Midwest Techno Originals

DVS1 - Floating (2009)

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 prior to the event. I was throwing smaller parties during that time and had access to a lot of spaces including a large virgin venue that was too big for the smaller parties I was putting together at the time. I let him have the space for a hefty finders fee. Little did we know, the concrete floor was fairly fresh and the 1,000+ people dancing on it completely destroyed it in about 3 hours. There was a cloud of concrete dust blowing out of the venue all night. The party went off and is to date one of my more memorable events partially because all who danced in the main room had brown residue around their noses from inhaling the dust. There’s a good chance this is where the term RAVE BOOGERS was coined. Thankfully, I haven’t heard of anyone currently having respiratory problems that attended that party in 1997. If you have, I don’t want to know about it!

I’ve been begging Zak to produce and release music for over 10 years and he’s finally done it now. This kid (old kid now) oozes midwest love and you can definitely hear it in his production. Floating is off of his debut release and it’s on Klockworks.