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teshno
'in germany, they can't say 'techno,' they say 'teshno'' ~ seth troxler [march 2008]
behind the scenes at million hands
teshcast u ~ baaz
he only releases a couple of eps or remixes a year, but german baaz is amongst the finer craftsmen of deep house.
teshcast t ~ christian löffler
i first came across german dj, producer and ki records label boss christian löffler earlier this year upon the release of his aspen ep.
teshcast s ~ yør
roy huschenbeth is yør, young a hamburg based producer with just two eps to his name. both have come on nascent label purple maze and both mine a broken, aged, raw house vein a world away from his city peers like smallville.
richie hawtin interviews skrillex
so mixmag have started doing this thing whereby a dj/producer of their choice curates ten pages of the mag and mixes the cover cd. the first time they did it was february 2012, with minus boss richie hawtin the man put in charge.
octopus agents: how to run a dj agency (properly)
ever wondered what a dj agency actually does, how they work, how they started, who they work with? i have.
everything you need to know about the garage, leeds
as you’ll know if you come here often, i’m based in leeds. and if you come here really often you might have even read this, which means you’ll know how happy i am a new venture in leeds is to open which encompasses a record shop, waxwerks, and a club/bar and creative space entitled the garage.
teshcast r ~ scottie deep
we all know about the revivalist cycles of electronic music… fashions come and go and then, about 20 years later, they come and go again. as such, having spent time out in the management and business wilderness for a while, scott kinchen aka scottie deep is back in focus once again at the start of 2012.
interview ~ tale of us
here comes the feature i did with tale of us for the february issue of dj mag.
interview ~ ed davenport (revisited)
teshcast q ~ tazz
interview ~ al tourettes
so i first got wind of al tourettes alongside appleblim on aus. together the pair mined a nice bass/house vein and that was that. then came al’s swan sketch ep on base logic
teshcast p ~ samoyed
when i reviewed samoyed‘s spit ep on astro:dynamics for ra, the first draft got sent back from the editor with a note that it ‘needed more context.’ i was aware of that already, but was unsure how to best describe it.
interview ~ lawrence
once again last year, lawrence’s dial imprint owned. not only did it release the full length excellence of roman flugel’s fatty folders, but so too did it offer up more oddness from pigon aka efdemin, whilst sub-label laid (see what they did there?) released possibly the best deep house compilation not to make it onto my year end countdown.
interview ~ hazylujah
too many ghosts is the first ever ep from italy’s hazylujah and it’s stunning. not only stunning for its maturity, completeness and originality, but also because it is the first thing ever committed to vinyl by the young talent (it’s on delsin, too, and we all know they don’t fuck about when it comes to taking people into their revered musical fam).
teshcast o ~ edit piafra
if you know your shit then you will know acheterbahn d’amour: it is the german duo consisting of iron curtis and emerging producer edit piafra who have crafted plenty of raw, wired-up analogue house and acid for both frank music and absurd’s acid test series. the duo have another ep of similarly classic sounding, firm house that’s both deep and purposeful due out on frank soon, and so i jumped at the chance of hearing where edit’s tastes lie when it comes to other people’s music.
interview ~ argy
here comes the dj mag feature i did on argy based around his latest long player, fundamentals, on jerome sydenham’s ibadan records.
interview ~ taimur agha
if you’ve been to new york to party, there’s a good chance taimur agha had some role to play in it. aside from being an esteemed dj in his own right, agha is also responsible for the brilliant blk|market mermbership parties held in the city, as well as bi-monthly radio show, the bandwagon and is also the house techno music buyer at halcyon record shop. it’s almost as if he’s single-handedly on a mission to bring good music and great parties the city we, in the rest of the world, so often hear is lacking in that department.
interview ~ sei a
glaswegian sei-a (pronounced “say a”, obviously) is an interesting one. he’s not someone who has ever been fully chewed up by the hype machine despite already having two solid lps to his name on french outlet missive music and tiga’s thriving turbo.
teshcast n ~ life’s track
after hearing their excellent eps on italian label bosconi, i was instantly enamoured by italian duo life’s track. as i said in my review of that ep for ra, they are like an italian skudge… a pair of mysterious analogue freaks making proper house music. it’s house music with depth and real narrative.. listen to any of their tracks (a couple of which are included on teshcast n) and you’ll instantly be transported to a place somewhere else. retro-tinged but future-facing, it’s some of the nicest, purest house i’ve heard in ages.