DYSTOPIAN

Black Box:
RØDHÅD (Dystopian/Token/DE)
DISTANT ECHOES (Dystopian/DE)

Red Box:
HOTFLUSH MEMBERS (All Star Line-up)

White Box:
JESPER R
FINN S

At the the end of the 1990s Rødhåd laid the groundwork for his DJ-career. He organised small open-air-parties in the outskirts of Berlin just for the fun of it. The word spread quickly far beyond Berlin’s and Germany’s borders about the new kid on the block. His specific style, consisting of Dub-Techno mixed with percussive grooves and his timeless, perfect mixing technique garnered him widespread recognition.

Despite being from Italy’s sun-blessed southern coast, Distant Echoes developed his passion for the darker side of electronic music at a very early age. When he was only 14 years old, he already owned a turntable and a mixer. It was only a few years later that he had become a passionate record collector and a DJ who would organise his own local parties. Setting up his first own studio was just a matter of time.

Hotflush is a record label launched by Paul Rose aka. Scuba in 2003. Its early period was spent as a central part of London’s Bass Music scene which exploded in the mid 2000s, although the label has always been difficult to pigeonhole musically and recent output has focused on Techno. Seminal and formative releases from Bass luminaries such as Benga and Shackleton, electronic innovators like Mount Kimbie and Sepalcure, and UK House stalwarts including George FitzGerald and Joy Orbison have consistently confounded expectations to keep the output fresh and inventive. More recently, Techno titans Paul Woolford, Dense & Pika and Recondite have made era-defining contributions to the label’s ever-evolving sound. And then of course there’s Scuba whose three full-lengths released on the label have been among the past decade’s most inventive dance LPs.

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