The new OBJEKT 12″ is due for release this month and comes with a very unexpected excursion into Detroit-Techno sounds. Instant fave of the month! Check it.

Found this yet unpublished promo mix from august 2008 on my hd and undusted it for you folks. It features tracks by Remute, Steve Bug, Radio Slave, Humate, Samuel L. Session, Donk Boys, Christian Vogel, Mike Dehnert, Taho…

Since official.fm has a better service than Mixcloud (thanks Chris/mnmlssgs for the hint!) you can expect my fresh sets to pop up there. If streaming is fine for you the ones at mixcloud.com/ronnypries will remain.

Join me at official.fm/ronnypries

Here’s another mixtape straight from the 90s. Recorded in 1995 featuring tracks from Green Velvet, Josh Wink, Frankie Bones… hosted at Mixcloud. Enjoy and spread the word.

Digging this mix by that ugly fella from Cologne a lot. Good stuff, rare “Northern lights” remix featured, solid tracklist. Guess he’d dig it if you pay him a visit at his blog. And if you wanna get a download link for his mix, you can request it from him.

Asides, Mixcloud is the thing these days?

This 23 tracks set i recorded for Slovenia based Biomechanics netlabel ranges from dub- to detroit techno including tracks by James Ruskin, Kirk Degiorgio, Brian Eno, Shed, Silent Servant…

It’s available for download from Bio-Mechanics.org

My bass-heavy, chord-driven contribution titled “Down the drain” goes like
Download audio file (dig034_24_rp_-_down_the_drain.mp3)

and can be downloaded from Diggarama or archive.org

I put both tapesides in one mp3, hope you don’t mind. It’s hosted at SoundCloud, so tell your friends, family, embed and share.

Still working on the final site layout…

Playlist

01. Santos Resiak – Derrape (Crosson in the cut remix)
02. Applescal – Paul for president
03. Minilogue – Hundraelva
04. Levon Vincent – Love technique
05. GummiHZ – Los Los (D’Julz remix)
06. Bryan Zentz – Shadowtalk
07. Brendon Moeller – Traffic (New wipers mix)
08. Einmusik – Conflict
09. Joseph Capriati – Kontrol room
10. Burnski – Sleep
11. Remute – Sling it!
12. Umek – You might hear nothing
13. Len Faki – BX 3
14. Planetary Assault Systems – Temporary Supsension
15. Joey Beltram – Shaking trees
16. Steve Lawler – Kalimba (Dub mix)
17. Radio Slave – Sundazed
18. Steve Bug – Trees can’t dance

Download via Soundcloud

www.youtube.com/watch?v=07B1A67598AD4666

Being recently asked about my favourite tracks i soon had to face the fact that there’s too much stuff i adore. So i came up with the idea of nailing down 20 tracks that i still play and fall in a certain category. Here’s the one for sheer beauty.

Playlist

01. Marco Carola – Jackpot
02. Richard Bartz – Diamond Girl
03. Anton Pieete – Players
04. Jerome Syndenham – GSXR 810 (Adam Beyer Remix)
05. Chris Liebing – Turbular Bell
06. Eric Prydz Presents Pryda – Killer
07. DJ Pierre aka Da Master Blaster – I’ve Lost Control (Spastic Meltdown Mix)
08. Itamar Sagi – One Million Oaks
09. Remute – Zuendli
10. Radio Slave – Grindhouse (Dubfire Terror Planet Remix)
11. Planetary Assault Systems – Mod
12. Speedy J – Red Shift
13. Slam – City Destroyer (Original Mix Part 2)
14. Ronny Pries – Funky shrimps
15. Donk Boys – Djaxulator
16. Jark Prongo – Spadet
17. D. Diggler – Timemachine
18. Speedy J & Chris Liebing – Magnit
19. Guy J – Mikro
20. Atheus – Quadradelay
21. Claro Intelecto – Round & Round
22. Beat Pharmacy – Drifter (Drifting Drums Mix)
23. Move D and Benjamin Brunn – Honey

Download audio file (mixes.php?sub=5&expl=8629)

You can grab it from DJ-Mixes.com

Happy new year & best wishes for zero-nine!

Ronny

First off, i love Techno and its different faces, be it Detroit-, Dubtechno or rather minimalist grooves. To some i’m rather known as the guy that just spins the old hits but that’s just half the cake. The other part is the DJ who tries to keep in touch with latest developments in Techno and who’d rather love to play new stuff than the old stuff again and again. So here i am, longing for new tunes to put in my digital crate and damn, that task ain’t too easy these days.

Pheek (the guy running Archipel) recently put it this way on a forum:

“PLEASE to anyone producing and sending demos… Please PLEASE PLEASE, I beg you, STOP making that shuffling sine click/ rim / conga, arpeggiated or equivalent à la minus.

Please stop it. There’s already too much out there.

As a result, we are declaring Archipel has stopped taking demos, giving feedback and answering. We just can’t take it anymore. 80% of the demos we get are like that, it really is too much. Please delete all arpeggios from your worksheets in Ableton or other producing software.

Thanks!”

Those were the words i remembered when listening through ~500 tracks two days ago. Almost every track used the same or very similar sounds, those syncopated congas, clicks and glitchy fills summed up to one generic, random sounding 6 minutes trip into the thoughts of a one celled lifeform. 0 groove, nothing to stick with, nothing to remember. 100% disposable.

I wouldn’t have too much of a problem with that if one could have the slightest chance of finding what one’s looking for. But what makes this worse is the fact that all those tracks are always filed under “Minimal, Techno” or just “Techno”. Oh, what a great idea! One of both must be true, right? Are you Beatjunowebrecordsport guys just lazy or can the labels just do whatever they like without being controlled at all? I mean, why do releases filed under “Techno” sound exactly like those under “Minimal”?

There’s certainly good music (as in non-generic) in your stores but how am i supposed to find it if all actual labelling fails? Do i have to go to the recordstore around the corner, browse through the vinyls, take note and then go back to whatever digital store and buy it there? I guess i’d rather buy the vinyl then.

Or start downloading music from torrents, blogs, slsk and the likes in order to discover good music, later head to a digital store and buy what i dig? Now who’d do that?

So when will you, dear digital music store, finally fix your music categories? Or why don’t you just cut down the amount of generic krakaschlak tracks to a bare minimum? Who should buy all that music anyway?

Hrmpf.