{"id":3151,"date":"2013-11-12T09:25:25","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T08:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/?p=3151"},"modified":"2026-03-31T14:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T13:14:10","slug":"guest-mix-jd-pleks-presents-umekanozal-techno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/guest-mix-jd-pleks-presents-umekanozal-techno\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Mix: JD Pleks presents Umekanozal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/guest-mix-jd-pleks-presents-umekanozal-techno\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/guestmixes\/jdpleks\/JD_Pleks_Umekanozal.jpg\" alt=\"JD Pleks - Umekanozal\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mixes-upload.pearsall.workers.dev\/guestmixes\/jdpleks\/JD_Pleks_Umekanozal.mp3\">JD Pleks presents Umekanozal<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><em>Right-Click, Save As to Download<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mixed in Glasgow, July 2013<br \/>\n(70:25, 165 MB, 320 KBPS MP3)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/119740897\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/guestmixes\/jdpleks\/JD_Pleks_UmekanozalBIG.jpg\">Large cover<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mixes-upload.pearsall.workers.dev\/guestmixes\/jdpleks\/JD_Pleks_Umekanozal.cue\">Cue File<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Style: Explosive techno from Slovenian techno hero <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/artist\/Umek\">Umek<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Direct link to the mix: <a href=\"https:\/\/mixes-upload.pearsall.workers.dev\/guestmixes\/jdpleks\/JD_Pleks_Umekanozal.mp3\">https:\/\/mixes-upload.pearsall.workers.dev\/guestmixes\/jdpleks\/JD_Pleks_Umekanozal.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tracklisting:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>01. Kemu &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Kemu-Telstar\/master\/98678\">Akcija<\/a> (Earresistible Musick)<br \/>\n02. Umek &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Umek-Voices-Of-Africa-Volume-3\/master\/18090\">Voices of Africa (Voice 7)<\/a> (Primate)<br \/>\n03. Kemu &#038; Shark  &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Kemu-Shark-Afrotek\/master\/67862\">Afrotron<\/a> (Earresistible Musick)<br \/>\n04. Kemu &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Kemu-Telstar\/master\/98678\">Park Shiner<\/a> (Earresistible Musick)<br \/>\n05. Umek &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Recyclopedia-Eclectronica-Exerciser\/master\/174641\">Exorcise Umek<\/a> (Recycled Loops)<br \/>\n06. Umek &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Umek-Ignition-Technician-Voodoo-3\/release\/32164\">Entozan<\/a> (Voodoo)<br \/>\n07. Umek &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Umek-Voices-Of-Africa-Volume-1\/master\/18067\">Voices of Africa (Voice 1)<\/a> (Primate)<br \/>\n08. Umek &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Umek-Fenaton-Jakaton\/master\/377829\">Jakaton<\/a> (Bugged Out! Recordings)<br \/>\n09. Umek &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Recyclopaedia-Eclectronica-Body-ReFuel\/master\/520350\">Body Re:fuel<\/a> (Recycled Loops)<br \/>\n10. Umek &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Umek-Hivid-EP\/master\/377394\">Hivid<\/a> (Consumer Recreation)<br \/>\n11. Umek &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Umek-Tikonal\/release\/60383\">Zalonex<\/a> (NovaMute)<br \/>\n12. Umek &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Various-Consumer-Recreation\/master\/558700\">Retoxol<\/a> (Consumer Recreation)<br \/>\n13. Umek &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Umek-Consumer-Recreation-EP\/master\/17987\">Exutol<\/a> (Primate)<br \/>\n14. Umek &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Umek-Pharmacid-EP\/master\/425229\">Euforicin<\/a> (Consumer Recreation)<br \/>\n15. Umek &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Umek-Consumer-Recreation-EP\/master\/17987\">Benozal<\/a> (Primate)<br \/>\n16. Umek &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Umek-Tonatol-EP\/master\/177112\">Ranzal<\/a> (Consumer Recreation)<br \/>\n17. Co-Fusion &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Co-Fusion-Material-To-Digital-To-Analog-EP\/release\/74198\">Twilight (Umek Remix)<\/a> (Reel Musiq)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/guestmixes\/jdpleks\/skelp2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/guestmixes\/jdpleks\/skelp2-600.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><b>Note from Pearsall:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Man, myth, Aberdonian &#8230; Who is JD Pleks?<\/p>\n<p>Or, as you could also say, who is DJ Skelp?<\/p>\n<p>For they are one and the same!<\/p>\n<p>I first encountered DJ Skelp online many years ago, through the Energy UK guestbook, which at one point was a over-flowing fountain of information and conversation about hard house music. Which is hard to believe in 2013, given developments in social media since then, but yes we really used a guestbook as a conversation method! Every day you had to log in, scroll down, and then read upwards.<\/p>\n<p>Good times, if technologically primitive!<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, once me, Rob, and Phil decided to set up Rampage we needed another guest dj to join us for the first night, so Skelp sent me a tape, we invited him down from Aberdeen, he was fantastic, we offered him a residency, and a beautiful friendship was born &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Over time, his musical preferences developed and matured, and he got more and more into techno, and less and less into hard house, and thus was JD Pleks born! And a good thing it was too, for who doesn&#8217;t love a bit of grade A, chunky, percussive techno?<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, I am very excited to finally feature a guest mix from Chris, and even more excited that it&#8217;s a very special tribute to the original Slovenian techno god &#8230; Umek!<\/p>\n<p>Now over to the man himself for a few words  &#8230; <\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/guestmixes\/jdpleks\/skelp1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Ah, the good ole days of the Energy UK guestbook. I almost failed my degree due to spending all my time on campus reading it and all my time at home on the decks. Then I started getting gigs and it got even worse for my academic career! I blame Pearsall &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>My first forays into the world of underground dance music were mostly to techno clubs, seeing the likes of Dave Clarke and Claude Young tear up dancefloors. Then I saw Tony De Vit play in Edinburgh and the punk and thrash metal side of me was instantly drawn to the attitude and the nasty hoovers of his style &#8211; so began a long period of obsession with the NRG end of hard house. I still went out to techno clubs, but my record purchases were probably 95% hard house.<\/p>\n<p>Slowly though, more and more techno started to creep into my record bags that I would take home from Correction Records in Aberdeen (another place responsible for my near failure to graduate!) and a lot of these tracks were made by Umek &#8211; he seemed to be one of the most prolific producers, and at the time he was also putting out music that spanned a wide range of sub-genres, from funky through tribal right up to synth-heavy earthshakers. Since about 2002-ish I have had in the back of my mind that it would be good to put together a mix all of his tracks, that took the usual route that my sets do &#8211; getting harder and faster as it progresses. It\u2019s only taken me 11 years to finally put it together for this guestmix, and for that, I thank Pearsall!<\/p>\n<p>These tracks are all vinyl pressings, but I have ripped them to digital so that I could use loops and cues in Serato Scratch Live. I had a couple of trial runs before laying down this final mix, and tried out both a faster, choppier style and this, with smoother more progressive transitions. I decided that the latter works better for listening and the former for the dancefloor. I hope you enjoy it, and if you do please check out some of my other mixes at <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.djskelp.com\">djskelp.com<\/b><\/a> or on my mixcloud page at <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/chrisskelp\/\">Mixcloud.com\/ChrisSkelp<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man, myth, and general Aberdonian techno nutter JD Pleks lays down a tribute to the almighty Slovenian techno overlord: Umek!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[43,203,10],"class_list":["post-3151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guest-mixes","tag-guest-mix","tag-jd-pleks","tag-techno"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3151"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6065,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3151\/revisions\/6065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}