Bomphcast 035: Harold by Bomphcast

SFBM is a local Melbournian who has a taste for hard, industrial and mechanical techno music. He's an active constructor and participator in the local Melbourne techno scene as witnessed through Node, his weekly show on TRNSMT.tv, a website where local DJ's/live acts have the opportunity to perform over a live stream

Hydergine, real name Roberto Corizzo, is an Italian DJ and producer who's name takes cues from a "smart drug used to improve the metabolism of brain cells and cognitive abilities". He takes interest in the cognitive functions of the brain and with his music aims to ensnare the listener into a comfortable state of meditative immersion. The choices of spectral content, tempo, groove and progression are therefore selected in line with this goal. As a result, Hydergine offers up soft, squishy and dubby atmospheres that reinvigorate our appreciation that Techno does not always need to be aggressive and confrontational.

Other than his Hydergine project, Roberto is owner of the Ranges label and co-owner of the Subosc Label in part with another Bomphcastian, Kaelan.

Bomphcast 032: D-REX [Anniversary Mix] by Bomphcast

Prepare for battle. For the 31st edition of the podcast series, Lyon based vinyl label, webzine, occasional events organised, and most importantly, techno militia CLFT present our ears with a high energy mix recorded in Berlin institution Tresor.

As a duo, they take elements and cues from the past , as well as the early militia spirit of techno, and bring that energy into and forceful, modern and ravey techno experience. Sergio 69 and E-Care, based out of Lyon, France, lead the fighting front of the CLFT Militia. Two words that define the duo are intransigence and involvement. Who ever is playing, its all about techno. They have no compromise with their music, and this is reflected in the quality of releases via the CLFT record label (vinyl only for the purists).

@clft

PWD (Public Works Department) is a regular name in Melbourne and for good reason. His surgical approach to blending tracks along with a very calm demeanor allow for his mixes to flow very nicely as you will bare witness too with his Bompchast.

If you're wanting to catch PWD in a proper aural environment, you can him at Tresor's 25th Anniversary show in Melbourne (if you can get a resale ticket) or at Technoir's Queens Birthday Eve event.

Soundcloud: @thepublicworksdepartment

Facebook: www.facebook.com/thepublicworksdepartment

For more mixes, head to www.bomphcast.com

Jake McDonald makes up a third of Bunker, one of Melbourne's finest techno event providers. A safe statement to make considering they're running Tresor's 25 Years Tour in Melbourne this June jake-artist(tickets on final release). If you're a Melbournian, be sure to stay up to date with their activities. The other two thirds of Bunker, Adrian and Andy, have also been presented by Bomphcast, here and here.

On the DJ side of things, Jake draws his inspirations from many of the names we all admire such as Francois X, Dettmann, Phase and Len Faki. And it was after travels to Berlin, where he, like so many others gained the appetite to support techno in as many facets as possible.

Swedish born Sandra Sundelin and now local Melbournite is a strong contributer to the Melbourne techno scene. She regularly plays at respectable venues and events, supporting names like KiNK, Stimming, Robert Babicz and Sundelin other tasty creations.

On top of her musical contributions, she's also the Melbourne director of Who Knows, a comprehensive music news source covering a wide array of genres and topics.

Late 1999 I descended the steps into a murky basemment whose walls were slick with sweat and vibrated with the incessant rap of a four four beat somewhere in the realm of 135 to 140bpms.

At the foot of the stairs the bar lined the left side of the wall, whilst scattered chairs and stools occupied the right hand side of the passage. Ahead lay the barely visible dancefloor. Amongst the spewing action of the smoke machine, limbs writhed and contorted like a Chris Cunningham video.

A red strobe light cut geometric patterns into the haze and the sweet/sickly stench of hash and weed fought for their hierarchy amongst body odour and spilt beer. Ecstatic screams and aggressive, yet high pitched shouts of pleasure somehow placed themselves above the frenetic frequencies that filled my ears and mind.

Tribal drums, scything hi-hats and cymbals and that unrelenting four to the floor beat poured over me, drenched me and elevated me above the temporal here and know. Physically and spiritually I was undergoing a life changing and life affirming transformation - nothing would be the same again.

That was my first experience of Voodoo in Liverpool, UK one of the premier Techno nights that ran in Britain. James Ruskin was on the ones and twos and I was to see him play again over the following years at the Orbit in Leeds and Atomic Jam in Birmingham to name but two. Week in, week out I went all over the UK following this sound and the purveyors of this music. Lost in London, House of God in Birmingham, Jeff Mills, Dave Clarke, Space DJz, Oliver Ho, Robert Hood, DJ Rush, Regis, Surgeon, Claude Young and many, many more.

Following their examples I got myself decks and a mixer (and an healthy appetite for buying vinyl) and attempted to create those moments of musical magic and bliss in the confines of my bedroom. Like an acolyte of the occult and magick, my pentagrams, melted candles and burnt offerings were the platters of 1210s and the faders of a Pioneer DJM600 with an apparently never ending supply of virgin vinyl.

And so, 16 years later I find myself still in the confines of my 'bedroom' attempting to conjure up the Techno spirits of yore, but 1210s have transmogrified into a Traktor S4 and black circles of wax have become files of flac and 320 - yet still I like to believe that the essence and dynamism has remained:, that ability of instigating emotions and memories and rejuvenating the dark beauty of that thing we know and love called Techno.

Words by the man himself, Phuriphnics.

Head to www.bomphcast.com for track listing.

@phuriphonics

http://phuriphonics.blogspot.com.au/

To mark our first anniversary as a podcast, we have the pleasure of bringing you some prime cuts of techno from one of Amsterdam's most promising techno duo’s, TWR72.

TWR72 represents tough, stripped back and intricate pulsing rhythms with a big emphasis on groove. The duo hold the element of groove in utmost importance, and is one of the key elements that steers their label, Float Records.

The notion of groove is evident in their Bomphcast mix. Its an hour of no nonsense serious techno that induces movement within you, whether it be a bob of the head or a full blown stomp out.

From the Bomphcast crew, thanks for the support over our first year in operation. We appreciate it greatly and will continue to provide you with quality techno every fortnight for as long as we can.

@TWR72