DROID BLOG CATEGORY - Media

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...

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...

Out Now: DROID.16 | NO KEY EP

CLICK HERE FOR AUDIO CLIPS DROID.16 Audio Injection – No Key Available now on digital and where all Vinyl is sold. Tracks: A1. Audio Injection - Deep Thought B1. AUdio Injection - No Key OVERVIEW: David Flores surfaces as Audio Injection with No Key EP, two slabs of pristine techno for the new year. After owning 2011 & 2012 with over a dozen releases as Truncate, Audio Injection flexes some production muscle to put out a sound that’s as huge as it is hyp...