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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 ...

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...

D-Node 193: FBK | Orange82

FBK (Kevin M. Kennedy) is a Columbus, Ohio-based DJ/producer, with a unique sound stretching back to a mid-90s release as Sleep Engineer on Xplor Music. As FBK he's known for releases on Frictional, diametric., and his own Absoloop/Orange82. FBK's music is indebted to the tones of Midwestern techno, but cuts its own path as future music that doesn't rely on current trends. His mix for D-Node features several refreshing, unreleased tracks that will be new to most listeners, showcasing a di...

D-Node 192: Sutter Cane | Driving Forces

Austrian DJ/producer Sutter Cane is the founder of Driving Forces, promoter of a monthly techno club series called BOINK!, and A&R of Driving Forces Recordings. As a known remixer he's worked with artists like Sasha Carassi, Space Djz, Virgil Enzinger, Pfirter, Gayle San, Roberto Capuano, A. Paul, and BCR Boys. His latest releases include the Outer Limits EP on Nachtstrom Schallplatten and Thorium / Chemtrails on Sasha Carassi's Phobiq. For this week's D-Node he's put together a set of te...

D-Node 191: Shin Nishimura | Plus

Shin Nishimura is among the Japanese music scene's long time players. Since 2004 he has owned and operated the label Plus Records which has released music from homegrown talents (Q'hey, Takaaki Itoh) as well as their established Global counterparts (Technasia, John Tejada, Hardcell). We had the pleasure of meeting with Shin during our last tour in Tokyo / Osaka and invited him to contribute to the D-Node series. As with many other mixes, we enjoy sharing techno's influence on other parts of...

D-Node 190: Raíz Live at EDLX | ADE

This week's D-node is taken from last year's Electric Deluxe After hour series during ADE weekend which featured Nina Kraviz, Gary Beck, Terrence Fixmer, Sian, Rod, Raíz, and Speedy J himself. Raíz performed the following set at 10am after day 3 of the non stop clubbing / industry marathon known as Amsterdam Dance Event. Their quixotic blend of techno/house kept exhausted party goers dancing well into the afternoon. Like many of their sets, this one is jacking throughout with many deep tra...