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FIRST NAMES ANNOUNCED FOR BEST OF BRITISH AWARDS Solardo, Special Request and more confirmed for our annual celebration of the UK underground...

VOTING has been taking place for the last few of the year in London. The de facto dance music Special Request, aka Paul Woolford, has also had weeks online for the ninth edition of DJ Mag’s industry Christmas party, it’s a night of legends, a tremendous year, dropping his album ‘Belief annual Best Of British awards — our counterpoint rising stars, movers and shakers, and tons of System’ and an immense Fabric mix too. He’ll be to the global Top 100 DJs behemoth. And if you’re ordinary dance fans. That’s cos we keep door lining up to spin at the awards party, as will Best reading a copy of this early, there’s still time to prices as cheap as chips — with all profits going to Resident nominee Seb Zito, DJ Haus — whose ‘DJ vote — if you haven’t already. You can vote for charity! Haus In The House’ mix for Defected is nominated your favourite DJs, producers, labels, club-nights, At the time of writing the votes were still being for Best Comp — and DJ Boring, who’s also had a clubs, festivals, tracks and albums via the voting counted and verified, but we’re already able to great breakthrough year. app at bestofbritish.djmag.com announce a few names for the party. Manchester With many more names to be added to the line-up, But if you’re reading this after December 1st, twosome Solardo will be rounding off their this celebration of the UK underground will mark a you’ve missed your chance to vote this year — incredible year with a set at BOB (as we like to fitting close to 2016 with all that’s great about our you’ll just have to come to the party now! call the Best Of British awards in the office), and UK scene. there’ll undoubtedly be lots of loud-shirted, arm- From inauspicious beginnings, the Best Of British waving mayhem as they unleash some of their •Follow DJ Mag online for more line-up awards night has become one of the top nights out trademark tech-house rollers. announcements: djmag.com

006 DJMAG.COM FABIO & GROOVERIDER INCOMING LAUNCH NEW LABEL Skream SKREAM has Drum & bass legends launch imprint teamed with BILLY together for the fi rst time TURNER for an EP of heads-down 4/4 FABIO & GROOVERIDER have had an amazing 2017, helming a business. Piledriving load of ’25 Years Of Drum & Bass’ parties at clubs and festivals linear lead track right across the globe. ‘Leviathan’ has Now DJ Mag can exclusively reveal that they’re about to been road-tested launch a record label together for the fi rst time ever. “After by Skream around 25-plus years in the game with us both running seminal the world all year, and now drops on his Of record labels Prototype and Creative Source, we felt Unsound Mind label on 15th December. it was time to join forces to help bring new talent through — as well as release the fi rst ever Fabio & GREEN VELVET Grooverider project!” the guys told DJ Mag. has hooked up with Both DJs ran separate labels in the 1990s RIVA STARR to mark and noughties. Fabio’s Creative Source the 100th release of concentrated mainly on the liquid/jazzy the latter’s Snatch! side of the sound, helping to bring through imprint. ‘Keep Pushing cats such as Calibre, Big Bud and Subject (Harder)’ is a chugging 13. Groove’s Prototype, meanwhile, put big room house beast out important sci-fi material by Photek, that does, indeed, live Optical and Boymerang, whose ’Still’ up to its name, and is backed by string- remains one of d&b’s most enduring laden techno groover ‘I Feel Good’. anthems. The name of their joint label, then, is a The PLUMP bit of a no-brainer — ProCreation. To send DJs are back on demos, go here: procreationmusic.com Punks, the label of the Stanton Warriors, with ‘Keep A Focus’, UNDERGROUND RESISTANCE throwing rave, Plump DJs trap, breaks TEAM UP WITH CARHARTT and funk into a Clandestine techno collective release blender for a stripped-down bass cut that glitches and slams in their own branded clothing line all the right places. US-BASED CLOTHING BRAND CARHARTT have announced that they’ve teamed up with techno collective Underground Resistance A release date for an exclusive line of workwear. for US MC T.R.A.C.’s The collection, which has just been made available in select hip-hop-meets-drum & bass album on stores, features a fur-lined winter parka, UR embossed hoodie, a T.R.A.C & Bryan Gee beanie, a pocketed T-shirt and denim jeans, all bearing the techno V Recordings has collective’s iconic UR logo. fi nally been set. ‘Life It’s not the fi rst time that Carhartt has tapped up the music In Motion’ is due to drop on 8th December, industry for collaborations — the iconic US clothing company has and features tracks in conjunction with been running its music-focused Carhartt WIP music blog including CALIBRE, LENZMAN, MARC MAC (4 HERO) a radio show from Money Sex Records’ Glenn Astro, while also and more. hosting parties and shows. Saytek After releases on Bedrock, Detone, OFFICE PLAYLIST LIVE STREAMS Freakin303 and KMS, live techno TEXTASY don SAYTEK ‘Welcome To The Darkroom’ drops an EP on E-Beamz MR. C’s Superfreq imprint — which is appropriate, as Saytek was initially IM KELLAR inspired by attending assorted Mr. C-related ‘Im Kellar’ COMING SOON club-nights. Lead track ‘Voltage Controlled’ Moustache is a live acid banger that sets the tone. UNER + MORE LIVE FROM PACHA BARCELONA 17TH DEC DJMAG.COM/HQ German label FOUK Get Physical have ‘Organ Freeman’ just released the Outplay fi rst ever solo artist album by acid house pioneer DJ DEAD MAN’S CHEST , and from ‘Darkness At Dawn’ PIERRE Western Lore it the deep, dreamy single ’MuSiQ’ drops CATCH UP this month, with NEIL LANDSTRUMM re-works by RUMORE CLAPTONE and ‘A Death, A Mexican & A Mormon’ LIVE FROM PRINTWORKS, LONDON BENJAMIN DJ Pierre Central Processing Unit WATCH NOW AT YOUTUBE.COM/DJMAGTV FROHLICH.

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HOUSE TECHNO DISCO

01. Matthias Meyer & Ryan Davis 01. Suspect One 01. Butch Hope Soulshaker (Maksim Dark Remix) Nowhere Watergate Records Dark Face Recordings Watergate Records 02. Solomun 02. Suspect One 02. Atlantic Starr Amanacer Fullmoon (Gaga Remix) Circles (Joey Negro Disco Mix) Watergate Records Dark Face Recordings Z Records 03. Rodriguez Jr. 03. KiNK 03. Eelke Kleijn 1PM Sunrise Yom Thorke 8 Bit Era (The Balearic Mix) Watergate Records Running Back DAYS like NIGHTS 04. Eats Everything 04. Stefano Noferini 04. Tunnelvisions Loud Strange Subjects Gobi Relief Records DPE Atomnation 05. Fisher 05. AuDio KoDe 05. Terranova Stop It Feelings Of Elation Compute (NiCe7 Remix) Dirtybird De-Noize Records Flashmob LTD 06. Solee 06. KiNK 06. Tunnelvisions Pink Panther Teo Techno Uele Parquet Recordings Running Back Atomnation 07. John Tejada 07. KiNK 07. Tunnelvisions Sweat (On The Walls) (Franky Rizardo Remix) Five Bayuda Defected Running Back Atomnation 08. Musumeci 08. Raxon 08. The Juan Maclean, DJ Tennis Mood Organs Forbidden Quest The Brighter The Light (DJ Tennis Remix) Diynamic Truesoul DFA (Cooperative) 09. Solardo 09. Toni Thorn 09. Younger Rebinds Fall Down (MK Remix) Sei Pippi Hite Hot Creations Bandit Music Running Back 10. Gorje Hewek & Izhevski 10. Weska 10. Andrea Love, Dutchican Soul Arkkaim Weska We Can Change The World (Hot Toddy Come Together Dub) Watergate Records Kraftek Peppermint Jam

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01. XaeboR, Chibs 01. Aevion, Mr Belt & Wezol 01. Burn In Noise, Outsiders, Altruism Get Up One More Day Consciousness NSD: Black Label SPRS Nano Records 02. Mind Vortex, Jaguar Skills 02. Throttle, Niko The Kid 02. Devochka, Mandragora Riot Squad 2 feat. Mind Vortex Pinata Shiva Style (Berg, Phanatic Remix) Viper Recordings Spinnin Records Blue Tunes Records 03. Wilkinson, Dimension 03. Solee 03. A & Z, Leolani Rush Cure Yesterday RAM Records Parquet Recordings FSOE 04. Dirtyphonics, Sullivan King 04. Mercer 04. 2nd Phase Navigator Encore (DJAfrojack & SAYMYNAME Remix) Body Bag Monstercat Musical Freedom Damaged Records 05. Superfresh, Mayor Apeshit, Housed 05. Retrovision, Raven & Kreyn 05. Blazer, Split & Jaxta Melt The Plastic (feat. Mayor Apeshit) Nobody Else Mental LokoSound HEXAGON Madabeats Records 06. GLXY 06. Force Legato, ZERMELO 06. ReOrder, Ram Lucid Get Down Opus Dei Shogun Audio Digital Complex Records FSOE 07. Dirtyphonics, Sullivan King 07. Dance Spirit 07. 1200 Micrograms Hammer Thoughts Like Stars Let's Smoke Monstercat Bedrock Records Tip Records Limited 08. XaeboR 08. D.O.D, Sunstars 08. Synfonic Foul (VIP) Morph Hatari NSD: Black Label Protocol Recordings Pharmacy Music 09. Smooth, Goldillox 09. Ki-Ri 09. Above & Beyond, Richard Bedford The Upside Down Bushido Northern Soul feat. Richard Bedford Therabeat Records Red Lizard Records Anjunabeats 10. Tantrum Desire 10. Dance Spirit 10. Arctic Moon, Purple Stories Grimm Lilac Rain Shadow Particles Technique Recordings Bedrock Records FSOE

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Perc ‘Bitter Music Remixed EP01’ Perc Trax

PERC’S ‘Bitter Music’ LP — released back in April — was a stunning selection of politically charged and mentally disturbing tracks that gave a voice not just to the UK techno veteran’s own inner turmoil, but that of the nation. This month came the long-awaited remixes, with two sets featuring reworks from some of 2017’s most-

exciting producers. While ‘EP02’ collects STONE-COLD KILLER highly individual work from Berghain ressie Dax J, Lucy and Matrixxman, it’s part one that’s taken our fancy. Here, Head Front Panel turns ‘The Thought That Counts’ into an fast-fi ring asteroid fi eld of percussive off-cuts, Hodge fl ips ‘Chatter’ into a sludgy stomper, while ‘Exit’ becomes eerie and claustrophobic under the control of Pessimist. Each builds upon the atmosphere of Perc’s originals, giving them a new twisted and darkly beautiful personality.

Komon & Appleblim ‘Know Various Artists ‘Various Squirrels Yourself’ Vol. 2’ Beatnik Boulevard Squirrels On Film

A DEADLY partnership that originally THE SECOND various artists release from appeared on AUS, Komon and Appleblim Squirrels On Film — the new record label from have returned with ‘Know Yourself’. An San Francisco veterans Solar and Brian Hock extraterrestrial slice of broken techno with a — ‘Various Squirrels Vol. 2’ features tracks growling bassline, built of a tripped-up four- from Lokier, Billy Bates and Solar. But it’s four, a garage skip, rave stabs and a drop that pops off into a menacing, the throbbing electro of ‘Material World’ from unknown artist Material screeching hook. With experimental textures and frequencies on the ﬂ ip, Squirrel that forms the highlight, with its extended pads that wallow into it’s the A-side that you DJs will be reaching for. eternity. Electro fans need look no further than this devastating cut. Tip!

Kid Drama & Skeptical Ejeca ‘Attack’ EP ‘Run Deep’/’The Hunt’ UTTU Dance Tracks Dispatch Blueprints HUGELY underrated UK producer Ejeca has ANT TC1’S Dispatch label launches new off- delivered one of his best EPs yet. ‘Attack’ shoot Blueprints this month with two EPs, the is steely alien techno with soulful pads and ﬁ rst from Kid Drama, and this, the second. a sinister robo-vocal sample. ‘Lostly’ is a With the label’s aim to focus on natural bleepy rumbler with an airy hook melody, progression rather than big builds and drops, and ‘Pintman’ is Booka Shade-inspired deep, ‘Run Deep’ does exactly what it says on the tin — dubby, autonomic vibes electro house with an addictive Denis Sulta-style synth. With a go-to rolling out slowly across ﬁ ve-and-a-half mins. ‘The Hunt’, meanwhile, is for every situation, this one’s a dead cert for the record bag, then, and all classic tech-step, with growling low-end and unforgiving snares. there’s even a Matrixxman rework of ‘Attack’ tailor-made for Berghain.

Venus Dodson ‘Shining’ Louisahhh ‘A Trap I’ve Built’ Kinﬁ ne RAAR

ARGUABLY one of disco legend’s Leroy SINCE appearing on the cover of our Women Burgess’ most iconic productions, Venus In Dance Music special in February last year, Dodson’s ‘Shining’ was originally released Louisahhh has been toiling away below the in 1979. It quickly became a Paradise Garage radar somewhat, but now returns with a regular, its bassline-driven groove fl owing fi ve-track offering of punchy, vocal tracks into a euphoric chorus with Dodson’s vocal that sit somewhere between techno, IDM and dominating Levan’s resident sets. Often reaching high prices among new wave. Dealing with topics like rape culture and addiction, they’re re-sellers, Kinfi ne Records’ repress is welcome not only to bring second- hard-hitting, beautifully crafted works, that, while not designed for your hand prices back in tow, but to put this disco classic back on the map. typical dancefl oor, defi nitely demand attention.

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2017 has pretty much belonged to DJ Boring and cohorts like Ross Form Friends and DJ Seinfeld. This unconnected collective all emerged with a rough and ready house style built on bumpy drums and laced with aching vocal samples, as well as plenty of ’90s cultural references. It’s loosely been called lo-fi house, and all kicked off last year with DJ Boring’s ‘Winona’, which appeared in the ‘Up Next’ bar of everyone’s YouTube for ages.

“I personally don’t think that I have my own sound. I get bored easily, so I’m constantly trying new things which makes it hard to put my music into one category,” says Boring, real name Tristan Hallis. He hails from Melbourne but has dual UK citizenship and is now based in London.

He didn’t start making house until his twenties after experimental years making “ambient glitch”. Rather than aping the sounds he was hearing in the clubs, though, he took inspiration from the ’90s house that he loved. When he made the breakthrough ‘Winona’ (featuring a monologue from actress Winona Ryder about not fitting in, which resonated with Boring) he was working in a coffee shop in London. “Music was more of a 10-year hobby than a career aspiration,” says the man who has now, just a year later, played all over the UK, in India, Germany, Finland, Japan, South Korea and Ibiza.

On being lumped in with lo-fi house, Boring is realistic and appreciates it has helped get him where he is today. “Seinfeld and I talk quite regularly, so I like to think that he is a good friend of mine. [He and] Ross From Friends are all such lovely, genuine people. It’s nice to see that they are getting the recognition and success that they deserve.”

After effusing about how much he loves playing clubs, Boring admits that time away leaves you craving your own bed. But that will only likely help fuel him creatively, given how overt the emotions are in his music. Coming on labels like E-Beamz and Lost Palms, his tracks are muggy but beautiful realisations of the most painful relationship break-ups you’ve ever been through. They are often long, with razor-sharp hi-hats that cut through the dusty drums while wandering synths bring the melancholia. Acid, nagging vocal samples and neon chords also feature in his small but well-formed discography.

“Everything I make is stemmed from certain feelings, or my environmental setting,“ he explains, before adding that he’s currently working on a live show, so watch this space. KRISTAN J CARYL

DJMAG.COM 011 Untitled-1 1 20/11/2017 11:58 COMIN’ UP HOT SEAT We throw a few curveball questions the way of... Danny Howard

With a new two-hour Friday night show on BBC Radio 1 pumping out “pure club vibes” across the country every weekend, Danny Howard is fast following in the footsteps of Pete Tong as the official ambassador of UK dance music. It was only 2012 that he won a competition to play for Radio 1 at Ushuaïa in Ibiza, pricking up their ears to a canny sound that had been honed at a residency in Blackpool while at university. Six months of pilots and demos later, he was hosting Saturday night’s Dance Anthems. Since then he’s moved from playing and making a bigger room sound to his original love, house music, with releases for labels such as Food and Glasgow Underground. His own label Nothing Else Matters, meanwhile, a spin-off of his radio show on America’s BPM station on Sirius XM Radio, is about to release a flood of what he calls “club weapons” from acts like George Kwali, Guz & Tough Love, Metroplane, The Golden Boy, PAX, Apexape, Mason Maynard, Apres and more. With lady fame about to come a-knocking again, we discuss tardiness, future aspirations and the mysterious figure of Randy Rod...

When did you first realise you had two first names and no surname? “Since I was young. I don’t know, it’s how I was born. I have no answer for that!”

How formative was your residency at The Syndicate in Blackpool to being able to impress 500-capacity club, invited all our friends and Radio 1? Do people ever try and tempt you to Radio 1 when you had the opportunity? their friends, and filled it. It became really do the full Lisa I’Anson? “The Syndicate was really important. It was popular in Blackpool and The Syndicate, who “I’m late for most things in life, whether it’s a 5,000-capacity, which they called the biggest weren’t as popular as when I was first going out, coffee with Carl, or dinner with my family, or club in the UK at the time. Whether it was, I’m were looking for external promoters. We took whatever. I don’t know why I’m wired up like not sure. But they had the world’s biggest DJs over once a month, but part of the deal was that I this. But I’ve never been late for a radio show there. I’m not sure I realised at the time how become their Saturday resident.” and I’ve never missed a gig... Actually, that’s lucky I was. You had everyone from the more a lie, I missed a gig because I missed a flight, commercial end, Calvin Harris and David Guetta, What was the name of your party? but otherwise gigs and radio, I’m always there to legends like Frankie Knuckles and Roger “It was called Randy Rod!” early... or just on time.” Sanchez. I heard all the sub-genres of dance music. I didn’t DJ that much when I was 18 and Randy Rod? Pete Tong has his own rhyming slang. Annie my aspiration was to learn how and do one set at “I know! We wanted it to be fronted by a fictional Nightingale has an MBE. Grimmy has his The Syndicate. To eventually become resident was character who was like a Hugh Hefner-type plummeting audience. What do you hope your a dream come true.” guy who loves a party. It was a bit tongue-in- Radio 1 legacy is? cheek; we were trying to think of an angle that “There’s nothing you can rhyme that’s flattering How did it come about? would appeal to the mass market but also allow for me. I hope in ten years time there will be huge “When I was at uni trying to be a DJ I got some me to play cool house music. The nights were dance music artists who started their journey on advice from another DJ in Liverpool, Dave incredible.” my radio show, or people can look back and say Booth, who is resident at Gala. He told me to ‘I heard this massive tune on Danny’s show first’. be a successful DJ you need to curate your own A little bird, we’ll call it ‘the DJ Mag editor’, I want to be an influencer and contribute to the night and brand, or produce music. I decided said you were always late with your copy when dance music world by finding the freshest new to do both. Me and my best friend Alex got a you wrote for us. Have you ever been late for music.” JOE ROBERTS

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suited him down to the ground. Then, Will Saul’s Aus, Gilb-R’s Versatile and as he puts it, he got “carried away the excellent Ruff Draft. “I just went COTTAM with life”. He had a few kids, and as along with it,” he says, with modesty the decks and production gear was to a fault. “It was a bit bonkers.” FROM taking up the last spare bedroom in PRESTON, UNITED KINGDOM the house, it all got packed up, where He was diagnosed with multiple it stayed. “I wanted to do music all sclerosis in 2009, just as things took FOR FANS OF my life,” he says. “But I never really off, and now he can’t DJ anymore. “It THE REVENGE, PRINS THOMAS, thought about it. I never pushed it.” takes too much out of me, and I can’t ADESSE VERSIONS book stuff for the future. I just don’t But he missed it all too much. He know how I’m going to be that week,” got a copy of Ableton from a friend, he says. But he’s entering a new THREE TUNES and would tinker on it of an evening, chapter now, thanks to Alex Knight of ‘I CAN’T CARRY ON’, ‘EP 2’, doing re-edits. “I sent them to my the revered Fat Cat Records, who let ‘BREAKING THROUGH THE PAIN best pal, who suggested I send them Paul release the first salvo on his new BARRIER’ off to a few people,” he says. Luckily, spin-off imprint, FCR. His more long- while he was at Action Records, he’d form ‘Locked In The Groove’ EP is made a few contacts, one at Rubadub coming soon too, and he has hopes for PAUL COTTAM used to be all about Records up in Glasgow. It happened an album. But while his productions the techno. The tough, panel-beating to be Jack Revill, aka Jackmaster, might suggest otherwise, he’s no kind. A disciple of revered clubs like who snapped it up immediately, and synth nut, or studio boffin. “All that’s The Orbit, just outside Leeds, and let Paul run his own imprint Cottam a bit too complicated for me,” he Liverpool’s Voodoo, it was the likes of through Rubadub. The first EP came in says with a chuckle. He reckons that Detroit’s Claude Young, Surgeon and 2009, re-editing Angie Stone’s ‘Pissed his obsession with music helps him Dave Clarke that first blew his mind. Off’ on one side and Bola Johnson’s take his mind off the symptoms of his He did “general rubbish-y” jobs on ‘Lagos Sisi’ on the other. Then came disease, a bit of a lifeline of sorts. production lines and in factories, but another, a firing rework of Erykah “As long as I can make some noises, would DJ parties and manufacture Badu, and another, busting up LTD’s I’m happy. I just fiddle with stuff,” he his own tracks at home. He got a job ‘Love To The World’. Deep, unctuous says. It really is rather more than that. at Preston’s Action Records, which house music followed for the likes of BEN ARNOLD

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three tracks built on huge kicks and delicately progression in her sound, which she says skittering percussion. is down to producing with more focus on “There was a definite shift in the way that material for the live sphere. “There’s a shift OSHANA I produced music with it,” she tells DJ Mag in the music I’m making again,” she explains. from her studio in the Neukölln district of “I’m more focused on dancefloor-orientated FROM Berlin over Skype. “It feels like I’ve crossed music, stepping away from deep sounds. The BERLIN VIA OHIO a bridge, presenting a new sound that was percussion is a little simpler, moving from a revolutionary in terms of my own music.” minimal tech-house sound and more towards FOR FANS OF Following the release, the first half of this techno.” RPR SOUNDSYSTEM, RICARDO year saw Oshana — real name Molly Oshana VILLALOBOS, FABE Goldberg — shift her focus to touring, playing After gaining the support of Raresh — who Robert Johnson, Club der Visionaire and included ‘I See Through You’ on his 2014 THREE TUNES Concrete, as well as shows across Lithuania, ‘Fabric 78’ mix — Oshana has now signed ‘ACCLERATOR’, ‘INNER DIMENSION’, Ecuador, Peru, Australia, Asia and India, with the Yoyaku agency, who also look after ‘ECCENTRIC ELECTRIX’ all split between spinning DJ sets and Varhat, Cabanne and Janeret, as well as performing the live show she started in 2014. getting the approval of Chilean minimal WHERE NEXT “A lot of live acts are putting on a more master Ricardo Villalobos, who has been CONCRETE, PARIS, 2ND DECEMBER conceptual show that’s not about making dropping ‘Eccentric Electrix’ through summer. people dance,” she explains. “But I’m trying “I don’t think there’s any contesting that this to reshape people’s opinions of what a live act has been my biggest year yet,” she smiles, AT THE close of last year, Partisan dropped is. If there’s ever a dull moment where people reflecting on 2017. “A lot of my career goals Oshana’s ‘The Arcadia’ EP, which became are standing on a dancefloor swaying back have happened, but I’ve never felt like I’ve almost omnipresent on minimal dancefloors. and forth waiting for my next move, that’s a made it, as I don’t think it’s going to be the The release introduced the upfront minimal fail. I want to keep people moving.” biggest year for me. The sky is the limit, as tech-house sound of the Ohio-born, Berlin- This year, Goldberg’s ‘Ametisu’ and ‘Inner I know this isn’t the last stop on the train.” based producer to a wider audience, with Dimension’ EP have both marked a further ROB MCCALLUM

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01. Ben Klock ‘Subzero’ “Not so many words for this. I think this track Rødhåd (and the whole album by Ben Klock back then) changed my understanding of electronic music Having just dropped his debut album ‘Anxious’, the completely. A timeless classic masterpiece.” German dub-techno maestro gives us an insight into the 02. Green Velvet ‘Killer Bees’ tracks that helped him to define his sound... “Even I don’t play this track so often, but it’s a blueprint for Green Velvet’s freaky techno back then. I think every track he released in the ‘90s was kind of outstanding, and I still appreciate his forward-thinking taste in music back then.”

03. Mathew Jonson ‘Marionette’ “Techno doesn’t need to always be dark or hard. Sometimes little shining tracks such as ‘Marionette’ combine the emotions of techno music in the same way — sometimes even better. Everytime I hear this track, I just want to close my eyes and fly away...”

04. DVS1 ‘Running’ “Made by my good friend DVS1, I think I played this track in nearly every set for a year, and I still hear it every time when I’m in Berghain. I love the meeting of minimalistic sounds.”

05. Peace Division ‘Blacklight Sleaze (Radio Slave Remix)’ “Still one of my all-time favourite remixes by the remix master himself. I think what Radio Slave did here is still amazing and timeless. When the bass drops in and the vocals appear, I still get goosebumps.”

06. Efdemin ‘Acid Bells’ “Just one example of the genius mind of Efdemin. This track, and many others by him, show me how much detail and effort you can put into a simple production. I am also a big fan of Efdemin’s last album ‘Decay’, but I’m choosing ‘Acid Bells’ because it’s older and maybe not everybody knows this track.”

07. Ribn ‘Shift’ “This amazing dub ambient followed me for a long time in all of my sets — it was released on Styrax Leaves. These tracks were the perfect symbiosis between the dub I liked and the slow techno which came back in the 2000s.”

08. Ben Frost ‘By The Throat’ “Actually, nearly everything from this album I like to listen to and even to play. For me, Ben Frost ike Bierbach, aka Rødhåd, grew up on the outskirts of Berlin and cut his clubbing teeth showed with this kind of music a completely new at late ‘90s Berlin institutions like Ostgut and Casino. Immersing himself in the scene, understanding about what electronic music can he soon started his Dystopian crew to throw outdoor parties, before beginning regular be. He opened my mind — and some doors — in Dystopian club-nights at various venues in Berlin. 2009 with this soundtrack.” BerghainM soon came calling, and he started playing the fabled nightspot regularly — the gigs providing a springboard to shows all over Europe. 09. Howling ‘Signs (Rødhåd Remix)’ The Dystopian label followed naturally in 2012, releasing his breakthrough tunes like ‘Blindness’ and “I made maybe 40 versions of this remix and at diffuse techno bomb ’1984’, while he also had outings on 50 Weapons and Belgian label, Token. some point I didn’t even know if I wanted to see Fast-forward to this year and Rødhåd has finally released his debut album. ’Anxious’, out on the track released. In the end I just sent one Dystopian, fittingly has a foreboding beginning — first track ‘Unleash’ sets the tone with radioactive version and actually forgot about the work I did pulses and sci-fi synths. It’s immediately clear that Rødhåd has taken his label name to heart — it’s ‘til I heard the track played in a lot of clubs and the stuff of dark, desolate futures. festivals. Now I think it’s one of the best pieces of ‘Escape’ transposes the listener onto wasteland rubble before ‘Awash’ offers a glimmer of hope with remix work I’ve done for a while, and I’m proud glistening, iridescent synths. Through the Geiger-counter tech of ‘Target Line’ and disjointed Amen that we released it for the public.” junglisms of ‘Burst’, it’s clear that Rødhåd is creating his own unsettling narrative, his own set of science fiction sonics that coalesce into an unnerving but ultimately rewarding long-playing slice of 10. Rødhåd ‘Target Line feat. Vril’ electronic art. “The only collaboration I did on my new album, “These tracks, artists and producers helped me to define my sound,” Rødhåd tells DJ Mag, talking ‘Anxious’. I’m happy that this production got about his ten chosen tracks (right). “Some of them are really old, most of them are from the mid- such positive feedback, and now ‘Target Line’ will 2000s, and they all make me think about the freedom and creativity of electronic music.” hopefully find its way onto the dancefloor.”

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IT’S taken less than eight years for Riva Starr’s Thus, in order to do it all justice, he’s roped in Snatch! to reach 100 releases — a remarkable another house great, Chicago’s Green Velvet, Q&A RIVA STARR achievement in a world where DJs, labels and for an EP of b2b production — ‘Keep Pushin clubbers come and go like a yoyo. But it’s not just (Harder)’/’I Feel Good’ — to mark their centurion How and when did Snatch! Records come longevity that this loveable Italian disc jockey release. about? has on his side. Bringing us dancefloor hits from Riva says, “How mad is it that we’ve reached our “I had the idea of creating Snatch! for a couple heavy-hitters like Carl Cox and Groove Armada as 100th release? Snatch! has been a lab to test our of years but finally decided to launch it in March well as bubbling tracks which boosted newcomers mad ideas and I feel happy that we’ve helped 2010 (the same month my first son was born). I such as Emanuel Satie and Dennis Cruz, it’s the break a lot of young producers too. It’s been a thought we had enough good music to release imprint’s solid consistency that’s allowed it to crazy ride so far but it’s just the start. There’s and it was a mad moment for me as I was in all stand the test of time so well. plenty more music to come, stay tuned!”. of the top dance magazines and websites, it was great exposure for the new label.”

What does it sound like? GIMME 5 “Like a Riva Starr DJ set.” Who have you released? “Throughout our seven-year history we’ve released music by a variety of artists, ranging from big names such as Carl Cox, Fatboy Slim, Groove Armada, Davide Squillace, Matthias Tanzmann, Richy Ahmed and wAFF through to up- and-coming producers that we’ve helped break Groove Dennis Cruz Pele & Ruben Soul Speech through, such as Emanuel Satie, Dennis Cruz, Armada ‘New Life’ Shawnecy Mandolini ‘Soul Speech’ Brett Gould, Ruben Mandolini, Italoboyz, Paolo ‘Superstylin’ “Dennis did a great ‘Better For My ‘Also’ “This tune, released Martini and Upercent.” (Riva Starr Edit)’ job with El Agua a few Brain’ “This track launched in 2016, became months before but it Traxsource’s best- Who’s playing it? “This tune! I’ve been “Another cheeky Ruben’s name into was with New Life that selling track of the playing it for at least a house number from the circuit thanks to “A wide range of DJs! From Annie Mac to Laurent he really managed to year and launched couple of years. When this great German a clever use of the Garnier and everyone in between.” break all records. It a new mysterious we managed to get production duo. famous ‘My Beat’ was #1 on Beatport project. The concept is the licence to release Championed by The sample from Blaze. for many months very easy — thumping Proudest Snatch! moment? it, it went straight to Martinez Brothers, It’s a very simple yet and still gets a lot of house beats and “Well, beside some of our releases reaching #1 on Beatport for Luciano and Marco effective tune being plays now-a-days. It gospel vibes.” two months and it got Carola in Ibiza, used played pretty much the #1 spot on Beatport, I would have to say really contributed to played all summer in in Circoloco promo everywhere.” it was when we got to host our own tent at launching his career at Ibiza in 2016. Groove videos, this tune has the highest level.” Tomorrowland and Creamfields, it was an amazing Armada are one of my been in all the DJs’ experience!” favourite acts from bags for more than back in the day and two years and I still being able to release hear it at a lot of What’s next? this track just made parties.” “Just to keep on looking for the next fresh big my year!” tune!”

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