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[17] Kuri Kondrak

January 15, 2019 by Arturo Lopez

We’re a long-time fan of Seattle selector Kuri Kondrak, whose range and taste we came to appreciate with frequent guest mixes for WNUR’s “Sonic Sunset” program (In fact some of those 2006 mixes still stand tall among our favorite ever). We know It may seem almost de rigueur these days for DJ’s to pull a lot of “cross-genre” material, but we’ve always been damned impressed with Kuri being able to move from Italo to Hip Hop to Techno without a hitch, the kind of confidence you only get with a deep record collection. Kuri is the former music editor at Resonance Magazine (RIP) and has played up and down the West Coast. This is a great mix as always, Techno-focused with choice cuts from the 90’s through to hot off-the-press releases.

Morphology – Farthest Regions [Firescope]
Dopplereffekt – Mitosis [Leisure System]
No Moon – Bathtub Dub [Mechatronica]
214 – Keep Right [CPU]
Shiver – Illogical [Shiver]
Titonton Duvante – Extrapolation (Dan Curtin’s Rextrapolation Part 2) [Metamorphic]
Russell Butler – No New Neighbors [Left Hand Path]
Flora FM – Melon Squabbles [TerraFirm]
Ex-Terrestrial – Insect Reject [Magic Wire]
Stephen Lopkin – Friday’s At Pure [MOS Deep]
Planetary Assault System – Booster [Peacefrog]
Jordan GCZ – Pinball Lizard [Rush Hour]
E Davd – Hearbeat/Hyperdrive [X-Kalay]
Hunee – Rare Silk [W.T. Records]
D’Marc Cantu – Regular People [Spectral]
MASC – Eye Feel [Super Rhythm Trax]
Lone – Pulsar [R&S]
Octo Octa -Beam Me Up (To The Goddess Mix) [Naïve]
Textasy – Blow Your Head [Craigie Knowles]
808 State – In Your Face (Bicep Remix) [Feel My Bicep]
Vince Watson & Paul Mac – Track 2 [Influenced]

More mixes from Kuri here, and more photography here.

January 15, 2019 /Arturo Lopez
Techno
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[15] Kiddo

December 18, 2018 by Arturo Lopez

We’re excited to get back on a firm Techno footing with this mix from Chicago’s Kiddo! An extended party set from a recent Daisychain event in Buffalo, NY, we hope you enjoy it as much as we do. Lots of great selections here, from one of our favorite Baxter cuts, to LFO, Dan Curtin, and more. Dance!

Blake Baxter - When We Used to Play [KMS]
Joel Alter - Everlasting (Dorisburg Remix) [Uncanny Valley]
Brooks Mosher - Entrenched [Dolly]
Pris - Flagrant Foul [Non Series]
Camea - JAK U (Matrixxman Self Love Mix) [Neverwhere]
BAGS INC (Addison Groove & Bim Sanga) D Question - [Dance Trax]
Abby Echiverri - Nadezhda [The Bunker New York]
Daïf - Lovelydevil [Amazing stories]
Desert Sound Colony - Aunt Wendy's Wedding in Wales [Holding Hands Records]
LFO - LFO (House Mix) [Out]
Volruptus - Alien Transmissions [bbbbbb]
Delta Funktionen - Please Identify [Ann Aimee]
Mor Elian - Feral Chime [Hypercolour]

-Part 2-
Marcel Dettmann - Shift (Norman Nodge Remix) [Ostgut Ton]
Alien Rain - Alienated 5 A [Alien Rain]
Hinode - Unknown B1 [Science Fiction Limited]
Luna City Express - Mr.Jack (Robag Wruhme Edna Mompf Remix) [Moon Harbour]
Dax J - Something in the Woods [Deeply Rooted]
Stephanie Sykes - Circle 2 [Vent]
Dimi Angelis - Tarazed [Ravage White Series]
Camea - JAK U [Neverwhere]
Donnato Dozzy - Back [Tresor]
SP-X - Process Control [Projekts]
Truncate - Control V1 [Truncate]
Hinode - untitled A1 [Science Fiction Limited]
Dan Curtin - Sunrise on the 2nd Moon [Peacefrog]
Ben Sims - The Snake [Drumcode]

Aside from regular club gigs across the USA, Kiddo is a mentor and co-founder with Walking and Falling , a fantastic music mentorship program providing free workshops in DJing and production. Check them out if you are in Chicago, or satellite events in Columbus and Buffalo. You can find more info on Kiddo here, and if you haven’t already seen her killing it at Smart Bar or elsewhere she has a lot of great sets posted for you as well!

December 18, 2018 /Arturo Lopez
Techno

[07] Arturo Lopez

May 25, 2016 by Arturo Lopez

 

Sometimes the darker paths are best.  Don't fear the bleakness. We pick up steam entering the tunnel and push on through to the other place.  Cuts from labels Mord, Stroboscopic, Downwards, and an excellent remix from Jacktone.   A selection from an unreleased 90's soundtrack to a William Gibson audiobook, and some power drums from LIES taking us into a Senegalese Griot full body experience.  We hope you enjoy, and we can't wait to see all our fellow children of the night at this year's Movement in Detroit. 

-Arturo

Mixed by a human on turntables, warts and all.

[65 Minutes, 114 MB]

Dolhous - He Was Human And Belonged with Humans (Regis Version) [Blackest Ever Black] [2014] 
Vatican Shadow - Muscle Hijacker Tribal Affiliation [Hospital] [2013]
W3C - Bile [Cold] [2016]
Simon Shreeve - A Thousand & One [Downwards] [2016] 
Lee Gamble - Jove Layup [Pan] [2014]
Black Rain - Now I'm Just A Number [Blackest Ever Black] [1995 (2012 repress)] 
Kangding ray - Ardent [Stroboscopic] [2016]
Worker/Parasite - Justa909 (Dr. Sleep Rmx) [Jacktone] [2015]
Ribé - Atop [Pole Group] [2016]
D. Carbone - The Observer [Mord] [2016]
Female - No Sense/No Reason [Downwards] [1999]
Tim Taylor - Low Budget Brother [Missile] [1999]
Kraftwork - Expo 2000 (Abe Duque Rmx) [2002]
Lag - Kontrola (Bas Mooy Rmx) [2014]
Randomer - Kid's Play [LIES] [2015]
Aby Ngana Diop - Yaye Penda Mbaye [ATFA] [2014]

May 25, 2016 /Arturo Lopez
Techno

[06] m50

April 08, 2016 by Arturo Lopez

 

We are delighted to share with you an excellent mix from Chicago's own m50! As the long-running host of WNUR's weekly "etc radio" show, and the Kimochi Sound record label head, he's been responsible for both producing, releasing, and showcasing a wide variety of forward-looking music from artists across the globe. The Chicago Reader recently did an excellent cover story about Kimochi which you can read here.   This mix features everything from 1990 NYC-flavored business to Russian chunky beats, along with other fresh releases from the new Tesuji label! m50 is currently performing overseas, with upcoming dates in Germany, Switzerland, and Poland.  You can also catch etc Radio Friday nights locally on WNUR 89.3 FM, or world wide at http://wnurstreetbeat.org/  Enjoy!

-Arturo

 

 

[65 Minutes, 148 MB]

Godspeed You Black Emperor - Lambsa Breath [Constellation]  [2015]
Druss - 20 Sides A Minutes [Trensmat]  [2013]
Area - Entireless (Donato Dozzy's Genesis Chamber Version) [Tesuji]  [2016]
Dorisburg - Time Stretch Totem  [Abuara]  [2016]
Takashi Himeoka - Langston [Bleu Ciel]  [2015]
Nthng - Community  [Mörk]  [2014]
Fierce Ruling Diva - Atomic Slide (Rise Up & Work NYC) [Lower East Side]  [1990]
The Fear Ratio - 20122  [Kasm]  [2015]
Vakula - Modulation 01  [Arma]  [2016]
MB - We Only Have  [Bio Rhythm]  [2015]
Area - It's Just A Body  [Plan B]  [2012]
Simo Cell - Meteor Racer  [Fragil Musique]  [2015]
CN - Naunet  [WéMè]  [2014] 
Dreamlogicc - I've Said It A Million Times [Kimochi] [2016]
Isorinne - Vattenpromenad II [Infinite Waves] [2015]
Strategy - Isol [Kimochi] [2016]

April 08, 2016 /Arturo Lopez
Techno

[05] rktic

March 11, 2016 by Arturo Lopez

A very special treat for Episode [05] with Hamburg, Germany-based rktic,  a long time producer, DJ, and music software writer.  From RA: "His boundary defiant vision of Djing has found significant exposure at an eclectic variety of clubs, venues, and festivals, including the Tresor/Berlin, MS Stubnitz, Objekt/Dresden, Pudel/Hamburg, Uebel & Gefaehrlich/Hamburg, Club Prag/Stuttgart, Love Parade '98, Norberg Festival '02, and TMBase Festival/Romania '10. Additionally, he has served as a resident DJ at Unit III/HH from '97 to '99, and Vorspiel/HH from '04 to '06."

Get your mind right for a trip through some of the darker, more intense corners of our Techno world. Cracking cuts from  Ingen / Boris Noiz,  SHXCXCHCXSH, and more.  Proper business here, ladies and gentlemen, not for the feint of heart. 

-Arturo

DOWNLOAD (opens a new window with options) [117 Minutes, 218 MB]

rktic - Radiate #1
Aphex Twin - Parallel Stripes [Warp]  [1999]
Monolake - Wasteland [Monolake / Imbalance Computer Music]  [2005]
SPR - Untitled Ritual  [JSMЁ Records]  [2015]
Demdike Stare - Regolith  [Modern Love]  [2010]
Post Scriptum - Time Plus Time To Encode  [Infrastructure New York]   [2015]
Irradiation - Black-Body Radiation (Milton Bradley Remix)  [Temp Records]  [2014]
Pete Namlook & Jochem Paap - srfc mttn  [Fax +49-69/45064]  [2004]
Lucy and Klock - Bliss  [Stroboscopic Artefacts]  [2015]
Kerridge - Waiting For Love 3  [Downwards]  [2014]
Echospace - Untitled 3  [Echospace Detroit]  [2013]
Aphex Twin - Spots [Warp]  [1999]
Northaunt - Boreal  [Cyclic Law]  [2015]
Jeff Mills - Spiral Therapy  [Axis]  [2011]
Nuel - Untitled  [Aquaplano]
BLNDR - Movement Strobe 2  [Hypnus Records]  [2015]
Ingen & Boris Noiz - Spikes  [Combat Recordings]  [2014]
Sawf - Kekra  [Prosthetic Pressings]  [2014]
Sendai - Martens' Deficit [Stroboscopic Artefacts]  [2014]
SHXCXCHCXSH - Helical Dialog  [Avian]  [2014]
Black Rain - Lo Tek Bridge  [Blackest Ever Black]  [2012]
Demdike Stare - Black Sun  [Modern Love]  [2010]
rktic - Radiate #3
Max Corbacho - Three Circles  [AD21 Music]  [2006]
KiNK - Kokiche  [Macro]  [2014]
SPR - The hottest ore is pruduced from the hottest furnace  [JSMЁ Records]  [2015]
Aphex Twin - Grey Stripe  [Warp]  [1999]
Roman Slavka - Lift  [Enough]  [2007]
B12 - Terra Incognita  [Soma Quality Recordings]  [2015]  
Post Scriptum - Decades To Millenia  [Infrastructure New York]  [2015]
Synthek - Escape From Reality  [STK (2)]  [2015]  
Anxur - Volo 1  [Eerie]  [2014]
Donor - Menace Is Mine  [Prosthetic Pressings]  [2014]
SHXCXCHCXSH - Mrrrwrrrds  [Avian]  [2014]
SIGHA - 04  [Hotflush Recordings]  [2009]
Kerridge - Waiting For Love 2  [Downwards]  [2013]
Val_Ex - Territories  [Solar One Music]  [2014]  
Ligovski - Labiate  [Dement3d]  [2014]
Donato Dozzy - Il Canto Della Maga  [Stroboscopic Artefacts]  [2014]

Image: Death Valley '79 Blog. Check it!

March 11, 2016 /Arturo Lopez
Techno