Midwest Techno Originals

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 [...]

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 [...]

While I have been a publicly known hater of Swechno for over 10 years, I think Ian Lehman is worth noting as a Midwest Techno Original. Mr. Lehman is part of the newer wave of respected Minneapolis Techno producers whose music has a heavy Swedish sounding influence. I read his bio on syndikaat.com [...]

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 [...]