DROID BLOG ARCHIVE - April, 2013

D-Node 197: Andrei Morant | Scope Recordings

This week we bring you another mix informed by years of experience, this one by American producer Andrei Morant. Morant's been DJing since the '80s and releasing techno since the '90s on labels like Planet Rhythm, Template and his own Scope Recordings, founded in 2003. Spend an hour immersed in his sound, with a mix filled mostly with originals and his own remixes. Andrei will perform at this year's Interface / Scene event in Detroit during movement weekend. SoundCloud [audio:ht...

D-Node 196: Savas Pascalidis | Sweatshop

Savas Pascalidis has maintained a steady stream of techno and house releases since 1995 for labels like Loriz, Kurbel, NON series, and Mote-Evolver, including mixed compilations and a couple of albums on International Deejay Gigolo Records, as well as one on his own Sweatshop imprint. After 20 years of DJing and organizing parties, Pascadilis continues as a vinyl DJ informed by the sounds of acid techno, Chicago house, and disco. Seeking obscure sounds, he filters them through his personal ...

Review: Interface 41 | Ben Klock

Media archiving of Vidal's date of manufacture celebration is now available. Interface 41 occurred on March 9 2013. Special guest Ben Klock performed an extended set along with Droid residents Raíz, Truncate and Subversive. Video by: Dean Paul Pictures CLICK HERE TO VIEW FULL SET ON FLICKR

D-Node 195: Masa Ueda | Torque Japan

Masa Ueda got started DJing and producing in the late '90s, then lived in the U.S. Pacific Northwest where he performed in the 3-man DJ/live act Energon Cube and released a record through his own Protoculture Recordings. Ueda returned to Osaka and has recently started up Torque, to help inject new life into the Japanese club scene through music releases and label show cases. For D-Node he's shared a wired mix that fits 39 tracks into an hour, including some uptempo jackers and a recent Torqu...

D-Node 194: Gareth Wild | EarToGround

Gareth Wild's pushing UK techno forward with the EarToGround label and party concept. While the shows have brought some of techno's finest like Sandwell District and the Stroboscopic Artefacts crew to London, the label, with the help of Dax J and Chris Stanford, has pushed a London sound back out internationally with a series of successful EPs. Gareth's graced not only the decks of UK clubs like Fabric and Corsica Studios, but has branched out to the international circuit. This week we fe...

Droid Behavior presents PRIME: Marcel Fengler | 4.4

CLICK HERE FOR PRESALE TICKETS CLICK HERE FOR EVENT INFO ON FACEBOOK CLICK HERE FOR EVENT INFO ON RA Techno according to Marcel Fengler has nothing to do with being a go-getter or having an alternative career, it is way more than means to an end: it is his definitive and concentrated passion. In Marcel Fengler’s world, opposites attract. Ambient and electronica are equal parts in his sets that owe as much to the UK’s progressive school of relentless techno as they do to th...