Blasthavers

Techno

Techno is a form of electronic music featuring driving 4/4 beats varying in tempo from 120 to 150 beats per minute.

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Low Noise Productions Sampler Vol 1

Three tracks here preserved from the 2014 Compilation Tape 1 cassette and a new one make for a solid EP from Ottawa.
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Titonton Duvante: Recapitulate EP Vol 2

Soul Research has brought back Titonton Duvante for a second EP, closing the books on Recapitulate in dramatic fashion.
Tape Hiss

Tape Hiss: In the Realms of the Unreal

Love Notes from Brooklyn drops Tape Hiss' In The Realms of the Unreal, seemingly inspired by Chicago outsider artist Henry Darger's 15,145 page opus.
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Scan 7: Direct Effect (Detroit Underground)

Massive collaboration between Detroit Techno Militia and Detroit Underground: Gorgeous record, good people, good music all around.
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Electronic Pioneers The System Come Back on Wax

Four tracks from The System's groundbreaking debut on Romantic Records, which presaged techno, perfected new wave and gave electronic bands a blueprint to follow.

Burial: Young Death/Nightmarket (Hyperdub)

These come out of nowhere and something would feel quite wrong if there seemed to be a discernible plan behind Burial releases.

Silvia Trix: Intercity EP

A fusillade of drums and heavy bass opens and closes the Intercity EP from Silvia Trix, released in November on wax from AFULAB.

Kurt Baggaley: Look so Fragile

Kurt Baggaley's minimal masterpieces find a home on Bandcamp.

Tulipa Releases Robert Babicz’s X-Former

X-Former gets remixed by Oniris and Hobo for the Midwest stalwarts at Tulipa.
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Life & Music in the State of Dave

5 Magazine's Issue 138 cover story with Pezzner on Title Track, making a living and pursing a life worth living. In short: Life is good.

Taped Artifact Releases A Fiction Universe V/A Compilation

Deep, sensual Techno marks the latest EP and the fifth overall release from Amsterdam's Taped Artifact.

Booka Shade and Life In a Post-EDM World

The German duo talks to 5 Magazine about Movements10 and live performance ahead of their show December 1 2016 at Concord Music Hall.

Groove Slave/Thomas Barnett: Visillusion 10

Thomas Barnett is Detroit - that simple statement is a mantra, it's a well-worn cliche by this point but when it comes to Barnett it's also true

Jeff Derringer on Seven Years of OKTAVE

Chicago DJ Jeff Derringer celebrates seven years of his Oktave residency and playing Techno in a House Music town.
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Machines, Ghosts & Harmonies: More Ghost Than Man’s Stunning Debut LP

A new guise from an old familiar face: More Ghost Than Man releases one of the most stunning debut LPs of the year.
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Dubfire is Bringing Live:HYBRID to Freaky Deaky

Interview: What's Dubfire's Live:Hybrid show and why should you be excited about it?

Heathered Pearls Releases Belleville Renderings Part I on Ghostly

A rich homage to early Detroit Techno in Heathered Pearls' latest release.
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Fanon Flowers’ Track Modes Series is Old Enough to Vote

Track Modes 4 continues Fanon Flowers' series begun back in 1998.

Ansome: Stowaway Remixed

O/V/R, Perc, Randomer and Ossian remix Ansome's Stowaway from Perc Trax.
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G. Marcell @ Noon

@ Noon is like a lodestone for Deep House: you can go over this with a potential convert to the Message, unpack this EP and pull out all kinds of brilliant records that influenced Marcell.

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