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Skoozbots play techno around the midwest

Brian Connelly (aka Skoozbot), an Indiana native and Michigan transplant, has long been interested in the interaction between humans and technology. This interest has been met in his love of electronic music, which is made by machines yet fueled by the soul. As a DJ over the past decade, Brian has never been satisfied simply blending two tracks together and has long sought to augment his mixing by incorporating the limitless possibilities provided by technology. His first productions and remixes have been mostly released in labels as Minus, Immigrant and Mindshake.

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Tracklisting:
00:00 - jpls - puss - minus
00:00 - heartthrob - valentine - minus
00:30 - agaric - no one knows (camea remix) - sunset diskos
02:01 - recyd - bueno - leftout
04:55 - marco carola - sensation - plus 8
08:12 - joseph capriati - pac man (from karaoke to stardom remix) - minibus
10:35 - bip soup - grin-bo - cápsula
13:36 - bukaddor & bishbeck - mr. floppy - MBF
16:08 - sebastian roya - andante (jens zimmermann remix) - connaisseur supérieur
17:38 - thomas elder - stoned - franz franz
22:09 - alexis cabrera & guti - tercero - minibus
24:04 - alexi delano & tony rohr - run 0 - plus 8
25:46 - bip soup - bloop - minibus
28:06 - mark broom - Never Again (Mihalis Safras Remix) - playmobil series
29:41 - elektrabel - smash st (zahn remix) - enemy
31:00 - matteo spedicati - fior di fragola - mindshake
33:27 - alexis cabrera & guti - minibass - minibus
36:29 - skoozbot - two over the eight (paco osuna remix) - mindshake
39:15 - lauhaus - shitapple - intacto
39:45 - richie hawtin - statikphunk - plus 8
41:16 - marco carola - contortionist - plus 8
44:33 - daniele papini - church of nonsense - alchemy
48:04 - mark ramsey - hub caps - autist
50:05 - matteo spedicati - stilnox - mindshake
53:22 - detroit grand pubahs - thanks for coming (the advent remix) - detelefunk
54:08 - uto karem - alive - agile
57:09 - simone tavazzi - microonde - perc trax
60:10 - acid circus - uncle jak - droid
63:11 - greenbeam & leaon - vakho jaja - minibus
66:05 - futt’ to fino - bong n’ gong - metroline limited

Skoozbot

[Miga_v03] J.A. Anguita + Antonio Blanca “Splitbrain” from Miga on Vimeo.

Too much SPAM

Mikael Stavostrand was born in Stockholm, Sweden 1972, and is now based in Berlin, Germany.

He has been lauded as a key figure of the Swedish electronic music scene for his unique interpretations of minimal club techno as well as for producing some of the most essential experimental electronic music of the past years. Stavöstrand mixes deconstructed sounds with funky little beats to create minimal dance textures. On his debut album on Force Inc., “Reduce”, swarms of glitches, crackles and skips infiltrate the 4/4 drive formula of minimal techno. As Vita, his “Vita” 12″ on Force Inc. imprint Force Labs was welcomed by critical praise and became one of the best selling releases with its digitalized organic groove.

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Mikael Stavostrand

Jena Paradies is a minimal techno producer and DJ project currently based in Athens, GA with very good taste in music and great mixing and producing skills

Turn On the lights

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Tracklisting:
No Regular Play - Blonde Juan
Lee Curtiss & Gadi Mizrahi - The Itch (Zev Remix)
Loren Steele - Jaxx
Lee Curtiss - Heavy Petting
Lee Curtiss & Gadi Mizrahi - Junglebunnyhump
Gadi Mizrahi - I Know
Nicolas Jaar - Hage Chahine Feat. sax by Will Epstein (Kasper Remix)
Nicolas Jaar - The Student Hairstyle
Nicolas Jaar - Par(sol)
Greg Paulus - My Man’s Gone Now
Wolf + Lamb & Smirk - You Will Find

Jena Paradies

Miguel Colmenares :..: Manualidades EP

Colmenares’ 2006 debut, the slithering come-on of “Sure You Do,” caught the ear of Sweden-based netlabel Subtropical’s Vincent Casanova, who remixed the track as the b-side to “Carta Roja.” (Matthew Dear has been known to drop that particular track into his sets, calling Colmenares “a perfectionist of the simple yet oh-so-addictive house groove.”) A pair of releases on Pinksilver followed. But after spending time in Sacramento and reconnecting with Auralism’s Jason Short, the producer knew he’d found a spiritual home—even though he now lives half across the globe in the Netherlands.

Miguel Colmenares

not the one on the left

Throughout his career, minimal house producer Thomas Melchior has stayed dedicated to the underground, maintaining a low profile. After twenty years of music production, he’s still at the cutting edge of music.
Following up from his masterful album No Disco Future, Thomas Melchior returns to Cadenza with a new single that continues to push gently outward against the boundaries of house music. Thomas is no singer, but he’s always had a knack for humanizing his music with quietly compelling vocal samples—hiccups, nonsense syllables, single words, even entire phrases—that alternately bring a blush to the skin or set you adrift on a sea of unease. Now, on “Who Can Find Me (I Can’t)” he continues the tradition with a lilting female voice that alternates between wordless phrases and the open-ended question, “Who can find me?” On paper the title might look depressed, even desperate - but that’s far from the case. The chords may be (mainly) minor key, and the synthesizers unusually delicate, but if anything distinguishes the song it’s a profound sense of freedom. As always, repetition plays a key role here, as Thomas layers spindly arpeggios and quiet, bouncing chords; his drums are unusually restrained this time out, with just enough bite to keep them pushing forward. The voice drifts in and out as innocuously as clouds on a summer day. It’s as hypnotic as love itself.

Tracklisting:
Who Can Find Me - I Can’t
Choir

Alan Abrahams is a busy man. Recording under two full-time aliases, running his own label, playing at mansions on the Welsh/English border, it’s all in a day’s work for the Lisbon resident. With excellent releases spread across label’s like Perlon, Spectral Sound, Yore and more, that hard work seems to be paying off. That quality imprints are requesting his services is hardly surprising, however: Abrahams work as Bodycode and Portable is both accessible and idiosyncratic, bringing his varied influences (born in Africa, Abrahams spent many years in England soaking up dance culture) to bear on his productions.

Tracklisting:
01. Subspace Radio - Spectral Sound
02. What You Say feat. Lerato - Spectral Sound
03. The Many - Perlon
04. Body to Body feat. Lerato - Yore
05. Spacial Harmonics feat. Mario Afonso - Unreleased
06. Albatros - Süd Electronic
07. Kevin Gorman - That Guy (Bodycode Mix) - Mikrowave
08. I’ll Hold Your Hand - Spectral Sound
09. Release - Perlon

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bodycodemusic / portable / alan abrahams

Barem hails from Buenos Aires, Argentina. He spends much of his days djing and developing his sound. Barem’s work is singularly deep and minimal with a timbral sensibility that is intermittently harmonic.
Born and raised in Detroit, Michigan. Part of the new breed of Detroit, Ryan has made a name for himself over the past year with his floor friendly livesets and releases on Trapez, Telegraph and M_nus under his alias Berg Nixon. Drawing from the likes of Matthew Dear, Magda and Ricardo Villalobos, his percussive often shuffle style of techno makes him one to watch for the future.

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I am not a label just a dirty bird

Dirtybird, a bona fide genre drifter and indecisive vinyl addict, has been a relentless electronic music fan for the past 15 years. her journey to denver and then back to chicago in the late 90s marked the beginning of dirtybird’s obsession with sharing a unique blend of sounds that had soul, regardless of genre. denver’s newly thriving scene infected dirtybird, and by the time she moved back to chicago she was consumed. it felt natural to buy some decks and to start creating music of her own.

in 2003, dirtybird played exclusively at house parties for luv-n-musik. it wasn’t until she was invited to do a monthly gig at the joint’s “flirt” night at lava lounge that dirtybird got settled into her own sound: a mix of minimal, electro, tech house, and techno. it was also during this time that two of dirty’s original tracks were aired on Q101’s sonic boom radio show. she also became a favorite on djsourceradio, a UK based internet radio station that featured unknown talent from all over the world.

the next 2 years were spent filling a hard drive with unfinished tracks, djing at smaller loft parties in the city, and searching for fellow lovers of new sounds with respect for the old. after reuniting with fellow “flirt” survivor sassmouth in 2005, dirty was invited to play at the naughty bad fun collective’s “etikett” night at betty’s blue star lounge in chicago. feeling more inspired than ever, she was exposed to a group of minimal/electro/techno worshipping dancing machines dedicated to the music. since then, dirtybird has lead techy revivals at etikett, and rocked rooms at smartbar and zentra. recently dirtybird traveled to indianapolis for venus envy 2.0, organized by dj shiva and thrown at therapy nightclub. this night followed in the successful footsteps of the first venus envy party, which featured detroit’s punisher and chicago’s sassmouth tearing through a wicked tag set.

Tracklisting:
the regisford harris project - astral (dub mix)
marcus fix - house in the house
frivolous - island of sanctity (v2 edit)
joeski - all by myself
ralph sliwinski - pox box (johnny d rmx)
two armadillos/sascha dive - hamlin (sascha dive mix)
intellectual - equipping education (keagan rmx)
masomenos - travel master
prompt - evolve
stimming - die schatulle (federico molinari rmx)
robert dietz - backseat
yann solo - borderline
alex kenji - so sexy (sara galli rmx)
lopazz - 2 fast 4 u (guillaume & the coutu dumonts rmx)
dj shizzle - bushido
after tea - my prerogatives
laid - punch up
sety - fogo puro (bonus beat)
robert dietz - lost horizon
sety - mogane (guillaume & the coutu dumonts rmx)
two em & el loco - bodywork (aeras body rmx)
chymera - wish (peter dildo rawjuice reshape)
deadbeat - the heckler
reboot - charlotte
greg parker - casual
terry lee brown junior - everyday (timewriter rmx)

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Genna Greene / Dirtybird