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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 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 ...

D-Node 225: Pfirter Live at Kozzmozz

After appearing in so many tracklists from past podcast entries, Argentine techno icon Juan Pablo Pfirter makes his D-Node debut. Pfirter's music occupies the sets of techno's front-runners with releases on CLR, Synewave, Stroboscopic Artefacts, his own MindTrip, and other leading imprints. His sound is large and driven, and this recording from Kozzmozz last month in Ghent generates the image of a crowd being pushed further and further. Jump into that world for an hour and a half. No trackli...

D-Node 222: Flug | Sleaze + Enemy + MindTrip

Barcelona-based Argentine producer/DJ Flug has been on record since 2002, when he co-founded the Luxury Grooves imprint and put out music as Jr Lopez. He's gone on to release well-received techno records as Flug on international labels such as Pfirter's MindTrip Music, Dustin Zahn's Enemy Records, and Hans Bouffmyhre's Sleaze, among others. His sound is both atmospheric and focused, using repetition and paced transformations to impose a hypnotic state on the listener. His mix for D-Node show...

D-Node 221: Philippe Petit | Decision Making Theory

Philippe Petit is originally from Brussels, Belgium. His background is in the rock scene of the '80s, more specifically punk and metal. While playing the guitar in several bands and promoting the US punk/metal/hardcore scene on the Belgian National radio, he also started DJing. At first mainly eclectic music, hip hop and funk as well as some NY garage house, he then slowly shifted to deep house and techno, thanks mainly to Jeff Mills and the Detroit electronic musicians who opened his eyes...