A quarterly roundup featuring a list of 9 releases, curated for hard dance floors.
This Winter 2024 edition is stacked with some recent releases from the past few months, and includes a handful of V/A compilations. A showcase of our favorite peak-time hard minimal, acid, and techno.
Selections
Worldwide Heavy Industries Vol.1
V/A on Brutal Forms
Immediate, high energy dark industrial techno. A dense storm of charged polyrhythms and industrial percussion. Favorite tracks: Low Order – Taste My Venom, Dominik Müller – Too Many Posers
HDX_VA01
V/A on HD Trax
Hell yeah. Pumpin’ big room hard tech trance V/A compilation from HD Trax. High energy peak-time strobe light cyberpunk beats. Favorite tracks: Goden – Memories, Analect – Can You Feel It.
Barrakuda EP
by DJ JM on Nervous Horizon
Hard rolling minimal and bangin’ hardtechno. Frenzied and fast moving, with chirpy arpeggiated synths and driving grooves. Favorite tracks: Swilling, Barrakuda.
Special Dancefloor Forces VIII
V/A on Dancefloor Impact Research
Hard beat trance and rave from Argentina. Favorite tracks: KET – Learn To Play The Game (Original Mix), Varl – CRAZYDIPS (Original Mix)
Altars
by Phase Fatale on BITE
Buzzy electro-industrial, dark techno body music; with booming, spaced out, distorted hard techno. Favorite tracks: Altars, Lament Configuration (Setaoc Mass Remix)
Pounding Warehouse V Series 003
V/A on Pounding Warehouse
Does what it says on the tin. Pounding hard acid warehouse music. Favorite track: Bad Boy Pete – The Special One
CCXXIV
by Alfa Cornae on Ōtomo Trax
Choppy and rolling, heavy hardtechno. Favorite track: Optimal Status, Magic LSD Donuts.
Disobey Club
by Matteo Tura
Aggro techno body music, harsh electro industrial club music from Italy. Favorite track: Disobey Club, Femme Fatale.
Arsonist
by Denis Dekay on NineTimesNine
Concrete hardcore techno. Crunchy, mechanical top-end and pulverizing heavy kicks. Favorite track: Momentum.
Dispatch
This Dispatch, on the final days of 2024, we want to acknowledge and condemn the rising threat of far-right populism worldwide. And on a positive note, to highlight a scene that’s engaged in the struggle. Love & solidarity to the crew and community at Bassiani and Khidi Club, and everyone on Rustaveli standing against authoritarianism and anti-LGBTQ+ laws there.
In these times, it is incredibly important to build resilient IRL networks to protect and support each other, once again I am in awe watching the techno scene in Tbilisi come out together to resist authoritarianism. Find Each Other.
Here are a couple joint statements from the club scene in Tbilisi.
Finally, here’s a video of an excellent Boiler Room set featuring Pablo Bozzi that was filmed at Khidi last year.
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