Driving Techno

'Compute 1' pairs André Winter and Carlo Ruetz on Marc Romboy's Systematic Recordings. Winter (Hamburg, rooted in early Detroit techno) and Ruetz (a Beatport-topping minimal techno producer) deliver two moody, hypnotic cuts — 'Akat 1' and 'Swac'. Dark, melodic and dancefloor-strict.

Tal Fussman on Rekids with 'Definition'. The Berlin-based, Israeli-born producer blends house, jazz and 80s-tinged disco into four emotional cuts, from 'Freedom Defines House' to 'Even Rome Wasn't Built In a Day'. Deep, melodic and distinctive.

Charlotte de Witte’s remix of Eats Everything’s ‘Space Raiders’ first came out digitally on Kneaded Pains in 2019 and became a peak-time staple. Dense & Pika’s label now puts it on 12" vinyl, paired with the Bristol producer’s original. De Witte’s A-side rolls with trance-tinged synths and hypnotic drive, while...

The fifth and final vinyl part of Drumcode’s A-Sides Vol. 14 takes four cuts from the twenty-track compilation. Kaufmann’s ‘People Are Strange’ sets a familiar vocal inside a tougher techno frame, A.D.H.S. and METODI keep the pressure up with ‘KOMANI’ and ‘3 Shot Espresso’, and AdamK teams with Vikthor and...

The third volume of Medusa Outdoor’s Vinyl Collector series, curated by festival residents Michael Forzza and Jochen Robberecht, spans generations of deep, hypnotic techno. Johannes Heil’s ‘Paranoid Dancer’, first issued on Kanzleramt in 2002, returns remastered, alongside Envoy’s 1996 Soma cut ‘Dark Manoeuvres’. Nicole Moudaber, Flug, Steve Nash and Frank...

Bart Skils and Weska add to a run of collaborations that already includes ‘Shades of Summer’, ‘Polarize’ and ‘Something More’, this time on Drumcode. ‘Torn Clouds’ rides rolling grooves and rising melodic tension, while ‘Dusk Till Dawn’ on the flip is hypnotic and wandering, made for the late hours. Percussive,...

Hard, fast, functional techno with one deliberate break in it — four tracks pinned to the same quick tempo, and Sambana dropping mid-A-side into a much slower, more percussive shuffle before the pace resumes. Keys move from track to track while the pulse holds, so the three-cut B-side runs as...

Three cuts lifted from the fifth A-Sides collection and pressed across one 12" — Luca Agnelli's Phoenix holding the A-side alone at the quicker end, then two collaborations on the flip, Adam Beyer with Mark Reeve and Alan Fitzpatrick with Gary Beck. Straight, mid-tempo Drumcode floor material from 2016, with...