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Lenny Dee – Resident Advisor Exchange podcast RA.EX505 2020-04-9

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“Hardcore, gabba, breakbeat techno, rave—Vivian Host hears from the New Yorker who pioneered them all.
New York native Lenny “Dee” Didesiderio is considered by many the first hardcore techno DJ. In 1991 he introduced America to the hardcore techno sound when he started the first label devoted to the style, Industrial Strength Records. Since launching with Marc Acardipane’s timeless “Mescalinium United,” Industrial Strength remains a central node for hardcore music 28 years later. But Didesiderio’s work before hardcore became a fully fledged sound is equally significant.
It’s difficult to underestimate Didesiderio’s impact on the UK and Europe’s nascent rave scenes. Few artists at the time had a hand in so many anthems—both The Morning After and the debut Looney Tunes EP (which helped kick off XL Recordings) are stamped indelibly into the collective rave consciousness, while his contributions to the Bonesbreaks series helped cement the breakbeat’s presence in early techno. Yet even before then, Didesiderio was Arthur Baker’s production assistant, amassing credits with artists diverse as Nile Rodgers, N-Joy and New Order.
RA contributor Vivian Host joins Didesiderio for the most extensive examination of his work to date, exploring the myriad nooks and crannies of a career whose significance is coming into ever sharper relief.”
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Orbital – Resident Advisor Exchange podcast RA.EX504 2020-04-02

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“The brothers Hartnoll tell their story live from inner city electronic.
Phil and Paul Hartnoll’s story as Orbital is a quintessential tale of UK rave culture. Their musical, cultural and political backgrounds speak to the temper of the late ’80s. This is a group who came from punk, electro and hip-hop, grew up in a golden era for sci-fi soundtracks, watched ecstasy change the mood during the drudgery of Thatcherism, and took part in the explosion of DIY enthusiasm around acid house.
Orbital were “shot out of a human cannon” from their first release Chime, which literally took them from washing dishes to Top Of The Tops overnight. From there they became an exemplary of rave culture translating to the mainstream, earning acceptance from massive audiences thanks to their clear and present harmonic content and stadium-sized dynamics. The Hartnoll’s talked through how it all came together live with writer Matt Anniss last month as part of Leeds festival inner city electronic’s conference programme.”
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VTSS – Resident Advisor podcast #703 2020-03-30

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“Dark and rowdy club sounds.
Over the last few years, Martyna Maja has emerged as one of techno’s most rebellious new voices. Her sound is tastefully hard and thrillingly vicious, something she says she learned from Poland’s underground scene—clubs like Jasna1, the former party Brutaz and the WIXAPOL crew—which introduced her to the strains of EBM, industrial, hardcore and neo-gabber that give her style a fresh twist. In the DJ booth, as Will Lynch once put it, Maja has a “freestyling, don’t-give-a-fuck attitude,” a quality that can be applied to everything she touches, from her mixing style, production work and choice of collaborators (fellow rule breakers like SPFDJ and Varg) down to her piss-taking social media presence.
Maja’s enjoyed a meteoric rise as a DJ since moving from Warsaw to Berlin in 2018, playing on industrial-heavy lineups like Amsterdam’s Katharsis Festival to experimental events like Atonal, CTM and Unsound. Her productions, too, have earned a passionate following, once again defying expectations for what techno, EBM and acid can be. Her mix for RA, made up of mostly new tracks she’s been playing out recently, accelerates through these peak-time rave styles with an extrovert’s touch. In this period of social-distancing, RA.722 is an evil reminder of just how wicked a night at the club can be.”
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Squarepusher – Resident Advisor Exchange podcast RA.EX500 2020-03-05

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“Exchange number 500 with the talented Mr. Jenkinson.
Tom Jenkinson’s work as Squarepusher is some of the most jaw-dropping and future-facing music of the last three decades. It’s common to see him grouped alongside other key acts from the Warp stable like Aphex Twin and Autechre, but Jenkison’s musical horizons are uniquely all-encompassing. Few artists have managed to so convincingly create a dialogue—or an “argument” as Jenksion puts it—between live instruments and electronic sound. It’s a conversation he carries out at an insatiable rate, having released at least 14 LPs since 1996, all while pushing himself and his audience with new compositional approaches.”
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DJ Die – Resident Advisor Exchange podcast RA.EX496 2020-02-06

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“Squat raves, skating and soca with the Bristol jungle doyen.”
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B.Traits – Resident Advisor podcast #703 2019-11-18

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“Two hours of ambient, techno and jungle.
Just over a year ago, Brianna Price, AKA B.Traits, announced that she was leaving Radio 1 after six years. Her reason? She was squeezed for time, due to a recent surge in DJ bookings, label commitments and production work. Since then, she has segued seamlessly into the latest phase of her career, touring the world as an in-demand techno DJ, as comfortable going back-to-back with Sunil Sharpe as joining Adam Beyer and co. at Drumcode raves. Her only release of 2018, the People’s Nation EP on her IN.TOTO label, was a perfect snapshot of where she was at musically: dark, eerie, subtly euphoric.
This is one of several sounds in the mix on RA.703, a two-hour odyssey through ambient, breakbeat, techno, rave and jungle. (Watch out for the tracks by Baby T, Price’s revived hardcore/jungle alias.) Because she put it together while grieving a tragic death, it throbs with raw emotion. “It includes a bit of everything that I’m feeling right now,” she told Resident Advisor. “Rage, bliss, anger, sadness, laughter, loss.””
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SO – Resident Advisor podcast #697 2019-10-07

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“Enter the Labyrinth.
Labyrinth is a festival with the stated aim of “achieving integration—with self and others, with nature and sound—through dance.” That may sound lofty, but for Labyrinth devotees, the festival’s combination of lush ambient music and deep, psychedelic techno, aired through huge speaker stacks in the Japanese countryside, offers something close to transcendence. SO has been a Labyrinth resident DJ for 17 years. He’s also one of the festival’s organisers, making him a crucial part of the Labyrinth story. In the past couple of years, his sets have been among the festival’s most talked-about.
Though he’s synonymous with Labyrinth, SO says it was another festival—Nachtdigital in 2016—that provided one of his biggest turning points as a DJ. “I prepared well and had a lot of really nice feedback from people,” he says. “After that, I had a better idea of what my style as a DJ really was.” That style is on full display on RA.697, an immaculate, flawlessly paced mix of ambient and techno.”
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Autechre – Resident Advisor podcast #687 2019-07-29

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“An iconic UK duo craft a hip-hop mix.
There’s never been a better time to be an Autechre fan. Just last month, Rob Brown and Sean Booth gave away two hours worth of cuts recorded between 1989 and 1993 that sounded disturbingly of the times given dance music’s current mania for bleep and hardcore techno-adjacent sounds. Then there was the dump of zip folders containing all the performance data and samples for their live sets circa-2008, giving producers as big an insight into their methods as they’ve ever had. That’s not to mention the huge archive of live sets they released in February, which offered a sprawling view of their range and welcome documentation of them really letting loose.
In under five years, they’ve released somewhere in the region of 42 hours of music (that’s not including the 13 hours of videos that were out in the wild last year). The crazy thing is how little of it is redundant. The conspicuous rise in generosity has been matched by the quality of their work, which is better than it’s ever been. Although fans of their earlier material will heartily disagree—to be fair, there are a lot of them—last year’s NTS Sessions felt like decades of research had come to fruition. Perhaps the most shocking part was that, despite running eight hours long, it never got boring.
RA.687 is another matter altogether. Here, Booth and Brown return to their love of old school hip-hop, delivering a chilled 45 minutes of breaks and rhymes, running through the likes of MC Shan, Audio Two and Super Lover Cee & Casanova Red.”
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Russell E.L. Butler – Resident Advisor podcast #686 2019-07-22

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“Soft contours and loose grooves.
More and more DJs are using their music as a platform for defending their values. This generational awakening is a defining feature of electronic music in 2019. But for Russell E.L. Butler, music isn’t just a platform for the political. It is the stuff of politics. It is a world-building project itself, a way of manifesting the utopia you believe in—or it least it can be, when done right. More than just a vehicle for a message, music can actually carve out “an ideal space for community,” Butler once said, “a space to dream… and feel what freedom and transcendence would be like.” The title of their album last year, The Home I’d Build For Myself And All My Friends, captured this notion, that music can foster safety and intimacy.
On The Home I’d Build…, Butler explored a texture-centric modular techno sound, with defiantly weird rhythms and an improvisational feel. They turned the intensity up a couple notches with Petty, a club-focused EP of rowdy drum tracks. Their 12-inch last month for Fixed Rhythms, 606 Trax, was even more skeletal, with literally no melodic element to speak of. On their podcast for RA, they reveal another side of their sound: what they might play at an easy-going daytime BBQ “on a porch somewhere,” Butler said. “Bellies are full, but excitement for the evening is starting to build.” It’s full of soft contours and loose grooves, moving from dubby house cuts to sweet R&B and ethereal techno, with decisive mixes that makes the genre jumps feel natural. There’s an approachable energy to it, like they’re inviting you to come party with them and their friends.”
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Massimiliano Pagliara – Resident Advisor podcast #678 2019-05-27

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“Soaring rhythms from a Panorama Bar resident.
Massimiliano Pagliara came to Berlin from Lecce, Italy, to be a professional dancer. “That’s what I was doing at the very beginning,” he once told us. “But then, you know, Berlin nightlife, clubbing and all of that.” Now, save the occasional strikingly lithe move in the DJ booth, Pagliara’s given that up for a life of making others dance, whether as a DJ, producer or label curator. Working amidst his vast and lovingly assembled collection of synthesizers, he crafts sonically rich cuts of house and disco with a hint of Balearic flair, with pastel-colored albums and EPs on labels like Ostgut Ton, Live At Robert Johnson and Cocktail d’Amore Music. This year, he also started his own label, Funnuvojere Records. As a DJ, he’s honed his craft at some of the world’s best dance floors, holding residencies at both Panorama Bar and Robert Johnson.
In his productions and his DJ sets, Pagliara has a sonic richness and sun-kissed aesthetic that makes him irresistible for fans of house and disco’s modern mutations, though he’s just as comfortable with sleek techno rhythms and writhing acid lines. RA.678 shows him running at full tilt, cherry-picking bits from every corner of his musical universe.”
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Héctor Oaks – Resident Advisor podcast #675 2019-05-06

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“Raw techno from a rising star.
Héctor Oaks is one of the new stars of Berlin techno. Raw and energetic, his sound was shaped by years behind the counter at The Record Loft, a place Oaks calls it the “best shop in the history of electronic music.” Originally from Madrid, he’s affiliated with a few of the world’s leading techno institutions. One is Herrensauna, a monthly rave that’s among the best gay parties in a city full of them. The other is Bassiani, the Tbilisi nightclub central to the city’s thriving techno scene. Put simply, Oaks regularly plays to some of the best dance floors in the world.
His sound as a DJ is well matched to these situations. Drawing from techno new and old, he mixes the tough, loop-driven beats of the ’90s with psychedelic modern tools, resulting in an aesthetic that feeds the mind and body. That sound also feeds into his productions, which have appeared on his own OAKS label and, more recently, on an album through Bassiani’s label.
But as we hear in RA.675, the odd jacking house track—like, say, a Dance Mania classic—is never far away for Oaks. This balance of sounds—sometimes tough, sometimes smooth—helps explain his popularity. If you’re in the mood to trip out, he has you covered. And if you just want to jack your body? He’s got that covered, too.”
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Boris – Resident Advisor podcast #673 2019-04-22

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“A cassette-style mix from Berghain’s most eclectic DJ.
Boris’s style as a DJ reflects this rich pool of experiences. He is, in a word, eclectic, as at home playing techno in Berghain as he is playing house, disco, HI-NRG or whatever else upstairs in Panorama Bar (he provided one of that dance floor’s more legendary moments when, in some Silvester of year’s past, he played, in its entirety, Maurice Revel’s “Boléro”). For RA.673, Boris shows the depth and variety of his collection even while drawing from mostly new sounds, slipping from one style to the next in a smooth and unpredictable “cassette tape style mix.” ”
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Matrixxman – Resident Advisor podcast #666 2019-03-04

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“An album’s worth of new music on our 666th mix.
Charlie Duff is an integral part of the European techno circuit, but his approach to the genre isn’t purist. It’s driving and stripped-back, though also laced with a sense of atmosphere and melody that comes from a diverse musical background and a boisterous, larger-than-life personality that matches his considerable height. He’s a tenacious worker—he used to live in a tiny studio and sleep next to his gear. Duff is the kind of producer whose ambient interludes are just as detailed and captivating as his bangers, as his most recent record, the first release from his new label The Grid, proves.
Duff’s RA podcast is all about this production prowess, in addition to his ability to work a dance floor. It’s an album’s worth of new material that flows smoothly through eerie ambient and spoken word, barreling techno and a few unexpected detours into hi-tech trap. Everything we like about Matrixxman is here: steely kick drums, warm chord progressions, electro influences and pillowy ambient passages that make it more than just a dance floor mix. It’s a DJ set that works like an LP, which sums up Duff as an artist: someone who works within the confines of techno while gently pushing at its edges.”
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Olof Dreijer – Resident Advisor podcast #662 2019-02-03

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“Rowdy club sounds from the cofounder of The Knife.”
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Nazira – Resident Advisor podcast #659 2019-01-14

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“Fierce club sounds from Kazakhstan.
Almaty, the largest city in Kazakhstan, is lucky to have Nazira Kassenova. The DJ and promoter is regularly credited with building up her city’s scene, and rightfully so. ZVUK, her series of DIY club nights, gave many young people their first experiences with inspired electronic music in intimate and free-spirited settings. She’s also repped her hometown abroad, first with her radio show New East With Nazira and now in her DJ sets at Room 4 Resistance in Berlin, where she’s a resident. Her journey has not been easy. Making things happen in a place so culturally and geographically removed from dance music’s main hubs requires extraordinary resourcefulness and dedication. More than anything though, it demands artistic vision—all that effort is only worth it if you really have something special to offer.
Nazira clearly does. As a curator, she’d be bold in any city—recent guests at ZVUK include the likes of Don’t DJ and Giant Swan, and in 2017 she helped book a one-off Almaty edition of Unsound, something that until then would have seemed impossible. As a DJ, she brings a sound that’s angular, modern and utterly body-rocking, as we hear on RA.659.”
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