Avenue Red

Andy Green AKA Verdant Recordings is back with his 6th contribution for Avenue Red, delivering a perfect pastel-coloured selection of soothing, introspective, spacey dub techno vibes. We are pleased to see his Verdant Recordings label is building up a head of steam, as just before the turn of the new year we saw the arrival of its 6th release, a 2 x 12" compilation LP simple titled Verdant (link b...

Our deepness correspondent over in Athens, Greece known as Mist returns for his third Avenue Red contribution with a mind-blowing, soul-melting ambient selection of Jupiter-sized proportions. Don't expect to ever get over it if you choose to open this pandoras box, which to truly do so, start-to-finish listening is required. If you do take the full voyage, this mix will make you feel like you have...

For the third and final instalment of our winter train of Icelandic artists, we welcome OHM back for his second contribution to the Avenue Red Podcast series. OHM has worked with some of the finest deep techno artists and DJ'ed at various notable beacons of the underground deep techno scene, including the Culture Box nightclub in Copenhagen, where he holds a residency. Naturally, we are proud to h...

Next up for our winter season of artists from the Icelandic deep techno hive, we welcome Jonas Thor Gudmundsson AKA Ruxpin AKA Octal Industries. This amazing 1 hour of deep, dubby, industrial machine techno sounds is released under his Octal Industries moniker... why? Because it is a live improvised electronics performance of mostly unreleased Octal Industries materials. Now living in Tallin, Esto...

As we get deep into the winter, we have decided to take inspiration from those who know how to zone out and party hard in the icy cold conditions better than anyone else... here for the first of 3 Icelandic artists on 3 consecutive episodes on Avenue Red throughout December, we welcome Ísar Logi Arnarsson AKA COLD from Reykjavík. Forever a legend on Icelandic techno powerhouse Thule Records, with...

Amid this very busy winter schedule of releases, Avenue Red continues with a fresh upfront mix of slamming oldskool Tech House flavours. Many thanks to Sam Funke from Paris, France for this killer mix to show the kids what real, genuine Tech House was all about back in it's golden era of 90's to early 00's, where the sub-genre name was used to describe this unique fusion of Techno & House music st...

As the icy winter begins to set in here in the northern hemisphere, we have taken some inspiration from a Russian photographer, music collector and excellent DJ, Maksim Panfilov. He originally was born and raised in the coldest, most remote city on the planet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norilsk Norilsk in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Siberia, Russia. Isolated, detached, lonely, heavily industrial and seve...

For Avenue Red Podcast 115 we welcome ARiS, who is originally from the coastal city of Patras in Greece. Having been a DJ since the late 90's, where he played at small underground parties around his hometown, ARiS continued his pursuit of collecting music and DJ'ing after he relocated to Camerino in central Italy in the mid-2000's. Aris established himself with residencies at clubs like Oniremac,...

Just as he provided us with a mix for the change of season into the spring, Tommy Lemmers AKA Trepid AKA dubtommy returns to the Avenue Red Podcast with some serious, dubbed out, cold steel house & techno vibes for the darker wintry days. "In contrast to my last mix, we're going into the winter period. It's getting cold and the days are getting shorter, which makes more time to explore the night t...

Our man over in Bucharest, Romania - George O'laru - one half of the artist known as Heerd with Stroe Ionut, delivers a stunning and very unique mix of trip-hop, lounge and experimental material. A perfect accompaniment for those late "afterhours" sessions or a morning coffee... or a coffee shop vibe. "As I listened to a lot of trip-hop, ambient and various downtempo music in the last year I decid...

To complete this little compendium of mixes to celebrate 5 years of Avenue Red, we welcome our master of deep house & techno over in Helsinki, Finland - Janne Rasi. His 2 previous mixes in the series are truly mind-bending, introspective, glowing, radioactive deep house mixes that are both expertly programmed, sequenced and mixed. Excellently addictive, classy mixes. For his 3rd contribution Janne...

Another 5 Years of Avenue Red mix... another Avenue Red legend! For this instalment we present an extended 3-hour live session from Swiss deep boss Alessandro Crimi. All fans of Avenue Red will know Alessandro well, as he has touched our souls with his expertly crafted mixes loaded with unforgettable vibes and deepness. The Waehlscheibe label boss was going to do a special studio mix for this one,...

For the third instalment of the Avenue Red 5th birthday celebration mini-series, we welcome the London-based zen master (you should see his rug!) Josh Lentink for his 5th contribution to the series. Josh is a raw young talent who fuses house, techno, razor-edged electro, deep, dubby, chilled, banging and also mild stuff, like the concept of a "tomorrow" has not even been spawned into any conscious...

Avenue Red founder Alec Pritchard steps up... deepness and trippy vibes rule supreme. Alec wishes he lived lurking deep underwater, and in his imagination - especially when he is playing records - he feels he actually does. Alec is a modest guy and has nothing else to say about 5 years of Avenue Red apart from this mix itself, along with big thanks to all the amazing contributors and the dedicated...

Avenue Red was started in July 2013 with the intention of creating a good, steady platform for passionate music collectors, DJ's, artists and label owners who we found to have something special on their music pages, yet were flying far below the radar of mainstream press and hype. We are here to showcase the good, friendly people who we find not to be trying to play some stealthy game of music sce...

For Avenue Red Podcast 112 we present a super satisfying mix of deep house and techno from artist & DJ Dejax Dex, who hails from the city of Bitola in Macedonia. "One hour of music that I like right now. Deep and moving sounds that are good for home listening and also for playing out loud." Dejax Dex, June 2018

We are pleased to present the second Avenue Red Podcast mix from S&ro (real name Sandro Isler), who is co-owner of the Waehlscheibe label alongside Alessandro Crimi over in Saint Gallen, Switzerland. Here S&ro gets heads down into a focussed, tightly worked hour-long set with some powerful sound designs for the dancefloor. Enjoy! https://soundcloud.com/sandroisler https://soundcloud.com/waehlschei...

Avenue Red 110 is a slick session of grooving, minimal, deep house, techno & spaced-out breaks from Italian-born Tanja Valente, better known as Antja. Based in Zurich, Switzerland, Antja is a regular fixture at the main underground clubs in the city such as Hive Club, Friedas Büxe, Supermarket and Revier. She has also been spinning further afield within Switzerland and abroad too, including in Ber...

For the 109th Avenue Red Podcast we welcome Bjarnar Jónsson AKA OHM from Copenhagen in Denmark. Originally from Reykjavik, Iceland, Bjarnar is a musical peer of Exos, the man behind one of our most legendary episodes, 016 (https://soundcloud.com/avenue-red/podcast-016-exos). The OHM discography stretches back to year 2000 with his debut release being on Force Inc. Music Works, the Sameining EP pro...

To accompany the refreshing spring weather we present a dreamy, trippy, colourful mixture of deep house music from Tommy Lemmers AKA Trepid. Hailing from Amsterdam, Trepid is also an upcoming producer who has several releases out on some good labels already, with his sounds ranging from the kind of material you'll hear in this mix to some dub-influenced house and abstract hip-hop. Here Trepid has...

We are pleased to welcome the return of the excellent George O'laru on the Avenue Red Podcast, this time with an infectious, deep, melodic, grooving set full of grade-A house & techno blinders that mostly lean towards the obscure end of the spectrum. From Constana, Romania, George has recently been working intensively during his free time on developing his music production skills. This set showcas...

For Avenue Red Podcast 106 we welcome dub house/techno wizard Nikolai Kosik AKA Eczema from the city of Lutsk, North-West Ukraine. A DJ, producer and also a keen competitive cyclist, Nikolai has delivered us a smooth, seamlessly mixed hour of dubbed-out, trippy 4/4 house & techno that feels sparse and lost... like seeing ships in the distance in the inky dusk across the breezy ocean air... or lean...

Avenue Red hereby welcomes the second coming of Mihail P from Vinica in Macedonia. A rising star in the underground electronic music scene, Mihail's productions are really getting noticed a lot since he did Avenue Red Podcast 075 some 16 months ago, with some top releases in the pipeline to be released throughout this year. The payload of vinyl releases involves two good friends of Avenue Red, wit...

The 104th Avenue Red Podcast comes from Paul Rimbaud, a true deep house/techno/electro collector and DJ from Blackheath, South London. In the summer of last year, Paul was busily setting up his own Distant Worlds label, launching with the "Renegade EP" coming from that ever-increasingly prolific analog synth warrior from Sheffield, John Shima. We are told the label will be sure to feature more wor...

Avenue Red resident Russian-German selector Gusev is back with a mix of his own personal classics collection. Lots of great tracks that will take the true underground House & Techno heads back to the good times! We have had this mix since 5 months ago and we are very pleased to finally get it out there - there are many great mixes to follow in quick succession from some old Avenue Red favourite DJ...