Avenue Red

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...

The Avenue Red Podcast presents a fresh addition to the roster. Welcome Kyrro (real name George Kury) who is originally from France and is now based in Amsterdam, the Dutch capital city full of red light districts, trippy weed cafes and intriguing bars and clubs with a strong undercurrent of underground electronic music culture. Kyrro sent us a few mixes in the past and there was a sad story: an a...

It's time to get educational. Hannover-based Russian-German selector Dmitry Gusev returns for his 7th contribution to Avenue Red, delivering a smoothly blended selection of house classics strictly from the underground. Playing from the heart exclusively from his personal vinyl collection, this is Gusev's "must-hear" set of desert island house records. It's time for school. Press play and let these...

Avenue Red welcomes Prakash, an experienced DJ and producer from the Spanish island of Gran Canaria, one of the Canary Islands about 150 kilometres off the northwestern coast of Africa. Prakash is a very knowledgeable guy and has been collecting music and spinning for almost 15 years, along the way releasing stacks of masterful mixtapes and playing at some interesting gigs internationally, as well...

For this next Avenue Red Podcast episode we welcome a mix from a man who has the melodic sensibilities of underground music neatly wrapped up in his own unique style. Pavlov is a master selector from the Russian capital city of Moscow, where he runs/is resident at the well-respected Теплоinside (translates as "Heat Inside") parties, where all manner of classy, deep, melodic styles rule supreme und...

Avenue Red is back with a fierce, techy mix of house, breaks and electro from Ian Lane, a collector and selector from the city of Galway on the west coast of The Republic of Ireland. This is yet another tough, relentlessly groovy installment in the series to prime us all for our eventual return to the smoked-out dancfloors when the clubs re-open. Ian shows what a solid DJ he is technically - this...

Our underground hero from down under in Adelaide, Australia known as Code618 steps up with his selection of 12 records, 10+ years old. Prepare to be dazzled with his stories from the 1990's, as he projects the magic of the music in his record box from a time when quality house and techno was beginning to blossom into something unstoppable. It's raw, it's real, it's the sound of the humans and the...

Avenue Red is back after a 4 week hiatus, which has given a some space for people to digest the dense schedule of mixes that came during the peak phase of global lockdown. Now we are happy to break the chains and resume the march forwards with our underground mission. Finally we can unleash this absorbingly deep, trippy session from Nightwalk, who hails from the city of Yoshkar-Ola, capital of the...

Our man in Amsterdam formerly known as Trepid returns to the Avenue Red Podcast with yet another sublime mix of deep, dubbed out, dreamy, melodic electronic music. This is his third contribution to the series, but this time under his new dubtommy alias, which he converted to last year. This is an all-vinyl mix fusing deep house with some breaks/electro cuts, a very nicely wrapped package of sweet...

We welcome the return of the versatile, exciting, ever-rising DJ/production duo known as Heerd (George Olaru & Stroe Ionut) from Bucharest, Romania. They are best known for their Romanian minimal/tech house styles both on the decks and with their brilliantly produced tracks from the studio (links below). However, following on from where they left off with Avenue Red Podcast episode 113 (https://so...

Avenue Red has something tough, dark and clubby for you to put on loud, close your eyes and enjoy as you picture yourselves in a thumping, cavernous nightclub. They won't be opening for us anytime soon, so we will focus on helping out with the cause in our own little way for now. Here for episode 158, Lera Creeper (real name Valerie Tsukanova) from the Ukrainian capital city of Kiev presents an ho...

Avenue Red is proud to finally present a mix from a lady from Bucharest, Romania known as Lisa Sawyer. After several submissions and endless discussions with us, she has begun to exceed herself and has eased into a unique flow and groove, purveying her own vision of deep techno/minimal/tech house music. Lisa has also been making music, which is sounding very promising with some tracks we heard hav...

Berlin-based master selector Torsten Brinkmann is back with a vibrant, colourful, uplifting selection of house, techno and breaks. This is his second contribution for the Avenue Red Podcast. It is condensed, short & sweet and as with all of his mixes, executed with precision and true German efficiency. "Actually this was the first mix I recorded for a while. I took a break from DJ'ing for 2 years...

Avenue Red has something a bit different to present here... Cenk Akyol, an exquisitely tasteful record collector from Istanbul, Turkey has provided an hour and a half-long, all-vinyl selection of eclectic beats from around the world titled: "Techno Soul 2020". Like some Turkish Gilles Peterson, Cenk has delivered a very wholesome blend of intricate, underground music - no filler! "Since 2000, each...

The very first Avenue Red upload was Avenue Red 1210 Mk1 - Alec Pritchard. The title and concept of this sister series pays homage to the mainstay of vinyl DJ'ing culture... the legendary Technics 1210 Turntables, which first appeared on the market back in 1972! The DJ carefully selects 12 records, with every record being at least 10 years old, uprooting some forgotten and unheard sounds from each...

Part 2 of 2 from young talent Vlad Barocco from the city of Dnipro in eastern Ukraine, dropping us some more club-friendly electro madness. "In difficult times for my country, I recorded this mix inspired by the invincible spirit of our young generation, who, despite the war in part of the country, did not lose hope for a bright future..." Vlad Barocco, April 2020 https://soundcloud.com/vladbarocc...

Following the blissful, serene ambient selection from Alessandro Crimi, which helped us to press the mental reset button, it's time to switch it up 10 levels and get back to the club zone in our living rooms and headphones. Bringing us a tight selection of fiery electro missiles, we welcome young talent Vlad Barocco from the city of Dnipro in eastern Ukraine. This mix is short and sweet, high ener...

Alessandro Crimi from St. Gallen in Switzerland returns for his next instalment on Avenue Red, exactly 1 year since his last, which was episode 125. This time Alessandro has put his mind to making a special concoction of deep ambient and trippy slow techno selections, creating an ideal audio tonic to help us all to ease our minds. "I always wanted to record an ambient/experimental/downtempo/dub mi...

Alex Tasso AKA Submoon from Taranto, South Italy is back for an introspective trip through some of his deep dubby techno records. "Really happy to be back on this powerful mix series and I thank Alec for this opportunity to spread my mixes through his whole community. Within this mix there is everything that influences me the most, from small reverberated sounds to ethereal cords and pads. I hope...

First we had Tim Boyd from Sydney, then for our 100th episode we had George Hysteric from Melbourne... now enter Code618 from Adelaide, Australia's 5th largest city of 1.4 million. This guy is a true veteran in the game. Here he shares a document revealing the power of profound underground knowledge and lengthy diggers experience, coupled with passion and technical aptitude as a DJ. A perfect fit...

Avenue Red boss Alec Pritchard pops up with an impromptu selection of deep, moody, sensual grooving house & techno records - his first on the main series since exactly 3 years ago. 100% played from vinyl, featuring releases spanning the last 2 decades. The cover art image was taken by Alec somewhere over the Austrian Alps the day after the mix was recorded. https://soundcloud.com/alecpritchard See...