Midwest Techno Originals

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 am a huge Gene Hunt fan. Also for whatever reason, the trainspotters in the 90s must not have been paying attention when I played his records because it seems I was the only one playing his cuts during any given DJ set. Often two or three tracks in a set. The [...]

This track by Steve Poindexter could very well be thee track that birthed a whole generation of Ghetto House artists. Again, this track has the Casio RZ-1 drum machine in it. As a matter of fact, this track may have been made with ONLY the drum machine. The Casio RZ-1 has [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]