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

Selected and mixed by courin

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

Rebekah - Enigma

As in-your-face as a techno tune can get, Rebekah´s Enigma oozes attitude and power, with an unstoppable beat and industrial stylings that infuse it with a corrosive, yet compelling, aura. Hard techno the way it should be, from one of the most successful techno DJs out there. Released by none other than Soma Records.

Flug - Rejected

Argentinian artist Flug continues his output of white-hot blistering hard techno with the Rejected EP, released by JAM. Huge kicks, frenetic cymbals and percussion, a distorted and repeating voice sample and a piercing acid line make the title track perfect for levelling any dance floor when played at the right time.

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

Deapmash - Wrong Meta

Deapmash gives us four tracks of abusive, distorted hard techno in his Global Networks Connections EP, the kind that obliterate dancefloors and whips crowds into a frenzy. Jacking, mechanical, twisted and tough as nails, the EP´s first track, Wrong Meta, contains all the elements that make for great late-night madness, with a tinge of old-school flavour. Released by way-out-there techno specialists THEM Records, and not for the faint of heart.

Fjaak - Keep the Funk

Fjaak have been a very busy outfit ever since being picked up by Modeselektor for their 50 Weapons label in 2014, releasing a slew of breaks and techno records, including their first LP last year. Described as "hardware heads", the Berlin trio has imbibed from the city´s fountain of techno and become a true ambassador to the style, evidenced by their two-track, four-to-the-floor release Fjaak 003. Relentless beats that get into your head and move you onto the dancefloor, there´s no way to remain indifferent in the face of such massive kicks, especially in the A-side Keep the Funk, with its non-stop sample adding to the madness.

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!