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 [...]

Aril Brikha was born in Tehran, Iran and emigrated to Stockholm, Sweden at the age of three right around the time of the Iranian Islamic Revolution of 1979. He started playing keyboard when he was 7 years old and by the mid nineties was confident enough to shop some labels in his new Swedish [...]

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 [...]

Sometime in 1995, I called Mike Dearborn and his mother answered the phone. She told me he was at school (college). Since this was in the days prior to cell phones being cheap, his mother had to take a message and have him call me back. She then grilled me, asking me [...]

I was a little hesitant to post this at first because I had a hard time connecting this track to Midwest Techno. After some thought, I decided it’s going up because I played this so damn much and it became so popular that people made up their own name for it.
David Holmes is an [...]

Chris Sattinger is the only musician I know that has come close to using as many aliases as I have. I’m positive I have him beat but you never really know. A former label mate of mine on a number of international record labels, DJ Slip’s former roommate, and my personal friend, [...]

This is the title track from my first vinyl EP on Minneapolis’ Communique label. DJ Apollo “Old Skool Succession” EP was recorded in 1995 and released in 1996. This baby has three 303’s (real ones). 1996 was a crazy year. I released a lot of dance tracks of many kinds that [...]

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 [...]