The November Mix - Part 2

Time for another mix! As the weather turns cold around these parts, we need scorching-hot techno tracks to keep us warm and happy, and this session brings just about everything you need to meet the unavoidable cold. But, if you´re in the Southern Hemisphere, then you´ll be experiencing the opposite. Enough talk, here´s the music!

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 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 July Mix - Part 2

This mix turned out as a balance between melodic and hard techno, with 16 excellent techno tracks building up from the easygoing nature of dubby techno to the gritty face of acid-tinged tunes, finishing with a touch of light and melody. Featuring original songs and remixes (including one of a classic 1997 tune), this collection will take you on a 80-minute ride to techno bliss. All tracks were reviewed on this blog from July 16 to 31, 2018.

Tracklist:

1.- Isolee - Yes Let
2.- H.O.S.H. & Groj - Jedi
3.- Der Dritte Raum - Blau
4.- Oliver Lieb - Gone
5.- Locked Groove - From Beyond
6.- Carlo Ruetz - Kolaps
7.- Mono Electric Orchestra - Neutral Density
8.- Xenia Beliayeva & Maksim Dark - Sold Out
9.- Teenage Mutants - Into The Rave
10.- Skream - Poison (Alan Fitzpatrick Remix)
11.- Assailants - Effort 8
12.- Wehbba - Catarse
13.- Shlomi Aber - Whistler
14.- Phase Fatale - Reverse Fall
15.- Thomas Schumacher - When I Rock (Thomas Schumacher Remix)
16.- Bastian Bux - Somia

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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!