Technonymous Darkness · Depth · Techno

For 40’000 years, man has performed sacred rituals in order to commune with the ruling forces of life and motion. In pace with rapid beats and under influence of entheogenic sacraments, we have been dancing and raving in the smoke of sacred fires as a tool for internal travels down to the undergrounds of bordering dimensions and beyond to the distant fringe of our universe.

The works of Ntogn are recordings of sound and soul resonating, creating magical sparks and direct connections to the core of life.

Body. Mind. Spirit.

Leandro Miragliotta es un joven DJ y productor nacido en la provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Obvtuvo sus influencias musicales a temprana edad con bandas como Guns N’ Roses, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix…

A los 18 años, influenciado por Djs como Oscar Mulero, Planetary Assault Systems, Zadig, Voiski, comenzó su carrera como DJ en la escena underdrgound del Techno en Argentina que le permitió obtener sus primeras presentaciones en lugares como BloodySound, Pinar de Rocha y el legendario Club Cocoliche ubicado en el corazón porteño de la ciudad de Buenos Aires.

Cuando tenía 20 años ingresó en uno de los ciclos musicales mas influyentes en la escena del Techno argentino: Under Club, donde encontró una residencia junto a otro grupo de artistas como Xhei, Sebastian MC. Sus primeros shows en este ciclo le permitio compartir cabina con grandes referentes nacionales del género como Mariano DC, Udolph, Pandy y Diego Cid.

Luego de 3 años siendo uno de los residentes de Under Club, Leandro ha compartido cabina con artistas mundialmente reconocidos como Monoloc, Zadig, Pfirter, Marco Bailey, Reeko, Jonas Kopp, Adriana Lopez, Developer, Rebekah, Pär Grindvik y Oscar Mulero, Hans Bouffmyhre, Lewis Fautzi, Kwartz y más.

Hoy, 31 de Mayo de 2017, Leandro Mirgliotta cumple años. Este post es mi pequeño tributo a este gran DJ y productor, a su música y a su trabajo.

Aphelion (Rhys Closson) has always had a taste for mysterious, melodic and dark music. As a young teenager growing up on Vancouver Island, he became obsessed with 90’s rap for the beats and eeriness. This grey love transitioned into tech step drum and bass by artists such as Evol Intent and Technical Itch. As a natural progression he went out and picked up turntables and started rinsing drum and bass records at home in his bedroom.

In high school he found out his alter ego had a love for acid and progressive house by artists such as Sasha, James holden and Nathan fake. He went on to create a music video before he graduated using “The Sky Was Pink” which landed in an art gallery in Victoria.

In 2009 he was introduced to Erik Posnikoff at a pool hall and they started a discussion about true progressive house. They made plans to meet up and mix which led to the birth of the duo re_Click. They went on to play many events on and off the island at iconic clubs such as HUSH, after hours venues and underground parties. They put out one official single out on the Vancouver Imprint Subspec Music with their good friend RAFH. Unleash the Kraken was then remixed by the likes of John Massey, Rennie Foster and Jay Zoney.

The underground scene in Victoria was very house centred so re_Click wasn’t able to keep a crowd unless they stayed in the tech house realm. Aphelion felt that something was missing and would travel to Vancouver to get his techno fix. He took notes from artists like Function, Marcel Fengler and Cio D’or brought in by Subversive.

This affinity for techno brought Aphelion around the world to clubs and festivals such as Berghain, Zukunft, and Dekmantel. The most influential moment from his travels was at Aquasella. Aphelion watched a hazy glow emerge through heavy clouds during a sunrise set in Northern Spain. At the same time Oscar Mulero effortlessly filtered thunderous rhythms that bounced off the mountains for festival-goers to absorb.

Aphelion’s love for the underground relocated him to Brooklyn in 2015 where he frequents Aphotic & Bunker parties. He took some music production classes also and started working on creating a new following centred purely around hypnotic techno.

Now in 2017 he is focused on doing what he loves— Playing sets, and working on releasing his first solo EP.

Born and raised in Mexico, Ricardo Garduno, is no stranger to the global Techno industry.
Besides running his successful Techno imprint, Illegal Alien Records, he also runs, Illegal Alien Black Label, Abstract Mechanisms and his most recent project, a new label called, Thoughts. which is focus only on his productions. He’s had numerous successful productions on some of the most reputable Techno labels around the world such as, Nachtstrom Schallplatten, Sleaze Records, Intacto, Injected Poison and Machine Box just to name a few.

His music can be described as a perfect blend of organic, deep, hypnotic, melodic, dark, distorted, twisted and whatever sounds good.
Besides his successful Techno moniker, Ricardo has a second alias as “Xordo”, which explores the more experimental Minimal/Tech House genres.

The biggest accomplishment of this project was releasing his first EP on Dubfire’s SCI+TEC label. He is also part of the duo Pitchverb with Andre Ramos.
The present is great for Ricardo Garduno and what can be say about his future, will definitely be even better.

¿Qué decir del gran Jochem Paap a.k.a. Speedy J? Ahí va este sensacional segundo fragmento de un all night long llevado a cabo por este DJ de Rotterdam en 2016.