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DISPATCH: Summer 2024

Posted on Jul 1 2024Aug 14 2025
By dj blackmask

A quarterly roundup featuring 10 releases curated for hard dance floors.

These selections for Summer 2024 include recent releases and a couple gems from 2023. The playlist drives toward peak-time & progressive energy, showcasing hard minimal, trance, and techno, with an ear for industrial techno & EBM.

Selections

Method 2 Madness
by Illiya Korniyenko

Dancefloor focused hardgroove techno, industrial and dark acid. Favorite tracks: Inversiya (Dirt Mix), Strawberry Milkshake

La Complainte des Damnes
by Mind | Matter on Forbidden Teachings

Incredibly solid dark, ritual industrial, and techno body machine music. Favorite tracks: L’apostat, Expiation

Minimum One Post A Week
by Funk Assault on Primal Instinct

Steamroller hard minimal techno. Track 5 features a hype sample from Beastie Boy’s Root Down, over a breakneck hardtechno beat. Favorite tracks: Screenshots Of Compliments, Let Me (Ghetto Mix 2017), That’s The Funk Assault

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Abnormal EP
by DJ JM on Nervous Horizon

Buzzy hard minimal & dark warehouse acid. Track 1 is a hard, jittery, rave banger, and track 2 is a beefy woofer wrecker. Favorite tracks: Syze, Pepper

Aberrate
by Sorcery on Void+1 Recordings

Punchy, mechanical techno. Glitched industrial drums and looming, hostile basslines. Favorite tracks: Carnal Descent (Original Mix), Flicker Twinkle (Original Mix)