FACETS Techno Podcast

Leon Schanzenbach is a DJ and Producer from southern Germany, currently based in Berlin. Due to his parents, he already got infected with Techno and Metal in his early childhood, what influenced his sound a lot to be harder. He plays a mix of strong kicks, rumbling basslines, groovey percussions, dark synthies and evil acid lines in order to create a powerful set with Peaktime-Rave Vibes and Dance...

Born in Turin in the second half of the 80s, his passion grew with the city's musical growth. The main source of inspiration is precisely the energy released by the city and its industrial context. Its sound is a mixture of energy, melodies and drama. Inspired by the wind, the industry, the mountains, the sound and everything you need to make it dramatic. -- 072: Norberto Lusso from Turin, Italy N...

Madalba was born in July 1985 in Bari, south of Italy. From a very young age, her musical interests moved across a broad spectrum, going from house and dance music to rock and punk leading her lastly to techno and club-culture. At age 22 she approached the local scene as Djane with numerous performances in the club circuit of Bari. Through the years she has developed a continued and careful respec...

Grace Schella is a vivid member of the electronic music scene in Vienna, Austria. As a DJ she likes to energize a dancefloor with her varied vinyl selection crossing Electro, Techno, IDM and beyond. Hard to genre-catch this one. With this heavy banging and energetic techno mix she is presenting the techno collective “Brutalists”. A group of creative people who promote futuristic techno sounds insp...

N99 fell in love with the music after raving and dancing for nights on end. As a DJ N99 loves to get technical and juggle multiple decks at once playing both vinyl records and digital tracks. In his mixing N99 tries to focus on a good track selection and well curated sets: a single track, banger or not, doesn’t mean much to him in and of itself - it is a track's interplay with the previous and nex...

Sarf is one of those artists who stay true to their own values regardless to the trends. Since his first steps in electronics, he has shaped progressively his own approach to djing and producing. In 2015, time has come for the Spanish artist to open his own lab Analog section, a name that purposely emphasizes his dedication to the physical aspect of electronics. In addition to his own outputs, his...

Åre:gone is a DJ and producer based and trapped in Havana, Cuba. With just a few years active as a DJ, the young artist achieved great support and popularity in the Cuban scene and has made appearances on various labels and platforms such as Abstraction, Bipolar Disorder Records or Grounded. Together with Røttar he teamed up to form the artist duo Riot In Havana. -- 069: Åre:gone from Havana, Cuba...

From the dangerous part of the city of Montevideo, Uruguay in the late ’90s, William started his journey in music at the early age of 11 helping programming music and DJing for a pirate radio station. Since that moment, he never stopped to define his own style and taste of music while improving his technical skills. In 2009 he started to release his own productions under different monikers, releas...

Philipp Läufer is a prolific artist based in Berlin. After starting the post-punk band Bleib Modern and his own record label Black Verb Records, war scenes became an outlet for his solo productions. In his first live jams and recordings under the alias, he quickly established a unique cut of techno; a hybrid of relentlessly propulsive lines, bred with broken, machine-born sounds, forming conflicti...

The young artist Willy Parker was born in the hessian city Giessen, near Frankfurt / Main. Influenced by 90s Hip Hop and Trance beats during his teenager time he has also been attracted by the Frankfurt techno scene. His love for drone, ethereal and dark-driving sounds raised rapidly and soon he started to produce his own beats. His joy in experimenting is just as big, which is why the genres Ambi...

Waynette Posch has been creating music since 2006. It started when she skipped school the day she got Reason for her computer. Since that fateful day, her work has been defined by a tremendous sense of wonder and freedom. Originally from the city of Heidelberg, she came to Berlin in 2011 to study fashion. Waynette discovered the DJ circuit during her time at school and began to play records on the...

Oruam Zior is a Dj Producer born in Buenos Aires. From the age of twenty one he walks by electronic music clubs in Buenos Aires. Soon, begins a personal search in the genre. Introducing his previous musical knowledge as a professional guitarist. He focuses on the production of harmonic sounds with dark and hypnotic nuances, aggressive rhythmic bases typical of techno, achieving a unique style in h...

CVesth is a DJ and producer from Copenhagen, Denmark. He began his journey in the early 90’s after discovering the local techno community and the parties around it. Hooked on the music he started DJ’ing and got involved in promoting parties around Copenhagen. In over two decades CVesth was heavily involved in the Danish Hard- / Acid Techno scene in Copenhagen. As co-founder of Turbulent, a freepar...

He started to get involved in the medium at the end of the last century, mainly in techno but also with experimental sessions, ambient and IDM. Damian Vargas is an electronic musician, DJ, producer, and live act performer with more than 10 years in the business. It has also had releases and remixes. for various labels such as Vector Functions, ANAØH, B55, Default Series, Iteration Method among oth...

The Metapattern project is a live improvised rhythm project in the style of techno featuring a modular synthesizer, drum machine and Ableton live running through a digital mixer capable of many effect and loop layers. The performances are based on rhythmic and tonal elements shaped by the mood and situation. The energy of this music is designed to engage listeners in a spiral or tunnel of repeatin...

Tim, also known as a symbiosist, started celebrating after-hours parties with his friends in his own apartment in Giesing a few years ago. This is how the reference to G65 came about. He has been hosting his own podcast to push artists who are very talented but are still under the radar of many, for a good three years now. Tim's podcast series is growing steadily. He describes his own sound as con...

Knife presents IN/JXRX (Blessure). Focusing on authentic, artistic and personal expression, IN/JXRX’s productions are highly valued by many labels and DJ’s for their inexorable basslines and disturbing melodies. The power and attraction of his tracks are made by strident synths, banging kicks and other sounds, fabricated by analog machines in his studio in Naples, Italy. -- 063: IN/JXRX from Naple...

P-T2, the young musician who has probably seen and achieved more in our business than most. Her understanding of the music culture in which we operate is so profound because she has lived every aspect of it herself - as a guest, as a DJ, as a producer, as a label head, as an organizer, as a bartender, as club manager. And from all the impressions she has collected over the years, she has shaped th...

Matthias Springer aka Meryt co-founded FACETS in the end of 2016. He got his foothold in the scene by playing support at various local parties in Augsburg for artists like Cleric, Alignment, Christian Wünsch and Remco Beekwilder. Alongside continuously pursuing to develop his style of melting fast rhythms with dark atmospheres, he's also put out his track "Annihilation" which is part of his ambiti...

Achiever's productions and sets are characterized by dark, industrial sounds. His productions and sets often tell a story or are designed in such a way that it conveys a mood or a feeling. Drawing inspiration from the underground techno scene and influenced by (old school) hip-hop and metal. The one thing you can be certain of is that his sound design & vision are designed to be loud, dark and ind...

Svar was resident at the infamous Mixed Munich Arts Club before it closed down. There he continuously developed his style of DJing characterized by a varied selection of different styles and moods, drifting and trippy soundscapes and always full of tension throughout. Together with his good friend Javier Bähr he also started Rohstoff, which functions as an ambient tape label and also a monthly rad...

In episode 59 of the FACETS podcast we’re happy to break multiple firsts: With PLEXØS being our first artist from the US to feature in the series, we’ve also ventured into the hardcore realm for the first time. So better strap in for the next hour, because it’s getting HARD. Enjoy! -- 059: PLEXØS from Salt Lake City, USA PLEXØS @ SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/plexosmusic PLEXØS @ Facebook: ht...

In our 58th episode of the FACETS podcast we head to Saarbrücken and the infamous Mauerpfeiffer for an hour of serious OG techno by ROD_A. Starting out by becoming a resident in the Unsichtbar - which later became the Mauerpfeiffer - in 2014, ROD_A founded his own event series called Adapter Events in 2018. His sound is best described by the oldschool influences driving him. -- 058: ROD_A from Saa...

a0b [anullb] // Our project is strongly influenced by our teens. In these times we started exploring Berlin subculture events like Solipartys and illegal raves. Because of our background which is also characterised by classical music we were always fascinated by the complete contrast to it: industrial sounds and driving rhythms - so we started diving into that. In our hybrid live-sets we are tryin...

Wild rave experiences in Berlin's clubs serve as inspiration for Schicktanz to play and produce music. His passion for dancing is about the connection and inspiration between the ravers on the dance floor. Besides playing, organizing his own events allows him to share his vision of the untamed rave that frees you up and pushes you to go beyond your limits. He is one of the founders of the event se...