Avenue Red

The Avenue Red Live Sessions series hits the 10th episode with a pulsating tech house mix from Peter Bernath from Budapest, Hungary. Peter is the boss of RTS.FM Budapest and his long-running Lost Minute event, where Avenue Red's Alec Pritchard had played back in February 2022 (exactly 3 years ago - see links below). This is a live & direct session recorded at a festival near the village of Rajka in the north west of Hungary. "3/9/24, 9:29 PM [Peter] Heey Alec, how are you? I have a nice recording from one of my favorite small festival (DVN Camp) and this years edition was incredible... such a nice location by the river, amazing crowd and I really loved playing there especially on the little Ecler Warm2 rotary 🙂 If you have time please check it out my friend 🙂 I was wondering if you could maybe use it for your Avenue Red series... of course just in case if you like it and it fits?? ---- 9/9/24, 7:45 PM [Alec] I heard it 4 times. I definitely love it and want it. Great set. Peace Division one in there too 🙌 Excellent energy for the Live Sessions series. Studio one can follow soon! ---- 9/9/24, 10:44 PM [Peter] Here you can find the wav: [link] I also put a pic from the event, can you use it? And the info file, with the name I would suggest: Avenue Red Live Session #010 - Peter Bernath @ DVN Camp! 2024, Rajka, Hungary (10-08-2024)" Peter Bernath, February 2025 https://soundcloud.com/peterbernath https://soundcloud.com/rtsfm https://soundcloud.com/lostminutebudapest See Also: https://soundcloud.com/avenue-red/live-session-003-alec-pritchard-lost-minute-edith-budapest-hungary-12-02-2022 https://soundcloud.com/rtsfm/alec-pritchard-rtsfm-budapest-x-lost-minute-12022022

Stockport-based Preston lad Olly Godfrey steps up for his debut mix for the Avenue Red Podcast with a stunning CD-length session of deep house and grooving 4/4 dancefloor fodder. We attest that this guy knows how to select and glue records together alright, as we had the pleasure of hearing him spin a head-warping set last summer at a 40th birthday party at the lovely venue named 33 Oldham Street in central Manchester (guess the address?!). That was a wildly uptempo & techy affair, but here he demonstrates his maturity as a DJ with a calmer, slower and more down to earth pure house music vibe. "I haven't really played many events worth mentioning, mainly just smaller parties and gatherings with friends over the years, plus the occasional radio show. I started DJing at 16 and I turn 40 this year. I started out going to events like Gatecrasher and Cream, then slowly going to more house and techno nights such as Tribal Sessions and Bugged Out!. These all had a strong influence on my sound. This mix for Avenue Red brings together some of my favourite sounds - dreamy, Italo and groovin' house music. It's a reflection of the music I'd want to hear if I'd just walked into a club and onto the dancefloor... enjoy!" Olly Godfrey, January 2025 https://soundcloud.com/technokid85

After an unusual 3-year gap, Alessandro Crimi is back at Avenue Red HQ once again, marking himself as one of the lords of the deep underground. This fresh 2025 mix is to show us his latest updated maps and mathematical models of a specific realm of the Universal space-time continuum... here, he presents what he describes as: deep, atmospheric and futuristic electro. Let's explore. https://soundcloud.com/alessandro_crimi https://soundcloud.com/waehlscheibe See Also: https://soundcloud.com/avenue-red/podcast-202-alessandro-crimi https://soundcloud.com/avenue-red/podcast-185-alessandro-crimi https://soundcloud.com/avenue-red/podcast-153-alessandro-crimi https://soundcloud.com/avenue-red/podcast-125-alessandro-crimi https://soundcloud.com/avenue-red/avenue-red-is-5-alessandro-crimi https://soundcloud.com/avenue-red/podcast-083-alessandro-crimi https://soundcloud.com/avenue-red/podcast-069-alessandro-crimi https://soundcloud.com/avenue-red/podcast-032-alessandro-crimi https://soundcloud.com/avenue-red/podcast-027-alessandro-crimi https://soundcloud.com/avenue-red/podcast-006-alessandro-crimi https://soundcloud.com/avenue-red/radio-show-007 Photo taken by Alec Pritchard somewhere over Switzerland 🇨🇭

Avenue Red ushers in another new year's feast of deepness with a fresh debut mix from Adrià Duch - an artist, DJ & producer based in Barcelona. Adrià has released music on some of the finest proper underground labels including: Apnea Label; Insectorama; Chikyu-u Records; Greyscale; ECOUL SND; Lempuyang; Crossfade Sounds; Piranha Siberia Dub; Citrica Records; Melotonin; Slope Point; ODrex Music... and there are many more imprints graced as his production catalogue traces back to somewhere pre-2012. But damn it, to what length will this list stretch to being in another 5-10 years time?! So yes, Adrià has created tons of seriously amazing material that is moody, creative in arrangements and demonstrates his very special awareness of, and skill in handling the heavy sonic details in the low-end bassy frequencies. Wanna hear him DJ? Recline. It's all going to be fine. "I want to thank Alec for giving me this opportunity. I have to say that I consider myself first a producer and then a DJ. I obviously like to play music and I am always excited to collect vinyl, whether it be LPs or 12"s. I am a lover of dub techno - always have been! I make dubby-oriented music under my own name but for this mix I wanted it to be eclectic. I also enjoy many other genres in the electronic music scene. This is a vinyl-only set that starts very deep and pleasant, continues with some jacking house to move your body and ends up with pure darkness. It's basically tracks I've been digging lately and other favourites I own. This mix became an inspiration to me also." Adrià Duch, January 2025 https://soundcloud.com/adriaduch

The Avenue Red Podcast is here to deliver the final release of 2024 as we welcome a debut mixtape from DJ/artist/producer Sveta Pavlova AKA Svetiritm from Saint Petersburg, Russia. Sveta has some mad production skills and has showcased them on Alessandro Crimi & Sandro Isler's Waehlscheibe imprint with her awesome, ridiculously hypnotic Teleport EP from earlier in 2024... this pick being just the tip of the iceberg of top tracks and mixes released across the board of underground beacons of truth & light we keep our eyes and ears upon. She also goes a step further, creating and delivering full audio-visual performances at some events, so we clearly have an adventurous full-package artist on show here! Get ready for an intense, explosive session. "I just want to send peace and love for everyone 🙏🏻 I'm glad to record a mix for Avenue Red and be close to such legendary DJs. UK music has always inspired me and my friends, especially sounds coming from the city of Bristol! Enjoy the vibes." Sveta Pavlova, December 2024 https://soundcloud.com/svetiritm

Avenue Red welcomes the second coming of the Athens-based Greek dub techno philosopher, DJ & artist known to those who know as Substak. Kostas Staikos, to those who do not. Here he administers another dose of his trademark wild interplanetary deepness that is sure to enamour the ears of those who see the world in a red tint, precisely 1,992 days after the last transmission. "I was born in Athens and began producing in 2011 to escape a bit from real life. Till today I have released on various labels and this journey will continue. No words, no rules... let the music speak!" Kostas Staikos, 2024 https://soundcloud.com/substak ===== 01 Orion - Gravity (Beatless Version) // Polytone Recordings (2014) 02 Oisatsana - Reflection // Secuencias Temporales (2022) 03 Giuliano Rodrigues - Without Cloud (Ambient Mix) // Piranha Siberia Dub (2024) 04 Kyrro - Élément Terre // Mare Nostrum (2021) 05 Atmøsphäre & Post Apocalyptic - Making Contact // Post Apocalyptic (2022) 06 The Abyss Within Us - Abyss 1 // Astral Industries (2020) 07 R.Hz - Fusion // Echoshapes (2022) 08 ZeroA - Perpetual Motion // Crossfade Sounds (2024) 09 The Open Circle - Behind The Dimension // Crossfade Sounds (2024) 10 QLTURA - Parhelion // Techenie (2024) 11 Davor Tosovic - Envelope Depth // Piranha Siberia Dub (2024) 12 Amaral Borges - Amazon Spectrum // Piranha Siberia Dub (2024) See Also https://soundcloud.com/avenue-red/podcast-132-substak

Istanbul-based beacon of musical taste and exquisite curatorship, and provider of a bit of mixtape action here and there for Avenue Red, we welcome Cenk Akyol back for his third contribution for us. Sure, it's no surprise... An amazing eye for photography; a discerning taste for music; an ocean of black wax documentation in his home; a bloodhound for fine wines... Smokey film-noir vibes abound. Blaze up the room, set the scene. Get some mates around. *This mix was approved for release by the Turkish mafia.* "Another recording, far away from the dictate of the dogmatic obligation to the currentness that DJs have to face nowadays, celebrates dance music as a timeless sensual component. Without becoming even remotely anachronistically sentimental, I chose landmarks of house & techno from my very own archive." Cenk Akyol, November 2024 https://soundcloud.com/cenkakyol See Also: https://soundcloud.com/avenue-red/avenue-red-is-10-cenk-akyol https://soundcloud.com/avenue-red/podcast-155-cenk-akyol

The Avenue Red Podcast engine has been reignited after a small-but-healthy hiatus! Here we present an impulsive, slick vinyl mix from Barcelona-based DJ & artist Giancarlo Puigbó, who is originally from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. "First of all, thanks for the opportunity! I heard about this platform from my friend NEZ, who has released multiple mixes here. I've been a big fan ever since - just great music, plain and simple. This mix was really just an impromptu session where I went with the flow - no planning, just having fun! It's something I really missed doing. There are a few mistakes here and there, but as said in one of Ron Trent's records: 'Without error, there can be no brilliancy.' - FACT!" Giancarlo Puigbó, November 2024 https://soundcloud.com/giancarlopuigbo

On 28-09-2024 Avenue Red crew hosted another in an endless series of one-off sessions with friends and cohorts @ techno pub OverDraught in Manchester’s Levenshulme area. Expect all shades of underground house, deep house, techno, dub techno, electro, electronica, IDM and more! VINYL ONLY! 💥 ~~~ Lineup 🚨 ~~~ Alec Pritchard [The weird one from Gloucester] Lou Start [Deep House wizard over from Hull] Robert Vigh [Slovakian 🇸🇰 prisoner unleashed for techno purposes] Wilson Logan [Quadrant Soundscape/Dub Explorations, Emerald Isle 🍀 crew 🙌] FREE ENTRY! 💥 Tell your friends! 🙌 🎚️ 🔊 🍻 🍷 💃 🕺 🎂 —— http://www.draughtmcr.co.uk 🎧 Avenue Red :: https://soundcloud.com/avenue-red 🎧 Alec Pritchard :: https://soundcloud.com/alecpritchard 🎧 Lou Start :: https://soundcloud.com/lou-start 🎧 Robert Vigh :: https://soundcloud.com/robert-vigh 🎧 Wilson Logan/Quadrant Soundscape :: https://soundcloud.com/quadrantsoundscape

Avenue Red turned up to Affinity at Eastern Bloc Records in Manchester's Northern Quarter back on the 17th July 2024... what a night! Event founder Max Howard AKA Maxxitrax had just kicked off a delightfully enchanting warm-up set and our ever-trusty recorder was plugged into the mixer, soundchecked and activated as quickly as possible... sadly the first few very dazzling and trippy records were missed from the recording, but what was captured 'till the end of his set was just beautiful. Max is clearly a selector's selector with top drawer technical skills. Proper solid intro vibes for a vibrant, hot summers evening session on Stevenson Square, which also later featured Tribe, Damo B and DJ Mindbender. And finally... here it is! "This is a recording of my opening set from my last Affinity party held at Eastern Bloc. I wanted to use the opportunity to play records that I wouldn't get to play in a peak time or closing slot that I will usually play in. I had picked some records out that fit this narrative but turned up without a game plan. Luckily I managed to work things out so that I could play some soul tracks to start out with and then build tension up gradually. I really enjoyed the process, hopefully the listeners will enjoy it too. Tracks from the likes of Sade, Pure Silk, Manual, The Stone Roses, Rennie Foster, Autechre - and labels such as Subject Detroit, Novamute, Peacefrog, Tresor..." Maxxitrax, September 2024 https://soundcloud.com/affinitymcr https://www.instagram.com/affinitymcr :: Event :: https://ra.co/events/1963862

Andy Green AKA Verdant Recordings is back on Avenue Red Podcast with a nice, eclectic Indian summer mix comprised of 2.5 hours of wayward, grooving house & techno delights. "I often hit record when settling in for a session just in case it turns out to be a keeper. The mix presented here is one of those recent efforts put together on a warm July Monday night with no real purpose other than to enjoy a mix and some great music. Mostly records & few files on the CDJs, some new, some old and one or two unreleased oddities. I thought the Avenue Red community would appreciate a listen so I passed it over to Alec who kindly obliged. Disclaimer: I have nothing to promote... this is the true underground." Andy Green, September 2024 https://soundcloud.com/verdant-recordings Note: Picture of Andy's cats in the artwork! See Also: https://soundcloud.com/avenue-red/podcast-218-alec-pritchard-b2b-andy-green https://soundcloud.com/avenue-red/podcast-196-verdant-recordings https://soundcloud.com/avenue-red/podcast-122-verdant-recordings https://soundcloud.com/avenue-red/podcast-098-verdant-recordings https://soundcloud.com/avenue-red/podcast-078-verdant-recordings https://soundcloud.com/avenue-red/podcast-062-verdant-recordings https://soundcloud.com/avenue-red/podcast-041-verdant-recordings https://soundcloud.com/avenue-red/1210-mk4-verdant-recordings

Avenue Red were grateful to ourselves for having made the impeccable choice to rock up in Margate on the extreme southeast edge of England to witness a phenomenal event back in April. Masterclass sets from all who played there, with this live set from Reedale Rise (real name Simon Keat) being one of the highlights to shine on this wonderful soundsystem in a visually stunning venue. It was ace to also unexpectedly bump into some key agents of organised UK underworld deepness, including Miles Atmospheric of Atmospheric Existence Recordings, Bovill of cult label Meanwhile and many others! Quality > quantity. Keep the faith and enjoy the ride, the tide and the vibes inside! 🌊🌊🌊 "This set was recorded directly from my live performance at Faith In Strangers, Margate earlier this year for Ornate Music and 50arc. The venue is fantastic with a beautifully tuned sound system, views over the sea, and lovely hospitable staff. The event was a chance for me to catch up with people I'd not seen since before the pandemic and put some faces to online names, including Avenue Red's very own Alec. My live set has changed a lot over the years and the current evolution is all unreleased house and techno tracks. The music I play live has moved in this direction simply because it's more relevant to the dancefloor and more fun to perform to a crowd than some of my deeper electro tracks. Gear-wise, I've added a Roland TR8S drum machine to Ableton, which has allowed me more opportunity to improvise and react spontaneously. Listening back, I'm happy with how the set sounds and hope it resonates with people. Shouts to James Ornate, Damo B, and the 50arc crew for letting me play, and to Alec for both attending the event and hosting my set." Reedale Rise, August 2024 https://soundcloud.com/reedalerise https://reedalerise.bandcamp.com/ https://www.discogs.com/artist/4529196-Reedale-Rise :: Event :: https://faithinstrangers.co.uk/events/ornate50arc https://soundcloud.com/50arc https://soundcloud.com/ornate-music https://ornatemusic1.bandcamp.com/ https://www.discogs.com/label/125377-Ornate-Music

We welcome the second coming of Tomas Bexton, a veteran crate digger and deep house & techno specialist from Maidstone in Kent, England. This is yet another vinyl-only session from a true master, hot on the heels of his debut for us in December last year as part of the Avenue Red Is 10... mini series (link below). Now, let's just quickly make an observation - Tomas knows how to select and mix. There ain't no sync button, for he is the sync button. More black gold bullion from his magnificent and broad record collection heaped onto the Avenue Red deep summer house vibes 2024 bonfire! Hit it crew. "Very honoured to be invited for a second run with the unstoppable Avenue Red portfolio of talent! I think some spring & summer feelings were in the air with this one as once again, deep and jazzy house rule the way for the majority of the mix. I did want to change the direction at the end though with a tiny sprinkle of dub techno or the like. Featuring tracks from Alton Miller, DJ Q, Derrick Carter, Altone, Juniper and others - I hope you enjoy this vinyl-only mix... big love to the global house family! PS. The pic is taken from an avenue round the corner right where I live in Maidstone. And strangely, everything looks red today!" Tomas Bexton, August 2024 https://soundcloud.com/user-916038456 See Also: https://soundcloud.com/avenue-red/avenue-red-is-10-tomas-bexton

Lempuyang Records captain Alastair Kelly is back on the Avenue Red Podcast with his 4th mix contribution for us. Based on the Isle of Wight in the south of England, here he has cast a perfect sonic summer treat across the waters of The Solent for the deep, murky, trippy house heads adrift out there! Features many of our favourite artists and labels from the golden era, as well as some newer inclusions but we are saying slooow, deeeep house and techno, groovy swinging instrumental hip-hop & trip-hop etc. to finish. Serve yourself a cold one, light up a strong one, inhale and observe the magic unfold in the haze. "Lempuyang boss Alastair swings by to inject some doozy warmth into your so-far-shit summer. Expect deepness, pitched right down. Pairs nicely with a minimum of 8 margeritas and an enchilada with an unnecessary number of jalapeños." Alastair Kelly, July 2024 https://soundcloud.com/lempuyang https://lempuyang.bandcamp.com/music https://www.discogs.com/label/2392990-Lempuyang https://www.juno.co.uk/labels/Lempuyang/?order=date_down See Also: https://soundcloud.com/avenue-red/podcast-210-alastair-kelly https://soundcloud.com/avenue-red/podcast-210-1-alastair-kelly https://soundcloud.com/avenue-red/avenue-red-is-10-alastair-kelly Satellite image used is of the Isle of Wight where Alastair lives.

Enter Kári Guðmundsson AKA Hidden People. Another Avenue Red debut mix, another Íslendingar (Icelander) to follow the 6 previous fellow cold-worlders we have featured (Exos, OHM, COLD, Octal Industries, Waage, Álfbeat). This session is an absolute bloody riot, with a selection that is very diverse and so creatively worked in the mix 'n' blend. This is the only mix Avenue Red will ever feature that contains a Barbie sample... deal with it - we had to (it works, you'll see). It's just lots and lots of fun this one! Read on. "Heyo, so I'm really bad at writing text in general. But I can send some links (see below). I run the label Nonyobiz Records. My old alias was Hypno. Recently I have been working on releases on Iceland labels Móatún 7 and Intellitronic Bubble under various guises. But essentially I have been producing music for about 15-20 years, almost exclusively in Ableton Live and various hardware. Most recently I have been digging my heels into the modular world. My current techno alias/project is Hidden People for the pure techno side of things. DJ Allskynz is for the rest like breakbeat, ambient, house etc. I really appreciate Avenue Red putting the mix on since I really don't work a lot on the PR side of things (and I should lol!). Again, appreciated. It was a fun time making this mix. I actually thought it was only an hour in and then when I checked it was going two... so yeah, much fun for sure. Hope the wider Avenue Red crew dig it! ;)" Kári Guðmundsson, July 2024 https://soundcloud.com/nonyobiz-records https://linktr.ee/nonyobiz_records https://nonyobizrecords.bandcamp.com https://www.discogs.com/label/2429866-Nonyobiz-Records https://www.discogs.com/artist/10100482-K%C3%A1ri-Gu%C3%B0mundsson-2 https://www.discogs.com/artist/1435842-Hidden-People https://www.discogs.com/artist/6769790-DJ-Allskynz

Wilson Logan of Quadrant Soundscape / Dub Explorations is back once again to give the Avenue Red crew a fresh batch of sun-drenched deep house goodness. "Thanks to Alec once again for giving me space on the incredible Avenue Red platform. For this mix I just wanted to play a bunch of tracks that I had been feeling recently. As the longer days are here and we finally have some sunshiiiine in Manchester I wanted to harness the power of that big light in the sky and put out a dose of deepness with some summer time vibes. Nothing too fancy in here just a stack of stuff I really enjoy, sequenced up and ready to be served with an ice cold drink. Cheers! 🍻" Wilson Logan, June 2024 https://soundcloud.com/quadrantsoundscape See Also: https://soundcloud.com/avenue-red/podcast-200-5-quadrant-soundscape https://soundcloud.com/avenue-red/podcast-181-quadrant-soundscape

Fresh heat incoming to Avenue Red from Ezy Fischel B2B N'djinn, a duo from Berlin whose selections are so rich, sweet, deep and fulfilling — not to mention the ridiculously silky, imperceptible transitions — it is at times difficult to take it in and process it in your mind. We are hereby served an eclectic platter of perfect summer solstice vibes. Finest vinyl-only ingredients of house, techno, electro, IDM — it's all there with a red candied cherry on top. Do not sleep on this 2.5 hour fireball of a set!! "We set our aims on a b2b-mix what feels like ages ago, and in relative terms it is, because it was during winter '20/'21 that we reconnected (being former colleagues at a record shop) and started doing sessions. We always had a good sense of where the other one is, emotionally and musically, so it's been a wholesome journey exploring our collections in tandem. There are numerous overlaps regarding which artists and labels we both admire, but surprisingly enough we own very few of the same singles and albums. Oftentimes when playing we discover lacunae in discographies we otherwise thought we knew, scrambling to note down an identifier, or, conversely, one of us simply starts nodding — a gesture every music head recognises — when realising exactly what record the other is bringing into the mix... ah, yes, many are the prized-but-not-necessarily-pricey tunes we've shared in ecstatic and all kinds of altered states! Still, we've been sitting on many a recording without letting loose. After a good three years, now, it's about time we share a moment of that local synergy; fuelled by energy derived from all them creators, the initiators and innovators and elevators, the rebels and renegades of machine funk." Ezy Fischel B2B N'djinn, June 2024 https://soundcloud.com/ezyfischel https://soundcloud.com/ndjinn

Rugon is back once again! The madman from Zandvoort, a coastal town west of Amsterdam that is home to the nation's Formula 1 Dutch Grand Prix, returns for his fourth swing of the bat for Avenue Red. In this third and final part of this 3-piece episode 230, Rugon continues to explore more of his trademark bone-crunching, thuggish, wacked-out, loopy, trippy 4/4 business. We know you'll get sucked in again. There is never anywhere to hide from the swirling tunnel vortex that is Rugon. https://soundcloud.com/rugon-tracks https://soundcloud.com/rugon-sets https://soundcloud.com/zolderkelder See Also: https://soundcloud.com/avenue-red/podcast-230-1-rugon https://soundcloud.com/avenue-red/podcast-230-rugon https://soundcloud.com/avenue-red/podcast-220-rugon

Rugon is back once again! The madman from Zandvoort, a coastal town west of Amsterdam that is home to the nation's Formula 1 Dutch Grand Prix, returns for his third swing of the bat for Avenue Red. In this part deux episode Rugon continues to explore more of the same heads-down, wacked-out, loopy, groovy, bumpty, trippy 4/4 headphone candy. We know you'll get sucked in again. There is still nowhere to hide from the swirling tunnel vortex that is Rugon. https://soundcloud.com/rugon-tracks https://soundcloud.com/rugon-sets https://soundcloud.com/zolderkelder See Also: https://soundcloud.com/avenue-red/podcast-230-rugon https://soundcloud.com/avenue-red/podcast-220-rugon

Rugon is back. The madman from Zandvoort, a coastal town west of Amsterdam that is home to the nation's Formula 1 Dutch Grand Prix, returns for his second swing of the bat for Avenue Red. Expect more heads-down, wacked-out, loopy, groovy, bumpty, trippy 4/4 headphone candy. We know you'll get sucked in. There is nowhere to hide from the swirling tunnel vortex that is Rugon. https://soundcloud.com/rugon-tracks https://soundcloud.com/rugon-sets https://soundcloud.com/zolderkelder See Also: https://soundcloud.com/avenue-red/podcast-220-rugon