The October 2018 Mix - Part 2

This mix has multiple personalities, no doubt due to the many different styles selected during this latter half of October. Including deep, melodic, clubby, funky, hard, scary and downright weird techno tunes, this is a session that covers a lot of ground. 

The October Mix, Part 1

This first October session focuses on the melodic side of techno, with some hard tracks peppered in for good measure. We´ve selected 15 great tracks over the first half of the month, and I hope this mix does them proper justice. Enjoy!

Tracklist:

1.- Kevin de Vries - Aratak

2.- D-Deck & Alex Mine - New Odyssey

3.- Ron Costa - Touma Perception

4.- Juxta Position - Bad Folder

5.- Maxim Dark - Freedom Action

6.- Lewis. - The Resurrection

7.- Sian - Paper

8.- Metodi Hristov - Sofia

9.- Ilija Djokovic - Helix

10.- uhnknwn - Starlight Unit

11.- ANNA - When I Am Only A Dream

12.- Victor Ruiz & Thomas Schumacher - Wonder

13.- Tom Hades - Cloned

14.- Par Grindvik - Layday (Mark Broom Remix)

15.- Noir - Undone

The September Mix - Part 2

The mix for the latter half of September turned out a bit harder than usual, starting off with deep, melodic grooves and finishing in a jacking bass tsunami overload. 15 of the best tracks released this month, mixed with the utmost care and attention for your enjoyment. Thanks for listening!

Tracklist:
1.- Sasha - Smoke Monk (VONDA7 6am Flight Remix)
2.- Dense & Pika and Melody´s Enemy - From Nothing
3.- The Saunderson Brothers - Under The Bridge
4.- Drunken Kong - How Far Do We Go
5.- Tube & Berger - International Corporate Motherfuckers (Teenage Mutants Remix)
6.- Loco & Jam - Red Alert
7.- Pascal FEOS - F&L
8.- Roman Poncet - Turn Down
9.- The Advent - High Horse
10.- Re:Axis - Energy In Motion
11.- Mediane - Inhuman
12.- Element0 - Loaded
13.- Ellen Allien - Trigger
14.- Truncate - Multiply
15.- Lewis Fautzi - Opposition

The September Mix - Part One

Time again for a new mix! This time the gloves are off and we bring you a scorching hot set from start to finish. Hard grooves, great melodies, wicked voice samples and, as always, big big kicks. Starting with the Detroit-like bass of opener They Came to Equalize, from 8factor, and ending with the larger-than-life vocals of closing tune Echota, from Veerus and Oc & Verde, this is a 69-minute ride that´s sure to have a couple memorable moments. Hope you enjoy listening to it as much as I did mixing it!

Tracklist:

1.- 8factor - They Came To Equalize

2.- Juliet Fox - Wanted Me

3.- SRVD - Elevate

4.- Martin Eyerer & Ackermann - What

5.- Hidden Empire - Black Beauty (Drunken Kong Remix)

6.- LAAT - Give Your Love

7.- SCB - Hexagon

8.- Mikael Jonasson - Scholar

9.- Linus Quick - Tethys

10.- Tom Hutt - Obey

11.- Eric Sneo - Feel High

12.- Austen/scott - Space Taxi (Len Faki Hardspace Mix)

13.- Vinicius Honorio - Ride the Lightning

14.- Kaiserdisco - Form

15.- Veerus and OC & Verde - Echota

The August 2018 Mix - Pt. 1

The first half of August brought us heat and great tunes as well, so we might as well call this a "hot" mix, one I can assure you had me dripping sweat by the end. With tunes from repeat offenders such as Maceo Plex and Yan Cook, who have been previously featured in this blog, but also featuring music from established names and up-and-coming producers as well. As always, thanks for listening and enjoy!

Tracklist:

1- Simoncino - Dune 2000
2- Timo Maas & Mark Deutsche - Maestro
3- Taster Peter - Eskimo Kiss
4- Maceo Plex - Mutant Radio
5- Will Clarke - Mercy
6- Alan Fitzpatrick - System Addict
7- Pisetzki - Conquer
8- Jody Barr - Marlon Brando
9- Transcode - Arbitrage
10- Adam Beyer & Layton Giordani - Rome Future 
11- Paride Saraceni - Mindrush
12- Pan-Pot - Weltlinie
13- Setaoc Mass - Torque
14- Yan Cook - ZZZ
15- Jon Hopkins - Everything Connected (Stephan Hinz Remix)

The July Mix, Pt. 1

This mix features some left-field tunes as well as proper techno bangers, so it turned out somewhat eclectic. Weird melodies get paired with massive kicks for a shifting and heady session, covering the many different faces of techno, as The Techno Chapter´s mixes always do. All tracks were reviewed on this blog from July 1-15, 2018.

  

Tracklist:

1. Barnt - If She Says She Is A Healer, She Is A Healer

2. Red Axes - Sipoor

3. Darlyn Vlys - Faux Semblants

4. Dubspeeka - Contras II

5. Fideles - Lotus

6. Eitan Reiter & Ella Gotman - Spin

7. SCB - Extint (ANNA Remix)

8. UMEK - Foresight

9. GusGus & Metodi Hristov - Magenta (Skober Remix)

10. Ronnie Spiteri - Thunder Life

11. Marco Faraone & Hertz Collision - Terraforming

12. Person of Interest - Neurogenesis

13. Flug - Rejected

14. Rebekah - Enigma

15. Boston 168 - Cosmic Tribe

The June Mix, Part 2

It´s time for another mix, using the music reviewed in this blog from June 16 - 30. This time things start at a strong pace and pick up in intensity as the session goes along, passing through many different sides of techno: melodic, funky, hard or just plain weird. 

Tracklist: 

1. Tone Depth - Errors
2. Matt Sassari - Seigneur Gondor
3. Frankyeffe - The Sun
4. VNTM - Be A Freak
5. ANNA - Razor
6. Thomas Evans  - Because I´m
7. Hell Driver - Exoplanet
8. Kaiserdisco - Salacia
9. Drunken Kong - One (Michael Klein Remix)
10. Flug - Rave
11. Blawan - Vented
12. Roberto Capuano - Define
13. Enrico Sangiuliano - A Further Existence 
14. Camea - NAF97
15. Martin Eyerer - El Circulo

The June Mix - Part 1

It´s time again to compile all the tunes we´ve selected these first 15 days of June, mix them together and present the result to you faithful readers. This session begins with the lovely Booya Boy by PanTone and progresses from the more melodic to the harder techno, ending with the blistering, white-hot Wrong Meta by Deapmash.

As always, it´s a real pleasure to select and mix the best techno tracks out there, and I hope you enjoy listening to it as much as I enjoyed making it. So here´s 1 hour of uninterrupted, cutting-edge techno.

Tracklist:

1.- Booya Boy (Original Mix) by PanTone
2.- Excelsior by Costello
3.- Hex (Original Mix) by OC & Verde
4.- Again Again by Hidden Empire
5.- Underground Diva (Matt Sassari Remix) by Nerdjack
6.- Crank (Original Mix) by Octave One
7.- Heat It Up (Original Mix) by Loco & Jam
8.- On My Way (Original Mix) by Marco Faraone
9.- 51 by Philip Bader
10.- 12 Hours by Ray Kajioka
11.- Droogs by Rhyw
12.- Keep the Funk by Fjaak
13.- Five by Falcon Black Ops
14.- Pestered by Juxta Position
15.- Wrong Meta by Deapmash

May 2018 techno mix

Here´s a short and sweet mix of the 8 tracks selected for May (sorry for the delay).

Playlist:
1.- Posthuman- The Damocles Syndicate
2.- M€RCY - Black
3.- Yotam Avni - Luna
4.- Hyperloop - In Your Mind (Reflections)
5.- Patrick Berg & Matt Sassari: Discovery
6.- Maceo Plex - Mutant DX feat. Maars
7.- Gary Beck - Pneuma
8.- Slam - Chimera

A new mix will be published twice a month, so watch this space!

2018 already?

It´s been a long hiatus and I feel just like Rip Van Winkle waking up, although it´s only been a three-year slumber and not the full 20 years this guy spent in dreamland. Anyways, I think the time to continue posting music in this here blog has come once again, and there´s a lot to catch up on.

First, some new plans for what´s left of 2018, including more and more techno mix sessions on Mixcloud (the latest one is right below these lines), as well as the re-launch of my Mixlr radio web page (http://mixlr.com/courin-edge/) as soon as I finish configuring my home studio (really just my laptop, my Pioneer DJ controller and my simple-yet-powerful sound system). I´ll post the live sessions schedule once I figure everything out, so keep an eye on this blog!

What hasn´t changed is my love for music, with techno deeply embedded into my heart and soul. These years there´s been a LOT of new, amazing music, music worth sharing and writing about, and I feel bad for not keeping this blog active during this time, but life does not always make it easy to find the time to write and publish, and I´ve also been kind of lazy about it, so, let´s say blame is 50/50 on me.

But it´s a new, shining, beautiful day, and we have a lot to look forward to. So, I will make my best effort to keep bringing you new tunes to discover and enjoy every day, and to constantly be thinking of new ideas to keep you, and myself as well, interested. It´s a fairly easy job, as long as the tunes are good this blog will be good too (I hope!).

So, new mixes, new live sessions, new tunes reviewed every day, new energy and new ideas, starting on this day, May 24, 2018. And to start things off, here´s a mix: