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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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]

BRAWLcast061 DVNT – Truth by Digital Distortions

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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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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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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Frankfurt based DJ Tobias Wark put this mix together for the folk over at Digital Konfusion on FM4 at the tail end of June. The 25th if you’re a stickler for dates. That’s about all I can tell you about this mix and indeed the man responsible for the mix. Short of mentioning that the mix artwork is a photograph that Tobias took in the forest near to his home in Germany.

Musically we’re dealing with a deep session covering the likes of Lucy, Ruskin, Dettmann, Klock, Kode 9 + SpaceApe, Sandwell District and Redshape.

Tobias Wark – Digital Konfusion Guestmix
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Kode 9 and the Spaceape – Sine Of The Dub
Milton Bradley – A Sky Full Of Numbers
Sandwell District – Grey Cut Out
Instra:mental – Vicodin
Pfirter and Dadub – Metropolis
Lucy – Bein (James Ruskin Remix)
O/V/R – Post-Traumatic Son (DVS1 Pessimist Mix)
Damon Wild – Avion (Marcel Dettmann remix)
Florian Kupfer – Black Look (dub)
Black Jazz Consortium – Levels
Redshape – Drama
D’Marc Cantu – Hungry For People
Ben Klock – Under Pressure
Submersible Machines – Cold Sleep

Tobias Wark – Digital Konfusion Guestmix on FM4 25/06/2011 by Tobias Wark

59th in the BRAWLcast mix series and it’s over to Bristol’s Dan Fix for this rather splendid Moombahcore/techno mashup

BRAWLcast #059 :: Dan Fix – Blackmar-Diemer
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FR33M4N – My Bass (Brian Brainstorm’s Moombahwob remix)
Wallpaper – Stupidfacced (Mendez Edit)
Noizekid – Bomba (Moombahton Mix)
Oliver $ – Toca Pra Mim (Sabo & Dave Nada Moombahton Refix)
As Tequileiras do Funk – Surra de Bunda (Alvita Bootleg)
Dan Fix – Purina
Mendez + Sluggo – The Devil Does Drugs
Grey Granite + El Carnicero – Turn It On (Ed Trauma PmoombaFPM Remix)
Cecile + General Degree – Na Na Na
Dan Fix – Duppy
Lady Saw & Spragga Benz – Backshot
Simon Sayz – The Inspector (moombahton remix)
Dan Fix – Mi Told Yuh
Elephant Man – Gal Bruk Out
Dan Fix – Locked In
Dan Fix – Bad Mind
Bro Safari feat. Le Doom – Tempora
Apster, Bassjackers – Brougham (Tranny Bootleg)
Schlachthofbronx feat. Timberlee – The Bassline
Mad-Tek – Everyday [Digital Distortions]
Thomas Schumacher – When I Rock [Bush]
Luke Sanger – Working Overtime [Bonus Round]
Nymate Association – Magnet (Tech Mix) [Digital Distortions]
Mad-Tek- The Dark Age (Joby’s Original Mix) [Digital Distortions]
Luke Sanger – Dirty on the Floor [Don't]
Dominik Muller – Wajcha (Dan Fix Remix) [Limetree Projects]
Sebastian – H.A.L (Munchi Bootleg Kudoro-More Remix)

BRAWLcast059 Dan Fix – Blackmar-Diemer by Digital Distortions

Stuffed full of just the darkly vibed kind of techno we at Darkfloor relish, this is the 9th Thatswecalltechno.

Compiled and mixed by Audioexit signed producer RF:Sound. His EP of industrial strength offbeat techno is available for free from the Hungarian netlabel, released back in June. Not quite sure why I didn’t post something up about it; it’s solid, dark dancefloor flare afterall. Here’s the mix anyways.

Thatswecalltechno#9 – RF:Sound
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01. RF:Sound – Silence (Intro)
02. Stanislav Tolkachev – Back To My Self [Subsist]
03. Northem Estructures – Self Similarity [Sonic Groove]
04. Rafal Furst – Bankowa [Audioexit Records]
05. Sp-X – Flux [Komisch]
06. RF:Sound – No Exit [Audioexit Records]
07. RF:Sound – Kha
08. Lolo Aka Acidus – Dino
09. Robert Hood -. Bells At Dusk [M-Plant]
10 .RF:Sound – D.R.S.T
11. Lucy & Herculino – Gmork (Luke Slater remix) [Stroboscopic Artefacts]
12. Andariel – What Do You Want From Me [Singularity Rec.]
13. Cbtø – Ø [Soundsource]
14. Surgeon – Shaper Of The Unknown [Counterbalance]
15. Surgeon – Radiance [Dynamic Tension]
16. hadji – Mutavluk Na Najjache [Labrynth]
17. Oscar Mulero – Horses [Pole]
18. Obscurum – Dom (Fanon Flower remix) [Planet Rhythm]
19. Radial – Off The Records [Planet Rhythm]
20. lolo aka Acidus – Combustión [dub]
21. Mike Parker – Subterranean Liquid [Prologue]
22. Oscar Mulero – Repeater [Warm Up Recordings]
23. lolo aka Acidus – Cerebral
24. RF:Sound – Syv
25. Silent Servant – El Mar (Svreca remix) [Semantica Records]

A name you’ll be hearing more of soon on Darkfloor no doubt. His production work is just stunning, as the odd bits that we’ve played on MANTIS Radio will confirm.

An accomplished DJ too, just check this recent set performed and recorded live from Aeon Festival down in Devon a few weeks ago. He’s also a rather dab hand at turntablism with the odd flourish inside the 1 hour and 15mins of bass weight he dropped on this, his Arder than a Janner in Jesters PT 2 mix. I’m loving this one.

Phat Chex – Arder than a Janner in Jesters PT 2
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Djedjotronic – Uranus
Kowton – Show me
Pangea – Fatalist
Blawan – Bohla
Jared Wilson – Let Your Body, Make Your Body
Phuture – Acid trax
Dexter – Redbox
Roman Lindau – Crasse
Instra:mental – 8
Dez Williams – Modern Day Slavery
Boddika – Syn Chron
Marcus Intalex – From The Ashes
A Made Up Sound – Demons
Ossie – Tarantula
Ajukaja – Private
Lone – Pineapple crush
Trevino – Chip
Phat Chex – Uncertain future

Arder than a Janner in Jesters PT 2 – DJ set by PhatChex Mix

I missed this one when Arnaud Van Ruychevelt aka Arrestar shared it some 6 months ago. Shame on my part really as it’s a blinder.

No tracklist, however, take it from me this is a seriously good 90 minutes of well programmed techno from an underrated producer. Check out his track Prayer on the excellent, sadly still dormant label Ante-Rasa and you’ll hear just why I have a liking.

Arrestar – Set 31/03/2011
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Arrestar_set_31_03_11 by Arrestar

A new month means a new mix from the masterful producer and DJ; Inigo Kennedy.

Sure it is the second week of September but Inigo only recorded this one at the weekend (September 11th if you want to be specific) so at the time of writing I’m only 2 days late, which on some of the previous postings of his work is pretty good. That being so this is the 9th in his continuing monthly series of mixes and it’s no less essential than the previous 8. You all know the score now with these so get downloading.

Inigo Kennedy live at TS0009, London
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TRACKLIST
Area Forty One – 986_Hpa [Ann014]
Mohlao – Anamorphic Canvas [Ohwl#Four]
Area Forty One – Raindrop Prelude [Ann014]
Schatrax – Overcome [Schatcdg001]
Casual Violence – Acceptance Of The Fact At Hand (Original Mix) [Sectcd1]
Isolated Lines – Macer (Donor remix) [Miniscule]
Arovane – Tascel_7 [Arovane4]
Aoki Takamasa – Mnd-Sng-04 [Sam009]
Cosmin Trg – Izolat [50weapons#008]
Dave Clarke – Wisdom To The Wise (Asymmetric Edit) [Dub]
Rivet – Inside Looking Out [Ni01]
Inigo Kennedy – Power [Trust001]
Exium – The Quiet Man [Pole9]
Arovane – Thaem Nue [Arovane4]
Inigo Kennedy – Untitled (2011_08_05) [Dub]
Casual Violence – Briefly Sexual (Systemic remix) [Dub]
Tomohiko Sagae – Deburring (Judgement Call Makaton Mix) [Mak031]
Inigo Kennedy – Untitled (2011_08_03) [Dub]
Area Forty_One – Cumulonimbus [Ann014]
Inigo Kennedy – Momentum [Cp004]
Ben Gibson – Clamour (Original Mix) [Sectcd1]
Grovskopa – Atopic (Lag remix) [Sectcd1]
Inigo Kennedy – Aldebaran [Dub]
Jeroen Search – Section A (Original Mix) [Sectcd1]
Spanky – Acid Bass (Asymmetric Edit) [Dub]
Cosmin Trg – Fizic [50weapons#013]
And – Algorythmic Love [Psq006]
Arovane & Phonem – Valid Fard [Vform008cd]

I only recently added a mix by Tyler Smith’s darker production alias Black Smith Craft but this mix is too good not to share. I’ll keep things brief and just say this is the 9th in the ongoing series.

You can grab the 8th and the 6th mixes from here on Darkfloor and the rest of the series over on his Soundcloud page. Starting with Spookhouse’s FTS he heads through Fanon Flowers into Jeff Mills, Plastikman, Andreas Bergmann, Jolka, Carl Craig, Kassem Mosse, Drexciya and Blind Summit (a recent discovery for us at Darkfloor). There we go. Enjoy.

Tyler Smith – Neuvieme Effet Spatial
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TRACKLIST
01. Spookhouse – FTS
02. Fanon Flowers – Up (original mix)
03. Jeff Mills – Gamma player
04. Jeff Mills – Humana
05. Plastikman – Marbles
06. Madben – Promise land (Philippe Caminade remix)
07. Tony Lionni – Timeless
08. Alexis Tyrel – Organice cylce (Gideon remix)
09. Andreas Bergmann – Toast (Estroe remix)
10. Jolka – Five
11. Madben – Happy face (Life recorder remix)
12. Carl Craig – Sparkle
13. Lawrence – Divided (Kassem Mosse remix)
14. Carl Craig – Landcruising
15. Jack In Out – Spectronovelist
16. Drexciya – 700 million light years from Earth
17. Blind Summit – Magellanic clouds

Tyler Smith – Neuvieme effet spatial by Tyler Smith

I’ve been quite taken with the sound of Raime as well as the label they are signed to; Blackest Ever Black. Anyone who saw them support Demdike Stare a few months ago in London will know just how awesome their work sounds. Although this mix is over a year old I’ve only today noticed it.

You Can’t Hide Your Headcrack was compiled back in July last year and released as a 50 edition and thus quite limited CDr. The folk behind the label have been kind enough to share the mix with those of us unable to procure the CD. Despite being constructed with music produced and released from some 3 decades back, and the youngest track coming from ’88 this is a superb selection of sound that is effectively timeless in my opinion. Industrial, experimental, dark-wave, avant-garde; whatever you want to classify these artists as there’s no denying this is something rather special.

Also worth mentioning is that the folk over at RA made Blackest Ever Black their label of the month for September 2011 and in doing so interviewed label head Kiran Sande as well as a providing 40 minute label mix.

Raime – You Can’t Hide Your Headcrack
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TRACKLIST
01. AC Marias – Some Thing [Mute, 1988]
02. Konstruktivits – Shadows Of White Sand [Third Mind, 1984]
03. The Danse Society – There Is No Shame In Death [Pax, 1981]
04. Konstruktivits – Shadows Of White Sand [Third Mind, 1984]
05. Cabaret Voltaire – The Voice of America / Damage Is Done [Rough Trade, 1980]
06. Psyche – On The Edge [New Rose, 1985]
07. The German Shepherds – I Adore You [M&S Music, 1985]
08. Arto Lindsay – Locus Coruleus [Editions EG, 1984]
09. Ike Yard – NCR [Factory America, 1982]
10. Metabolist – Tizhoznam [Drömm, 1980]
11. Rema-Rema – Fond Affections [4AD, 1980]

You Can’t Hide Your Headcrack – compiled and edited by Raime, July 2010 by Blackest Ever Black

For the 5th in the establishing-itself-as-a-key-techno-mix-source that is the Subsist podcast series are these 70 minutes selected and mixed by the French producer Black Smith Craft.

With a tracklist containing work from Sandwell District, Coefficient, Casual Violence, Voidloss, Inigo Kennedy, Surgeon, Nick Dunton, Drugstore, Concrete DJz and James Ruskin you know where you stand. Delivering drone and tonal based stripped sound from the heart of machines.

Black Smith Craft – Subsist Podcast 005
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Tracklist
01. Sandwell District – Immolare (Function version)
02. Coefficient – Heliosphere
03. Traversable wormhole – Exiting the milky way (Surgeon remix)
04. Casual Violence – Briefly sexual (Voidloss remix #1)
05. Silent Servant – El mar (Svreca remix 2)
06. Robert Pain – Scena I
07. Voidloss – Dead serenity
08. Drugstore – Deimos
09. Go Hiyama – Geometrical (Surgeon remix)
10. Concrete DJz – Compact solutions (original mix)
11. Traversable wormhole – Tachyon (James Ruskin remix)
12. Voidloss – Lucifuge
13. Concrete DJz – Compact solutions (C-System remix)
14. Kwartz – Still dead (Drugstore remix)
15. Inigo Kennedy – Yearning
16. Voidloss – Paranoid android
17. Ozka – Limiter (Mr Mau’s filth remix)
18. S-Tek – Feet of paradise
19. Nick Dunton – Leaving the planet

mixed by Tyler Smith
recorded at the Alphaground studio (Lens / France) on 18th of August 2011.

Black Smith Craft // Subsist podcast 005 by Subsist / Phone

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Things don’t often get fresher than this. From their live performance on Saturday September 3rd, this is Skudge.

Expect deep and some might even use the word progressive, but nonetheless solid techno that is the sound of Skudge. Hailing from Sweden, the production duo only arrived in 2009 yet since have cemented themselves firmly as the go-to-guys for often complex, stimulating strains of techno. No tracklist for this live PA, in fact the information I have to hand amounts to just:

Live recording from Rote Sonne.
TR 909 + X0XB0X + OCTATRACK and loads of effects..

…which frankly is more than enough for me.

Skudge Live at Rote Sonne 03/09/2011
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Skudge Live @ Rote Sonne 03 09 11 by Skudge

Perhaps not the best title for a mix from one of our favourite electronics producers here at Darkfloor but don’t let that put you off, it’s a delicious selection by one of Birmingham’s brightest lights; the formidable Anthony Child aka Surgeon. From the man himself:

Here’s a mix to take you on an exotic journey to lands near and far.
If you’re expecting techno, then better look elsewhere!

Quite so, in fact artist wise you’re looking down the barrel of work from Alice Coltrane, Faust, Cut Hands, Raudive, Coil, La Monte Young and Lloyd Miller.

Surgeon – E-Tard Dance Party
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TRACKLIST
Alice Coltrane – Lord Of Lords
Faust – Knochentanz
Lloyd Miller – Way Out East
Cut Hands – Impassion
Raudive – Over
Alice Coltrane – Galaxy In Satchidananda
Lloyd Miller – Electriconne
Coil – Egyptian Basses
La Monte Young – 2-23 VII 64 2:50:45-3:11 AM
John Coltrane – Dearly Beloved
Alice Coltrane – Prema

The Bristol based DJ and owner of the site Acid-House.net can always be depended upon for sublime deep and often acid heavy electronics. Plenty of his mixes have made their way to Darkfloor and this is another strong one to add to your collection, thou it’s something a bit different from the man with reportedly the world’s biggest Acid House vinyl collection. In Placid‘s own words:

Essentially records which I have but have not yet managed to put into a mix as they are either too fast or too bonkers or a combination of both.

Naturally, my idea of bonkers and yours may vary, but I can only go by my own bonkers induced reality and upload the result. Looking back, there’s only a couple I’d class as full on monsters, but the not so full-on are blooming fast… oddly enough i still ended up playing them at about -4, the thought of hearing them on 0 or + anything baffles me..

anyway enough warbling..

Placid – The Techno Monster
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TRACKIST
Basic Channel – Phylyps Trak [Basic Channel]
Aphex Twin – Aboriginal Mix [White]
DJ ESP – Fresh Air [Generator]
Sterac – promo
Dark Comedy – Clavia’s North [Art of Dance]
Sympletic – Noname (Remix) [Ifach]
Planetary Assault Systems – Forms [Peacefrog]
The Memory Foundation [m-Plant]
Anthony Shakir – The Random Hustle [Dust Science]
Mystic Rythem – Track Relaxer [Peacefrog]
Woody Mcbride – Rattlesnake [Magnetic North]
Jamie Read – Vibe Nations [Ugly]
Blake Baxter – Vision of Truth [UR]
The Source – Untitled [R&S]
Basic Channel – Octaedre [Basic Channel] plank promo 003 I think
Monolake – Cyan [Chain Reaction]
Indio – Blue Fantasy [Transmat]
Jeff Mills – Untitled [Axis]
Like a Tim – Avanger [Djax-up-beats]
Nico – Withdrawl [ESP]
Perfect Sync – Down the Deep
Paresys – Untitled [Re-Load]
Mike Henk – Untitled [Pulsar]

Very short at just 23 minutes, but a superb choice of heavily dub styled deep drum & bass from dubh thrian.

A new artist on our radar here at Darkfloor, and one we came across from their work on the netlabel Alkalinear Recordings‘ recent compilation [alk020] (you can grab that here).

That’s about it as details go. Short of being based in Leitrim, Ireland there ain’t anything more we can tell you about this producer at the moment. You can however grab a 4 track EP of suitably deep 2step broken beat bass work, self-released for free.

dubh thrian – Dub dnb
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TRACKLIST
Reza – David Can Still Beat Goliath
Flatliners – Ramadan Dub
Version – Genotype
Digital feat. Morphy – Weatherman
Genotype – Ball Drop
Breakage – Clarendon
Morphy – Backpack

Dub dnb mix by dubh thrian

Fresh work from the dark electro talent that is Scotland’s Galaxian is always a very welcome sight.

Following closely behind his recent (and damn fine) Vanguard EP for Enema Records is this mix recorded for the Glasgow based Sub City Radio and their Theez Boyz R Athletes show. Broadcast back on August 27th this is Galaxian’s ‘Broken Britain‘ a slamming mix of grimey kicking electro, dark submerged atmospheres and always with that rough dystopian finish that he does so well. Prepare for 80 minutes of underground hi-tek funk.

If a tracklist surfaces you’ll see it posted up here.

Galaxian – Broken Britain
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GALAXIAN DJ SET – SUB CITY RADIO – THEEZ BOYZ R ATHLETES SHOW – 27.08.11 by Galaxian

Ahead of the new compilation release for US dubstep label Sub Pressure comes this 30 minute promo mix. Label signed TZR contributes his Spectre track to the 10 piece collection. We’ve been liking what we’ve been hearing from the California based Sub Pressure camp over the past year. Dishing out deep bass, rolling percussion and a sense of brooding darkness.

From this release the tracks most sonically interesting to us here at Darkfloor are from Blackleg with No Senses, TZR with Spectre, Haack and the sublime Condemned, Tapir’s Gangsters and Strippers (which was featured on the 8th Darkfloor in Session mix) and UFO Kial’s Murkdropolis.

The compilation comes out August 29th, you can grab it here.

TZR – Sub Pressure Volume 2
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Chango – Shallow Dive
TZR & Press – Dead Language
TZR – Spectre
Haack – Condemned
TZR – Forsaken
UFO & Kial – Murkdropolis
Tapir – Gangsters & Strippers
Frost Raven – Duel
Kelly Dean & Phrenik feat. Mimi Page – The Burning
Genr8 – Vimana
Promise One – Trabzon
TZR – Siren’s Song

Sub Pressure Vol 2: DJ Mix by TZR by Sub Pressure