Franktronic

Franktronic is a Chicago lifer with an unoriginal story. He spent the '90s like everyone else -- buying mixtapes, DJing in his bedroom, and dancing at basement parties. But one night, in one of those very basements, he heard a new sound that would change his life. A sound that, he would later find out, was called Techno. He now devotes his life to bringing the gospels to the people of his home towm. The gospels of Hood and Mills; of Surgeon and Clarke; of Ruskin and Broom; of Flores and Liebing. Yea, the great gospels of our time.

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The 15 Dead Minutes - Purging The Pious (12inch)

When I see DVS1 live, I'm always like "Fuck, how does this guy have an UNENDING supply of scorching, 140-BPM, balls-out records?"

Then I find something like this.

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the 666 - Bas Mooy

Instead of asking inane questions about the pressures of touring or why using the sync button is bad, Darkfloor basically says "Hey, tell us about a bunch of awesome tracks we've never heard!"

It's like Christmas in August.

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Premiesku - PE DOS EP - Vakant / VA057

Hot Vakant EP by Premiesku and remixes from Avatism and Sons of Tiki! Tip!

Couple good ones here. The second track is really doing it for me.

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A treasure chest of Neil goodies.

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David Meiser / Victor Martinez / demon.I/O - THE NORTH GATE VOL. 1 - Subspecies / SBSPCS001

This is the first work published by Subspecies, a new label of Techno music based in Spain. The North Gate Volume 1 wants to show how different artists like David Meiser, Ritzi Lee, Victor Martinez or demon.I/O can work together and make a special release full of good sounds and good taste, enjoying themselves...

I know I like to use the word "pummeling" a lot but holy shit. Hope these Spaniards keep it up.

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Randomer - Stupid Things I Do (New School Mix)

It has all the elements of his usual basement-reverb stompers but in a pure techno package.

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Kolsch - Papageno feat. Waa Industry (Speicher 79)

Halfway through, this track does a 180 and gets all Antony & The Johnsons. Then it goes completely nuts.

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Kaval - Zee van Gedachten (LP)

Interesting atmospheric/experimental stuff.

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Gesloten Cirkel - Submit X

Some truly slick electro-bass-techno. Vinyl available from Clone.nl.

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If The Bells is the greatest techno track of all time (which it is), what are some good runners up? I nominate this Robert Hood track. Umek's Cavist is right up there too.

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Interesting set. Impeccable track list, disastrous mixing. At 1:18:00, it sounds like he accidentally set a loop length to a measure and a half. There are other atrocities but I won't dwell on them. I just want this guy's track list.

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Ben Sims - Dollar Bill Y'all

It always makes me chuckle to think that this is a Ben Sims track. http://djsbag.com/uploads/posts/1336862992_ben-sims-disco-trix-vol-2.jpg

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Dexter - Mr. Blunt

The king of modern breakbeats. http://www.beatport.com/track/mr-blunt-original-mix/88458

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Roberto Capuano - Vertigo (Drumcode)

Soundcloud

Beatport

I have absolutely no problem with the obvious aping of Inner City's Good LIfe. And check out the icy Detroit stabs on "Inversion" (around the 4:00 minute mark on the Soundcloud link). Epic.

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*** WARNING: FAGGY EURO SYNTH CHEESE AHEAD ***

Taking a break from the usual techno brutality, I thought I would give a shout to my favorite synth poppers, Komatrohn.

The track that started it all for me, a cover of the Bronski Beat classic: Smalltown Boy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lK6Jgk_sB0

Pure cheese. W.E.E.K.E.N.D. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyQrBADv-I0

A nice instrumental. Statist 2.0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og010w62pXQ

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Human Reason - Beyer, Fitzpatrick - Len Faki Remix

Beast.

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Rich Jones - D-Node Podcast

After listening to this twice, I was surprised to read in the blog notes that he's using Ableton; it doesn't have near the self-indulgent atmospherics that one would typically expect from an artist using it.