Category: Techno

Boiler Room: Surgeon, Regis and Karenn

I’m on a music kick this Saturday afternoon! Spent a lazy afternoon feeling uplifted since music has a way of creeping into my spirit like that. Started by tuning in to the sounds of one of my favourite radio selectors, Gilles Peterson (amazing show today, featuring Lonnie Liston Smith and plenty of spiritual jazz and [...]

Pennyroyal Intro Mix

Untold‘s brilliant Change In A Dynamic Environment trilogy is one of my favourite releases of 2012 (like a marriage of my punk past with my electronic present), and his label Hemlock Recordings has put out releases by some of our favourite bass artists here at Hot Sauce HQ. Now he’s announced the launch of another [...]

Foundry 2013

Is it just because I have been gravitating more towards techno lately, or is it because we have entered an(other) age of techno in electronic music? I mean, look at all those (formerly?) UK bass guys producing more and more techno-inflected or full-on (industrial-ish) techno tracks. No complaints from me, though I do love my [...]

Soundscape 06: HOT SAUCE Edition

More info on our event page here.

Top 25 albums of 2012 – urbansteve

Hey! Are we still reading year-end best of 2012 lists? Well we better be, because I finally got my shit together. Read this because last year is not so last year yet. Fresh into the new year, I present some of my favourite albums of the last 12 months (re-issues, compilations and dj mix albums [...]

Robert Hood – Motor: Nighttime World 3

Detroit Techno was my gateway into the techno world during the mid-nineties. Underground Resistance, Jeff Mills and Robert Hood shaped my 4/4 world and educated me all about what proper underground minimal music should sound and feel like. Forward thinking labels like UR, Red Planet, Axis, Purposemaker, 430 West, Direct Beat and M-Plant had me [...]

Delsin Records Review: Delta Funktionen/Claro Intelecto/Low Jack

As i have written before on here, Delsin Records continues to put out quality deep techno and deep house music that stimulates the deep techno and deep house part of my brain. Featured here are three of my favourites from this year – two albums and one ep. Delta Funktionen – Traces After four years [...]

Sound in Motion: snapshots from Saturday

Photos courtesy of our trusty sidekick for the day, Genevieve Tran, because MissRuckus was a lousy blogger and forgot her camera in her excitement to get to the music! However, MissRuckus did at least contribute a little by doing some quick Photoshopping. Click on each photo to see the full-sized version in all its techno [...]

Sound in Motion: snapshots from Friday

Through the eyes of MissRuckus.. click on each photo to view full-sized version.

Sound In Motion: The Grand Finale

Oh ya! StudioFeed, breakandenter and The Deep North present a throwdown of a showdown Saturday July 14- the Grand Finale of the Sound In Motion Festival. The Hot Sauce crew is excited to see ALL the acts…it’s THAT good! John Roberts will most definitely be dialed in giving fans a sneak preview to his new [...]