Sounds like Barry Andrews from Shriekback/XTC is into min­i­mal techno, but no.

Mix by Japan­ese turntable vir­tu­oso DJ Sniff. Techno tracks played at 33rpm + var­i­ous hip-hop cuts. The guy is per­form­ing at Äänen Lumo –fes­ti­val (Charm of Sounds), Helsinki this sat­ur­day together with David Toop. Don’t know exactly what to expect but should be interesting.

DJ Sniff — Slow (57:07) (VBR)

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(Mix of the Week is our not-so-weekly sec­tion where we present good mix­tapes: either our own or found on the internets)

Timmo — Finnish UG Deep Vol. 1 [Platinum.ac Deep Techno] (320k, 113MB, 49:42 min)

Here’s the story — finnish inter­netz forum Plat­inum used to be pretty much num­ber one for some elec­tronic music back in the days. Don’t know about now­days. So, this Timmo guy of a dj decided to make a mix out of “deeper techno” demo tunes he had col­lected from Plat­inum forum dur­ing the years 2000–2003. So here you go, all finnish music.

Oh and never mind the last mix between tunes by Akrid and Har­ri­son Fnord, Ser­ato going men­tal prob­a­bly because of dust on the needle.

TRACKLIST
1. CRC — Durch­sichtig
2. CRC — Sig­nal
3. DJP — Pelto
4. Kalle M — Sprout
5. Kalle M — Paskasaav­ista
6. Kolmio­Draama — Talvi­Uni
7. Juha Vilkamo — You
8. Akrid — Con­nec­tions
9. Har­ri­son Fnord — John­stons Organ

Spe­cial mix by dzei. It’s finally get­ting colder and darker so what we need is deep, min­i­mal but melodic sound­track. Per­son­ally I’m very sat­is­fied with the out­come of this mix. Hope that’ll you enjoy it too. Track­list below.

dzei — Mini­jane Mix (192k, 45:06 min, 61,9 MB)

The Other Peo­ple Place — Let Me Be Me
Pryda — Muranyi (Orig­i­nal Mix)
Plas­tik­man — Fuk
Two Lone Swords­men — The Bunker
Mr Oizo — Kirk
Orbital — Steel Cube Idol­a­try
Lusine — The Stop
Mau­r­izio — M05a Edit
Mel­chior Sul­tana — The Pink Suit
Mono­lake — Plumbi­con
Andy Stott — Hert­zog
Actress — Crushed

I was at Berlin 24.10–29.10 vis­it­ing my girl­friend. Just got back home. While I man­aged to miss Ark­tista Vim­maa –fes­ti­val, I did see some great live acts at Berlin. On my birth­day 25.10 we went to see Bonobo at Lido (first time in Berlin btw). It was great, we both enjoyed it very much. It is inter­est­ing to notice how Bonobo has evolved from sam­ple based artist to a full grown soul/acid jazz band. They did play cou­ple of Ani­mal Magic clas­sics tracks too! Recommended.

On fri­day we went to Club Maria where an event called “Bessere Welten”(a bet­ter world) took place. It con­sisted album release gigs by Mag­num 38 and Uusi­talo (aka Luomo/Vladislav Delay). I did know what Uusi­talo was going to be but Mag­num 38 was a bit sur­prise. Sort of techno/glitch/noise with grasp of punk. Well he has his roots on punk and rock music as I learned later. Sur­pris­ingly dance­able music though.

I was a bit anx­ious to hear Uusi­talo and it didn’t dis­ap­point me. Now I know why his other alias is called Vladislav Delay. It was all about delay. Well the night was good in all aspects but after lis­ten­ing min­i­mal techno six hours straight up, we decided to leave 5 am, most sat­is­fied.

As if those weren’t enough, we had booked tick­ets for Prefuse 73’s gig on sun­day at Berghain/Panorama bar (with sup­port by Nobody). Friend of mine told me that when he saw Prefuse live, the sound was all fucked up. And it sure was. I have always pref­ered Prefuse 73 as beau­ti­ful, melodic lis­ten­ing expe­ri­ence but in live it was anno­ingly noisy. Still, the rhythms were quite angu­lar and assertive. Mostly because of the live drum­mer. Fur­ther­more, the night ended unex­pect­edly early. The gig started like 22:30 and the place was closed by mid­night so in that way it wasn’t very rounded evening at all.

All in all it was great trip to Berlin, again.