Motortechno

Big up Darkmode for his cracking guest mix in our last show. It’s a residents’ affair this time round as Ricky and Rod serve up a dose of techno heat to welcome the sun’s arrival to UK shores. Ricky opens things up with half an hour of summery tribal grooves, hardgroove pressure and a bass bin rattler for the speed garage heads. Rod takes over for a 90-minute session of no-nonsense techno. Full th...

After last month’s belter with UK rave legend Mark Archer, we’re back with another heavy guest mix — big up Darkmode . A mainstay of the harder-edged techno scene as well as a talented electro producer, Darkmode’s been putting in work for decades. His early releases on Testin Out caught the ears of heads like Weatherall, Radioactive Man and Regis, and he’s not looked back since. From DJ Mag and ID...

Excited doesn’t even come close to describing how we feel about our first guest mix for the Motortechno redux. Please be upstanding for Mr Mark Archer . As far as rave legends go, you won’t find many higher up the list than Mark Archer. Founding member of Bizarre Inc, one half of Nexus 21 and Altern 8, and also recorded solo under a plethora of monikers such as DJ Nex, Trackman, and Slo Moshun… Ma...

The Motortechno Valentine’s special is here. Sent with love from Rod and Ricky to you, dear listener. In a feat of incredible commitment, which involved searching his Rekordbox for anything loosely related to Valentine’s, Ricky opens with an hour of love-fuelled house, techno, ghetto-tech and OG Chicago house. Of course, being a master romantic, Dr Love, aka Rod, takes a more subtle approach to pr...

The first Motortechno of 2026 is now up in the cloud and ready to be streamed directly into your noggins. Rod kicks things off with a moody mix befitting the depths of winter. It’s packed with high quality hypnotic and hardgroove cuts to groove to. We end with an electro only mix from Ricky that takes in the genre's full spectrum of sounds from the more modern dubstep-tinged, to acid breaks, elect...

Merry Christmas ya’ filthy animals. It’s the Motortechno Festive Special. Rod kicks things off with some driving, hypnotic techno, before slipping into some quality electro and ending on some bangers. The show closes with Ricky playing an hour of pounders. As our hero Partridge would say, ‘it’s balls out of the bath with this one, Lynne.’ As ever, it’s interspersed with two middle-aged men talking...

OK, so we weren’t back in November but pretty close. Motortechno Episode 2 is now live.  This time there's no messin’: just under two hours of pure techno. Ricky kicks things off with a summer-tinged hour of hardgroove sounds - largely influenced by the fact he recorded it in the summer. (We told you we’d been procrastinating with this podcast for most of the year…) Then we end with a set fro...

So, that took a little longer than expected… Welcome to the first Motortechno in fifteen years. After months of fannying about, we finally have a show in the can. Hard to believe we used to bang out an episode every Sunday. Remarkable. While middle age might have whittled our free time down to a handful of minutes, it’s done nothing to dampen our ardour for bangers.  Ricky kicks things off wi...