Ok, it’s time to get busy again. I’ll admit right away that I’ve turned a bit soft lately.
So I needed to do something about that. Here’s a couple of techno tracks that rolls in the deep and dark. Continue reading Time to go down. Down deep, and rolling. Techno time.
It’s techno Tuesday! And these two tracks means business. Dirty business. Just how we like’em. Continue reading Made In Riot & Simina Grigoriu, “Spring Storms” and The Planetary Defence Side Project, “Ball Lightning”!
Dark. Repetitive. Lurking. Groovy. With just the right progression. Sometimes that’s how we want our techno. And that is exactly what the artist who named himself “1988” delivers. Continue reading 1988, “A001”: A rolling techno groove
The drive of this track takes no prisoners – the stomping is destroying the floor. The progression is p.e.r.f.e.c.t. And that synth… Ah man. I wish it could have my baby. Continue reading Kokoro – “Cardiogram”: Take me to your rave, Kokoro. Please.
“Lovely, deep groove.” “Hypnotic.”
“Great progression.”
Those were the notes I wrote for myself when I found this track.
It steers firmly towards acidic techno grounds, all without losing the progressive foothold.
Continue reading Luca Maniaci, “Pantheon”: Let’s get the weekend started!
The components in this minimal creation is just so perfectly honed to each other, they create one unison structure, all moving in the same direction. It’s like the most beautiful mechanical subsea creature you can imagine.
This is why you can take the man out of the club but you can’t take the club out of the man. It’s tracks like this that is to blame for all that. Continue reading Garibe, “Cavas”: Come roll with me
Omnisphere is the title track from the impressive debut EP by Mikael Johnson. A track that essentially captures the atmosphere that I prefer in my techno: A dark, damp, stomping and brutal atmosphere, but without losing the groove. Continue reading Mikael Johnson, “Omnisphere”: Focus on the groove, captain!
Meanwhile, back in Techyland, some shouted “it needs more cowbell!”. But Mossa looks up from his mix and replies, “No! It doesn’t. It needs more KICK!”. So he took the kick drum and moved it all the way to the front of the mix. So much so, that he scared away all the other techno tracks and became king of the Kick Hill.
Just a silly little tale? But, take a listen! Continue reading Mossa, “Schadenfreude”: There can never be enough KICK!
A revisit to the techno grounds are never wrong. One of my absolute favourite genres has grown so large that it at times is barely recognisable. Here’s a track that I do believe most techno aficionados will agree belong to the techno bag, though one can never be too sure 🙂 Continue reading Kokoro, “Hemoglobin”: Welcome to the techno sump