Kernel Existence aka Toby Dreher
Raw, excessive, delirious, big-room, low-lights, four-to-the-floor Techno: Kernel Existence is the new Alter Ego of Dub Techno mastermind Toby Dreher. Solid party music.
Cassegrain – XLR8R Podcast 457
Cassegrain present 70 minutes of raw, delirious Techno.
Uone @ Boom Festival 2016
Merging the trashy freestyle attitude of a DJ Koze with the clubby hypnotism of a D-Nox, the sets of Uone are truly next level shit – and that’s precisely what the Aussie delivered at Boom’s Alchemy Circle this year.
DJ Nobu – XLR8R Podcast 450 [10 Years]
“Cerebral, hallucinogenic, abrasive, and woven together with a decidedly punk ethos.” Now that sounds like my thing. A beautiful reminder of the original idea of Techno.
Ness – Genau Podcast 034
Reverberating in the delirious space between Techno and Trance, this hypnotic DJ mix sends the mind wandering.
Moderat – Fader Mix 2016
Just before dropping their third album, Moderat present a new DJ mix. Broken beat textures are the backbone for deep, cinematic soundscapes.
Ulf Eriksson – Boiler Room Upfront 060
Deep, hypnotic Techno at its best: “DJing is so much more than just swapping records. It is – and should be – a reflection of the person that’s mixing. Right now I like to do mixes as shapes or waves. Sort of like small sculptures of sound. This is also how it turned out this…
Sebastian Mullaert – XLR8R Podcast 413
I said it before, and I’ll say it again: When it comes to deep, hypnotic Techno music for modern trance dance rituals – this is it. For the latest XLR8R podcast, Sebastian Mullaert presents a 90-minute segment of a liveset he played in Israel. The Swedish producer remains a class of his own.
Alex Banks – Groove Podcast 47
Fat square basses, tripped out delays, enigmatic build-ups, rich beat textures, dreamy melodies: Alex Banks delivers the goods. As he remarks quite appropriately in his interview with Groove magazine, this meticulously crafted studio mix is rather “[…] a sonic collage than a DJ mix and includes a lot of detail that would get lost in…
Extrawelt – Clash Music Podcast 2015
It’s getting increasingly hard to get me excited about four-to-the-floor Electronic Dance Music. However, the Extrawelt guys never fail to do so. Arne, one half of the German duo formerly known as Spirallianz and Midimiliz, delivers a deeply hallucinogenic DJ mix that takes some pleasantly unexpected turns.
Alex Banks – June 2015 Mix
To put it plain and simple, this is an absolutely stunning mix. Deep, melodic, full of changes in rhythm and texture, and last but not least extremely danceable: Alex Banks ticks all the boxes of what I consider to be good dance music, as a producer and as a DJ.
Toby Dreher – Compute Podcast 004
Toby Dreher is back with another DJ mix, and once again the likeable Berliner proves himself to be among Germany’s finest Dub Techno talents: Very deep, very trippy, very dubby, very good!
Adam Freeland: The Days Between Two Moons Mix
Adam Freeland delivers a new DJ mix and, no surprise here, he’s killing it. Sublime melodies merge into an every changing variety of rhythm structures, talking the listener on a 71-minute journey. Deep and trippy dance music at it’s best.
Sebastian Mullaert & Ulf Eriksson – Live @ Trouw 2014
This is becoming more and more of a Sebastian Mullaert fan blog. But hey, the Swedish producer just keeps putting out fantastic music – be it solo, as one half of Son Kite or, in this case, in form of a mesmerizing DJ – liveact hybrid. Enjoy a deeply hypnotic dialogue between Ulf Eriksson and…
Toby Dreher – 3000Grad Podcast #15
Toby Dreher keeps up his signature style and delivers a one-hour DJ mix full of banging rhythms, trippy sounds and subtle melodies. Hypnotic Techno at its best.
Extrawelt – Not A Deejay Podcast 1
Back in the days, when these guys still operated under the names Spirallianz and Midimiliz, I was absolutely stoked about their music. And yes, I played Soopertrack a million times and I still love that tune. However, at some point I lost track of Extrawelt. When I ran a little interview with them after their…
Sebastian Mullaert @ Elements Fokouka, Japan
When it comes to deep, hypnotic Techno music for modern trance dance rituals – this is it. Last weekend I had the pleasure to experience a DJ set of Sebastian Mullaert, and I can’t find enough superlatives to describe the magnificence of this experience. Intelligent, jazzy, psychedelic in the most sublime sense of this word……
Redshape & Drums Live At Rex, Paris 2013
Fancy some deep and hypnotic Techno mixed with the somewhat tribal energy of a drum set? Then check out this great live record of Redshape and drummer!
Sebastian Mullaert – WYS Mix 2014
The latest DJ mix by Sebastian Mullaert is utterly unsurprising. Shortly after declaring the split with his Minilogue companion the Swedish producer delivers exactly what I expected him to do: A deeply hallucinogenic melange of hypnotic beats, subliminal harmonies, heady noise cascades and shifting sound structures. I like where this is going.
Toby Dreher – Abenteuer Schienenstrang
A very likeable character, original Berliner, and one of the greatest Dub Techno talents in Germany: Toby Dreher delivers an extremely smooth blend of deep, hypnotic tunes.