Music on the [minimal] techno side!

The origins of Montreal born DJ-producer-incipient Teutonic legend Tiga lie to the vague and troubling East, where he was weaned on the nefarious milk of the notorious 1980s Indian club scene. “To the unforgiving eye,” he says of the sybaritic night-kingdom, “a world of filth...

Jesse Rose @ Parklife (...

‘Your average club-goer may not know what to call the hybrid house being made by Jesse Rose, but there’s no mistaking its potent mix of mind-numbingly crisp techno/house beats, gritty sample riddled melodies and bassbin-blowing subsonics or its effectiveness on a dancefloor’...

Billie Ray Martin @ Kom...

Billie Ray Martin started DJing after the fabulous response she received to her sets at her London clubnight “Komputerliebe”, and she hasn’t looked back since. From Japan and New York to London and Frankfurt her unique brand of Electro and Tech goes down a storm. As well as...

DJ Hell @ Fuse (Dave Cl...

DJ Hell and his label, Deejay Gigolos, spearheaded the whole electroclash scene with dark melodies and sick samples. Many dance artists give you simple melodies and beats to beat your head to, but instead DJ Hell plays with dissonance, simple synth lines, and aggressive rhythms. With...

Abe Duque @ Bar 13 (New...

Abe Duque got much of his early musical understanding from his dad who was a gifted musician and evangelical minister. Abe discovered Djing in the 80’s when he became obsessed with vinyl and electronic dance music production. He bought his first synthesizer with money from his newspaper...

Juan Atkins @ Redbull M...

At the dawn of the 1980s, Juan Atkins began recording what stands as perhaps the most influential body of work in the field of techno. Exploring his vision of a futuristic music which welded the more cosmic side of Parliament funk with rigid computer synth-pop embodied by Kraftwerk...

Vitalic @ Club Transmed...

Vitalic (born as Pascal Arbez in 1976) is an electronic music artist. According to a joke made in an interview, Arbez is Ukrainian and emigrated from Ukraine to East Germany when the Berlin Wall fell, accompanied by his dog, “Mini Robot”. Pascal was actually born in France and...

Terence Fixmer @ The Fi...

In 1998 Terence decided to start his own label PLANETE ROUGE RECORDS. The second release on it (after Gemini 9 EP) was the first one under his real name: TERENCE FIXMER :”Electrostatic”. The 3 tracker was played by the biggest DJ’s world wide, such as DAVE CLARKE,...

Funk D’Void @ Fle...

On the techno side of tech-house, Lars Sandberg’s streamlined recordings as Funk D’Void enlivened the fertile Glasgow techno scene during the mid-’90s courtesy of Soma Recordings, the label owned by local scene-heads Slam. He began DJing hip-hop and house around Glasgow in the...

Michael Mayer @ Space I...

The only point of criticism with Michael Mayer is that he doesn’t release enough of his own productions. One of the key figures of Cologne, Germany’s electronic music scene, Mayer also has durable reputations as a remixer, DJ, and producer and owner of the Kompakt label. Michael...

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