Avenue Red

It has been 1,139 days since the release of his "Avenue Red Is 5..." mix in August 2018 and we are so pleased to welcome the return of young London-based master selector, Josh Lentink! Josh has been very busy running his monthly shows on Timeline Music in the meantime, amongst setting up other new ventures (we'll let Josh introduce that below). Here we have the 6th contribution from Josh for Avenu...

After a 1-year hiatus, the Avenue Red 1210 podcast series has a fresh installment of 12 records, each one being 10+ years old. Stepping up to the platters we have Moutier, a veteran DJ duo from Leeds who have in recent years also turned their hands to being producers and label owners. In 2017 they launched their Enclave Records imprint, which alongside their own works has featured an illustrious r...

Glasgow/Aberdeen lad Chris Curtis, a long-time DJ and aficionado of awesome music, a prominent figure in the real Scottish underground scene has stepped forth, breaking an Avenue Red silence of no less than 51 days. After a healthy hiatus while the world was otherwise distracted, it is finally time to bring those who "see red" a fresh mix from a truly passionate and knowledgable musical soul who i...

Avenue Red is proud to present a mix by an underground mixtape machine known as Tom Larson (real name Tommy Köhler), who hails from the famous East German "toy town", Sonneberg. If you scroll down on his Soundcloud page (link below), you will see that he has already paid a visit to literally all of the other contemporary underground house/techno/dub techno podcasts with one of his tightly mixed, t...

Avenue Red is back to present more ace underground Russian DJ's, this time a young duo named Volar & S.Aers from the city of Perm, which lies on the banks of the Kama River, close to the Ural Mountains in central Russia. Their hometown of Perm is actually the Easternmost city of Europe. These guys have been following Avenue Red for some years and have crafted an exclusive 106-minute-long mix of de...

Swiss underground electronic music heavyweight Alessandro Crimi celebrates the release of his latest album, Sirius, by making his 10th contribution for Avenue Red. The album was released last month on London label Natural Expressions, both digitally and on a limited edition cassette tape in a beautiful silk screen printed package. It is a deep techno/electro masterpiece loaded with futuristic mach...

Avenue Red is proud to present a multi-genre underground DJ/selector who we have known about and admired since around the time Avenue Red launched in 2013. Enter Ayumi from Brooklyn, New York - a very busy and productive mixmaster who can string together a perfect set of seemingly any style of electronic music with equal aplomb. With perfect mixing and interesting tunes that keep you curious, gues...

Avenue Red presents part 2 of this 2-part podcast episode by Liepu Saloj from Kaunas, Lithuania. This one takes you on the same kind of wild, undulous ride through a wide breadth of tempos and styles, generally in some kind of eccentric orbit around planet techno. However it is certainly the more "afterhours vibes" mix of the two. https://soundcloud.com/liepusaloj See also: https://soundcloud.com/...

Almost exactly 2 years ago Avenue Red featured a Lithuanian DJ/artist in a two-part episode of ethereal, beautiful yet strange techno-oriented stylings. He came from his country's second largest city of Kaunas. His name was Liepu Saloj... and he's back! And it's yet another double-mix payload too! :D For this first instalment he delivers almost 100 minutes of his trademark DJ'ing style of high-int...

After a month of silence, the Avenue Red Podcast engine is cranked back up into life with a high-octane mixture of electro and breaks, delivered in a blitzkrieg assault from a Moscow-born and Berlin-based DJ, events organiser and all-round top guy known as zodya. This mix is fully "injected with the poison!", drenched in 90's rave-era nostalgia as zodya intelligently connects the dots between a lo...

After changing city twice in 2020 - from Newcastle to Belgrade, then Belgrade to Manchester - Avenue Red has now settled here permanently in the capital of Northern England. For the first time since doing so, we are happy to present a mix from this great city as we introduce Quadrant Soundscape, a dynamic duo of promotors, DJs, producers & podcasters, each also operating under other guises (Asphal...

Avenue Red Podcast texts are usually rather functional: an introduction to the DJ/artist by name; some words to indicate where they come from or are based followed by some poetic, descriptive junk about the sonic contents of the package. The artwork image is often chosen after some dialogue with the artist, which almost always transpires to be one of architecture, spaces, places, a street or a sky...

It's time to introduce another act from Iceland. Emerging from the cold, bleak, beautiful land of many contrasts and a massively high per-capita population of true underground music heads, Avenue Red welcomes a friend and DJ/collector Ása Lind Finnbogadóttir AKA Álfbeat from Reykjavik. This trailblazing 68-minute session encompasses a wide range of styles: from abstract electronic breakbeats to I...

Avenue Red presents the second instalment of true deepness from DJ Nemanja Stanojcic, who hails from Vrnjačka Banja, Serbia. This is yet another all-vinyl selection from his nice collection of subterranean house & techno, as always layered nicely with an undercurrent of dreamy, groovy, trippy vibes. "Hi everyone! This mix picks up where my last one for Avenue Red Podcast (episode 143) left off......

For the first time in a long time (and we haven't had many), Avenue Red presents a mix from the USA. Here we present Carloscres, a producer and DJ from Caracas, Venezuela who is now based in Houston, Texas. Primarily a purveyor of refined, high grade deep house/tech house stylings, Carloscres established himself within the underground music scene from his growing catalogue of widely-supported prod...

Avenue Red presents another new episode on another Christmas day (today being Christmas for Orthodox countries like Russia, Ukraine, Serbia etc), as we introduce yet another DJ from Moscow, Russia... enter house music maestro Stas Vasilev! Stas is a true don of the kind of music that would be an ideal backdrop at smartly-decorated neon cocktail bars, or at sweet summer beaches with his trademark s...

Avenue Red has brought forth with a Christmas-day release. This is the hidden gift behind the tree that has cometh at the 8th hour past noon. We welcome Lille-based Columbian-French selector extraordinaire Victor Mottez, who musically masquerades under the guise of Bogota Soundsystem. Here Victor takes us on a nostalgic trip through the Hacienda-era influences that are rife in his record box full...

We are so pleased to bring this one forth, Moscow-based Elistratov is back for his second mix on Avenue Red! Expect more of the same as we got last time around: a focused set of radioactive, schizophrenic, eyes-wide-open neurotic deep house pulsating with insatiable grooves and transcendental soundscapes. Here we show you a real pro who has researched the landscape of deep electronic music and kno...

Next up on the Avenue Red Podcast is a DJ and producer from St. Petersburg, Russia known as Kruglenko. We have seen this guy around on SoundCloud thanks to the various recommendation algorithms, noticing his quality mixes and also his ear for productions are clearly getting to a high level... then he submitted a mix to us. Just shows the algorithms are functioning well over here! What we received...

Avenue Red welcomes the second coming of the exquisitely tasteful, refined deep house and techno selector from Paris known as Caillou. Here he has delivered a mix not too dissimilar to his first, but has pushed a little deeper into the dreamier, sleepier territories of his unique record collection. "I'd like to thank Alec for the opportunity to contribute again to Avenue Red. I wanted to do someth...

Avenue Red is proud to present a newcomer to the podcast series who is a Berlin-based PhD student, a music collector, curator, DJ and also a co-founder of [IAS] https://soundcloud.com/intrinsic-audio-sessions Intrinsic Audio Sessions podcast. Enter Chryslsm (real name Joshua Martin), who is originally from Cape Town, one of the three capital cities of South Africa. Chryslsm is well-known throughou...

This podcast comes from Tripdrop (real name Nikita Polyakov) an artist and DJ from the city of Rostov-on-Don in the south-west of Russia. This is the second DJ on the series from this city after MA.XIM (see: https://soundcloud.com/ma-xim-profile), who delivered a trio of excellent mixes (episodes 034, 034.1 and 034.2) for us almost 5 years ago, all having quite similar styles to what is on show he...

For the 169th Avenue Red Podcast episode (and 200th upload on the SoundCloud page) we welcome back Edward Bei from northern Portugal for his second contribution to the series. This time Edward has created an enchanting, entrancing 50-minute mix of sleepy, dreamy ambient music. This mix has been proven to work well as a calming bedtime soundtrack, which aids with drifting slowly into the realms of...

For this next Avenue Red Podcast episode we welcome Nanni Bottura (real name Giovanni Bottura), a refined crate-digging DJ and music enthusiast from the beautiful, vibrant Italian capital city of Rome. Here Giovanni has delivered us a lengthy almost 2.5-hour journey through a diverse mixture of records from his intriguing collection. Expect all kinds of sounds from tech-edged house and 4/4 dubby t...

The Avenue Red Podcast brings yet another new name to the series as we present the artist, collector, DJ and WarmState Records label boss known as NEZ (real name Amaury Rondon) from Santo Domingo, the 1-million-strong capital city of the Dominican Republic. This is the first time we have featured a DJ from the Caribbean. The WarmState Podcast recently featured episodes from Avenue Red frontman Ale...