Avenue Red

Avenue Red Radio Show 003, hosted by Alec Pritchard with a double-drop of guest mixes from Dieter Mit Platten of the Funkroom collective in Vienna, Austria and Mark Graham, owner of the CONTRAST-WAX record label. 100% vinyl. Broadcast on Deepvibes Radio on Wednesday 21st May, 20:00-22:00 GMT. @dietermitplatten @mark_graham @contrast-wax @alecpritchard **Catch the Avenue Red Radio Show on the 3rd W...

16 isn't a particularly special number. But this is a particularly special installment! From Reykjavik, Iceland - the world's northernmost capital dubbed as "The Worlds Biggest Little Metropolis" as the city holds two thirds of the Icelandic population - we present Exos (real name Arnviður Snorrason), a unique and creative techno innovator who has become well-known for his uber-quality releases on...

The 15th Avenue Red Podcast comes from Chris Boardman, a Nottingham-based DJ who has caught our attention recently with his new residency at Dudley Strangeways & Michael McLardy's Leftback record label parties. After an eye-opening trip to Back To Basics in Leeds as a youngster in the year 2000, Chris got hooked on proper House and Techno music and later began DJ'ing in 2007 and developed his own...

For the 14th Avenue Red Podcast we have a 72-minute vinyl mix from Pawel Kobak: an accomplished pianist; flutist; guitarist; DJ; producer and the owner of the record label Route 33, which was nominated for a Swedish Grammy award in 2000 and 2001. Pawel started as a musician, DJ and club promotor in his hometown of Stockholm, Sweden in the early 1990's and had his first record released in 1995 on F...

Avenue Red Radio Show 002, hosted by Alec Pritchard with a 2-hour vinyl mix of organic house music with a healthy dose of old skool records in the brew. Broadcast on Deepvibes Radio on Wednesday 16th April, 20:00-22:00 GMT. @alecpritchard **Catch the Avenue Red Radio Show on the 3rd Wednesday of every month, 20:00-22:00 GMT. Next show on 16th April** www.deepvibes.co.uk ===== 00 INTRO 01 DJ Aakmae...

The unluckily numbered Avenue Red Podcast is a heads-down session of modernist Tech House & Techno from Grimsby-based Connor Hall AKA Conrad. Having started DJ'ing 3 years ago, Connor has become heavily engrossed in his musical passion and alongside his vinyl-junkie-ism he has made strides in the world of producing music too, having put out a debut release on Bosnia & Herzegovina-based @gentlemen-...

The third episode of the Avenue Red 1210 series is another 12 records, 10+ years old from another uber-vinyl-junkie DJ. This time we have one of our very favourite underground selectors out there, Dieter Mit Platten from Vienna, Austria - a notorious crate digger since year 2000 with the utmost taste in all shades of house and techno music. Dieter is a member of the Funkroom collective and DJ's at...

Avenue Red Radio Show 001, hosted by Alec Pritchard with an awesome 1-hour guest mix from Manchester-based DJ Ciaran Hansen. 100% vinyl. Broadcast on Deepvibes Radio on Wednesday 19th March, 20:00-22:00 GMT. https://soundcloud.com/alecpritchard https://soundcloud.com/pieandpeas **Catch the Avenue Red Radio Show on the 3rd Wednesday of every month, 20:00-22:00 GMT. Next show on 16th April** http://...

The 12th instalment of the Avenue Red Podcast comes from Roberto Vitrani, a 40 year-old veteran DJ and long-time record collector from the coastal town of Manfredonia in the South-Eastern region of Italy. Roberto plays at his own events in various intimate and cosy surroundings in bars and small clubs in his hometown. Roberto was previously unknown to us but we noticed him popping up in the commen...

Following on from a veteran in the previous episode, we now have a fresh-faced youngster pushing the wax for the 11th Avenue Red Podcast. From Derry, Northern Ireland we introduce 20 year-old Jordan Magee, a passionate DJ/vinyl collector who has played for various events in the UK & Ireland with his name sharing flyers with some very prominent DJ's including: Prosumer; Âme; Metro Area; Domenic Cap...

The Avenue Red Podcast reaches double figures with an instalment from Malta-based DJ, Producer and label boss Owen Jay. His Batti Batti imprint began as a digital label in 2009 with a dozen releases before it developed into a vinyl label in 2012. It's a project he has built from the ground up and the quality of output has been exceptional from the start, pushing a discerning style of house music f...

The 9th episode of the Avenue Red Podcast is an all-vinyl mix that comes from someone previously unknown to us - a local underground vinyl junkie, Techno DJ and producer from the city of Lyon in France who goes by the name Ennony. We liked the deep, turbulent, tunnel-like techno vibes on this mix he sent our way - something we could really get lost in. So here it is. "Man in the shadows with a lig...

The 8th episode of the Avenue Red Podcast comes from UK underground hero Carl_H (real name Carl Hardy) from Cleethorpes in the lower North East of England (though officially classed as "somewhere down South" to the folk from up here in Newcastle). Along with musical cohort Brendan Clark, Carl runs and is resident at a London-based Deep House night called Northern Purpose, which alongside its own h...

Avenue Red podcast 007 is an all-vinyl mix of deep dubby techno from Gavin Marks who runs the Chicago-based MOSHItaka label, which has just had its first vinyl release in 2013 with the sublimely accomplished Road To River EP from Moscow dub techno artist Doyeq. MOSHItaka is also a well established podcast with the MOSHImix series, which has featured the talents of well-respected names in the dub t...

Get ready for some serious DEEPNESS. Based in the city of St. Gallen, high up amid the Alps of eastern Switzerland, Austrian-born Alessandro Crimi delivers a 1-hour transmission of the kind of techno you'd imagine more likely to have eminated from somewhere in the depths of the Mariana Trench in an all-vinyl mix of exquisite taste. With his distinctive sound of dub-infused house and techno that is...

The second Avenue Red 1210 episode comes from Nottingham-based DJ and general house music purveyor Graham Pitt, who has been a vinyl junkie for over 20 years and now runs online music blog Dream Drums. We noticed that he is responsible for a steady stream of online output with his own high-quality selections and some interesting underground guests featured. Graham has his own Dream Drums show ever...

The fifth instalment of the vinyl-only Avenue Red Podcast series comes from Belgian vinyl-junkie, veteran DJ and label owner Bart Van Neste, better known to most people as Red D, whose stunning RA podcast released 2 years ago is still very fresh in our mind. He set up his We Play House imprint in 2008, initially to release the music of fellow Belgian https://soundcloud.com/san-soda, who was at the...

Avenue Red Podcast 004 is a one-take vinyl-exclusive mix from DJ Nav (real name Naveen Rajan), a burgeoning and highly adept DJ/Producer from Washington DC. He caught our ear with his unique blend of raw 90's-influenced house music, which is at times rugged, other times smooth and sublime... but always high in quality and taste. With upcoming bookings in his hometown of Washington DC and also Broo...

The third instalment of the Avenue Red podcast is a 3 hour-long back-to-back session from Nottingham duo Dudley Strangeways and Michael McLardy, two established stalwarts of the UK deep house/tech house circuit. Both are prolific producers and remixers as well as DJ's, both with a tall release history steeped in quality on heavyweight labels such as Back To You, Klasse, HOLIC TRAX, Resopal Schallw...

Avenue Red Podcast 002 continues the theme of strictly vinyl-only DJ sets from the underground world of house and techno. Newcastle-based DJ Alec Pritchard delivers 1 hour 15 of deep, trippy groove-laden records with his usual sway across different periods in time, playing from the front of the crate to the back. Age is not a factor with music that is truly timeless. This mix is as Alec describes...

Avenue Red Podcast 001 is a vinyl-exclusive set from Middlesbrough DJ/Producer Mark Graham, co-owner of the Contrast-Wax record label, which is building up a good reputation as a purveyor of pure-filtered, refined techy house music with its ruthlessly uncompromising policy of 100 limited vinyl per release - hand-stamped, hand-numbered and with no repress. For this first instalment of the series, M...

@alecpritchard brings the first installment of a new series of Avenue Red "1210" podcasts, named after the famed but sadly discontinued DJ weapon of choice - Technics 1210 turntables. With a focus on DJ'ing from the surface of vinyl, the concept is that 12 records are played with every record being at least 10 years old, uprooting some forgotten and unheard sounds from the expansive world of house...