Midwest Techno Originals

I stumbled upon an old track of mine someone posted on youtube, which always makes me chuckle. Unfortunately I don’t have an MP3 of it right now. What surprises me is that I don’t remember ever playing this out anywhere. It’s the second track on the same side as Bad Ass on The [...]

Zak Khutoretsky aka DVS1 moved to Minneapolis from Bronx NY in the mid nineties. He immediately started getting involved with local Techno parties and promotion and has not stopped since. He lost his space for one of his earliest parties with Heiko Laux, Neil Landstrum, and a bunch of other techno superstars a week [...]

My former label mate on Communique and personal friend, Paul Birken (aka Land Of The Lost) and I first met in Duluth Minnesota at a gig we were both booked for sometime around 1994. It may have been his first Live set. Later, he became known as the guy from Minneapolis who hauls [...]

Adam Beyer is a Swedish Techno artist that found a lot of success in the second half of the nineties and still enjoys it today. He founded the Drumcode label and is credited for leading the Swedish Techno movement along with other Swedes like Cari Lekebush & Jesper Dahlbäck. His influences are Jeff [...]

Reverting is taken from Jeff Mill’s The Purpose Maker EP released in 1995 on his Axis label.  I wasn’t sure if I should blog about a legendary superstar who is known to 99% of the people reading this blog but then I realized, most of them have probably not followed this man as closely as [...]