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Here are two mixes of classic techno that I’ve recently downloaded and enjoyed – you will too!

Chrissy Murderbot’s Year of Mixtapes, Week 48: Detroit Techno – As part of his efforts to do a year’s worth of mixtapes spanning a kaleidoscopic range of genres, Chicago dj/producer Chrissy Murderbot has recently dropped this excellent Detroit techno mix, featuring a whole bunch of classic Motor City cuts from the likes of Derrick May, Juan Atkins, Kevin Saunderson, Underground Resistance, Drexciya, Carl Craig, and more. Great tunes, great mixing … great stuff! For those of you who like their mixes cut into individual tracks, I’ve done a cue file for it, which can be grabbed here.

Barry Choonz – Pure Anthems – This mix was featured a little while back on the Ripped in Glasgow blog, and it’s an excellent tribute to the legendary Edinburgh techno club Pure by someone named Barry Choonz (‘barry’ being a local slang word for good). Even though Pure was still running when I moved to Edinburgh the first time around, I don’t think I ever went to one of their events, as they had mostly stopped by the time I became more interested in ‘purist’ techno. So for me these tunes don’t have much nostalgia value … which is not to say they aren’t great, because they are! Loads of classics from the likes of Richie Hawtin, Joey Beltram, Underground Resistance and more. Sure, it’s pretty much a straightforward classic selection, but none the worse for that. Very enjoyable stuff. As with the Chrissy Murderbot mix, I’ve also done a cue file for this one, which can be grabbed here.

Ironman’s DNB Tape Pack Sickness – A totally ridiculous collection of drum n’ bass sets, including mix cd’s, live sets, and radio recordings. Amazing.

Kito guest mix for KMag – Excellent dubstep mix from Australian producer Kito; not really wobbly, but instead an excellent melange of deep, colourful, spacious, and funky beats. Well worth a listen.

Bongo presents Old Acid Trance – Bongo, whose Furious Finnish Freeform I posted a litle while back, has now posted an excellent old skool acid trance mix. Quality stuff.

I’ve now added zip packs (zip files of mixes chopped into individual tracks) for my Rampage Audio series of Hard Dance mixes:

Rampage Audio 3
Rampage Audio 4
Rampage Audio 5
Rampage Audio 6

Some of these mixes have quite interesting accompanying posts that are well worth a read in their own right. In particular, if you’ve never read it, the essay that accompanies Rampage Audio 6 is an extensive look into how I construct mixes, and how it varies across genre. For Rampage Audio 5 I’ve included a discussion of each track in the mix, with a bit of background about the artists and the labels that should shed some light on what is an eclectic selection of bangers.

Doing this has reminded me that I’ve never posted Rampage Audio 2, so I will have that up on the blog soon, I promise!

I’ve now added zip packs for all of the Rampage Turbo freeform hardcore mixes. Check ’em out:

Rampage Turbo 1
Rampage Turbo 2
Rampage Turbo 3
Rampage Turbo 4
Rampage Turbo 5
Rampage Turbo 6
Rampage Turbo 7

Got some exciting new bits coming up over the next two weeks, including a guest mix and an old skool jungle mix from myself, so keep your eyes peeled to the blog!

I’ve just added zip packs (zipped folders of my mixes chopped into individual tracks) for the following drum n’ bass mixes of mine:

Death Sentence
Don’t Panic
Firestorm
Renegades

Enjoy, and let me know in the comments if you want any more zip packs.

You should definitely check out the new blog from Glasgow-based electro and techno dj JD Pleks, who, back when he played hard house, was known as DJ Skelp (geddit?). He is an old friend and, indeed, was one of the residents at the Rampage night that I ran in Edinburgh so many years back (in case you are wondering about all the old mixes of mine with Rampage in the title).

I promise to have a new mix up within the next ten days, but while you wait, why not check out some (more) of my old mixes, now available in zip packs of carefully split individual tracks?

Here’s what I’ve put up so far:

Called To Valhalla
Drop The Hammer 7
Eurotrash 1
Eurotrash 2
Over The Horizon
Paradise Lost
Rampage Europa 1
Rampage Europa 2
Squat Rocking 1
Squat Rocking 2
Squat Rocking 3
Squat Rocking 4
That Dream Is Over
The Dying Light
The Waveform Cult
We Control The Night
Wobble City

Please drop a comment below if you’d like me to put up a zip pack for any particular mix that I’ve yet to add.

For those who like their mixes split into individual tracks (like I do!), and who don’t want to go to the hassle of using CueSplitter to split them, I’ve now added links to zip packs containing the chopped-up mixes to the pages for each of my hard house tribute mixes, just above the cue file.

Check them out here:

Baby Doc – A Tribute To Baby Doc
Dom Sweeten – The One True Dominator
Karim – Kariminology
RR Fierce – Forever Fierce

Let me know in the comments below if you want me to add a zip pack for any particular mix.

For those of you who surf the web on your phone, I’ve just added a mobile version of the site. Let me know what you think. Good? Bad? Indifferent?

Oh, and I’ve also added a few other features (the retweet, the add to any, and a Twitter feed on the side).

It seems to be very fashionable at the moment, so, why not, eh?

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