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D-node 232: Max_M | M_Rec Ltd

Roman DJ/producer Max_M is the founder of the established label M_Rec LTD. Involved with the Italian scene since the early '90s, he approaches techno after the Detroit and Birmingham pioneers with music that's uncompromising, underground, and inherently political. This past April he collaborated with fellow Italian techno artist Ascion as Asma, producing a 12″ for M_Rec's Grey Series, including a Silent Servant remix. Max_M's atmospheric mix for D-Node features a couple of M_Rec release...

D-Node 231: Ritzi Lee | Belief System

Dutch artist and Underground Liberation founder Ritzi Lee delivers an all-vinyl set of hard techno gems in a style that stands out from the strands explored by most DJs today. The set bangs and really should not be missed, whether you love this music or are hearing it for the first time. Thanks for this one. While it downloads check out his latest release on Belief System, The Next Genesis. Mix tracklist below. [audio:http://droidbehavior.com/Podcast_Sets/Random/dnode231-ritzi.mp3] ...

D-Node 230: Miss Sunshine | Tic Tac Toe

Croatian DJ/producer Miss Sunshine began her DJ career locally in the later 90s, and by the 2000s began playing Europe's biggest festivals, working in music education, and releasing music. In 2009 she toured with Queens of Minimal Techno (QMT) across the Balkan countries and then South America. Her 2010 remix of Re:Axis “Everything that we knew” hit the top 20 of the Beatport chart, followed by releases and remixes on Lazerslut, Monocline, Redukt, Woods n Bass, FVF, Machine Box, Kopfmusi...

D-Node 229: Noah Pred | Thoughtless Music

Canada's Noah Pred has gained attention in recent years for his diverse Thoughtless imprint and ever-deepening sound. Now residing in Berlin, he's recently given birth to a slew of collaboration projects - and his latest full-length, Third Culture, released in November on Thoughtless. However, what many who discover Pred through his deeper productions may not realize is that he cut his teeth as a techno DJ over ten years ago in Vancouver's late night underground - before eventually relocatin...

D-Node 228: Jeroen Search | Figure

Jeroen Search began releasing techno two decades ago as DJ Groovehead on X-Trax Records. Since then he's continued to push the genre forward with cutting-edge developments on labels like Traut, Coincidence Records, his own Search, A&S which he runs with Dimi Angeles, and Jeff Mills' prestigious Axis division 6277. These past years he's been increasingly prolific, with numerous 12" releases, a live showcase, and DJ sets. This week's mix calls on an aesthetic that looks toward the future wh...

D-Node 227: Solenoid | Graphene

Paired with Solenoid's Colony release on young label Graphene is a spaced-out characterization of Solenoid as "the narrator/observor of a planet controlled and afflicted" in "a future prophecy world, where the stark realization of armageddon is foretold." This type of imagery informs a specific way of hearing and relating to the sounds out of the release and in subsequent mixes, but it masks the more interesting background of the man behind the project, Dave Ellesmere. Ellesmere began as a d...

D-Node 226: Ray Kajioka | Kanzleramt + 1:53.2

Named after Ray Charles, Ray Kajioka's early affinity for the piano/keyboard led him to realize he could produce his own tracks, and soon after his DJ career began in the mid '90s. Originally focused on Wittenberg's electronic music scene, Kajioka went on to DJ in Dessau and came to be based in the new techno capital of Berlin. Kajioka is best known for his releases Sparks and Thrill on Kanzleramt, as well as “Never Ending” on Cocoon. He now has a residency at Berns in Stockholm. His ...