Track Of The Day: Patrice Scott - Rain Dance (Visions Inc)

‘Rain Dance’ is pure Patrice Scott and in saying that a sort of jazzy tribalism embellished by keys that sound both futuristic and classic at the same time. I went through a big Patrice Scott phase a while back while searching for meaning at the deeper end of the soul spectrum. He’s very much overlooked, slept on, under a lot of peoples’ radar. I can’t quite understand why. Everything he’s turned his hand to is class. And he’s also not the first name on the list when discussing Detroit artists. I guess everyone knows each other there as far as the scene is concerned, yet he seems to keep himself to himself. I’m probably wrong; but who cares anyway. He’s one of the best.

Track Of The Day: Jeff Mills - Step To Enchantment (Axis)

A track that sounds, according to a Youtube comment “like the fabric of the universe being torn apart”. ‘Step To Enchantment’ is just that. Firing on all frequencies it also sounds like a live eq workout. It’s hard as hell but it is multidimensional and has so much depth. There are two tracks with this name on the ‘Mecca’ EP, and this is the ‘Stringent’ version. At around the length of a classic pop single,  if there’s one techno track with perfect symmetry, then this is it.

Track Of The Day: Claude Young - Soundscape (7th City)

Hidden away on the B side of the more well-known ‘Acid Wasyh Conflict’, is this amazing piece by Claude Young which, strangely enough, has more in common with a lot of the IDM that was being produced in The UK at the time than Detroit. It’s also possible that this track was influenced by said stuff which had, in turn, been influenced by Detroit techno. Cyclical innit. Brilliant tune that could go onboard forever and has that immersive dawn-of-time ambience that draws you in and holds you.

ALFOS EBS53 - Sean Johnston (16-01-2026)

 

Nathan Dawidowicz – Scintilla (feat. Hannah Schraven)
Körperkonsum – Dream Baby Dream (Nathan Dawidowicz remix)
Shok – Uj Pa Gaz
DJ Oil – Jesus (feat. Reverend Hill)
Antaares – Desayuno
Ghost Assembly – RESIST! (Utter Kunt Mix)
Daniel Avery – I Feel You (Midnight Version)
DJ Chrysalis – Oog in oog
FBNM – You Can't Fight It (Riccio Rerub)
Automat – Am Schlachtensee (feat. Blixa Bargeld)
Zombi – Totem edits 14
EL EF OH – El ef oh (Jona’s Gleadless Valley Acid edit)
Instruments Of Rapture – Do It 2 The Max
The Oddness – Faster than you Think
Thrashing Doves – Je$u$ on the Payroll (Instrumental Version)
Talking Heads – Houses In Motion (Monk remix)
Andy Bell feat. Dot Allison – I'm in Love… (Justin Robertson Deadstock 33s remix)
GMV026 – Full Circle Sharp Water
Pigeon Steve – Gusto Galactica
Unknown – Ain't Nobody Dub (SJ Boost)
Rayko – Electricity
Hermetics – High 
Bernard Meyer
Baxter Dury – Return of the Sharp Heads (Paul Epworth 12” instrumental)
Red Snapper – Sound and Vision
Age of Chance – The Beat of NY (Niv edit)
The Slits – So Tough (Party Nails dub)
Simon Shackleton feat. The Rolling Stones – Gimme Shelter (Just a Shot Away)
Duncan Gray – Rolling and Boiling
Totem Projects – Totem edits 10 – Go
Lady Blackbird vs Crooked Man – Whatever His Name (Part 2)
Hugo – Field of Dreams (Hardway Bros Cosmic Interpolation mix)
Fine Young Cannibals – She Drives Me Crazy (The Reflex revision)
Spyder – Better Be Good to Me (Kalidasa’s Slight Touch)
Tribe of Heroes – Disco Cutie
Codenzi & Planet Caravan – Fast & Slow
Feed Me Groove – Lets Smoke Inside
Vanessa Daou – Naked Hunger (Quiet Village spoken version)
Troels Yuri – Alien Bells
Jimmy Somerville – Jimmy’s Nova (Hardway Bros remix)
Esmaeili – 911
Niv Ast – Jungle Marvin (Sean Johnston ALFOS edit)
Duncan Gray – Five Fathoms (Meat Katie remix)
Chappell & Apiento – Naked in the Orange Place
Concret & Kate Stein – Pull Up (Mike Simonetti remix)
Koenig Cylinders – Koenig Cylinders 118
Sean Johnston – Sean 118 ARP!!
New Order – True Faith (Medlar edit)
The All Seeing I & Crooked Man – Return of the Crooked Cat
dOP – Don’t Stop
SIRS – Woman (Extended mix)
Lorenzo Morresi & Maria Chiara Argirò – Acid Delirio (Cosmic take)
Mamacita & Persona aka Roman S – Problemas de amor
Verdo – Let In The Light (Fango remix)
Bar_Low – Ba-Ba-Low
Fango – North
Kenneth Bager & Anders Ponsaing – You Don't Fool Me
Aleksandir – Yamaha
The Grid – Floatation (Made By Pete extended remix)
Phil Weeks – Jack To My Groove
Four Tet – Into Dust (Still Falling)
Sunscreem – Perfect Motion (Patrice Bäumel Renaissance remix)
DJ Minx – Turn It Up
Fango – South
Crooked Man – Don't Leave Me This Way
Annie & The Caldwells – I Made It
Marmion – Schöneberg (Abe Duque remix)
Le Carousel – We're All Gonna Hurt
Radio Slave feat. Kameelah Waheed – All Rize (Revolution mix)
Tom Rowlands – We Are Nothing
Benjamin Fröhlich – Love Loop (Sound Support remix)
The Mighty Zaf & Linkwood – Yokai
Jezebell – Turn It Yes (Hardway Bros remi

Colin Dale - Abstrakt Dance Show - 15.01.2026

Track of The Day: Conforce - Charlatan (Delsin)

A real talent is Boris Bunnick, aka Conforce. And ‘Charlatan’ is a great and symphonic piece of electro that thrives on its ever-so-dissonant spinal column. It’s the break beats of the spheres. The urgent and fidgety organ music that Captain Nemo plays as the Nautilus torpedoes icebergs for fun. A strangely optimistic piece, it feels like it’s composed of various musical tectonic plates that grind against each other in an effort to produce some sort of pre-programmed electronic orchestration. One of many that he’s produced. Everything deserves your attention.

Track Of The Day: Dopplereffekt - Rocket Scientist (International DJ Gigolos)

Not the transcendental, dystopian electro that we are used to from Dopplereffekt, more like a ruptured take on techno. The music of the machines going full on metronomic. The frequencies are at play and we are the casual bystanders. There’s echoes of Mills in the background. The atmospheric synth lines creating a 1950s sci-fi ambience last seen in ‘Gamma Player’. It burns itself out all too quickly and is, as a consequence, a fleeting post-industrial escapade that makes the most of its time on Earth. 

Track Of The Day: J. Dahlbäck - The Lonesome Dub (Svek)

This may have been the first Svek release I bought, backtracking to pick up some of the earlier ones, and full steam ahead to pick up what followed, although what did follow is, I think, often overrated. Anyhoo, this for me is what I think of as far as the label’s signature sound is concerned. A loping groove with plenty of space between the beats. Absolutely amazing mixing fare. Almost anything could be overlaid and be improved by the cubby foundation. Like a house interpretation of Basic Channel. It’s a groove to get lost in, and doesn’t seem long at 13 minutes. Anything can happen in the next half hour.

Track Of The Day: Drexciya - Aquarazorda (Submerge)

From ‘Drexciya 4 – The Unknown Aquazone’, it really doesn’t get better than this, and it was a hard job. This entry should have been album of the day. I could have posted everything from said LP here, just because selecting one is impossible. Electro has never been so intense or well-produced. There’s so much space between the different layers which are themselves single emissions that carry unknown messages. I guess it’s up to you and me to decode them.