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finding deep and thrilling techno tracks has always been a challenge to me. but since even the last humans will for sure be raving to it, i never stopped trying: here’s a banging selection of some of my favourite, industrial-leaning tracks from the past twelve years. 1. Michal Wolski 2. Pris 3. SNTS 4. Pause 5. Flaminia 6. Torn 7. Ducerey Ada Nexino 8. Avatism, Clockwork (C/W), CW/A 9. Pause 10. Zisko, ArchivOne, Lacchesi, Sina XX 11. 6SISS, Positive Centre 12. In Half Light 13. Pfirter 14. Yuji Kondo

a free-flying book of songs touching on indy, folk, krautrock and more experimental storytelling. 1. Civilistjävel! x Mayssa Jallad 2. james K 3. Jabu feat. Daniela Dyson & memotone 4. Perila and Ulla 5. Any 6. Jenny Hval 7. Stephen Vitiello, Brendan Canty, Hahn Rowe 8. Meril Wubslin 9. Any 10. Jabu 11. Lou Venturini 12. Meril Wubslin 13. Wu-Lu 14. Joe Lally 15. Anika 16. Kim Gordon 17. Violence Gratuite 18. Lou Venturini

a highly unlikely pixel breeze of shoe-gazing ambient-trap, bound to massage your eardrums, subs and your brain cells, too! 1. nueen 2. Aethek 3. Iceboy Violet 4. Yungwebster 5. 990x 6. Bianca Scout 7. Haji 8. Jessicnt 9. Loraine James 10. Time Cow 11. Kim Gordon 12. Sockethead 13. Klein 14. nueen 15. URA 16. 990x 17. Loraine James

A new mixtale of krauted avant folk, outernational tape loops and magnetic field recordings! 1. Angus MacLise 2. Aeson Zervas 3. Christopher Trapani, Zwerm 4. Rat Heart Ensemble 5. Garth Erasmus 6. Angus MacLise 7. Gaister 8. Das Ende der Liebe x su dance110 9. Gosheven 10. Symposium Musicum 11. Sandy Chamoun / Anthony Sahyoun / Jad Atoui 12. Inre Kretsen Grupp & Prins Emanuel 13. A Taut Line 14. Aly Eissa & Ayman Asfour 15. Gaister 16. Laura Cannell & Andre Bosman

a terrestrial, dark ambient selection meditating on both the elemental might and ultimate indifference of what we refer to as „nature“, as well as on the inescapable presence of ecological principles even in late-industrialism. 1. Francesco Fabris & Ben Frost 2. Eric Holm 3. Devika 4. Mønic 5. Amby Downs 6. Christina Giannone 7. Basic House 8. Mariam Rezaei ft. Teresa Winter & Bobby Glew 9. Stave 10. Bliss Detention Center 11. PureData 12. SELM 13. Inner8, Koichi Shikmizu, Franz Rosati, Lifecutter, Scald 14. Cleared 15. Shakali

sharing a special passion for the poetic pleasures of languages i don’t understand, for voices that sound unfamiliar and sometimes otherworldly - embedded in sprawling textures and a branching jungle of original, sometimes weird, sometimes outright bouncy beats... 1. Yikii 2. Howie Lee 3. Violence Gratuite 4. Dijit 5. Sockethead 6. DJ Anderson Do Paraiso feat Sarah Guedes, Mc Code, Mc Paulin do G 7. IFS MA 8. Violence Gratuite 9. Yokel x D.Ham x Franco Franco 10. Phelimuncasi & Metal Preyers 11. Kamohelo, E-Unity 12. King Midas Sound 13. Zuli ft. Mado $am, Abanob, Abyusif 14. Howie Lee 15. Dijit 16. The Maghreban, Nah Eeto 17. DJ Anderson do Paraíso Feat. MC's Laranjinha & Laureta

exquisite matriarchal experimentalism! our best way out is more feminist men, so get it together guys. 1. Ann Eysermans 2. Mariam Rezaei 3. Jenny Hval 4. Amy Cutler 5. Klein 6. Ziúr 7. Hannah Silva 8. Jenny Hval 9. Aviva Endean 10. Azu Tiwaline 11. Laura Cannell 12. Dis Fig 13. Lemna 14. Anna Homler 15. Amy Cutler 16. Moor Mother 17. Mariam Rezaei 18. Aisha Devi 19. Martina Bertoni

Back with a slower, more poetic brand of hip hop tracks that grew on me over the past couple of years! 1. Billy Woods x Messiah Musik 2. Conway The Machine ftt Goose, Jae Skeese, Shots, 7xvethegenius, & SK 3. Westside Gunn feat. Benny The Butcher & Conway The Machine 4. Armani Caesar 5. Mach-Hommy 6. Death at the Derby 7. Fly Anakin feat. Nickelus F 8. Death at the Derby 9. Evidence 10. Che Noir 11. Conway The Machine 12. Fat Ray 13. Westside Gunn feat. Wale & Joyce Wrice 14. Teller Bank$ 15. Casual & DEAD PERRY 16. Bisk 17. Milc & goldenbeets 18. Armand Hammer

after a series of more specifically themed editions, the time is right for a mix of what we like the most: a journey into deeper space with basswald-style subs, gritty beats and washed-out soundscapes. 1. Toshimaru Nakamura 2.Yugen Disciple 3. Ausschuss 4. Gil.Barte 5. Dadub (ENA Version) 6. Arkhad & Undveld 7. OKO DJ 8. PAN SONIC 9. Mønic 10. Kevin Richard Martin 11. Inner8 12. Lemna 13. Atsushi Izumi 14. Dis Fig, Ruhail Qaisar 15. Shapednoise 16. Lemna

trippy new ruffidge from africa! 1. Rian Treanor & Ocen James 2. Ennanga Vision 3. Metal Preyers 4. Rian Treanor & Ocen James 5. Metal Preyers 6. Ecko Bazz 7. Nakibembe Embaire Group with Gabber Modus Operandi & Wahono 8. Po 9. Toya Delazy 10. Ennanga Vision 11. Authentically Plastic 12. Mc Yallah feat Ratigan Era 13. Afrorack 14. Lila Tirando a Violeta & Sueuga Kamau 15. Dj Skothan 16 Phelimuncasi (Prod by DJ Scoturn) 17. MaRiiO 18. Makossiri 19. Toya Delazy 20. Makossiri 21. Authentically Plastic 22. Nakibembe Embaire Group with Gabber Modus Operandi & Wahono 23. Slikback 24. Ecko Bazz, Biga Yut (Ekhe Rework) 25. Slikback

spring time spring reverb! centered around a few iconic tracks from the UK around 1978-85, this is a super-rare venture into a curious twilight zone between punk, dub, industrial and wave. 1. African Head Charge 2. Clive Field Marshall 3. Blackbeard 4. A Certain Ratio 5. Lifetones 6. Killing Joke 7. Dome 8. The Flying Lizards 9. African Head Charge 10. Owiny Sigoma Band 11. Hanna Mekonnen 12. Family Fodder 13. The Raincoats 14. New Age Steppers 15. The Pop Group 16. Anika 17. HTRK 18. George T & Johnny Aux 19. Angkorwat 20. Disjecta 21. Gil.Barte 22. Dome 23. Jonnine

One hour of lowered heart rates and minimized metabolism! 1. Mønic 2. Pinkcourtesyphone 3. Giuseppe Falivene 4. Anna von Hausswolff 5. Leila Bordreuil 6. Thomas Köner 7. Kevin Richard Martin 8. Robert Takahashi Crouch 9. Laura Cannell 10. Shifted 11. Yann Novak 12. Eric Holm 13. Christof Kurzmann / Burkhard Stangl 14. Giorgio Netti / Marcus Weiss

Just when you thought I wouldn't get any darker, here's another blast of sound art of the highest order, carefully selected to help you cope with less digestible everyday realities. 1. Lawrence English, Merzbow 2. Soft Issues 3. Patten 4. Lawrence English, Jamie Stewart, HEXA 5. Shapednoise 6. Teste 7. Zonal 8. Atsushi Izumi 9. 6SISS, Positive Centre 10. Slikback 11. Arkhad & Undveld 12. G36 Vs JK Flesh 13. Evis May 14. Duma 15. Sly & The Family Drone 16. Portal 17. Altarage 18. End

Agile, meditative, with a stunning ear for space and details - the underground half time drum’n bass sound as first championed some 10 years ago by labels such as osiris, samurai or later UVB-76 (I threw in a few classics). Like leaves on a tree, it keeps evolving under the radar into ever new permutations that never stopped to excite me! 1. Entire & Istota 2. DB1 3. Sciama 4. Entire 5. DYL & DB1 6. Forest Drive West 7. DYL 8. Blood Trust 9. Pessimist 10. Ruffhouse 11. Mark Kloud 12. Itti 13. Torn 14. Overlook 15. Theme

Deliriously gorgeous set of sun-scorched, hallucinogenic ambient tracks! 1. Ahmad 2. Valentina Magaletti 3. Dedekind Cut 4. Siavash Amini 5. Helm 6. Shifted 7. Rhythm & Sound 8. Best Available Technology 9. Hoshina Anniversary 10. Eomac 11. Significant Other 12. Best Available Technology 13. Las 14. J. Albert 15. Taylor Slow 16. Only Now

loads of newer jungle music around! but can you keep it real AND fresh unruly? nice up the sound! 1. Sophia Loizou 2. Rognvald 3. Havelock 4. Aquarian 5. Zuli 6. ASC 7. Yally 8. Pinch 9. smog 10. Loft 11. LSDXOXO 12. Lastrack 13. The Duke Of Juke 14. Cocktail Party Effect, Isabassi 15. Homemade Weapons 16. DLX 17. Lewis James, DanDansK 18. Smyla 19. Moresounds 20. Neve, Was A Be 21. ZULI (Lee Gamble Remix) 22. Special Request 23. Eprom 24. Norfik

a seedbomb of fresh tracks that otherwise won’t fit too easily - carefully arranged into a one hour flowerbed of beats, bass and fuzz. urban gardening! 1. Lifted 2. Leila 3. Sibla 4. Meuko! Meuko! 5. Sectra 6. Fumu 7. Oyisse 8. Huxley Anne 9. Aya 10. Only Now 11. Makossiri feat Blaq Bandana 12. Henry Greenleaf 13. Kinlaw & Franco Franco 14. Trill 15. Nolife 16. Cristian Vogel 17. Gantz 18. Menzi 19. Slikback 20. LDWG 21. Scotch Rolex ft. MC Yallah

dope rap music all female MCs!! 1. Tommy Genesis 2. Dua Saleh & Bas 3. Leikeli47 4. Young M.A feat. Fivio Foreign 5. Femme It Forward & Rapsody 6. Tommy Genesis 7. Bbymutha 8. Dua Saleh 9. Chynna 10. Nadia Rose 11. Hoodcelebrityy 12. Lady Leshurr 13. Chynna & Junglepussy 14. Princess Nokia 15. Lady Leshurr 16. Leikeli47 17. FLOHIO 18. Nicki Minaj 19. Bbymutha 20. Junglepussy 21. Cardi B 22. City Girls 23. Princess Nokia 24. FLOHIO

A musical revisitation of Andrei Tarkovsky’s timeless and more than ever contemporary movie: a foray into a post-industrial world, asking questions about man's faith, psyche and trance... Quotation from Lao Tse "Tao Te Ching“ (as featured in the film). 1. Janek Schaefer 2. Giuseppe Falivene 3. Insin 4. Shifted 5. Sam Kdc 6. Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe & Ariel Kalma 7. Malvern Brume 8. Warren Ellis 9. Lucrecia Dalt 10. Siavash Amini 11. Dadub 12. DJ Shadow, Chino Amobi, Dedekind Cut 13. Anna von Hausswolff 14. Clément Edouard 15. Ahmad 16. DYL, DB1 17. Land Trance 18. Katatonic Silentio 19. Pinkcourtesyphone www.johneckhardt.de/basswald

One hour of my heaviest slabs of sound! www.johneckhardt.de/basswald 1. 4 6 2 5 2. Siavash Amini 3. Shapednoise, Mhysa 4. Ena 5. zeroh 6. Wilsondub, AK49 7. Low End Activist (Cassius Select Remix) 8. Digi, LSWR (XL Arge Remix) 9. Mumdance, Logos 10. Selm 11. Avon Terror Corps 12. brb>voicecoil 13. Emma DJ 14. Nazar (Slikback Remix) 15. Michael Brailey 16. Shapednoise 17. Nazar feat Shannen SP 18. Kinlaw & Franco Franco 19. patten 20. Trill 21. Duma 22. Ecko Bazz 23. Biga Yut 24. 1127