Midwest Techno Originals

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Ron Maney hails from the southside of Chicago, where he honed his Techno producing skills and went on to put out a bunch of kick-ass techno tracks on Dutch label Djax which was a big pusher of Chicago & Detroit techno. I always loved DJ Skull’s minimal jackin’ style beats with a little Hard [...]

“Old friends” is right! Fuzz Face is DJ ESP from Minneapolis & DJ Hyperactive from Chicago (now in L.A.). Together these guys put out some of my favorite Acid House tracks in the mid nineties. I had the pleasure to tour with these guys when we were doing the Communique World Tour in [...]

Armando (Armando Gallop) founded Chicago’s legendary Warehouse Records with Mike Dunn in 1988 and produced some of the earliest and coolest stripped down Acid tracks of the early Acid House days, most notably Land Of Confusion & 151. He worked with a number of Chicago’s heaviest hitters of the late eighties and early nineties [...]

German duo Hardfloor is Oliver Bondzio and Ramon Zenker. They’re well known for making some of the most ass-kickingnest building Acid tracks in the world. More specifically Acperience 1 which was released in 1992 and later a full length album titled TB Resuscitation both on the German Harthouse label. Soon thereafter, they [...]

Telstar 1 was the first satellite launched into space. It relayed the first television pictures, telephone calls and fax images and provided the first live transatlantic television feed. In this spirit, this first post is a brand spankin’ new track called Telstar created by your blog host. This ditty has an Acid [...]