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Christoph's DJ Toolz, 30 Jan 25

 

 
 

Untz untz untz untz January is almost done and it's been kind of a shitshow. Our president is a fucking idiot with a religious dedication to making life as hard as possible for anyone who has even a scrap of basic human decency, the job market is dogshit, Taylor Swift is still making her awful music, everything below the 30 degree latitude mark will soon be uninhabitable due to climate change... Untz untz untz untz let's get into some tunes that don't suck. These are really great ones for DJ sets, but also just for general listening. I ain't gonna give you every lil gem in my library of tekno-sorcery, but I'll defs share some some of da good onez.

 

Funk Tribu, ANDATA - New Wave

Simple to follow along with, pure euphoria. Those sexy vocals and those spacey synths tho. It's such a minimal track, yet everything induces big emotions and unadulterated bliss.


Versus- What's Poppin (Narciss' Champagne Poppin Remix)

Boastful, bold, braggadocious, bombastic. By the time the synth riff hits, the whole song's built into a big crescendo that crashes down like a water slide. Nails that feeling of invincibility when you're that *perfect* amount of fucked up at a party and nothing matters, while also sparkling and refracting like a gemstone. Enough of business techno- Techno should be fun!

 

Chlär- For Marco


Tricky techno to get the crowd's feet all tangled and tripped up. This beat folds in on itself and only ever gives caveman grunts for release. It doesn't really pump and throb the way most other tracks I spin do- I like to use it to provide some contrast to all my straightforward, punky beats.


Daft Punk- Technologic (Hadone Remake)


Hadone's tunes tend to lean into the groovier side of techno, using weird sci fi noises to achieve that same powerful rush you get when you're in a spaceship taking off and seeing the Earth fall away behind you. This one, on the other hand, ditches the marble statue beauty most tracks have in favor of a violent, monstrous wall of industrial distortion that sounds like a concrete wall being detonated. Not gonna lie, I kinda wish someone would do a remix album of Human After All where every song is in this kinda vein. Shit slaps.


Driada- Lull Kill (ZNZL Remix)


Another horror one, this one feels like you're trapped in an ancient forest or a castle in the forests of Germany and some magical creature is hunting you for sport. The way it absolutely paralyzes you with fear yet forces you to dance at the same time is disgustingly seductive.


AIROD- I Just Wanna Rave


While I'm a huge Amelie Lens fan, I really haven't been able to find a whole lot of songs from her Lenske record that fit into my style of spinning for whatever reason... Except for this one. It's impossible to argue with that vocal- Do YOU wanna do anything else, or do you just wanna rave?

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So uh yeah that's some tekno for ya DJs out there... If ya like what I'm doing, check me out every Monday on The Music Galaxy Radio (London) or consider buying yaself some sick merch to support my checkbook, lol.


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