Techno is the ultimate background music; you can add it to any time and place and immediatley transmute it into a good time. Just take a dungy, empty warehouse in a seedy part of town- on it’s own, not a very attractive place to be. But add a stack of speakers blasting techno bombers and now it’s the most poppin’ party in town, truly alchemy. Being the spellbinding sound that it is, techno can do the same thing for any occasion. Need to get through that grueling workout? Add techno. Need to bust out 1,000 words before midnight or your professor is gunna drop you from the class faster than a DJ can drop the beat? Add techno. Gotta mop the floors, fold all your clothes, and clean the cat box before bae comes over for takeout and make out? You know the drill, add techno. Read more
Artists will never come unprepared to a party. They always bring a toolbox packed with tracks that are truly dance floor destroyers. What’s in Your Toolbox features artists’ secret weapons, aka, the tracks they don’t leave out of their USB.
Dense & Pika are a British electronic duo compromising Hypercolourlabel co-founder Alex Jones and Chris Spero, aka Glimpse. Heading up the Kneaded Pains imprint, which has played host to Eats Everything, James Welsh, and Will Clarkealongside their own productions, the duo have been at the forefront of hard-hitting House and Techno since the project’s inception in 2011.
Arriving on Patrick Topping’s Trick for the first time, the pair bring their big, booming techno to the label with two chunky tracks. Title track “U, My” sees airy vocal chops floating over big kicks, knocking percussion and a hypnotic, looping low-end, combining to form a heavy club cut, while “Sun Sesh” sees the duo reach for a combination of shuffling drums, tweaked-out FX, and rolling chords for a dynamic, chugging track.
What can we say about Luke, a staple of our Kneaded Pains label. Unbelievable producer, his productions have so much dark energy in them, level any dance floor. Always feature in every set of ours. This remixes an ABSOLUTE STONKER.
Tambien “Drogato” – ESP Institute
Incredible sludgy, slo-mo modular techno on ESP Institute from 2013. Amazing groove under shimmering modular textures. Almost no hats at all.
Makaton “Rise and Kill” – Voitax
Have always been a huge fan of Makaton. Really like his vision of techno. From abstract polyrhythm to distorted crunchy grooves, this is one of his more playable offerings.
Casa “VHS” – Hayes
This guy’s incredible. Really pace-y deep techno. Perfect for breaking up a techno set.
Cari Lekebusch “Mad Poet” – H-Productions
Not many records have been in the ‘box’ longer than this. For some weird reason people still always ask what it is. Cari has been churning out incredible quality techno for nearly 30 years. This is our fave from his vast back catalogue, absolute wonkathon from 1997.
Dense & Pika “U, MY” – Trick
Would be daft not to put our new record on trick here, this genuinely flattens gaffs. Try it if you don’t believe us ;-)
Dense & Pika’s Delta System was originally released back in 2015 on their then, fledgeling, Kneaded Pains label. Four years later, and both artist and label have become a tour de force within the techno scene, with Dense & Pika hitting all four corners of the globe with a relentless touring schedule, and the label releasing music from the likes of Eats Everything, Perc, Truncate, Boys Noize and many more.
https://www.6amgroup.co/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-10-at-12.21.34-PM.png488684Marco SgalbazziniMarco Sgalbazzini2019-05-10 12:27:002019-05-10 12:27:00Premiere: Dense & Pika's "Delta Systems" Receives Remixes by Andres Campo, Ramon Tapia, Matt Sassari, and Dysart
Dense & Pika launched their imprint Kneaded Pains back in 2014, with a focus on “a shared love of bullish and brazen techno.” Since then acts such as Truncate, VONDA7 and Billy Turner have all offered work through the labels, with the label bosses contributing also of course.
It is the label bosses themselves who join up with label regulars Melody’s Enemy for an epic collaboration called From Nothing, due out this month. To top it off, Perc takes it to another level with his trademark harder, more streamlined take on the original.
