno session for the guys over at Geometrika.

Weighing in hard with 30 tracks including Alva Noto, Orphx, Pan Sonic, Lapse, Xhin, Silent Servent and more, this one is going to be on rotation for some time.

Casual Violence – Ab Intra
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Tracklist
01. Orphx – Circuit IV (Consumption) [Hymen]
02. Casual Violence – Untitled Intro [dub]
03. Nurse With Wound – I was No Longer His Dominant [Staalplaat]
04. Huren – Assembly 6800 Core [Zhark]
05. Huren – Liebes Cocktail [Zhark]
06. Sonar – Before Or After [Daft Records]
07. CUB – C U 1 (UST remix) [CUB]
08. Regis – Blood Witness [Blackest Ever Black]
09. Xhin – Teeth (Surgeon remix) [Stroboscopic Artefacts]
10. Alva Noto – Uni Acronym [Raster-Noton]
11. The Third Man – Deep Sleep Operative [Tabernacle]
12. Robert Hood – Minus [Tresor]
13. Pan Sonic – Teurastamo [Blast First]
14. Derlich – 23 [dub]
15. Vromb – Interference [Ant-Zen]
16. Silent Servent – El Mar (Svreca Remix One) [Semantica]
17. Peter Van Hoesen – Into Entropy [Time To Express]
18. Reeko – Omnicide [Mental Disorder]
19. SP-X – Flux [Komisch]
20. Developer – Space [Modularz]
21. Casual Violence – Immobilising Echos [Subsist]
22. Rich Oddie – Refraction [Surface]
23. Developer – Programma [Modularz]
24. Mike Parker – Copper Variations [Geophone]
25. Allan Nonamaka – Ambitious Phantasy [Labrynth]
26. Planetary Assault Systems – Human Like Us [Ostgut Ton]
27. Vromb – Zentrum [Pflichtkauf]
28. Orphx – Circuit I (Enclosure) [Hymen]
29. Clarke – Radiation Clutch [Warp]
30. Lapse – Traveller [dub]

Casual Violence @ Ab Intra by geometrikafm

Since I’ve been doing Mantis Radio over the years I am continually stunned by the sheer skill of some musicians.

Be they established and proven producers I’ve finally cottoned onto, upfront new talent that despite the hype bubble deliver the goods, or lesser known but doing their own thing and doing it well. Logical Disorder is an artist who falls into the latter.

You might not have heard his name much outside of Mantis Radio or Darkfloor. You won’t have seen hardly any of his work on iTunes, well besides his stunning October release Holy Battle (which is highly recommended). But for the past few years he has been releasing seminal work on a variety of netlabels; a complete discography exists on his site logicaldisorder.com, of which I’m sure you’ll be looking into following an initial listen to this recording.

The netlabel that I originally discovered him on; Mexican based Breathe has published a 40 minute live session from Javier Barrero (Logical Disorder) and it serves as a superb and immersive introduction to his sound.

Actually intricate IDM (by that I mean intelligent electronic music rather than unclassifiable glitchy sound); strong, emotive and lush synths; a sense of narrative & theme and a touch of the fantastic. I don’t often use the word epic as seriously as I’m about to; but his work is epic sound and, naturally, he is an artist more people to need hear.

Recorded earlier this year at Barcelona’s Baumann Festival.

Logical Disorder Live at Baumann Festival 2011
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TRACKLIST
Logical Disorder – Intro
Logical Disorder – Obibion
Logical Disorder – Naked
Logical Disorder – We Will Birth
Logical Disorder – Angels Versus Animals
Logical Disorder – Motion
Logical Disorder – Violent Playground
Logical Disorder – Prince Of Poverty
Logical Disorder – Corporation

Horror Brawl show us why it’s called the BRAWLcast for the 64th mix of the series…

BRAWLcast #064 Horror Brawl – Artilect War
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TRACKLIST
Smear – Enabling Act [Kaktus Recordings]
Wiers – Dosmei [Return Records]
Makaton – Multiple Sin [Rodz-Konez]
Patrick Skoog – WR [Ignored Records]
Speedy J & Literon – Knicker [NovaMute]
Takaaki Itoh – Two Ways [Wols]
Paul Birken & DJ ESP – Jump In The Fire (Paul Birken Mix) [Blueline Music]
Go Hiyama – World Game [Warm Up]
Turbulent Force – Voidcom [Emissions Audio Output]
Lamonde – Dr Smith (Tube Jerk Remix) [Feis]
Energun – Germ [Energun]
Drugstore – Shadai [Cicuta Netlabel]
Exium – Supremist [Planet Rhythm]
Jeff Mills – Fuzz Dance [Purpose Maker]
Drugstore – Shadai (GabeeN Remix) [Cicuta Netlabel]
Surgeon – October Request [Counterbalance]
Female – Pala [Downwards]
Diversion Group – All Boys [Downwards]
Oscar Mulero – 46 (Regis Remix) [Warm Up]
Dave Thornton – Kush [Limetree Projects]

BRAWLcast064 Horror Brawl – Artilect War by Digital Distortions

The man like Dekode comes up trumps with another razor sharp Darkfloor approved selection on his new mix.

Onward To The End starts with the brutal bassweight of King Cannibal and continues to lay siege with an hour of sound focused in the realm of electro breaks. With Si Begg, Scanone, Bass Kittens, Tipper, Spac Hand Luke, Blackmass Plastics, Milanese and Jean-Paul Bondy all getting a look, it’s little wonder that Dekode is one of my favourite DJs at the moment.

Great tracks, great flow. Just what we like.

Dekode – Onward To The End
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TRACKLIST
King Cannibal – So Embrace The Minimum
Limbertimbre – One Big Bit (Si Begg remix)
Scanone – Ginger Monkey
Jean Jacques Perrey and Luke Vibert – Moog Acid
Kritical Audio – Krupp
Si Begg – Non Stop Cut Paste
Spac Hand Luke – Sidthug
Si Begg – Pete Fucking Tong
Spac Hand Luke – Synkik
Tipper – RE: Am I
Bass Kittens and Single Cell Orchestra – Easy Money
Limbertimbre – Funny
Blackmass Plastics – Static Charge
Milanese – Milanese (Peggy Flynn remix)
Bass Kittens and Volum – Big Band Broadband
Si Begg – Revelation 2
Jean-Paul Bondy – Something Is Not Right

Darkfloor in Session 009
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Live on ZRadio. 14/05/2011
A DVNT guest mix

TRACKLIST
Amon Tobin – Verbal [Ninja Tune]
Lifecycle – Acid Reflux (Paul Blackford remix) [Ricochet Records]
SULLY – Living [Urban Graffiti]
Evil Nine – For Lovers Not Fighters [Marine Parade]
Frozen Border – FB01 [Frozen Border]
Kryptic Minds – The Things They Left Behind [Blackbox Country]
Kial – The Planets [Sub Pressure]
Africa HiTech – Out In The Streets [Warp]
Agent2 – Bamboo [Acre Recordings]
Addison Groove – Sexual [Swamp81]
T.R.O. – Sinkhole [Sheep Technique]
DJ SS – Black (Blackmass Plastics remix) [dub]
Uncle Sam – Round The World Girls (Tes La Rok VIP mix) [Argon]
Boddika – Warehouse [Hotflush Recordings]
Tipper – Unlock The Geometry [Tippermusic]
synchronoise – Big Fun, Inner City Noise Mix [dub]
The Advent – Funkage [FFRR]
Noiz + Excision – Do It Now [Rottun Recordings]
Nicolas Bourbaki – Topological Vector Spaces [Furioso]
Autechre – Cavity Job [Warp]
Point B – Headland (Blackmass Plastics remix) [Combat]
The Hidden Persuader – System Saboteur (Pip Williams remix) [thehiddenpersuader.bandcamp.com]
Phat Chex – Outright Mental Defective [Darkfloor Sound]
Anodyne – Menace 808 [Earwiggle]
Two Lone Swordsmen – Neuflex [Warp]
Instra:Mental – When I Dip [Nonplus+]
DVF – Walk Alone [dub]
Michael Forshaw – Fingered In’t Tate [Mutant Bass Records]
Vato Gonzalez – Badman Riddim (DVNT Pushing Shinra’s Acid Upstream edit) [dub]
Phat RiderZ – Organic Neurosis [dub]
Skepta – Doin’ It Again [Boy Better Know]
Chris Kubex – Freaks [Mutant Bass Records]

Due to overwhelming numbers the other week at the massive Plex/Colony/Machine party at London’s Corsica Studios I missed Surgeon throwing down his thing (you just could not get into that room it was so full of people).

By the accounts I’ve seen, he threw it down hard. And it’s not like the rest of the lineup didn’t blow me away: Ben Sims, Adam X (wow), Andy Stott, Matt Whitehead, and Neil Landstrumm. Sadly I had to leave by the time Ancient Methods and Perc took to the booth. Right, focus, we were talking about Surgeon’s new mix. So. Here we go.

Surgeon shared this mix last night via his Back In The Grinder blog.

As the title suggests it follows on from September’s E-Tard Dance Party and moves on from that style of sonic delivery, where Cut Hands, Alice Coltrane, Coil, Faust and La Monte Young featured. Moves on into soundtrack territory comprising of work from Vangelis, Peter Gabriel, Dead Can Dance, Harry Dean Stanton, Carmine Coppola, and Lalo Schifrin.

If you’re expecting a for the floor techno session you’re going to need to look elsewhere.

Accompanying his mix, Surgeon says

Back by popular demand.
Another Exotic Journey through Space & Time, this one based on film soundtracks.

Surgeon – E-Tard Dance Party 2
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TRACKLIST
Carmine Coppola – Finale
Peter Gabriel – In Doubt
Vangelis – Blade Runner Blues
Peter Gabriel – Before Night Falls
Carmine Coppola – Chief’s Death
Harry Dean Stanton – I Knew These People
Peter Gabriel – Passion
Dead Can Dance – Frountier
Vangelis – Morning At The Bradbury
Carmine Coppola – Clean’s Death
Lalo Schifrin – Room Tone / Primitive Dance
Carmine Coppola – Kurtz Chorale
Peter Gabriel – Disturbed
Vangelis – Albedo 0.39

Confidently I can say that a lot of you who read this site are fans of Placid.

His mix selections focus on a sub-style of sound; typically acid rich, electro beat programmed or even just burgeoning old-skool techno and house.

This session falls midway in those 3 examples, with Elektrostatic Placid (Bristol based Paul Wise) goes in with a deep electro and techno selection. Artists include ERP, Plant43, Skudge, Morphology, Pip Williams, Basic Channel, Mike Parker, Omar S and Convextion. You should already been downloading this one, it won’t be online for long (as it wasn’t up for long, 2 days I think, we’ve reupped it for you).

Placid – Elektrostatic
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Tracklist
passEnger – Frustration Device [Icon of Desire]
Hisingen Electro vs. Petrovski – Monoworld [Stilleben]
Sowing Paranoia –Polar Motion [Semantica]
Basic Channel – Lyot Rmx [Basic Channel]
Convextion –Oil On Metal [Time to Express]
Pip Williams – Man Vs Machine [Shameless Toady]
Superlife – Go Bananas [PPU]
Unknown Artist – Untitled [AI]
Tangula – Eye Of The Beholder [Diamtric]
Mike Parker –Kaze No Oto [Timer to Express]
Marco M. Bernd – Nighttrain [Ehrenfels]
Skudge – First Observation EP [Echocord]
Unknown Artist – Untitled [Havamal]
Morphology – Nucleosynthesis [AC]
Unknown Artist – Untitled [AI]
Plant43 – Silent Pool [Semantica]
ERP –Cold Colony [Semantica]
Unknown – Unknown [Unknown]
Levon Vincent – Impression Of A Rainstorm [Novel Sound]
Mike Parker – Thermo [Semantica]
Omar S – HSG [Scion AV]
Edanticonf – Winter Morning [Eclipsemusic]
ERP – untitled [AI]

Month 11, or November as some might call it brings with it bonfire night, cold grey days, bleak winter fuel bills and the ever growing tackiness as high street retailers and TV commercials up and down the land gear up for Christmas. Joyful tidings or what.

Thankfully there is some light, and by light I mean hypnotic cerebral techno as selected and programmed by one of our favourite techno producers and DJs; Inigo Kennedy. Ever present with his continuing monthly mix series, with, yes, number 11.

It’s like I led you in with that first paragraph. Up this month, another 90 minutes of aforementioned hypnotic cerebral techno with his trademark IDM tweaks including some new unreleased work from the London producer. As essential now as when the series started. Do not miss this.

As a bonus you can grab his seminal session for Mantis Radio in high grade 320kbps broadcast a year ago (the full show is here).

Inigo Kennedy live at TS0011, London, 01/11/2011
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TRACKLIST
Inigo Kennedy – Here It Comes [Mak010]
Walker Kennedy – Untitled_01 [dub]
Donor – Em1 (Silent Servant Remix) [Pp033]
Inigo Kennedy – Insist [dub]
Regis – Blood Witness [Blackest004]
Derlich – Pripyat (Voidloss Abandoned Lives Mix) [Sin012]
Mike Parker – Ringing Bass [Prg017]
Never Existed Boy – About Sinking (Paul Boex Rmx) [Gynoidd049]
Xhin – Teeth (Surgeon Remix) [SA011]
Alva Noto – Uni Dia [Vyr133-2]
Jobody – High Frame [Smr011]
Davido & Meta – Eruption [Fluxusd001]
S100 – Discharge [Sthlmltd022]
Davido & Meta – Spielwiese (Conrad Van Orton Vsk Remix) [Fluxusd001]
Raime – If Anywhere Was Here He Would Know Where We Are [Blackest002]
Inigo Kennedy – Nothing But The Distant Clatter [Mak010]
And – Lights Down [Idle008]
Alva Noto – Uni C [Vyr133-2]
Jobody – Display [Smr011]
Ground Loop – Paralysis [Translucent003]
Architectural – The Summer Of Love [Semantica30.3]
I Break Horses – Pulse (Inigo Kennedy Remix) [dub]
Oliver Kucera – Empty Memories (Never Existed Boy remix) [Dgr006]
Take – Begin End Begin [Apr028]
Mike Parker – Incarnadine [Semantica032]
Plant43 – Silentpool [Semantica30.2]
Lifeblood – Automation [Labd088]
Inigo Kennedy – Persist [dub]
A Hvich – Directory T (Logotechs Innerview) [Arch001]
S100 – Repel [Sthlmltd022]

As I’m sure many of you have clocked already, it’s Friday. Traditionally that day of the week where we all heave a sigh of relief; well those of us that form part of the corporate world, working for ‘the man’. So, now’s as good a time as any to post up this electro mixtape from Berlin based DJ; Vadom.

It’s another of those mixes that has been sitting in my bookmarks waiting for some attention, in this particular case for about 4 months. I can’t tell anything else about Vadom, but I can tell you that lindatronic is composed of deep 808 electro with music from artists; Andrea Parker, The Advent, 214, Datawelt, Hardfloor, Boris Divider, Dark Vektor and others I’m less familiar with. Here’s wishing you a great weekend.

Vadom – lindatronic
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TRACKLIST
Andrea Parker – Unconnected
The Advent – The Faze
Boris Divider – The Last Resistance
Composite Profuse – The Marble Base Cross
Hardfloor – The Trill Acid Theme (E.R.P. Remix)
Hardfloor – 4th Dimension Of The 5th Ward (Feat.E.R.P.)
Aratkilo – Gloomy Detail
214 – Drift Diving
Andy Düx & Bombing F. – Cyber Psycho
El Remolon – Alza Las Manos
Dark Vektor – Zetan Bio Robots
Ever Vivid – Lost Love
Time Light Curve – Acidlab
Datawelt – Electronic Harmony
Time Light Curve – Magnetite
Roland Sebastian Faber – Eisengard

lindatronic [ElectroMixTape] by Vadom

So, yes, OK. Halloween was a few days ago. But that doesn’t stop me posting this mix from San Diego witchhouse and drag producers AAIMON. Serving as a fitting follow-up to their superb session for Mantis Radio back in August.

The mix tracklist. Of which some I recognise some I don’t and some I can’t even pronounce (my pet hates with the genre), it is nonetheless a hefty wedge of 120 minutes of murk ridden, double digit bpm partial soundscape heavy texture darkness. If you’re looking for something different then you’ll likely find some reward within. If you ever had Goth tenancies (you make your mind up on that) when growing up (or even still now) this mix should resonance with you as much as some of Robert Smith’s efforts.

Whenever a national holiday comes around; Christmas, Halloween or whatever, there is an increasing influx of mostly substandard and unimaginative mixes and compilations. Just last week my network feeds were rammed with people’s Halloween specials.

Most were uninspiring and the typical, tried and tested Halloween selections; thou this did make me smile. This session is different, like a cold haunted night in an abandoned graveyard that had a decent sound system.

Originally recorded for Karnival Radio‘s Textbreak show as their Halloween broadcast.

AAIMON – H3L†32 SK3L†32 – TXTBK’s CHVRCH XV BRXK3N 7ANGvAG3
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TRACKLIST
01. The Beatles – Helter Skelter
02. ?NDR?S – Ten of Swords (AAIMON REMIX)
03. AAIMON – mirrors fade
04. Throbbing Gristle – Hamburger Lady (Carter Tutti Remix)
05. FUNERALS – To the End
06. Sunt Lachrymae Rerum – THUNDER PERFECT MIND
07. Balam Acab – Fragile Hope
08. The Ceremonial Dagger – echo-envoker
09. Black Sun Empire – Spork
10. Bong-Ra – Coke Sniffah
11. Burial Hex – Book Of Delusions (FUNERALS Remix)
12. High Park – New Vegas
13. ? – VENUS (POWER AND LOVE ARE WELL TOLD LIES)
14. powwoww – K4rma 4 U
15. Massive Attack vs Burial – Four Walls
16. 13th FLOOR – regret
17. noize.creator – macron. [nasenbluten. remix]
18. CDataKill – Forget It (Juno)
19. AAIMON – JACOBS LADDER (SONNYBOY)
20. Chrysta Bell – Bird Of Flames
21. Vortex Rikers – You Are The Morning (I Am The Night)
22. I†† – løcal løcvs†s
23. M¥rrH Ka Ba – ?iolent ?alentine
24. UNISON – Put Your Hands In The Air
25. IVVVO – Please
26. White Horse – Sewn Shut
27. AAIMON – EVIL EYE / CHOKE

I know that some of the tracklist isn’t displaying correctly on Darkfloor due to the symbols used, it does here however.

Number 63 in the BRAWLcast series sees the return of Bushby, starting off the mix with some classic sounding machine funk and ending in what has been described by a listener as a “total rinse” of wonky edged techno.

BRAWLcast #063 Bushby – Elastokinemtaics
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TRACKLIST
Netzwerk Florida – Earth Wind Fire [Monotone]
Parsec – Convoke [Remote Audio]
The Advent – Stassis [Internal]
Q-Chip – Sense Experience
Bass Kittens & Volum – Storm The CPU [Pretension]
C.H. District – Shrink [M-Tronic]
Radioactive Man – 5 Armed Skeleton [Control Tower]
Frisch Und Munter – Road Tested [Rotters Golf Club]
Tipper – The Red [Tippermusic]
Luke Slater – All Exhale (Rude Solo Remix) [Rotters Golf Club]
Al Tourettes – Dodgem [Apple Pips]
Spookhouse – Break Yoself Fool!!! [Digital Distortions]
Plastikman – Ask Yourself (Dave Paton Remix)
Bass Kittens – Useful Cars [k]rack-troni[k]
DJ Spade & The Specialist – Watch [Detroit Techno]
Kraddy – B Electrodes [Refiner]
Kronos Device – Obey and Survive [Battle Trax]
Mad-Tek – Terra [Digital Distortions]
Sunil Sharpe – Boom Repeater [Labrynth]
Annunaki Asylum – The Ladder
Misjah & DJ Tim – Access (Thomas Schumacher Remix) [Leaded]
The Advent – Nervous Energies [Internal]
Jark Prongo – Revenge of the Green Birds [Pssst]
Energun – Twist [Energun]
Paul Birken – Spitoon Platoon [Audio Textures]
Dave Paton – Not What It Should Be [This Machine Is Broken]
Swarm Intelligence – Fighting Talk VIP [Takeover]

BRAWLcast063 Bushby – Elastokinematics by Digital Distortions

The Australian producer Allan Nonamaka delivers a new mix of focused, murk ridden, thundering techno for Sydney based label Fervent. I’ve posted mixes by Allan before on here so this will make a good refresh of his programming and taste. Content wise we’re looking at sound from consistently on point producers; CYP, Stanislav Tolkachev, Inigo Kennedy, Surgeon, Go Hiyama, Exium, Female/Regis, Reeko and Mills. This should help you deal with Friday effectively and build you up for the weekend.

Allan says of his mix:

New mix done for Fervent with two Technics turntables a mixer and a heap of unrehearsed vinyl. Some of my all time favs in this one, hope you enjoy

Allan Nonamaka – Fervent 002
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TRACKLIST
Stanislav Tolkachev – Yes, today [Pohjola]
CYP – Scare [Pohjola]
CYP – Fear of Converging pt2 [Inceptive]
Oscar Mulero – Nothing to Prove [Warm Up]
Inigo Kennedy – Yearning [Semantica]
Outline meets Surgeon – Untitled [Blueprint 07]
Go Hiyama – LisB [Pohjola]
Rumenige – feat Loktibrada – ? [Nine Records]
Makaton – Goatbone (Female & Regis remix) [Rodz Konez]
Fanon Flowers – Killing Game [Nine Records]
Grovskopa – Built then Burn [Warm Up]
Outline meets Surgeon – Untitled [Blueprint 07]
Charlton – Sinister [Pohjola]
Jamie Bissmire – The Wicked Switch [CLR]
Chris McCormack – Pirates [Materials]
Jamie Bissmire – The Wicked Switch [CLR]
Exium – Ultraworld [Planet Rhythm]
Exium – 1996 [Warm Up]
Oscar Mulero – Selection Natural (Exium remix) [Warm Up]
Reeko – Mechanical Physics [Planet Rhythm]
Loktibrada – Untitled rmxs (Female remix) [Rsb2]
CYP – Second process [Inceptive]
Surgeon – Not,two [Dynamic Tension]
Jeff Mills – Untitled [Something in the Sky 005]

Allan Nonamaka Fervent Podcast 002 by Allan Nonamaka

As the digital music takeover continues and we see less and less physical music being released one bastion of the physical format continues (thou they are adapting, now offering a digital subscription). They are that staple of global clubbing; Fabric.

For the 60th release in their fabric mix CD series which covers the deeper more Saturday night vibe of the famous club, welcome a personal favourite, the consistently on point DJ and producer Dave Clarke steps up to the plate. His weekly radio show Whitenoise is about the one constant on my ever changing iPod playlist and he’s one of sadly a few established DJs pushing the proper electro sound of which his CD mix lays down plenty, both of the old guard still making the good stuff and newer lesser known talent pushing through.

Of the 119 CDs currently sitting in the fabric mix collection (don’t forget the Friday night vibed FABRICLIVE concurrent series hitting it’s 60th next month with Brodinski) this has from the off, cemented itself as a bona fide classic, for me, up there with James Lavelle, Weatherall, Tyrant, Luke Slater, Surgeon, and Shackleton.

The attached mix is the promo radio one, which a select few radio shows had access to some weeks back. I wanted to share this mix with you back when I got sent it, but I was told to wait. Until today. Here you go. It’s more techno in focus than Dave’s mix proper for Fabric but no less essential. You can get his Fabric CD direct from the label.

If you’re in London on November 12th, head down to Fabric for the official launch party.

Dave Clarke (fabric 60 promo radio mix)
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TRACKLIST
Wilko – Work Ya Body (Darren Rice remix)                       
The Nighttripper – Tone Explotation (Ben Sims remix)                      
Spark Taberner – Huisbaas                                               
Fast Eddie – Clap Your Hands (Alanis edit)                          
Orlando Voorn – Wiggle                                                 
Tim Wolff – Angular                                                
Mr. Jones - Armory                                                 
Bobmo – Hardbells (Strip Steve & Das Glow remix)               
Umek – Lanicor (Christian Smith remix)                        
Kris Menace & DJ Pierre – Alpha Omega 2012 feat DJ Phuture                
Stephan Bodzin Vs Marc Romboy – Puck (Chris Liebing remix)                
Joseph McGeechan – Identity (Mike Humphries remake)                       
Bas Mooy – Krull                                                  
Depeche Mode – Dream On (Dave Clarke remix)                                        
Spark Taberner – Slave                                                  
Adam Jay – 54 Hurtz                                               
Dave the Drummer – Phantom Power (Mike Humphries remix)                   
Mike Humphries – Tactical Recon (Spark Taberner remix)                  
Paul Edge – 23                                                     
Mr. Jones – HyperFunk                                              
Niereich – Morpheus                                               
Joey Beltram – Mentasm Mix new

It would be remiss of me not to post this recording from one of the current leading lights in techno; Xhin. This producer/DJ mixes a diverse range of styles within his sets, all built on a solid techno base resulting in something altogether quite Darkfloor in vibe. Recorded live at Dirtclub, Berlin on October 15th.

The tracklist is something you just don’t see these days with so many DJs playing just their narrow style of particular sound, playing it safe and delivering just what people expect, rather than exceeding the crowd expectations. Case in point: Grandmaster Flash, The Knife, Autechre, Bass Clef…

If you’re in London on November 12th you can catch Xhin live, celebrating the launch of his début album Sword for the Stroboscopic Artefacts label. He’ll be joined by Inigo Kennedy, Lucy, and Pfirter.

Xhin live at Dirtclub, Berlin 15/10/2011
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TRACKLIST
Oscar Mulero – The Darker Days
Arrestar – Thoughts & Emotions (Grovskopa remix)
Reeko – Empirical Science
Planetary Assault Systems – Bell Blocker
Percy X – X-Trax 1
Drexciya – Black Sea
Torq – Angelica Voices
Untold – Sweat
Cottam – Deep Deep Down
Anthony Shakir – The Floorfiller (Skudge’s Floor Killer Version)
Bam Bam – Where’s Your Child
KiNK – Detunator
Inigo Kennedy – Revenge
Lucy, Xhin – LX2
Xhin – Untitled
Perc – London, We Have You Surrounded
Autechre – Vietrmx (Plaid remix)
Scuba – Adrenalin
Blawan – Vibe Decorium
Mike Dehnert – Klartext
Fran Hartnett – Game Code
Reeko – Untitled
Jeff Mills – Automatic
Ken Ishii – Misprogrammed Day (Dave Angel remix)
Stephen Brown – After Life
Acid Elf – Unrehearsal Vindicator
Robotman – Do Da Doo (Plastikman’s Acid House remix)
UR – The Jaguar
Adam Beyer – Simple Maze (Skudge remix)
Boddika – Boddika’s House
Co-fusion – E-Dancer
Grandmaster Flash – The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheel of Steel
Ken Ishii – Free Energy
The Knife – Silent Shout
Popol Vuh – Nachts Schee – Ambient Edit (Mika Vainio remix)
Bass Clef – Rollercoasters of the Heart
Architect – I Lost My 808 On A Rainy Day
Reeko – Angels and Demons
Vex’d – Pop Pop V.I.P.

Dirtcast #043 – xhin (stroboscopic artefacts) @ dirtclub – 15-10-2011 by Dirtclub_Dirtcast

Mirko S is the founder and manager of the excellent techno label Foot Fetish Records, releasing his own productions along with those of Brad Lee, Zair, S-Tek, Tony Silver and many others.

BRAWLcast #062 Mirko S. – Fuck The Mainstream
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TRACKLIST
Oris – House Of Cards [Corrupt Systems]
Milton Bradley – Interdimensional Entity [Prologue]
Zair – Genetic Disorder
John Mitchell – Darkness Detail
Luis Ruiz – El Antiguo Astronauta.[ASRX]
British Murder Boys – Anti Inferno [Counterbalance]
British Murder Boys – All The Saints Have Been Hung [Counterbalance]
Stinrays – Detuned Devilment [Foot Fetish]
Matthew Lions & Thomas Klaus – Muted Strings [Subsequent]
Thomas Klaus – Barefoot In Nostate
Zair – Encélado
Oris – Refrain.[Corrupt Systems]
Matsuura – Newinferno [UUD01]
Surgeon – Setting The Scene [Dynamic Tension]
Oscar mulero – 180 (Brethren Remix) [Audio Assault]
Macwolf – Voices [Dark Mental Rec]

BRAWLcast062 Mirko S – Fuck The Mainstream by Digital Distortions

I have no idea how he found the time to record this mix as he seems to live on the internet 24 hours a day tracking down fresh music. He hosts at least two radio shows and runs the darkfloor.co.uk website. Time to listen to DVNT’s Truth…

BRAWLcast #061 DVNT – Truth
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TRACKLIST
Hurtdeer – Addicts [Acroplane]
macabro – Shine Like We Used To [Byass]
Alva Noto – ans (for augeny murzin) [Line]
Emptyset – Beyond [Caravan Recordings]
Tom SPL – Scorpion Walking (Pablo Bosio remix) [Audioexit]
Ancient Methods – Second Method 3 [Ancient Methods]
Mark EG + Chrissi – Squelcha [Armatura Records]
Inigo Kennedy – Pressure Point [Asymmetric]
K.Larm + J.Raninen – Oblivion [Audiocast Productions]
Luke Slater – Boom Tang Schwuck [Ostgut]
Teemu T – Process [Bio-Mechanics]
Dead TV Society – Red River [Noxgenus]
Dr. Walter Kaufmann
NHK – __1 [Raster-Noton]
o/v/r – Descending the Left Corner [Blueprint]
TJ Hertz – State of Space Control [dub]
King Cannibal – Dirt [Ninja Tune]
UNTERTAGEBAU – Fische im Garten [m.n.bl.ck]
Concrete DJz – Big Bang! [Armatura Clandestine]
Planetary Assault Systems – X Speaks to X [Ostgut]
NHK – Entire Set [Raster-Noton]
DVF – Warehouse [dub]
Arrestar – Prayer (Grovskopa remix) [Ante-Rasa]
Xela – I Drowned Her In A Sleepless Sleep [Root Strata]
Alva Noto – Xerrox Teion [Raster-Noton]

Here we are then, the start of a new month and with it comes a new mix from the techno producer and consistently on point DJ; Inigo Kennedy. There’s no need to say much, you’ll all be familiar with the depth and style of techno with its IDM flourishes that Inigo lays down over his recordings and this, the 10th mix so far, continues very much in that fashion.

One of our community members beat me by posting this mix yesterday on the boards, so a thanks should go out to Mike Stern.

Let us know what you think in the comments. You can see where you can hear Inigo Kennedy live by popping over to his homepage. Those in London can catch him at London’s Corsica Studios for the Stroboscopic Artefacts label night on November 12th and he’ll be in Sydney, Australia for December 3rd.

Inigo Kennedy live at TS0010, London
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TRACKLIST
Higher Intelligence Agency – M+T=E [RBADLP5]
Nil – Nil (Kazuya Kawakami Remix) [HHX02]
Lucy – Tetrad [SAM010]
Cosmin Trg – Want You To Be [50WEAPONSLP03]
Blawan – Kaz [RS1102]
Go Hiyama – Harbinger [AAR038]
A.Paul – Earthlings [MRECLTD03]
Shutter – Post 3 M (Inigo Kennedy Remix) [HEM]
Repitch – Walker (Mike Parker Remix) [REPITCH001]
Casual Violence – Idios Kosmos [DUALITY004D]
Inigo Kennedy – Preliminary Statements (B1) [ASY001]
Reeko – Thick Matter [MD13]
Regis – Model Friendship [LINO008]
Inigo Kennedy – Scatter [TOKEN019]
Agony Forces – Supra Cult (Aiken Rework) [LYCDG001]
Hagalaz – Maest Deorc Mona (Dael Ii) [RUNE003]
[[[[Vvrssnn]]]] – Bruise Blood [KCD145]
Blawan – Lavender [Rs1102]
M.A.D.A. & Plankton – Trajik Weezard [TZN020]
The Black Dog – D.O.G. Style (The Black Dog Late Night Vocal Porn Session) [DUSTSND004]
Tomohiko Sagae – Deburring [MAK031]
Jeroen Search – Rotation [FVTD003]
Jeff Mills – Something In The Sky 002 (A2) [SITS002]
Delta Funktionen – Deflection [ANN010]
Deuce – Twerp Wiz [O-TON025]
Planetary Assault Systems – Gated [PF039]
Brendon Moeller – Mobility [ANN012]
Mattias Fridell – Things To Be Seen [MGREY11]
Inigo Kennedy – Sangaku [ASYMP3014]
Mi-24 – Stealth Mode [Ohwl#Four]
Close Up Over – Caz [WARPCD008]
Inigo Kennedy – Transitions [ED005]

A firm favourite around Darkfloor is the audio abuse known as London’s Blackmass Plastics. A mysterious producer who few can match when it comes to heavy rolling jungle flavoured bass weight and mutant-skank.

Earlier in the week he dropped a fresh mix on Combat Recordings Riddim and Bruise show for Sub FM. Unable to keep the mix to himself ahead of Combat dropping the complete archive (of which I’ll update this post when that shows up) he’s let loose his onslaught. So that’s the introduction out of the way, strap yourself in for a heavy ride.

direct link to the set from last nite if u dont wanna hear stormfield waffling on the mic
also some of the old vinyl is shagged on this mix sorry if it get a bit gritty.

Blackmass Plastics – Mix wot I done for Combat on SubFM
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TRACKLIST
Blackmass Plastics – Arpexone [UK Trends]
The Exaltics – Wrong Direction [Creme Organisation]
Jstat – Reaction Formation [Void Tactical Media]
Sem – Phox [Electron Industries]
I.B.M. – Devastate The Planet [Battle Trax]
Duran Duran Duran – Rejectro [dub]
Lorenz Attractor – Unknown [Praxis] can’t remember the name
Jon E Alpha – Transmarine [Access Tonal Coms]
Suburban Hell – List 2 [DJax Up-Beats]
Duran Duran Duran – Gheener 2013 [dub]
C-Tank – Unknown [Overdrive] Acid something or other
Lory D – Rancid [Sounds Never Seen]
Jstat – Positive-Feedback Loop [Void Tactical Media]
Jon E Alpha – Recharge [Access Tonal Coms]
Blackmass Plastics – Phase Atomix [dub]
The Mover – Ok Bassquake [Coldrush Records]
Grimjaw – Harsh Reality [Don't]

Horror Brawl make a welcome return for the 60th mix in the BRAWLcast series, expect techno…

BRAWLcast #060 Horror Brawl – Come On Love It’s Friday
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TRACKLIST
Anatoly Kovernikov – Calibro [Russian Techno]
Aubrey – Journeys Into The Centrifuge [Offshoot]
Cage – Lifes For Rent [Warm Up]
Rory St John – Deglove [Limetree Projects]
Takaaki Itoh – Like You Said [Wols]
Elektrochemie LK – Schall (Thomas Schumacher Remix) [Leaded]
Sicco Bosscher – Sleep Disorder [Subsist]
Sascha Müller – What We Do [Russian Techno]
Energun – Recycle [Utch]
Misjah & DJ Tim – Access (Thomas Schumacher Remix) [Leaded]
DJ Boss – Rovni Rokin [Planet Rhythm]
Jark Prongo – Movin’ Thru Your System (Dave Clarke Remix) [Hooj]
Dave Clarke – Just Ride (James Ruskin Bluestream Mix) [Skint]
Headroom – Spoon [Planet Rhythm]
Takaaki Itoh – Like You Said (Rumenige & Loktibrada Remix) [Wols]
The Modernist – Dali Bop Horizon (Auftreib Remix) [Harvest]
Surgeon – Bad Hands Part II (Autechre Remix) [Dynamic Tension]
Slam – Positive Education [Soma]
Black Smith Craft – Noises At Night
Ben Gibson – Remote (CYP Remix) [Limetree Projects]
Dominik Müller – Wajcha (Po Remix) [Limetree Projects]
James Ruskin – Fallen [Blueprint]
Joey Beltram – Energy Flash (PHNTM Remix)

BRAWLcast060 Horror Brawl – Come On Love Its Friday by Digital Distortions

Retro vibes all over his great mix from the Serbian producer Boris Noiz under a new alias of his: Lost In The Sound. Generally at Darkfloor, we’re far from fans of ‘house’ music but we make the odd exception for the good stuff; stuff like this mix, and the emerging production work of Lost In The Sound of which a few examples are currently residing online.

Classic jacking acid heavy stylings are resplendent from top to tail on this one. No tracklist at present (will see if we can get one out of Boris for you).

Lost In The Sound – promo mix
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TRACKLIST
N/A