Im really feeling this.
if you think
that i think
that you know
what i know
could you say
what I said
to you
if you think
that i think
what you said
is what i said
then would say
what you think
i said
Friday, July 30, 2010
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Matteo Manzini Mix
Whilst in Berlin we were staying in the same hotel as some 'ditch heads - one of which was Matteo Manzini - a tall Italian dude who plays tech(no) haus - he just sent me this mix of his (he runs a sunday after hours thing in east on Sundays) and is friends with the likes of Minus' Fabrizio Maurizi. At 44 mins he comes in with Marcel Dettman's lattice - especially for Slugster.
Gate Is Closed You Are Out Of The Flight by matteomanzini
Gate Is Closed You Are Out Of The Flight by matteomanzini
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
10 big ones. apparently
Here is Ibiza Spotlight's pick of the top ten tracks heard around the white isle this summer:
http://www.ibiza-spotlight.com/night/reviews/2010/5inescapable_tunes_2010_i.htm
any thoughts?
http://www.ibiza-spotlight.com/night/reviews/2010/5inescapable_tunes_2010_i.htm
any thoughts?
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Joey Beltram - Back Porch
Pountney kindly mentioned this track and sent me this video link:
Get your militant techno fix by DL here.
serious beats.
Get your militant techno fix by DL here.
serious beats.
Kollektiv Turmstrasse...
...have a new album coming out in November.
which is good news.
In the meantime, everyone likes this guy:
Monday, July 26, 2010
LCD REMIX
It’s fair to say that last time I posted a Tiga remix it wasn’t exactly a contender for ‘TechnoTransmission’s Most Popular Post of the Year Award’. But, and it’s largely on the strength of how much I like the vocal from the original, I hereby present Tiga’s new remix of LCD Soundsystem’s ‘I Can Change.’
(It’s a builder, with the second half of the tune delivering the goods. For me, anyway)…x
Saturday, July 24, 2010
CLASSICAL INTERLUDE
It's not techno, but I it's mindblowingly emotive nonethesame.
There's some pretty awesome stuff on at the Proms this year - have I been able to go I would have loved to have got to this; I thoroughly recommend you have something to chill you out and space you out a bit, get into a dangerously warm bath and wade through this 2.5 hour spesh. Watching is worth it as well - the crazy Russian piano-soloist for the Prokofiev piece is worth a look at - nutcase.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00t4nn1/BBC_Proms_2010_Shostakovichs_Leningrad_Symphony/
There was also a little recital of Chopin's nocturnes that was more relaxing than Xanax, but I can't find it on iPlayer any more...
Hurry! Only there for a very short while!
There's some pretty awesome stuff on at the Proms this year - have I been able to go I would have loved to have got to this; I thoroughly recommend you have something to chill you out and space you out a bit, get into a dangerously warm bath and wade through this 2.5 hour spesh. Watching is worth it as well - the crazy Russian piano-soloist for the Prokofiev piece is worth a look at - nutcase.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00t4nn1/BBC_Proms_2010_Shostakovichs_Leningrad_Symphony/
There was also a little recital of Chopin's nocturnes that was more relaxing than Xanax, but I can't find it on iPlayer any more...
Hurry! Only there for a very short while!
Friday, July 23, 2010
Immer 3 - discuss...
This 4th track (Tim Paris -Edges of Commotion) from immer 3 is particularly great: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAuN3bgUjJQ
drops on 2.35. gets groovy with LCD farm yard perc. Absolutely love it.
The label on the vinyl says it takes inspiration from this weird bit of [mike oldfield-esque, steve reich-esque (thoughts on that?)] post modern jazz shit which you might also like to listen to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFE3140Lhw0&feature=related
...and for further reading... our old pal J-Dilla had his fill too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdIXgkqPR2k never one to miss a good sample eh?
drops on 2.35. gets groovy with LCD farm yard perc. Absolutely love it.
The label on the vinyl says it takes inspiration from this weird bit of [mike oldfield-esque, steve reich-esque (thoughts on that?)] post modern jazz shit which you might also like to listen to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFE3140Lhw0&feature=related
...and for further reading... our old pal J-Dilla had his fill too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdIXgkqPR2k never one to miss a good sample eh?
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
PANABAR
After a really rather memorable night in the best club in the world last friday, I feel like I have heard enough techno to last me a little while. But I still feel it necessary to post this homage to PanoramaBar/Berghain by Laurent Garnier up here as well as a piece of writing about this special place that kind of sums it up well.
As far as techno goes, there is little debate about where the centre of the universe lies at the moment - deep inside the vast vortex of 70 Am Wriezener Bahnhof, Berlin. Or Berghain and its upstairs Panorama Bar to be specific.
Like its '90s Berlin forefathers E-Werk and Tresor before it, the unhinged happenings of Berghain are resonating out of the German capital and shaping the future of this sound like no other space on Earth.
Joris Voorn describes it as "the true definition of a techno club that is all about the music", Joel Mull believes it is "the temple of techno and house on planet Earth", whilst Paul Woolford lauds it as "a massive inspiration for anybody serious about house and techno culture".
But for the thousands that are magnetised here from Germany, Spain, Italy, the UK and beyond, those words will amount to nothing more than preaching to the converted. In 2009, Berghain is the essential techno pilgrimage.
A colossus in every sense, the towering former power station has hosted just about every key name in techno. But whereas most clubs merely showcase them, Berghain hands its DJs the time, space and freedom to explore the full frontiers of their craft.
Where else will you see Carl Craig play for the best part of a waking day or Laurent Garnier (it was where he first roadtested his Innervisions release 'Back To My Roots') embark on a marathon voyage just as the rest of Europe is tucking into Sunday lunch? Even the very shortest sets at this place tend towards the three-hour mark.
"You can go into deep, slow 110bpm burners from someone like Moodyman, take it up to 130bpm techno classics - and everything in between," explains Jesse Rose. "As long as you get your groove on the crowd will follow."
Bringing house names like Switch, Sneak and Derrick Carter to Berlin, Jesse's monthly Made To Play residency in the Panorama Bar is a perfect example of Berghain's musical democracy. For whilst rising tall as an undisputed techno stronghold, Berghain is far from a closed musical fortress with Jerome Sydenham's soulful deepness, Distance's edgy industrial dubstep and the dystopian voodoo rhythms of Shackleton all finding a home here.
Of course, any weekly club will always be mastered by its residents and in Marcel Dettman Berghain have a DJ that has commanded the main room since 2004. His 'Berghain 02' mix frames the sound of the club at its best - deep, intense, hypnotic and informed by past, present and future in equal measure.
But what really places Berghain in another dimension altogether is that perpetual air of unchecked debauchery. One that consumes the concepts of time and space entirely. As Jesse Rose explains: "Entering Panorama Bar is like going back in time to an age when people went out to really party."
A true hedonists' playground, no club on earth goes deeper, or longer, than the full Berghain/Panorama Bar experience at the moment. Beginning at midnight and just about hitting stride at 10am every Sunday morning in the Panorama Bar, it runs to the late hours of Sunday evening each week.
It is always the forbidden pleasures that satisfy the very deepest urges and the journey into Berghain's abyss is laced with deviant exploration from the start.
Lying like a dark secret at the end of dusty, fence-enclosed road, its huge looming face is as foreboding as the militant rhythms that have become associated with peak-time Berghain.
But whilst the bouncers are notoriously selective, once you finally infiltrate the mainframe it is anything goes.
A reincarnation of Berlin's legendary Ostgut club, which regularly hosted men-only fetish night 'Snax' between '98 and '03, Berghain is still witness to open sex acts - there's even a basement space called The Laboratory designed specifically for them - but it remains a mixed and musically focused environment.
Forget about VIP areas, mirrors in the toilets and your camera (photography is one of the only practices that is actually outlawed here), Berghain's inner structures are two of the most pure, epic and stripped-back rave environments you ever will encounter. All exposed concrete and steelwork, the Berghain main room is the very definition of industrial and cavernous with ceilings so high they might as well not exist at all.
Sundays, of course, are all about Panorama Bar with the slightly more intimate dancefloor and the club's famous shutters that allow the breaking day's light to momentarily infiltrate the venue, only to shut moments later, leaving you lost in the timeless vortex of hedonism.
"Words really cannot describe how good this place is but I will try," says Matt Edwards, aka Radio Slave. "It is the real deal, run by incredibly dedicated people who love music and understand what makes a club work. It really is a place where you get lost in time and space."
True Story.
As far as techno goes, there is little debate about where the centre of the universe lies at the moment - deep inside the vast vortex of 70 Am Wriezener Bahnhof, Berlin. Or Berghain and its upstairs Panorama Bar to be specific.
Like its '90s Berlin forefathers E-Werk and Tresor before it, the unhinged happenings of Berghain are resonating out of the German capital and shaping the future of this sound like no other space on Earth.
Joris Voorn describes it as "the true definition of a techno club that is all about the music", Joel Mull believes it is "the temple of techno and house on planet Earth", whilst Paul Woolford lauds it as "a massive inspiration for anybody serious about house and techno culture".
But for the thousands that are magnetised here from Germany, Spain, Italy, the UK and beyond, those words will amount to nothing more than preaching to the converted. In 2009, Berghain is the essential techno pilgrimage.
A colossus in every sense, the towering former power station has hosted just about every key name in techno. But whereas most clubs merely showcase them, Berghain hands its DJs the time, space and freedom to explore the full frontiers of their craft.
Where else will you see Carl Craig play for the best part of a waking day or Laurent Garnier (it was where he first roadtested his Innervisions release 'Back To My Roots') embark on a marathon voyage just as the rest of Europe is tucking into Sunday lunch? Even the very shortest sets at this place tend towards the three-hour mark.
"You can go into deep, slow 110bpm burners from someone like Moodyman, take it up to 130bpm techno classics - and everything in between," explains Jesse Rose. "As long as you get your groove on the crowd will follow."
Bringing house names like Switch, Sneak and Derrick Carter to Berlin, Jesse's monthly Made To Play residency in the Panorama Bar is a perfect example of Berghain's musical democracy. For whilst rising tall as an undisputed techno stronghold, Berghain is far from a closed musical fortress with Jerome Sydenham's soulful deepness, Distance's edgy industrial dubstep and the dystopian voodoo rhythms of Shackleton all finding a home here.
Of course, any weekly club will always be mastered by its residents and in Marcel Dettman Berghain have a DJ that has commanded the main room since 2004. His 'Berghain 02' mix frames the sound of the club at its best - deep, intense, hypnotic and informed by past, present and future in equal measure.
But what really places Berghain in another dimension altogether is that perpetual air of unchecked debauchery. One that consumes the concepts of time and space entirely. As Jesse Rose explains: "Entering Panorama Bar is like going back in time to an age when people went out to really party."
A true hedonists' playground, no club on earth goes deeper, or longer, than the full Berghain/Panorama Bar experience at the moment. Beginning at midnight and just about hitting stride at 10am every Sunday morning in the Panorama Bar, it runs to the late hours of Sunday evening each week.
It is always the forbidden pleasures that satisfy the very deepest urges and the journey into Berghain's abyss is laced with deviant exploration from the start.
Lying like a dark secret at the end of dusty, fence-enclosed road, its huge looming face is as foreboding as the militant rhythms that have become associated with peak-time Berghain.
But whilst the bouncers are notoriously selective, once you finally infiltrate the mainframe it is anything goes.
A reincarnation of Berlin's legendary Ostgut club, which regularly hosted men-only fetish night 'Snax' between '98 and '03, Berghain is still witness to open sex acts - there's even a basement space called The Laboratory designed specifically for them - but it remains a mixed and musically focused environment.
Forget about VIP areas, mirrors in the toilets and your camera (photography is one of the only practices that is actually outlawed here), Berghain's inner structures are two of the most pure, epic and stripped-back rave environments you ever will encounter. All exposed concrete and steelwork, the Berghain main room is the very definition of industrial and cavernous with ceilings so high they might as well not exist at all.
Sundays, of course, are all about Panorama Bar with the slightly more intimate dancefloor and the club's famous shutters that allow the breaking day's light to momentarily infiltrate the venue, only to shut moments later, leaving you lost in the timeless vortex of hedonism.
"Words really cannot describe how good this place is but I will try," says Matt Edwards, aka Radio Slave. "It is the real deal, run by incredibly dedicated people who love music and understand what makes a club work. It really is a place where you get lost in time and space."
True Story.
Monday, July 19, 2010
Immer 3
On the day of its release I very excitedly purchased this on beatport but only to realize that it was missing a track, a very important track. After a little research I learned that the digital release was not allowed to feature Gui Boratto's remix of Massive Attack's 'Paradise Circus'. Could I continue listening to this mix knowing too well that its not complete by missing quite possibly its best track? I think nauwt! So I forked out another a little sum and patiently waited for a hard copy, and I tell you what, its hard to deny that this is a killer mix and I'm sure you'll "copy that". I really like the way he almost plays out the full length of tracks and somehow manages to effortlessly fuse them into each other with similar beats and melodies. Its a very stylish mix with a superb track selection. Enjoy!
In My System (Jef K System Mix) - The Gathering
Benji posted this up as a YouTune clip before everyone started going away.
Let's get more active again. There are some of my favourites from James' mix ready for DL as well.
Let's get more active again. There are some of my favourites from James' mix ready for DL as well.
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
I suck your mix....what?
Threw this little puppy together on using Trakboys again.
Enough Love To Hate It - Martin Buttrich
Circle Monkey - Popof
Colorz (Super Flu Rmx) - Ramon Tapia
Point Of View - Johnny D
Bicho Corderillo - Jacuzzi Boys
Thoughts - Green Velvet
Marimba Baby - Ryan Crosson, Guti
Mowtown Roller (Lee Jones Rmx) - Kris Wadsworth
Deaf Wagrant (Selianka Edit) - Catz n Dogz, DOP
Cm (Chloe Remix) - Robotini
On The Streets (Kollective Turmstrasse Remix) - Federlicht
Robotrix - Luca Morris
Satisfaction - Green, Falkner
Sunstep - The Glitz
Jus Groove - Sacha Dive
Action Satisfaction (Lee Jones Remix) - Soul Clap
Hate/Love - Guy Gerber
Eleccion - Basti Grub, Aldo Cadiz
Raw Cutz 5 - Motor City Drum Ensemble
Non Stop Dub - Jesse Rose
If I Was Your Girl - Glimpse
Sing - Deetron
Action Satisfaction - Soul Clap
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