Avenue Red

The 37th Avenue Red Podcast comes from Force Placement (real name Jason James) from the West side of Los Angeles in California, USA. Jason has been DJ'ing regularly around his massive metropolitan hometown since his late teens over a decade ago. He sent us this mix and we liked the selection and felt it added something unique to the series, a vinyl-only mix fusing House & Techno that is deep, rhyt...

For the 36th Avenue Red Podcast we finally present a DJ/artist who hails from our territory up here in Newcastle in the North East of England! This is a 2-hour vinyl-only mix from TIJN, the latest pseudonym of Martyn Hodgson (AKA Martijn) who is an experienced DJ and a talented producer with around a dozen releases to his name. Martyn is also the owner of the well-respected Deep Edition Recordings...

For the 34th Avenue Red Podcast we presented Maxim Sukhanov AKA MA.XIM from Rostov-on-Don in South-West Russia. And here is the first of 2 exclusive mixes we are releasing to follow-up on his main podcast. This mix is from 2013 - it was the one that we first heard from Maxim and thought it was glowing, radioactive, interesting, alien, deep, dark... Really got us buzzing! Hope you love it too! http...

For the 34th Avenue Red Podcast we presented Maxim Sukhanov AKA MA.XIM from Rostov-on-Don in South-West Russia. And here is the second of 2 exclusive mixes we are releasing to follow-up on his main podcast. This mix is also from 2013. Enjoy! https://soundcloud.com/ma-xim-profile https://soundcloud.com/hotboxrussia

The 35th instalment of the Avenue Red Podcast series comes from Avaen (real name Julian Hopp) who hails from the German city of Frankfurt that is sometimes referred to as "Mainhattan" due to it's magnificent hi-rise skyline. Originally from Bavaria, Julian is relatively new to the art of DJ'ing having invested in his first pair of turntables just 18 months ago. However, he is no newcomer to a life...

For the 34th Avenue Red Podcast we present Maxim Sukhanov AKA MA.XIM from Rostov-on-Don in South-West Russia. Like many other DJ's on the Avenue Red series, we discovered Maxim simply through his Soundcloud page after he released 2 mixes (currently not available) a couple of years ago and were really taken by his uber-deep, very dark style of dub-infused House & Techno music and were blown away by...

This is Avenue Red Podcast 033.3¯, precisely 3 hours, 33 minutes, 33 seconds, 333 milliseconds of wild music from the Ringrose Records boss Mark Nicholas O. Mark played at an Avenue Red event at The Tanners up here in Newcastle, England just before the turn of the New Year and has kindly provided us with this mix to follow up, injecting something very different to our series. This epic 3½ hour ses...

For the 6th installment of the Avenue Red 1210 series, we present a stunning mix from Stephen Sherdel AKA "Steve S", who delivered us a solid selection of deep, dubby 90's Techno and Tech House sounds. "From my lifetime's base here in sunny Stevenage in Hertfordshire, England I have been listening, buying, DJ'ing and clubbing since the mid-90's. My musical tastes have varied from Hardcore to Techn...

For the 32nd installment of the Avenue Red Podcast series we welcome back one of our resident DJ's, Alessandro Crimi from Saint Gallen in Switzerland for his 3rd episode of the series. Our followers and regular listeners will be well aware of Alessandro's awesome style of deep, dubby House & Techno and his strong abilities to tell a story from his record box with impeccable mixing skills... and th...

For the 31st Avenue Red Podcast we present Jon Iliffe, better known simply as "Jonna", the man behind the long-running Leicester-based club night, radio show and record label, City Fly. Alec from Avenue Red went to University in Leicester and was a regular attendee at the early City Fly parties that began in 2004 and became noticed immediately with solid bookings (including Phil Weeks from Robsoul...

Next up in Avenue Red 1210 series, where 12 records are played that are 10+ years old, we have Red D AKA Bart Van Neste from Gent, Belgium. Also known as FCL in allegiance with fellow Belgian DJ/producer San Soda, Bart is the owner of We Play House Records and did the 5th episode of the main Avenue Red Podcast series. "Here I present 12 x 12”, all older than 10 years. I took a while to curate this...

It's New Year's Eve 2014 and we have just managed to get to our 30th episode thanks to the handy-work of Kammerton (real name Stepan Chernov), a diverse musical talent who hails from the Russian city of Ulyanovsk, located on the Volga River 900 kilometres east of Moscow. Now living in Moscow, Stepan is an accomplished pianist, kapellmeister (chapel master/director of a choir), electronic music pro...

It has been 8 months since we released Dieter Mit Platten's excellent trainspotters selection for the Avenue Red 1210 series, where 12 records are played that are 10+ years old. Now we can update this sister series playlist with a new selection of 12 choice gems from Andy Green AKA Verdant Recordings, who is based in Hitchin, England. "I have been listening to the Avenue Red series for a while and...

Avenue Red Podcast 029 is an exclusive mix by Jori Hulkkonen, recorded live at a recent event called "My House Is Your House" at a venue called Portti, playing a vinyl-only set at a rare appearance in his hometown of Turku in Finland. Originally hailing from the rather remote Northern town of Kemi in the Lapland region (a place from which The Northern Lights can be seen on 100 days per year), Jori...

The 28th Avenue Red Podcast is an extravagant 160-minute selection of House & Techno goodies from the vast record collection - and very capable hands - of a veteran DJ known as Rubsilent (real name Hamza Solim) from Istanbul, Turkey. A part-time DJ and a full-time vinyl junkie, Rubsilent started collecting records back in 1996 and it has been his obsession ever since. Rubsilent was first bought to...

After a salubrious pause in our output, the Avenue Red Podcast resumes forward motion with the second installment in the series from one of our favourite DJ's and producers - Alessandro Crimi. This mix is inspired by the fresh autumnal vibes around his picturesque hometown of St. Gallen in the Swiss Alps, as he delivers a stunning blend of magical, dreamy house music full of blissful melodies, sli...

Alec Pritchard presents Avenue Red Radio Show 007 with Alessandro Crimi taking over for the first 75 minutes, followed by Alec Pritchard laying down a mix for the last 45 minutes. Broadcast on Deepvibes Radio on Wednesday 17th September, 20:00-22:00 UK time. @alecpritchard @alessandro_crimi @waehlscheibe **The Avenue Red Radio Show was broadcast on Deepvibes Radio (www.deepvibes.co.uk) on the 3rd...

It is amazing really that it has taken the passage of 25 Avenue Red Podcast episodes before we came to present a DJ/Artist from Germany, especially when we consider it's prominence on the underground music map and the colossal amount of quality music the country emits. And here is installment 26 from Cologne-based DJ, producer, label boss and radio show host Andy Vaz. Originally from Düsseldorf wh...

The 25th episode of the Avenue Red Podcast series comes from Hydergine (AKA Roberto Corizzo), a Dub Techno producer and esteemed vinyl collector/DJ from Taranto, Italy. His productions are very deep and textural, most notable for having a somewhat futuristic and scientific aesthetic, which is one of the foundational concepts of his work under the Hydergine moniker - as Roberto explains: "The pseud...

Avenue Red Radio Show 006, hosted by Alec Pritchard and featuring an exclusive 2-hour vinyl mix from Jordan Magee, a proper underground House & Techno DJ from Derry, Northern Ireland. Broadcast on Deepvibes Radio on Wednesday 17th September, 20:00-22:00 UK time. @jordanmagee **Catch the Avenue Red Radio Show on the 3rd Wednesday of every month, 20:00-22:00 GMT. Next show on 20th August** www.deepv...

Stepping up to the decks for the 24th Avenue Red Podcast we have Michael Bustard from Belfast in Northern Ireland - a corner of the UK that seems to have a strong presence of crate-digging, underground-as-you-like DJ's that we have become aware of principally through the online Underlying Form cult that was setup by Darren Allen. Michael is a resident DJ at the Underlying Form parties and everytim...

For the 23rd Avenue Red Podcast we present Manchester-based DJ Rikki Humphrey, a notorious crate digger and a stylistically diverse DJ who does not identify with genre boundaries when considering his musical selections. His taste for deep, underground House and Techno was founded on listening to old Radio One Essential Mixes and his instinctive ear for unearthing new musical sounds led him to star...

The 22nd Avenue Red Podcast comes from Rotterdam-based DJ 751 (real name Jelle Hamstra), a DJ who is younger than his episode number and in this deliciously educational vinyl mix of high-quality old-skool Techno he has delivered a perfectly mixed selection of records that, barring one, were all pressed & released before he even started school. We admire this kind of dedication from DJ's who mine t...

For the 21st Avenue Red Podcast we turn to highly respected and deeply underground DJ/producer/label-boss Brad Peterson who hails from Louisville, US and is now based in the Scotland capital city of Edinburgh. Brad has released music as "Brad P", "Brad Peterson" and "Trackmachine" on labels such as Moods & Grooves, 7th Sign, Inner Shift Music, Minuendo, Yore, Hotmix, AMR, Contrast Wax and Mono...

Avenue Red Radio Show 005, hosted by Alec Pritchard with an eclectic 2-hour vinyl mix featuring plenty of old-skool goodies from inspirational artists including Metamatics, Kraftwerk, Aphex Twin, Carl Craig, Moritz von Oswald and Monolake! Broadcast on Deepvibes Radio on Wednesday 16th July, 20:00-22:00 GMT. @alecpritchard **Catch the Avenue Red Radio Show on the 3rd Wednesday of every month, 20:0...