Techno News

Old school Y2K minimal tribe stuff... Colelctor.

Dark Folk hardcore, doom downtempo... The fruit of an encounter between the msuciian and the label. Check their catalog... Loads of punk and Post Punk releases... also the are Books editors... superb project also thanks to the sound that is totally clean compared to some of the Fifthe Era productions... BRILIIANT ! Must Have !

Raving Collision 's sound ! First track is a pure Hangar raver masterpiece, in the dark old school way.. And B-side is a stable groover opening on some acid percussive high time after a while... both tunes are totally big efficient DJ Tools, cut 45 RPM for a loud sound !

Modern Frenchcore sound melted with a bit of that Raw kick. Dancefloor !

Dancefloor banger from Guigoo, Floxy and Sasio. Dfefenitly between hardfoor and tribecore... The Narkotek sound !

There are some tunes that rock around so hard... like Ascender did, or like Popof And Noisebuilder did ... A long time ago CYB-X Sound system did a pure jewel of a tune... but this one, from another member of the sound is just a blaster... At a even higher level ! This EP also offers 2 remixes from Brent Brain and FML 010 : one in a tribe hardfloor acid way and one in a Hackney Hardest way... 165 to 175 BPM fiull-on record ! MUST HAVE !

First side brings 2 superb Hard Techno fat kickers. The flip goes Tribe in a more evident way, to the Hardfloor !

Slidebar is back with a relaunch project to follow the path of our previous Slidebar releases, a kick ass 12' filled with groove plundering variety of techno styles from producers you know and love. For the relaunch release - Assault On Preset 13 EP - we have 4 tracks from Paul Birken, Dave Tarrida & Tobias Schmidt, Subhead and Ben Pest.

New release from Eskombros Klan sound system's label!

Teknic is back, with 2 banging old school Hard techno tunes from DDR and Ganez ! A Shaker !

When looking for music to be released on Magazine, our guideline has always been energy. The key question remains the same: Does the artist have something important to say Does it have a sense of urgency Alex played us these tracks while visiting the Magazine studio in Cologne earlier this year and we were consumed by unadulterated rage. This is anything but a conceptual release, Alex has not released this kind of music before. A side of Alex manifests itself through these techno tracks, that most might not have known before. Brutal yet beautiful, furious yet fragile. A Berlin native who shaped his sense for techno by striving through his hometown and its infamous raves, Alex is now one of the prominent protagonists of that scene - not only when regularly playing at Berghain. The EP harnesses this experience perfectly, fully preserving the energy of the creation process by recording directly to tape. Most productions may have suffered from this primitive method of locking sound into position, but not these tracks from a techno master.

First track directly puts you into an old School SP23 01 kick style... crazy shit ! The second tune goes classic acidcore sound... B side strats with a creepy dark acid masterpiece...
Last tune brings Jacidorex pure style :) as you love it !

Regener 8! Altern 8 mark the 25th anniversary of their klaxon and samples driven debut as the rave scene's Vick's loving masked marauders with the release of a deluxe remastered edition of their iconic Full On Mask Hysteria album.It comes as a limited edition triple heavyweight release.And in true Altern 8 style there are 2 separate individually numbered editions - 001 to 808 and 001 to 303.Cut super loud to allow DJ support for tracks that were cut too quietly on the original 1992 LP for club plays, the album also features exclusive tracks. MMEMOR-8I'm tellin' ya - sometimes words aren't enough. You had to be there.John McCready,one time legendary Network rabble rouser publicist,sums it up best. Talking about the current lengthy dissertations on how dance music has gone on to conquer the world, he points out: "The writers do not even scrape the surface of understanding just how iconoclastically funny this music and its' intrepid architects could be. A music - some of it over 30 years old now - which has a life of its own, and an inner core still burning long after its creation"
We were in fact very serious about the music, but we never stopped smiling. And Mark Archer and Chris Peat had us grinning more than anyone else.
Network became the UK's best selling independent single label in 1992. PWL were not impressed. The same year, we released the "Full On Mask Hysteria" album which music industry experts pompously told us would not sell, as Altern 8 were by definition a singles only act'. It got to No 3. We were workaholics, it seemed like we were connected to the mains some days, and had lots of success,But to be clear, there was no master plan.Yes ,the emotions were electric. but the direction was often dsyslexic. We were surfing a manic Techno / Acid House/ Rave Generation wave and we were desperate not to fall off and drown. It was time of (to quote McCready again) "deranged plans, impossible schemes and wild conceits" and of course our masked marauders Mark and Chris were slap bang in the centre of it.

The credible thing to say would be that I met Mark on the dancefloor at The Hacienda. In fact it was at a small club, No 7's in Burntwood, near Cannock Chase in Staffordshire. On Thursday nights No 7's was taken over for an Acid House session, where my mate Pat Ward would be joined by Neil Macey on the decks. I lived nearby, and at the time was managing Derrick May, Juan Atkins, Kevin Saunderson, and Inner City ,as well as partnering Dave Barker with the Kool Kat and Network labels. So, when not having the time of my life in Detroit pretending to be a techno version of Brian Epstein,I would rock up at No 7's with my latest collection of one-off acetates of brand new recordings. They would be duly handed over to Macey to be given their first play in Europe. Surreal does not even begin to describe it.

Anyway, Mark and I bumped into each there, and he seemed most impressed that Derrick and Kevin had both actually been to Burntwood. We arranged for a meeting with him, and his Nexus 21 partner Chris Peat, at Network's Tudor building HQ in Sparkbrook, Birmingham,and soon after they were duly signed to recording and publishing contracts. The plan was to make perfect Techno records with not an air horn in sight. Mark and Chris were both inquisitive and bright, and they fitted well together because they were polar opposites. Mark the dance music fanatic contrasting with Chris the ace musican. I liked them a lot. Nowadays Mark gets the recognition because of all the other things he has done since Altern 8, and is still very active as a DJ and producer, but Chris was a vital component in what became the Altern 8 success story.

Kevin came up with a corker when we sent him the parts of Nexus 21's "Still Life (Keeps Moving)' to remix, supplying astonishing remoulds not just from himself, but also by then unknowns MK and Carl Craig. Soon after, the awesome new Nexus 21 recordings "Self Hypnosis" and "Bio-Rhythms" proved just how on top of their game Mark and Chris were, and led to Network financing a trip to Detroit where they had the time of their lives making music and talking Techno at Kevin's KMS Studio with MK, Anthony Shakir, and Jay Denham, plus vocalist Donna Black. The results had us flying back over the Atlantic thinking we had cracked it. Nexus 21 were about to become Techno Royalty.

Then it went... insane. A month before, purely as a sideline, the always inventive pair had come up with eight tracks of demented helium rave pastiches: all air horns, speaker destroying bass blasts, and naggingly catchy samples. We didn't quite know what to do with them.We agreed, as it was an alternative to Nexus 21,to release all the tracks on one 12" (the kind of things our pals at Nu Groove In New York were doing) and call the project Altern 8, rather than a proposed suggestion of Alternate.That (accidental) eureka moment let the genie out of the bottle. Nexus 21 was shelved, as the value for money vinyl 8 track 12" was released and sold, and sold and would not stop selling. It was swiftly followed by a proper single, the crackling energy rammed Infiltrate 202" which charted... Network's first Top 40 hit. The next single Activ-8 went to number 3. The follow up Frequency could, in the zeitgeist of the moment, have gone to No 1 if we had not (for some quixotic reason) limited the release to 9009 copies.

Mark and Chris took to turning up at Network having driven down the M6 motorway from Stafford to Brum in their dayglo dust masks and nuclear warfare suits, revving up their mini and doing wheelies,outside our office and revelling in the craziness. Now fully fledged pop stars, they gleefully joined in with the plots for our (budget and less pretentious) take on KLF type activities. As fast as they came up with new tracks,John and myself would compete with each other to conjure up more and more scams to a very gullible Dance Music and Red Top tabloid press: Hot air balloons flying over Stafford dropping disco-biscuit Christmas cakes to grateful pensioners, purchasing rave tanks, setting up an Altern 8 chip shop in Ann Arbor, Michigan, picking up a stranded Elton John on the motorway...Mark and Chris happily picked up the baton on all of them, with photos of the duo looking like deranged Budgies in the hazmat suits appearing here, there and everywhere. The hype was well and truly on.Dave Barker kept things ticking over for the label while we indulged ourselves.

Later on Chris stood for election to Parliament in the General Election against Tory grandee Bill Cash on a Rave ticket. If I remember correctly he did not finish last, proving that there were some people around even less in touch reality than we were. My 5 year-old daughter was turned into MC Crazy Clair intoning "Top One, Nice One, Get Sorted" on Activ 8. Maybe someone should have notified Esther Rantzen...but if they had, no doubt Mark and Chris (not ones to miss a trick) would have simply have sampled her outrage on the next single.

Some of the stuff became legendary. The film of mad-eyed young ravers dancing on top of the cars in Shelley's Car Park, at an impromptu open-air gig (we needed shots for a video) after the club closed is now iconic. We had no permission to do it, and I had a very irate club owner after my blood.

Yes, we were contriving events, , but to be candid nobody with an iota of common sense believed the nonsense they were printing. It was all a game, and in reality a kind of innocence surrounded the whole Altern 8 adventure. Back then,The Sun would run front page headlines about Evil Acid House barons destroying the country. However, Archer and Peat, the duo who personified this alleged threat to the nation's youth, would be more likely to be having a refreshing cup of tea at home in Stafford, than recognise,never mind get involved in,any E's Are Good activities. Their modus operandi was more like The Chuckle Brothers than some of The Kray Twins type characters controlling the less wholesome parts of Rave Culture at the time.

It's easy now, for the cynical, to sneer and characterise Altern 8 as simply cartoon rave, and claim they were not as "vital" as some enigmatic myth maker who never smiled (and only sold a few records, mainly because they weren't that good anyway). But just step back and listen to this album: It's anthemic and iconic, and as John put it, - has an inner core still burning long after it was created.
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You ask about credibility One Saturday night, I went with Mike Banks of Underground Resistance, the Techno god who was legendary for his hatred of the commerce that had become part of dance music's landscape, to a huge Rave somewhere in London, and Mike spent ages taking photos of Altern 8 on stage, basically ignoring everything else going on. I asked him why he was interested in our hit makers,surely they stood for everything he detested . "Are you kidding. I love those guys!" Mike replied...

Like I said you had to be there.

Lots of the above bits are (inevitably) sampled from McCready, a lesson learnt from Altern 8. Dedicated to Mark and Chris, Dave Barker and John McCready - watch yer bass bins, I'm telling ya!

Neil Rushton

Superb Collections Of Tunes From Dave Lxr !

Pure dancefloor masterpiece from the hidden forces of berlin sound !

From 140 To 170 Bpm Acidcore Music !

When Scanning A Lsd-brained Activities Then The Scanner Gets Colorfull.... Of Acid Mental Tribe/techno, Acid Melodious And Acidcore !

Lets Check Pink And Lets Be Punk !

Hard Techno 140 to 152 BPM, acid and texturized. Superb first EP from this Radioshow / Studio from Toulouse .Big Up !

First Track Directly Puts You Into An Old School Sp23 01 Kick Style... Crazy Shit !
The Second Tune Goes Classic Acidcore Sound...
B Side Strats With A Creepy Dark Acid Masterpiece...
Last Tune Brings Jacidorex Pure Style :) As You Love It !

Opeining with a 129 BPM downtempo very hardcore techno tune, Doom noise sounds. The whole EP navigates between 120 and 140 BPM and the whole EP goes defenitly into Hardcore, sometim old school with Kenny Campbell, sometime extremly doom and downtempo like this tune from Bazar. FAT BOMBASTIC RECORD !

Tribe pumpin dancefloor newskool sound ! Funky Ixi style:)

The turning point between Pumpin tribe and « back to techno »... X-tech have always been a bit electro and on this EP he defently goes for it... This is the successfull turning point for his artistic choice. Even if you can still feel the acid, and the pumpin and the breakbeat of a classic tribe tune, there is here already the elcrto (this is a Marseille thing), the down pitch to more reasonable speeds, and aslo the variety of style into a single, witch was kind of a revolution and will always be ! A breilliant record that deserved a descent repress ! Was mastered and cut at DK Mastering, near toolbox. Brightening old this old DAT before it's too late !

After a first track of a pure Hard Techno Acid from the Hackney Acid Crew you'll enter a skanking Ragga hardtek record !

Heavy kicker at the hardcore Techno frontier... A Masterpiece offering one different idea at each tune : first is the big intro excitation one... Then comes an acidcore digger; b sides open with a F1 Doom Rave ambiance... and last track goes even more oldschool Rave.

There is a sixth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of deep bass and the summit of treble. This is the dimension of vibrations. It is an area where we find JoeFarr, MOERBECK, Patrick DSP, Oliver Rosemann & Axel Sohn, Scalameriya, Woody McBride, Dj Ze Migl, and Paul Birken, but within this project call "Eternal Darkness of the Spotless Mindcut

Supported by:

Dave Clarke, Rebekah, Berk Offset, Dave Tarrida, Forest People, Hate Music, Keepsakes, Killref, Perc, Scenedrone, 14anger, Interferon, LAG, Yuji Kondo, A001, Another Alias, ArchivOne, Beat Movement, Dax J, Diarmaid O Meara, Droid, Electric Indigo, Endlec, Forte Techno, Jeff 23, Sebastian Krenzlin, L.A.W., Metrist, Noneoftheabove, Paco Osuna, RVDE, Takaaki Itoh

USHF used to make records in 199... and now they are back... with the same kind of minimal tribe, psychedelic and very minimal.

Quiet an oldschool Tribe production... At the crossroad of a Hardfloor and Pumpin.
The style would be like a melt of Melly and FKY.

Massive !

Next Mindcut gets on its marks. We arrive at number 13 and present to you a heavy 4 tracker.

A1 - First up is ABSL, well known for his debut release on South London Analog Material. This techno-hymn brings up heavy drums and melodic synth lines. The perfect peak time dancefloor weapon.

A2 - Ole¯ka is the new project from Forest People, and it's more oriented in the industrial direction. Your Blood On My Hands' is a progressive pusher with hard kicks and rhythmic percussions which is the ideal recipe to make people dance.

B1 - The next side starts with Oliver Rosemann's raw and straight forward action. Without compromises it is the right tool for long techno nights.

B2 - Netherland based producer Drvg Cvlture rounds up the EP with deep drums and vocal weirdness. A dark and spherical techno stomper which drills directly in to your mind.

Early support by: Bas Mooy, Berk Offset, Dave Tarrida, Headless Horseman, Jerome Hill, Keepsakes, Moerbeck, Lag, Yuji Kondo, Backroomreality, Diarmaid O Meara, Electric Indigo, Hurtado, Joseph Capriati, Krenzlin, kris goad, MTD, NOMAD, Paco Osuna, RVDE, Takaaki Itoh, the29nov films, Paul Birken

Opening with a Gasmask Live extract, this RSF will keep on digging the mental tribe sound as it always did....
The Gasmask is just a perfect brain swinger : long flanged acid style in the Curley SOM.
Skelle then comes with another Live track, swinging deep bass playing with your nerves :)
The flip opens with a Misspic pumpin mental tune, sweet groove at the Tribe Funk frontier, very Spirally inspired.
Bart finished the job with a dry kicker, totally old school is the DSP style...
Rsf Confirms its post-Dsp direction and bring on the future of the tribe brain dance sound !

Mental tribe live sets.. .dancefloor deeper and deeper at every seconds... Must have !

Superb techno release for Dune records... With a long side from AcidUpDub, a minimal acid techno device, kind of a stable mental phase lost in the middle of the night.... After party style is possible too. Tribal. Second side brings 2 new commers for me. 909 Resistance for the beginning, with a hangar techno 909 acid device... Could have been an Old Tresor production. The EP finishes on something more experimental and inductrial, very downtempo from Geotropism, my fave tune here for its weirdness.. but really hard to play in a party ^^ ahahah:) A Great great production, once again big sound from Shane The Cutter. BIG UP !

Superb acid dancefloor techno tribe party timer... And, a splendid A2 killer from Vikkei... a tune that no one shall forget as a 136 BPM downtempo techno acid loud un-doom perfection. MASTERPIECE

One Of My Fave Newskool Industrial Mental Hartechno Artists Comes Here With A Superb Ode To Obs:cur Familly. Deep Hard... Rockingchair !

Last realese from the Citron vert in Besan

The newstyle invented by the Espylon familly is a real new style as a scene... no excitation and no minimal. This is just let-it-go-pur-techno... They sell loads of their stuff on direct to the public and we are only re-seller. Real proud to have a chance to do it... but yes : original creation we got here. Pure Perfect musical design for parties... full of love and precision... needed music for dubbers as well as for Hardcorers... No frontier no blame, no bad vibes no darkness... maybe sometime a pinch of nostalgy but it's « just a game ». Original hard life transformed into bloody good vibes ! I love you guys !

Acid Mental Growing Sound, Wonka's Story With Friends...

abgehakt und rollende trackmonster !!!

Progressive Mental And Acid Hard Tehcno... Superb Tunes From Brosda Of Tkpunch Crew. Twriling Non-shouting Acid Tunes !

David Meiser debuts on AFU Limited with "Discipline for the Masses", an  EP with a clear message for the upcoming generations of techno followers: 'Take risks. Innovate. Get out of trends.'. Two stunning solid tracks composed of dirty and sharped analog sounds. Meiser's breaks the trendy techno sounds to bring to the scene his own thing. The EP counts with two exceptional remixers: The Horrorist and Radical G, two of the artists with more character and personality in the techno scene who take the originals to their own terrain.

We love and release on Vinyl !

Frankyeffe : superrrrrrrrrr!!!! I'll play them sure!!'
Laurent Garnier Horrorist remix for me ,-D)'
Macromism : the horrorist remix is cool'
Marco Bailey : many thanks'
Andrea Frisina : Original mixes are cool !'
Loukas Pour-Hashemi Frequency Traveller mixes for me! Both Dark as you like!'
Drumloch love it ! Amazing Ep'
Raphael Dincsoy oliver´s mix for me'
Dr. Motte Techno BOMB: David Meiser "Discipline For The
Masses"'
Dave Tarrida like the radical g remix , cheers'
Danny Tenaglia Thanks!!!'
Boris Zec CRAZY TRAVELLER!'
Markus Jogin Love the industrial tones. Torn between the Originals.Thanks!'
Phuturelabs yes'
Misoo great works, full support!'
Al Ferox nice Oliver remix'
Pablo Discobar top ! full support !'
- Dave Clarke: "Frequency Traveller, what a monster track"
- Ken Ishii: "Congrats, B1 is a killer!"
- Marcel Flenger: "Brilliant man! Thanks a million!!"
- Pfirter: "really powerful!"
- Mike Banks (UR): "Thanks man I appreciate it"
- Ángel Molina: "Frequency Traveller is a killer."
- Sunil Sharpe: "enjoying all"
- Damon Valero: "I like Frequency Traveller, both yours and the remix"
- Bass Mooy: "thanks mate"
- Fanon Flowers: "Thanks for the promo."
- Iñaki Villasante: "Muchas gracias David!!"
- Svreka: "Gracias David."
- Forest People: "Full support!"
- Truss: "Thanks David'