Track Of The Day: Drexciya - Bang Bang (UR)

 

I don’t think electro gets any funkier than this. A slo-mo beat enveloped by hi-tec effects. It’s the sonar, subterranean soundtrack to deep sea exploration. Going down the Mariana Trench with this playing in your dodgy sub bought from the back page of a 1970s Marvel comic, along with a health supply of sea monkeys. Either that or its a slow glide through the Detroit boondocks during a hot and humid night. In a large car. Sansibar and Reptant have recently paid homage to this ‘Sansibar - My Boom (Reptant’s Lizard Tech Mix)’. It’s not the same but you get my drift I think.

Voyage de Lux w/ Alex Downey 24.06.26

 

1BTN · Voyage de Lux w/ Alex Downey 24.06.26

Coyote Bodega (Hot air mix)

 

isitbalearic..? · Coyote Bodega (Hot air mix)

HATE Podcast 493 HATE, Andrey Pushkarev

 

HATE · Andrey Pushkarev — HATE Podcast 493

Track Of Yesterday: Module One - Animation (Luck Of Access)

 

This is taken from the latest release on Andrei Pushkarev’s Luck Of Access, and it’s a banger. As much as dub techno can produce bangers, then this is one. Comes on some sort of cloudy black vinyl, which makes me thin that whoever pressed it offered the label a sloppy seconds deal. Anyway, it’s great. All dub techno needs momentum, otherwise it’s just dub innit? This belts along nicely, eschewing the need for eqing and farting about with the mixer. Just let it play. It’ll blend itself. Tracks like this need to be used strategically, underlaying something more idiosyncratic in order to make it more palatable. And we’ve all bought tracks like that!

Track Of The Day: Hal - Parallax Attractor (A.R.T.L.E.S.S.)

 

This lovely, deep acidic journey arrived at my house a few days ago. Hal is a new name to me, but on the strength of this release I’ll be checking his other stuff. One quibble. It needs to be pitched down. It just sounds better. Funkier and warmer. It’s personal preference of course. I think that all of the Wiggle releases, as well as associated croydon-based house labels, used to put out great stuff but would all have benefitted from dropping the bpms somewhat. Anyway this is great. Almost Jean Michelle Jarre like in its analogue feel. And as I was at Hardwax this time last week. TIP!

Track Of The Day: Nate Krafft - Mirror / ɿoɿɿiM (Musique Pour La Danse)

 

I’ve only recently come across Nate Krafft. He’s probably one of this names that I should be able to confidently throw at electric music nerds and geeks in conversations about real techno. So better late than never. This is from his album which has just been released on Musique Pour La Danse, a label that has it’s own section in Hardwax no less. (I know because I was there last weekend). ‘Mirror’ is a great cut. To be honest the whole album is great, so this is a bit random. It feels like a pinnacle of sorts for the genre. Very emotive and deep, but eminently danceable as w3ell. He had a handful of releases in I think the mid nineties, two of which appear to have been rereleased on MPLD. Some lovely electro on there as well. Buy it! 

Manfredas | Sound Metaphors TV | June 25, 2026

 

More Than Mixing - Move D | HÖR - June 23 / 2026

 

Track Of Yesterday: Stojche - Granada (Convextion Remix) (Syncrophone)

 

This came out a few years ago and, as far as a Gerard Hanson remix is concerned, slipped under most people’s radars. However, on yet another day when the June temperature record looks set to be broken in The UK, I’m here to remind you that this isn’t just another piece of looped techno. No. There’s a lot of hidden detail and nuance in this track. What drives it more than any other element though, is Hanson’s love of the deep crescendo. This is more subtle than your general “in your face” euphoria. Because as already eluded to, this doesn’t feel like a particularly sophisticated track. Stick the headphones on and go for a ride with it and journey deep into its psyche. Ten minutes passes by in an instant and you’ve been to the Kuiper Belt and back.

Track Of The Day: Alton Millar - Progressions (Guidance)

When in doubt, reach for Guidance, and what better than this under the radar production form Alton Millar, I have memories of watching him DJ in the final Soma (nothing to do with the still going strong Glasgow based label) party I went to in Paris in 1997 at then Bois de Vincennes. Some pavilion where Andy Weatherall had been booked to play, but he didn’t turn up. The excuse which was doing the rounds was that he’d gone to the dentist to have a tooth out, or something like that.Anyway, Alton Millar was playing in some sort of open area, while whoever had filled in for AW was somewhere else. Millar payed some choice deep house. No funkin’ around, just the good stuff, rather like this piece of percussive goodness.

Track Of The Day: Honey Bane - Girl On The Run (You Can Be You)

 

This was bought as a consequence of coming into contact with Crass, and as far as a punk single is concerned, it’s got it all. Wailing voice, great, clipped guitar riff and an overwhelming feeling of dread. I mean what more do you want? It came into my head while I was in Berlin over the weekend. No idea why. Maybe I clocked someone whose appearance took me here. Who knows. It’s a great track though and couldn’t have come from anywhere else but The UK. Great tribal drumming to play it out. Having said all of that, it’s the repetitive siren like motif that sticks in the head the most. It’s a meeting of audio landmarks if nothing else.

Track Of The Day: Dollar Brand - Blues For A Hip King (The Sun)

 

The last one before Berlin. Brilliant from Dollar Brand, aka Abdullah Ibrahim, who has just slipped off this mortal coil.

Fuse w/ Enrica Falqui @ Kiosk Radio 13.06.2026

 

Track Of The Day: Peverelist - Pulse XV (Livity Sound)