[Houdini]

It's harsh; spikey; dirty; punky.  I have more DBIAPB mixes but will need permission to distribute from the duo themselves. 

It's good material, usual hOU shit, darkened rooms, half a bottle left for you; last man standing stuff.  If I can get permission I'll UP a mellower, more cerebral mix of theirs that I enjoy more.  They're good lads, dedicated to buying (and not illegally DLing their tunes) I rate them highly.  Again, they're not pointed towards the dancefloor, which is a good thing I think. These guys are small-time underground heroes in E. Germany.  Quite right too. Subsistence level work.

[lagerstarfish]

Goodness me, that is a dark work. Starts off in a nice sierial killer vibe and then gets proper introverted. That fairytale rhythm poetry stuff at the end just leaves you feeling like you have been teased with finding out what really happened - much like those Lord Of The Rings episodes that felt good, but said nowt. Cool.

[Houdini]

Kind words.  I'll pass them on to the pair @ hand.  They will appreciate.  I'm glad that someone out there feels that there is more to techno than boshing pills and smarming around the lass w/ the lowest cut top and the cheekiest moves - which I'm all for - but well, only once every 12 wks or so . . .   

[lagerstarfish]

smarming around the lass w/ the lowest cut top and the cheekiest moves   

As you well know - it is more to do with the highest cut skirt, the most shapely legs, the most sparkley eyes and the finest facial bone structure 

[butters]

PAGGA ~ On the Edge of A Breakdown (192kbps / 1 hr / 72MB)
 

Got this on at the minute while sat at work bored and the few minutes I have listened to have impressed me rather a lot though I feel that I must say that you are one disturbed man Houdini.

bluebrad

[Oli]

I've downloaded that one too, and have just started listening to it. Not really sure to expect, but could be interesting...

[Houdini]

Yes the Pagga mix is terrific.  I'll try and get a translation of the Transylvanian from a Hungarian in the family (it sounds Hungarian).  The suicide spiel is also amazing, the ending too.  To answer your jive about it being techno.  A lot of the more serious techno producers (more sculptural/textural/soundtrack types) may often release double pack EP's w/ A1 being the real banger and other tracks being more ethereal shit to play over or as an in/outro.  If you care to explore there's so much more to techno than dancefloor tunes.


The Manc guy I posted earlier, Casual Violence.  He's particularly good at more cerebral beated scapes/drones.

As is the Belgian Rednox, who has a singular style. (But this really is techno.)

Try REDNOX ~ Ecclesiastic Charisma (.rar, alas 192 kbps)

1. christy moore - the well below the valley
2. brume - valvular exaggeration pt.2 [eaj008]
3. fennesz - onsra [to:53]
4. dialect - sick of her [ar.03]
5. t++ - tensile [67235]
6. cane - dained grime [cs010]
7. end - immeasurable distances [Y725]
8. silk saw - safe area [act106]
9. elektrabel - machines [mission08]
10. counterpart - the cydonia face [wu019]
11. ben gibson - I would have responded anywa [ar.04]
12. dead voice on air - halv [inv1128]
13. miller & keane - depth charge [sculpt008]
14. damon wild - flask [sw71v]
15. nick wilson - b2 [inc002]
16. dj shufflemaster - climb [tresor16]
17. stanislav tolkachev - open cage [fud09]
18. chris clark - gaskarth / cyrk dedication [warplp162]
19. casual violence - maybe we are [ur]
20. fiend & friend - turningpoint [dinner]
21. makaton - coup de grace [mak17]
22. oscar mulero - like i've been here before [tresor230]
23. black arts - booty shaker [ba001]
24. dj boss - harmonika [dg-03]
25. inigo kennedy - terpsichore [asymp3012]
26. radial - plafond [token4]
27. unknown artist - a1 [dn04]
28. dan mute - bourgeois [ur]
29. hecq - flood me [kal007]
30. female - exotica (o/v edit) [rsb03]
31. joton - micro 03 [nr04]
32. christian wunsch respuestas programadas [prruk060]
33. persistence - hardware friction [ar.04]
34. delusions - eight [ar.05]
35. go hiyama - lisb [poh003]
36. inigo kennedy - tessellate my geometry [token5]
37. chris clark - ache of the north [warplp162]
38. oscar mulero - 46 (antaganists regis mix) [wu018]
39. dominik muller - zoki (pcmn remix) [fu001]
40. black smith craft - the end of everything [ltd003]
41. balatro - in the wake of dreams [ar.05]
42. grovskopa - balamber (cyp remix) [ltd001]
43. error404 - response [ltd002]
44. jeroen liebregts - keychain [aar028]
45. kwaczo - rotace [bb03]
46. alex norinh - a2 [bunker3066]
47. jeff pils - azelnut [dgf4]
48. karsten pflum - i walk like old trains [bowa19]
49. richard devine - swap, trigger [wap139]
50. somatic responses - nowtro music [y053]
51. xanopticon - lockjaw [zhark12016]
52. maartez - breakorchestra [ur]
53. reformed faction - illustrious and unknown [sol153cd]
54. haus arafna - amputation cures [galakthorrö012]
55. can - oh yeah [spooncd006/7]

[Bubba]

Dead Baby In A Plastic Bag ~ An Open Letter.

...


Lovely.  Not exactly dancefloor material...

Excellent dark mix.

[butters]

To answer your jive about it being techno.  A lot of the more serious techno producers (more sculptural/textural/soundtrack types) may often release double pack EP's w/ A1 being the real banger and other tracks being more ethereal shit to play over or as an in/outro.  If you care to explore there's so much more to techno than dancefloor tunes.

I was merely having a joke about your bending of the rules as laid out in the OP - you seem to have missed the winking smiley at the end to show this. Truth be told I took far more offence at the wrongly named Mogwai track in the set listing - an offence so great that it amounted to both halves of fuck all.  With regard to the rest - where's grandmother when you want to teach someone to suck eggs?

The Manc guy I posted earlier, Casual Violence.  He's particularly good at more cerebral beated scapes/drones.

As is the Belgian Rednox, who has a singular style. (But this really is techno.)

Will check both of those out - both feature stuff that that I am either listening to at the minute or are aware of so should be interesting.

bluebrad

[Houdini]

Must be quick as I have chronic overheating issues.  (Just removed the two bottles of frozen vodka - I'm not joking - from the keyboard!)

No you're wrong!  I'm very smiley savvy.  It's the only way to stop irony or sarcasm detection issues.  But I thought that there was enough of a question in there that it should be answered. 

By-the-by, I said Jive, not jibe    Rules are there to be broken.  Let this thread be about downloadable electronica.  Just saves a bit of reading in the other thread which has seen far too much electronica of late, time to chill it down, make it more folky, for example.

Nice to have some +ve feedback.  Sorry, Bluebrad but Grandma is dead, you bastard  .

If I can get permission I'll up the other DBIAPB mix - but I was mistaken, An Open Letter is the mild one.  I have a more caustic mix one of the duo gave me.  In time.

Rednox makes for quite cerebral late night listening.  Plenty to hear, usually 2 DX & 2 CD DX.

[Houdini]

Vis-a-vis the wrong Mogwai track.  I'm glad you pointed that out as I was getting confused myself.  I remember a friend copying this LP for me and a few years ago I listened to it constantly.  I really thought I knew that rmx.  It threw me.  I'll big up the DJ in other forum and see if he's up for making a fresher mix.  I really rate it.  Rednox, I've offered him my younger sister if he'll upload his shit @ 320 from now on.  He might take the (jail)bait 

[butters]

Your keyboard freezes things - excellent - multi functioning things are always good in my world. 

With regards to jive/jibe - I took them to mean the same thing as it is how I would use the word but I am a bit cranky having been working night shifts and finishing just in time for 3 days of really shit weather so apologies for any potential misunderstanding.

As for the Mogwai track listing wrongness - that was pedantry on my behalf to a degree but it is fairly easy to get it wrong if you don't have their Kicking a Dead Pig album to hand. There is actually some really good stuff on that album and while Mogwai no longer hold such high status in my musical pantheon that they once did I still recognise the debt that I owe to them with regard to where I am now music-wise so I shall play it later when I finish this well chilled Chilean white and progress onwards to hit the rum and coke with a vengeance!

bluebrad

[Houdini]

Thankfully, you've returned Eric to me; I now have the same spectacles  Bring I N G  I meant to say.

All nebulous misunderstanding that were never there are forgiven Bluebrad.

[Houdini]

I'll UP this one now while the link still stands:

James Ruskin @ Pink Rose, Nijmegen, Netherlands 12.01.08 (189MB )

*feels whistful*

Tresor loveparade 2000 James and I larging it in the vault as sweat dripped in weird alien egg-pods from the ceiling as he hammered that lighting-strike sample of his... Those were the days, my friend... I thought they'd never end...

[Houdini]

Jeff Mills @ Burgos Electronic Festival August 07 (.rar 174MB / 224Kbps / 2 hr)

[Houdini]

RESNYK ~ Nem Lenyeges  Full CD DL @ 320kbps



Release date: 26.02.2008   

Hard and deep, very techno-influenced abstract breakz of Reznyk's debut album Nem Lényeges (a Hungarian expression for "without sense") come packed together with couple experimental electronic gadgets, gigamiles of wiring and a bit of melody on top, opening Reznyk's deepest insights. Massacre, innit.

I like.  Got a hi-qual mix of his too that I'll try and find a link for.

[andy_e]

Posted elsewhere, but 29th march Troy Pierce is coming to Leeds.

[Houdini]

Shouldn't that be in the handbag house thread?  DL links & comments upon only   

[Houdini]

To counter the hideous utterance of two posts back I offer some prime Serbian beef:

fingerprints #30 ~ Concrete DJz mix 

Myspace

Audio Quality: 192 kbps
Length: 1:19:47
Style: Techno
Size: 109 MB

BIOGRAPHY:
Concrete Djz are Filip Xavi, Dj Mita, Luka and Matsura. Ever since they came together these guys are on a mission of pushing forward the techno sound in Serbia . The DJ's behind Concrete Djz became involved with electronic music around the year 2000. One thing led to another and in 2003, as residents of Club Akademija, the idea came to create a group now known as the Concrete Djz. Since then they hav been responsible for numerous organized parties in Serbia in the period of 2003 - 2007. In this period their sound could have been heard on events or locations like EXIT festival Serbia, Ovo je Moj Grad MTV festival Serbia, Dance Industry Studios London, The Orange Peel Wales, Nightgrooves Croatia, Proactive Montenegro.

As producers they have released music on labels like Mastertraxx, Betamax, Blackoutaudio, Submissions, Damaged Trax, Polymeric, Hardsignal, Tidy Trax, Beast Music. Next to performing and producing they are also successfuly running their own radio show Beton and their own label Armatura Records.



Full-on, high-octane, phat-as-fuck, honest-to-goodness banging techno.

[Houdini]

LUKA BAUMANN ~ As We Drift Apart EP      .zip Full legal DL @ 320 kbps  4 tracks  52 MB



Author of the second release on the Biomechanics techno platform is Luka Baumann from Emergence Records. Once a modest good boy from Croatia, has since opened the doors to dark underground techno on labels such as Infecta, MainOut and Audio Assault. This time he shows us a more romantic side of him with a subtle, post-industrial techno pearl “As We Drift Apart”...

Gives me everything I want from the genre, it's gorgeous techno.  Haven't stopped listening to these four tracks all morning.  Should appeal to people who prefer single tracks and not a mix (perhaps those that care to play w/ Ableton?)

[Houdini]

REDNOX ~ How You're Colder Than Your Desk  (Belgium)  September 07.

Tracklist (fullscreen & enlarge, click bottom R of pic)

320 Kbps
1:55 mins
264 mb

You're lucky people: this mix was originally 192 Kbps but I asked Rednox if he would be a star and re-up @ 320 kbps.  It's much better for it.

Again, not exactly dancefloor (though it could work) more for home listening/work/to contemplate life to.  A multi-facetted mix, enjoy. 

[Houdini]

Bringing you another blinder, Ladies.

VOIDLOSS ~ Beautiful Victim Full legal DL @ 320 kbps / 4 track EP.



Launching ep on new czech based mp3 label Shadow district by well known London producer Voidloss aka Dirty Bass is finally out. Steve delivers 4 rocking tracks full of dark evolvinghings soundscapes, heavy factory percussions and emotional tenderness. His music is opening minds with his blend of original beats and sounds, and the strong emotional journey he puts the audience through. Voidloss is the moment when you stare into the abyss and realise this is your future. To be lost to the void, and to be happy in oblivion.

Harsh, triksy, powerful, subtle.  All these things.  Should appeal to D&B lovers.  Enjoy.

[Houdini]

The links for the two MAQ mixes in the other thread are dead but they live on in these two new links:

Neue Heimat  (mnml to minimal)

Siegessäulle (Dark/minimal/Birmingham)

Both @ 320kbps, and still recommended if you haven't grabbed.  Maq is from Katowice, Poland. 

[Houdini]

I've been caning these two mixes for a couple of weeks.  Alas, both are @ 192kbps (criminal oversight on P.E.A.R.L.'s behalf.)

Regardless, get some.

P.E.A.R.L. ~ Nothing For Your Head

01. Gridlock - Estrella (funckarma Mix)

02. Surgeon - exhibit (send the dogs)

03. Radial - Revolver

04. Go hiyama - Sustainable puzzle

05. British murder boys - A Don't Give Way To Fear

06. JLG - Reborn

07. Exium - Untitled

08. Monolake - Alaska (substance remix)

09. Planetary Assault Systems - Funk Electric

10. Patrick Pulsinger - Numb Thrust

11. Surgeon - Bad hands part 2 (Autechre remix)

12. Cane - Worm

13. Scanone - Trotter

14. Aphex Twin - Windowlicker (Acid Edit)

15. Inigo Kennedy - The map drum

16. Surgeon - Bad hands

17. Surgeon - Prowler

18. Planetary Assault Systems - In From The Night

19. Unknown artist - Ugandan speed trials part 1

20. Clark - For wolves crew

21. Anstam - Untitled

22. Cane - Reeze

23. James Ruskin - Correction centre

24. Thom Yorke - The clock (surgeon remix)

25. Oscar Mulero - Cv is dead LOOP

26. Oscar mulero - 46 (Regis antaganists mix)

27. Reeko - Phenomena arise

Some strong stuff, but also lots for the scrummy.


P.E.A.R.L. ~ There Is No Victory Without Suffering

01.  EMECORP - Agony intro

02.  SCANONE - Kit it

03.  P.E.A.R.L. - Victory

04.  SHARIN - Praying hands

05.  REEKO - Methodical

07.  ED CHAMBERLAIN - Charly

08.  BMB - Emerge 1

09.  P.E.A.R.L. - Sufrimiento

10.  GO HIYAMA - Transcendency

11.  OSCAR MULERO - 46 (Regis antaganists mix)

12.  RADIAL - Dynamo

13.  SHARIN - Survivor

14.  AFX - Afx2

15.  P.E.A.R.L. (loop)

16.  AGONY FORCES - Black pigeons

17.  BAM BAM - Where is your child

18.  BMB - Anti inferno

19.  P.E.A.R.L. - Like a terrorist

20.  JAMES RUSKIN - Correction centre

21.  JEROEN LIEBREGTS - Heat of the night

22.  OSCAR MULERO - Untitled (P.E.A.R.L. remix)

23.  RADIAL - Premium

24.  CANE - Teknotest

25.  GO HIYAMA - Thought

26.  AGONY FORCES - One hundred scars


Both mixes contain tracks I've upped before but I like the way they're presented here.

Bon Appetite.

[Houdini]

This goes out to Grandaddy Soaps and his entourage of Soapettes (it's not too tough or fast, don't want a stroke now do we?  )

But seriously, I'm enjoying this most very for the muchos and I'm not even pissed.

James Ruskin @ Techno Vision Patronaat Haarlem - 08.03.2008

Alt link

No darkness or industrial scrapings here, kinda cute, sexy, little bit mnml in parts, but certainly techno.  Chicks would love it.  No tracklist & 192kbps.  Such is life.