Archives: techno

Darkfloor In Session 059 + Ryuji Takeuchi
Recorded live at Club Stomp’s HAGANE night in Osaka on March 31st, Darkfloor present over 3 hours of Japan’s Ryuji Takeuchi in the mix. Rolling dark techno from tip to tail.

download Robert Pain’s unfinished, finished with ‘Republikanci’ album
Croatia’s Robert Pain offers up his unfinished, finished with ‘Republikanci’ LP for free download.

rookas – hidden faces
Taking things into a deeper technoid headspace is where this ‘hidden faces‘ mix from Rookas ventures.

Friday June 1st: the Darkfloor Live event series begins in London with special guests: Voidloss and Coefficient
Following our fantastic live event in February celebrating 100 shows of Mantis Radio we return to London Bridge venue The Miller to begin a series of monthly sessions: Darkfloor Live.

Listen to Interface, the new EP from Ctrls due soon on Token Records.
Token Records forthcoming release from Ctrls (Troels B-Knudsen) is sounding like some damn fine techno.

Inigo Kennedy – TS0010
British techno don Inigo Kennedy offers up his 10th in the series TS mix. Essential listening.

Inigo Kennedy – Vignettes (One) on Semantica
Inigo Kennedy’s track Cloudless finally drops on Semantica as part of his Vignettes (One) release.

Coefficient + DVNT guest on Beton Radio
An hour each – London’s Coefficient and DVNT showcasing their take in techno for Serbia’s Beton Radio show

Review / Black Sun EP by SUB on Motorlab
We review Sub’s ‘Black Sun EP’ for techno netlabel Motorlab.

Allan Nonamaka – Hypnotic Eyes (mix)
Allan Nonamaka’s ‘Hypnotic Eyes’ mix, packing techno heavyweights Makaton, Surgeon, Inigo Kennedy, Takaaki Itoh and others

Rob Hatchell’s Skeleton Crew mix
Rob Hatchell’s ‘Skeleton Crew’ mix – heavy dark and disquiet warehouse vibes bleed through 66mins of high calibre techno

Reeko live at Pole Night, El Jardín, 22.05.2010
Reeko live at Pole Night, El Jardín, 22.05.2010

Audioexit’s ‘Inner Fear’ by Plastic Loopz
Hungarian netlabel Audioexit unleash Plastic Loopz ‘Inner Fear’

C Mantle’s ‘Wie Es Eigentlich Gewesen Ist’ EP
C Mantle’s ‘Wie Es Eigentlich Gewesen Ist’ EP for Myuzyk

Unseen Selectors – Graphite North // mix volume 05
Those of you who like their techno that little bit raw and industrial should definitely be looking to check this one out.

Forward Strategy Group’s mix for electronique
Forward Strategy Group’s mix for electronique

‘Go To The Playground’ EP by The Bee for Audioexit
Audioexit’s ‘Go To The Playground’ EP by The Bee

Vector Commander live on Only Techno Radio, Madrid. 17.03.2010
Vector Commander live on Only Techno Radio, Madrid. 17.03.2010

Casual Violence + Siege live at Furanum Records Night 28.05.2010
Casual Violence + Siege live at Furanum Records Night 28.05.2010

Tyler Smith – Somewhere in the 90’s
Tyler Smith’s ‘Somewhere in the 90s’ mix is a great techno selection with many personal faves including Size 9, Jeff Mills, Dave Clarke, and UR

Jay Pace – Rave Core Mix
Jay Pace’s ‘Rave Core’ mix ft. Yello, DJ Funk, Shufflemaster, Len Faki, Green Velvet, Modeselektor, Joey Beltram, Carl Craig, Dubfire, Frankie Bones…

Dead Baby In A Plastic Bag – Sheer Reason May Never Prevail
Quite a unique name, a name that in the context of music stirs up dark, aggressive, twisted sound. That’s the sound of Dead Baby In A Plastic Bag.

Vadz – May 2010
Vadz’s 10 track pick for May 2010.
ft. TSR, Nymate Association, iO, Robert Goerl, Jacek Sienkiewicz, Luke Slater, Scuba, Pig & Dan, Ministry…

Marcel Heese – Weekend’s flow podcast#004 / 107.6 RKfm
Marcel Heese – Weekend’s flow podcast#004 / 107.6 RKfm

Oscillator Gear, live at Specka, Madrid (2010)
Oscillator Gear (El Bosco & Snap-9A), live at Specka, Madrid April 2010

DVNT – April 2010
DVNT’s 10 track pick for April 2010.
ft. Cordell Klier, Slam / The Black Dog, Buckfunk 3000, Christian Mohr, Solar Chrome, Biome, Addison Groove, Noiz…

BRAWLcast #011: Solitude Suite – Grooming Process
Solitude Suite provide the 11th BRAWLcast mix – and it’s a keeper.

Doryk – Because You Don’t Even Know
Audioexit’s boss Doryk (Robert Kiss) turns in a netaudio heavy, techno mix

Two hrs of Bas Mooy in the mix, for Beton Radio
Check Bas Mooy (Audio Assault, ARMS) mix for Beton Radio

Motogen – The Other Side
Motogen (aka Coefficient) records a mix for cyberspace, The Other Side.

BRAWLcast #007: Horror Brawl – …and that was the Seedpod Bomb
the Horror Brawl duo of Bushby and Neil M turn in the 7th mix for their BRAWLcast series – a mix deep in the land of clanking techno.

Hoth System – Torture By Proxy
A solid and relentless mix from one of our favourites – Hoth System

Mirko S. & Filip Xavi guest on Beton Radio
Mirko S. & Filip Xavi guest on Beton Radio

Vadz – March 2010
Vad’z 10 track pick for March 2010.
ft. Chazz, Tantcui Tantcui, Mark Hawkins, Noiz, Redux, Imatran Voima, Rory St John, Visco Space, Daze Maxim, Phuture…

Vadz – Feburary 2010
Vadz’s 10 track pick for February 2010.
ft. Eero Johannes, Postapocalyps Pop, Paul Birken, Neonicle, Antihifi, 16 bit, Mesak, Scratch D, Akio Milan Paak…

DJ Slon – RTPOD8
Described as the The Godfather’ of the Russian techno scene – Oleg Azelitsky aka DJ Slon from St. Petersburg put together this mix for the netlabel and Techno portal Russian Techno.com. Run by MANTIS showcased producer and artist Vadz. (a great podcast and netlabel)

Friday Found Sound
It’s Friday, which means another Found Sound, the weekly round up of free and legit darkfloor themed music downloads. This week we have:

dcom – The Steel Remains
dcom’s The Steel Remains mix is a superb selection of industrial strength techno.

Horror Brawl – live at Detatched 19.12.2009
Horror Brawl (Bushby + Neil M) live at Leeds night Detatched, December 19th, 2009.

Friday Found Sound
As it’s Christmas we’re starting a new thing on darkfloor, the Friday Found Sound post. A collaborative post, comprising of some of the weeks net label releases, free track giveaways and anything else in the style of darkfloor electronica for free.

Sheffield Bleep’s Hardcore FM mix
Sheffield Bleep serving up 2 hours of classic hardcore techno. Simple and direct.

Bas Mooy live at Stay Up Festival, Sardinia, Italy. 25.07.2009
Bas Mooy, a personal fave, has been very busy this Summer, and continues to knock out superb mixes (of which you’ll see more of them on here) as well as running one of the most reliable techno labels, Audio Assault. This is no exception. 1 hour 36mins of quality mixed and selected techno.

Dead Sound – Atomic Jam / warm up
On November 21st, Dead Sound will be warming up for Rob Hall at Atomic Jam in Birmingham.
…a huge honour for me as its by far my favourite event…
…here’s a set if anyone is interested in the kinda thing I’ll be doing… all live mainly loop based from many a tune I’ve done… kinda like DE9 in the sense that theres about 4 loops going of at the same time…

Chris Liberator – La Capilla After (Redondela-Vigo) 1995
Bit of a rare one this. An acid techno set from Chris Liberator from way back in ’95, some 14 years ago. Still sounds as fresh now as it did then.

DVNT – July 2009
DVNT’s 25 track pick for July 2009.
ft. Dr Schmidt, Si Begg, Kate Bush, Teutonic Kaboom, puresthatred, Beagle, Untold, T-Polar, Deadman DJ, Schemeboy…

Horror Brawl – Opening Night At The Crazy Horse
Another storming Horror Brawl mix. We’ll let the tracklist do the talking.

Concrete DJz – Exclusive Tracks Mix / May 2009
An all Concrete DJz mix – showcasing their heavy and hard Serbian take on techno.

Horror Brawl’s Filtration mix
Having recently featured on the Mantis presents: series, the guys John and Neil are back again with another mix together as Horror Brawl.

Mantis Radio 033 + Vector Commander
Spring is here, and on the Mantis Radio this week Brazilian techno talent Vector Commander with an artist showcase session.