free ep: The Bee – Go To The Playground

Audioexit promptly follow up their recent releases: Tom SPL – Scorpion Walking and Drugstore – Imminent Departure (both of which I’m still playing) with a release from The Bee. Already on my radar with a slew of quality releases on techno specialist netlabel Zimmer Records, as well as a release on Audioexit back in 2008, [...]

free: Tyler Smith – The Clockmaker EP

Originally released on Plex Records back in 2007, Tyler has decided to re-release it, and who am I to argue. Bravo that man, cause it’s rather good as it happens. Stand out track for me has to be Life Is Such A Fragile Thing. It’s driving, melodic and one of “those” tunes to finish a [...]

free EP: numbercult 3

Those in the know, know about numbercult, those who don’t, should and with this being their third free release then is no reason why they shouldn’t. What we’ve got is some fantastic and anonymous techno from Glasgow. As well as the EPs, they’ve a few mixes kicking around the internet tubes.
numbercult 3

Those on the hunt [...]

free: Breathe Compilation 05

A few MANTIS Radio shows back we showcased Logical Disorder and his stunning IDM/electro/ambient production sound. His last release (and the one that sparked my interest in getting him on the showcase guest mix: Violent Playground) was via the Mexican Breathe netlabel. This is their latest release and being a compilation (their 5th), it serves [...]

broadcast: MANTIS RADIO with VENTOLYN & BECOTYDE

fri 11/06/2010 from 20:00GMT
listen via Future Music / thedrome.net
So, where were we? Last time on MANTIS Radio we celebrated our 3rd year of broadcasting, with a run down of the 3 most downloaded shows for the past year. You can grab that full archive here, and see the top 10 most popular shows.
Coming up this [...]

free: Structura – Karawane Live at This Lac 22/08/2009

New release from the ever profilic netlabel Enough Records. Whilst not all the releases come in on the darkfloor rader, this one most certainly does.

Structura – Karawane Live at This Lac 22/08/2009
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A recording of the experimental powernoize live act: Structura. Taken from a perforamnce at ThisLac in Lagos, Portugal on August 22nd, 2009. [...]

free: Drugstore – Imminent Departure EP

Back on the 57th MANTIS radio broadcast we showcased the Spanish techno collective: Drugstore. This is their latest release, released on the Hungarian techno netlabel Audioexit Records.

Drugstore – Imminent Departure EP
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tracklist
01. Drugstore – Black Widow
02. Drugstore – Eden
03. Drugstore – Imminent Departure
04. Postapocalyps Pop – 12 Inch Nails (Drugstore [...]

the @darkfloor Twitter roundup

So, it’s that time again where I roundup the past 2 weeksish (give or take) of music tweeted up on the @darkfloor account. Looking back over it, there are some right gems and some links I had missed listening to and went straight to promoting them on the tweetfeed. Do leave comments about the stuff [...]

Doryk – Because You Don’t Even Know

Robert Kiss aka Doryk aka P.C.M.N. is the man responsible for the Audioexit techno netlabel. He recently completed this mix and it’s well worth an hour of your headspace. Featuring lots of netaudio tracks which you’ll be able to download legally for free.
The selection of techno on offer is hard edged, dark tinged, no messing [...]

free: Dessben – Punto Nueve EP

This one nearly snuck by me, it’s the latest from Offaudio owner and techno producer and DJ, Dessben. On a deeper, housier (that’s a word right?)  at times tip than his usual fare, but still very much Dessben.
What originally struck me about Dessben’s musical production (and the reason I invited him onto the MANTIS [...]