Our newest recruit and Rush Hour associate San Proper is a real machine in the studio. He can conjure up all manner of weird and wonderful sounds and marry them to the sort of grooves that send people wild. Proving that once more is this short film for FACT, which finds him taking part in their famous Against The Clock...
Well known to house lovers around the world, influential Far East boss Soichi Terada has been cutting up dance floors all over Europe in recent weeks. Touring with the Rush Hour family that put out his brilliant recent retrospective compilation, he has been filmed playing one of his mesmeric and melodically magical live shows in Tokyo by RA (watch it...
Although he would no way ever canvas votes, nor does he do any of this for fame and recognition, but Hunee has been voted into the annual Top 100 of RA's DJ Poll, and is the highest new entry. It has been a fine year for the lovable crate digger not only in the studio making his debut album, but...
On the eve of Marco Shuttle heading Stateside for a tour, the Eerie label boss has finished a new podcast for The Bunker. The New York label and event-series is one of the places he will stop off to play. This mix is made up exclusively of UK material from labels like Warp and Reflex. "All the UK acid and...
This week, DJB exclusively features the exceptional video accompanying the new remix of Svreca's Mountain Splitter, done by legendary UK techno stalwart Surgeon for Semantica. Deeply hypnotic and dystopian, the track comes from Terminal 1 of the Narita remixed series, which is out now, with another exciting piece of work from Yves de Mey also included. Check out the...
Serious selector Serge got invited on Rinse FM recently. The tireless Clone label head played on the DJ Haus show. Haus is someone who has released on Clone before now and the pair went back to back dropping some sweat inducing house, old school piano business and plenty of raved-up cuts of the sort that make their club sets so...
At Sonar Festival in Barcelona earlier this year, Resident Advisor sat down with sublime techno, dub and ambient artists Voices From The Lake aka Donato Dozzy and Neel, to talk about the ins and outs of their impressive live show. They talk about the kit, how they set it up and how they approach each one. It is a great...
From January 27th - February 7th 2016, Morphine Records boss and experimental synth artist Rabih Beaini will co-curate the CTM Festival in Berlin. The event takes place in numerous venues and bookings have been influenced by a "new geographies" theme. More than 20 names from Europe, Asia and North Africa have been booked included Gesloten Cirkel, Kassem Mosse, Peder Mannerfelt...
We love well crafted and hypnotic techno and ambient sounds here at Octopus Agents, as talents of ours like Neel (not to be confused with..) prove. As such, and having worked with him on his Aquaplano sets, we are glad to add another master of those forms to our ranks: Italian Nuel has released seminal LPs on Further Records, works...
Wondrous Dutch producer Legowelt finished another of his much loved free home made sample packs. This time it features "322 HOT wav samples from the 1997 digital monster ROLAND JV2080 synthesizer", which should get producers all over the globe inspired to give it a go. You can get all info on it here. For more info on Legowelt check...
