DROID BLOG TAG - D-node

D-Node 278: Dean Paul Live at ADE

This week Droid's back in Amsterdam for the Dockyard Festival around ADE. In anticipation of this sold-out event, Dean Paul shares his stellar set from last year's Interface event at ADE, in which he slow-burns deep techno tracks over 90 minutes to provide safe passage to the peak. Download | Other Recent Podcasts Tracklist: 1. Eternal (Original Mix)- Anthony Jimenez-Blank Code 2. 321 - Biotech 3. SN849R025_1 4. What Have We Become (Original Mix)- Edward, Oskar Of...

D-Node 276: D-Knox | Sonic Mind

D-Knox represents the Kalamazoo artists who got started in the late '80s and came to prominence in the mid '90s on labels like Black Nation and his own Sonic Mind, an influential imprint pushing a hard and funky Midwest sound for about 20 years now. D-Knox is about hard-hitting funk, and this week he shares the latest snapshot of the sound that's taken him around the world, funky but still hard, hard without churning in aggression, deep without drowning, it's highly functional dance music. ...

D-Node 272: Luigi Tozzi | Hypnus Records

Luigi Tozzi is a young producer from Rome, whose music occupies that very hypnotic and now very Italian space between deep techno and emotional ambient music. He works closely with Hypnus Records but has also released on Dynamic Reflection and others, and his new release is on the esteemed Outis Music, a three-track released called "Calipso," with an additional remix by label head Dino Sabatini. The mix for D-Node features a strong sampling of Tozzi’s deep atmospheric sounds, with sever...

D-Node 271: Yotam Avni

Yotam Avni - Tel-Aviv - AVADON Download | Other Recent Podcasts Tracklist Blackhall Bookless - Differences (Mike Dehnert Remix) Petrichor - State Function Mark Henning - Titan Yotam Avni - UR Sleeping Mark Broom - M19 DJ Hyperactive - Venus (Truncate Remix) Dave Clarke - Wisdom To The Wise (Steve Rachmad Dub) Yan Cook - Freefall Gravity Gecko - Just Close Your Eyes Bodies In Pawn - Null (Luis Flores Version) Developer - Signal 1 Ritzi Lee - Defiected Sutter ...

D-Node 269: Bryan Chapman

Living in seclusion in southern England, Bryan Chapman is a part of the conveyor of talent that hails from this ever growing, under current of modern techno that is found on the shores of the south coast of England. Now an established name amongst the new breed of producers breaking through, with releases on Enemy, 8 Sided Dice, H. Productions, and Bouq., Bryan has earned a reputation for making no-nonsense, heavy-weight tracks that have seen his music supported by taste-makers across the te...

D-Node 268: Jon Hester | EDEC

Jon Hester got his start in the midwest US, living in Chicago, Minneapolis, and connecting with Detroit. His intuition as a DJ taps his experience as a classically-trained musician and self-taught dancer. After years on the dance floor, he took to the decks in 1999, going on to work in a record shop, manage his own events, and hold residencies that developed his sound. Based in Berlin since 2010, he has released on his EDEC label and the New York/Berlin-based L.A.G. imprint. He has been sele...

D-Node 262: Random/Noize | Manifesto

This week we have another Manifesto artist recorded live in Naples, with a 158-minute all-vinyl journey. Dez of Random / Noize, AKA Davide Rovito has been active in the Italian electronic music scene since 1990. Since the mid-90s he's been releasing on techno labels such as Marco Carola's "Design Music" and participating in techno collaborations, such as Random/Noize and Defrag Sound Processing. He's also been resident DJ, in Bologna and has expanded his activities to include forming labels ...