TEA's Top 100 Tracks for 2012

"People read this shit everyday, more than they read books,” French sound poet Anne-James Chaton told me in an interview this year. 

A bedrock for Chaton's work is his notion of "poor" or "low intensity" literature - the recurrent text we read on bank slips, shopping receipts or bus tickets. 

So how far distanced is the end-of-year electronic music list with the ostensibly dull shopping docket or the mundane bank statement? Is it necessitous archiving? Or do we go as far a saying it's subcultural cataloguing?

TEA's annual top 100, now in its third year, remains a list of our favourite tracks that made their way down our external auditory meatus by the way of our inbox, record bag or CD wallet.

Each of the 100 selections has it's own story, whether it be an ear pricking moment in a podcast, pestering Daniel Filipovic for a track I.D during one of his DJ sets, an on-point suggestion by Hans at Transition Records, music sent to me speeding down the online promo-bahn, or simply music I bought myself.

TEA, through personal taste, has generally remained Euro-centric in its focus toward electronic music, so it was rousing to see music outside of Europe champion our 2012 register. 

So before scrolling straight to bottom, why not flick the kettl' on for a cuppa and an inquisitive perusal through the YouTube links provided.  

100.Mo Kolours - Banana Wine [One-Handed Music]

99.Rhauder feat. Paul St. Hilaire - "Sidechain" (dub version) [Ornaments]
98.The Analog Roland Orchestra - Velvet Green [Ornaments]
97.Abdulla Rashim - Weldiya 2 [Prologue]

96.Chevel - Apply Within [Enklav]
95.Truncate - Diffraction (Markus Suckut Remix) [Modularz]
94.Delta Funktionen - Redemption [Delsin]
93.Cassegrain - Distil [Prologue]
92.Mike Dehnert - Granulat [Fachwerk]

91.Demdike Stare - Kommunion (Alternative Version) [Modern Love]

90.Jeff Derringer - The Trail Of Your Blood In The Snow [Perc Trax]
89.AnD - ADBF [Black Sun Records]
88.G MAN & ROB STROBE - Skotch [Sonic Groove]
87.Maan - L1 [Non Series]
86.Yoshihiro Arikawa - Lapse [Toffler Sound]
85.Third Side - Unity (Steffi Remix) [Restoration]
84.Conforce - 24 (Gesloten Cirkel remix) [Clone Basement Series]
83.youANDme - Mouche [Dust2Dub_Rec]

82.Myles Sergé - Distant Cries [Space]

81.Quince - Alfa [Clone Store Only Series]

80.Legowelt - Rave Till Dawn [Clone]
79.Sascha Rydell - When You Play It [Fachwerk]
78.Roman Lindau - Grow [Fachwerk]
77.Barker & Baumecker - Crows [Ostgut Ton]
76.Diagenetic Origin - Landet [Sonic Groove]
75.Lucy - Milgram Experiment [Stroboscopic Artefacts]
74.Oscar Mulero - Intentionally False [Warm Up]

73.Marco Zenker - Stressin Neighbour
72.Roman Lindau - Plavix [Fachwerk]

71.Tom Dicicco - Exit [Inner Surface Music]

70.Actress - Caves Of Paradise [Honest Jons] 
69.Actress - Marble Plexus [Honest Jons]
68.Norm Talley - Travlin [Landed Records]
67.Claro Intelecto - Voyeurism [Delsin]
66.Psyk - Distance [Mote-Evolver]
65.Henning Baer - Folsom [Sonic Groove]
64.The Exaltics - Node#2 (Delta Funktionen Remix) [Modal Analysis]
63.Mike Dehnert - Modulat [Fachwerk]
62.Planetary Assault Systems - Function 4 (Marcel Dettmann Base Dub Remix) [Mote-Evolver]

61.Die Roh - Look Out (Tessela Remix) [Vae Victis]

60.Aiken - Second Balance (Regis Remix) [M_REC LTD]
59.Actress - The Lords Graffiti [Honest Jons]
58.Fission Theory - Moon Drive [Cuckoo Music]
57.Markus Suckut - Broken [Repitch]
56.The Fear Ratio - Skana [Blueprint]
55.Alex Cortex - Mem [Killekill]
54.Mike Dehnert - Andruck [Delsin]
53.Alden Tyrell - Rush [Clone Basement Series]
52.Woo York - Void (Truncate Remix) [Igla]

51.Aubrey - Inflation [Farden Records]

50.Pfirter - Multiverse (Markus Suckut Remix) [MindTrip Music]
49.Mike Dehnert - Fraction [Fachwerk]
48.Psyk - Isolate [Mote-Evolver]
47.Truncate - Diffraction (Jonas Kopp Remix) [Modularz]
46.Barker & Baumecker - Trafo [Ostgut Ton]
45.Lucy - Asch Paradigm [Stroboscopic Artefacts]
44.BMB - Dead Sun [Liberation Technologies]
43.Ctrls - Socket [Token]
42.Ed Davenport - Djungel Alliance [Counterchange]

41.Reeko - Lynx [Seleccion Natural]

40.Gerry Read - Yeh Come Dance [Delsin]
39.Truss - Hackney [Perc Trax]
38.L.B Dub Corp - Choctaw Dub [Stroboscopic Artefacts] 
37.Rndm - Recover [Naif]

36.EDMX - Rushing My Tits Off [Power Vacuum]

35.G.R.I.T - Clouded Horizon [Meanwhile]
34.Claro Intelecto - Reformed [Delsin]
33.Alex Cortex - R-Byte [KilleKill]
32.Shifted - Leather [Mote-Evolver]

31.The E.X.S - Untitled 04 [Unhoerbar]

30.Myk Derrill - Apply [Fluxus]
29.Julian Neumann - Being F [Third Eye]
28.Barker & Baumecker - Buttcracker [Ostgut Ton]
27.Szare - Excavated And Remodelled By Hand [Horizontal Ground]
26.Raffaele Attanasio - Black Bloc (Markus Suckut Construct) [Non Series]
25.Traumprinz - Love Yeah [Kann Records]
24.Prince Of Denmark - Untitled [Giegling]
23.Jouem - Certainty Of Salvation [Mojuba]
22.Sascha Rydell - Alchemie du Verbe [Fachwerk]

21.Unknown - A1 [Star Dub]

20.SHXCXCHCXSH - HHHHHHHGGKS [HEM]
19.Mix Mup - Before [Mikrodisko Recordings]
18.Anne-James Chaton - en ville [Raster-Noton]
17.Reeko - Momentum [Pole Recordings]
16.Dadub - Endless [Stroboscopic Artefacts]
15.Tessela - D Jane [Punch Drunk]
14.Joey Anderson - Hydrine [Deconstruct Music]
13.Ducerey Ada Nexino - Level In Shadow [Sludge Tapes]
12.Roberto - First Principles (Unbalanced Remix) [Affin]

11.Roger 23 - Optical Tjeck [Neurhythmics]

10.Stanislav Tolkachev - Building Peaks [Modularz]

I first came across Ukrainian producer Stanislav Tolkachev reviewing a digital various artists EP by a Ukrainian label Techno UA, it was called Detroit, Berlin, Kiev: Techno Connection. Tolkachev's Detroit inspired track "Negative Space" was the clear stand out.

Six months later Tolkachev's "Building Peaks" made the cut on part two of a Developer and Truncate Modularz release, the double package also featured strong remixes from Shifted, Jonas Kopp, Markus Suckut. 

Phase later used "Building Peaks" to open his Resident Advisor podcast in a track that progressively builds with stuttered and arpeggiated tension.

9.Murat Tepeli - Çiftetelli [Philpot]

Murat Tepili's second ever solo 12" features the track "Çifetelli", taking up the entire A-side of Philpot's beautifully pressed and white In The Mood For EP.

It's one for the dance floor and a cut with the ability to draw Panoramabar's curtains if the timing is right. 

At it's most complex, "Çifetelli" is a raw and Restoration Rec sounding jam, as a crude kick drum booms over oriental sounding sitars, junk percussion and subtle synths, but the tracks flashpoint is the final bass line crescendo.  

8.Jagdstaffel 66 - Alle Piloten Mit In Den Tod [Creme Eclipse]

There's something incredible cheesy, haunting and intelligible about Jagdstaffel 66's Starfighter EP. The pick of the five tracker however is "Alle Piloten Mit Den Tod", which roughly translates in English to "All Pilots are Dead".

The track opens with gregorian and synthesised sounding chants and dystopic synths similar to Milton Bradley's first End Of All Existence 12". 

Power Vacuum beats and reversed hats soon slog and pump under the weight of a sonic quietus, with the spritely inclusion of a sinister, yet playful acid trill. A great set opening.

7.Frak - Synthfrilla [Sex Tags Mania]

The only release for quirky Norwegian imprint Sex Tags Mania this year came via Frak, who had a stellar year with three fortified 12"s on Kontra-Musik and another on Borft Records.

Our pick of Frak's 2012 catalogue was the loud synths of "Synthfrilla", which define the zany four track EP, which also features a mix of "Second Coming" from the 2012 remix-prolific DJ Sotofett.  

6.Baaz - Glim [Office]

Baaz's "Glim" from the What About Talk About EP was one of, if not the best, deep house tracks of 2012, nestling in alongside four other esoteric and jazzy house cuts.

Pitched well below the 120bpm mark, heartwarming chords ebb and flow to the swing of dusty drum beats and chalky percussion. 

5.Furfriend - Geck [Killekill]

Killekill continues to purposely differentiate itself from much of what is coming out of Berlin at the moment. As part of the three-part KilleKill Megahits series, the label has commissioned a far flung group of producers to contribute to its ghetto-laced techno oddities. 

If there’s one track worth playing this year to a sweaty and male dominated dance floor, it’s Furfriend’s debut track “Geck”. Backed by masculine techno beats, a dead panned dominatrix vocal explains to “Take it, easy gonna jizz” and “When you suck it’s gonna rock,”. There's always room for a little gay humour in German techno.

4.René Audiard - Doctrine [Supply]

It's the spacious minimalism, jungle rope swing and quirky percussion of "Doctrine", the opener to Audiard's Pechorin LP, that makes this track so appealing. 

From a DJs perspective, it's that little more challenging, yet all the more rewarding to mix. 

3.Marcel Dettmann - Landscape [Music Man]

It's easy to picture a dusty Dettmann emerging from days locked away in his Berlin studio, covered in a fine powder of analogue dust. There's every chance it happened after producing the track "Landscape" for seminal techno imprint Music Man Recordings.

Since the release of his self titled LP in 2010, Dettmann has continuously he is much a DJs-DJs as he is a producers-producer. 

2.Kyle Hall & Kero - K2 Attack! [Wild Oats]

Kyle Hall played Adelaide's Cuckoo on September 29th and it was his and Kero's "K2 Attack!" that had the Cuckoo alumni feverishly foaming at the mouth - so much so, Phil Rogers, who runs the club, approached Hall to ask what it was. Hall pointed to a spinning white label telling him it was a new one of his, soon to be released on Wild Oates. 

Fast forward a month or so later and I found myself at Cuckoo listening to the esoteric and off kilter sounds of a Tim Carter and Sanjit Dhillon DJ set. Mid conversation, my ears were plucked with force from the conversation I was having, with me rudely interjecting - "what the hell is this!?".

I plonked myself in the middle of a spacious Cuckoo dance floor, the centre of attention for the clubs astutely tuned Funktion-One sound system, where like seagulls drawn to some stray chips, myself and several other techno boffins gathered in, giggling like Beavis and Butthead to the nauseating acidic's and abhorrent cranny spewing from the clubs tweeters.

1.Robert Hood - Hate Transmissions [Music Man]

Very rarely am I attracted to the musicality of Detroit techno or the percussive trickery of Chicagoan house. Nor am I the sort to moronically woop at the first sign of acid. 

The poignantly titled and ten-minute long "Hate Transmissions" from Hood's third instalment of the Nighttime World LPs, however, does harbour many of the sounds I generally recoil from, specifically snares, rim-shots and centre stage 303s. 

What begins as a taut and Hooded kick drum, lightly draped in reverb, quickly shifts gears into a long burning and torqued acid workout. It's straddled by motorcity hi-hats, tense leads, clucking rim shots, militarised snares and narrative screams of anguish. 

Over the course of ten venomous minutes there are several climatic, yet subtle drops where Hood's boiling acid somehow seethes even hotter to the fall of thrumming toms and overworked factory mechanics. 

Robert Hood's anecdotalist "Hate Transmissions" puts to bed the notion that IDM is captive to ambient electronica detached from the club and dance floor.

TEA's 2012 in Review - Part 3

It’s now October and TEA again returned to My Aeon with a techno special. Although the sound at My Aeon may be lacking the sonics other Melbourne clubs have, it’s a great space with a friendly and unpretentious clientele. In the lead up to October 5th, I quickly brewed a pot of sugared beats and techno infusions via Ableton with lumps from Herr Dettmann, Markus Suckut, Robert Hood, Shifted, Ctrls, Mod.Civil and some other TEA podcastees. 

On Dec 14th LADA aka Dasha Rush and Lars Hemmerling played the Coburg club with myself in support. I considered the night to be one the most solidifying techno club nights Melbourne has seen in the past three years - a credit to everyone involved especially Pat Woodley-Davis and Andrew Till of MACHINE.

LADA live at My Aeon

Fast forward one month and we were back at Loop for our final show of 2012 adding two more TEA debutants to the Cosy Sounds bill; Will Elder (HELMET) and Amy Jean (who made the trip across the Tasman from New Zealand). She brought with her the "For Her" EP, a collaboration she did with Nathan H, soon to be released on George Fitzgerald’s ManMakeMusic imprint as well as other cuts  from TEA favourite René Audiard and some other uber dubby cuts from Exos - thanks for the beautiful closer Amy.

Nearing the end of 2012, TEA interviewed Dino Sabatini shortley after the release of his Shaman’s Path LP on Prologue. Pat Woodley-Davis caught up with Dino Sabatini over Skype, where the two spoke of Greek mythology, tribal rhythms, the role of the Shaman and a potential new Modern Heads album.

Dino Sabatini

Following some lengthy dialogue with Sabatini, TEA's freelancing Aussie abroad Adrian Mancuso found himself in Krakow, Poland. He covered the Unsounds festival for TEA one month after the "hyper colour electro", "karaoke pop assault" and "post-traumatic-stress afflictions" imposed on him. Mancuso jovially wrote of bent cleverness, sunken nightclubs and eastern bloc eccentricities uncommon to Australia's wonted festival environments.

Our last review for the year was for Martin Regan of Cuckoo Music with his In The Dark EP. Regan recently earned a regular spot on Cuckoo’s Saturday night line up along side Tim Carter (minus Gavin Carter) and Sanjit Dhillon (know as Adelaide’s hardest working and unrivalled DJ for selection and mixing ability) after being a long time supporter, dancer and sometimes DJer at Cuckoo.

2012 seemed to be a year where techno was back on top and the hyperbole surrounding the British variety was rife. In some cases the fanfare was well deserved, but in others it was merely the hypemaschine power vacuum getting the better of everyone. Suddenly thanks to Regis and anything Downwards related, a lot of techno lovers were instantly convinced that even guitars can sound cool - the best example of this is Silent Servant’s educating Fact Mix.

A pleasant surprise (although in retrospect it shouldn’t have been) was Barker and Baumecker’s Transsektoral LP for Ostgut Ton. Barker & Baumecker's booming kicks, nerdy percussion and ravey synth wobbles helped distance Ostgut Ton from the concrete and Berghain-centric sound synonymous with the label. B&B's ability to hook turn their tracks into something entirely different at the last minute is what made the album such a listening pleasure. 

Take "Trafo", the first track after the ambient introduction "Sektor" for example. It begins as an underlit mish-mash of cut up and squelchy beats paired with Moderat sounding blues, only to morph into an uplifting and feel good cut of the rug. "Buttcracker" is another, with its final throw down of intensely zapping synths after four minutes of thunderous warehouse drums. Then there's the almost comical orc horns of "Crows" which slowly fade into a euphoric house outro you could expect from the likes of Kerri Chandler or Legowelt.

Boston head René Audiard, as mentioned earlier, released one of 2012s stand out albums Pechorin, with the track "Doctrine" a highlight. Audiard (real name Soren Jahan), is one half of B-Tracks with John Barera, and the two launched the blue ribboned imprint Supply Records in 2011. 

DeepChord's conceptual Sommer LP released through Soma Recordings flew somewhat under the radar, but not as much as Peter Van Hoesen’s stealth Perceiver LP (yes that’s right, PVH released an 11 track LP this year). 

As penned by the Wire in September, Robert Hood’s Motor: Nighttime World 3 was a “personal response to observing Detroit in decline,”. A poignant moment of the album is the ten minute long “Hate Transmissions” where a gruelling 303 bassline is paired with thick coated toms, conveyor belt percussion, atonal leads and screams of despair. 

From start to finish Hood shifts through varied mechanical styles of techno and off kilter ambience, including the highway cruising arpeggios of “Drive (The Age Of Automation)” to the robotic factory sounds of “A Time To Rebuild” to the deeper melodies of “Torque One” - an absolute masterpiece. 

French sound poet Anne-James Chaton also released the Décade album via Rater-Noton. Décade was a three-pronged collaboration combining Chaton’s own singular style with shades of Alva Noto's fizzing electronics and Andy Moor's eldritch guitar stylings. 

The result in an intoxicating cohesion of far-flung musical styles. Décade consists of eight chapters, and each chapter or track tells its own story. The ten minute opener “Chaptire 1: en ville” is a perfect example of the Noto, Moor and Chaton symbiosis of monotone script readings, atonal textures and glitchy electronics.

Décade also includes a book containing 15 portraits created using papers and receipts Chaton collected when meeting his portrait subjects, which provides another glimpse into Chaton's artistic obsession and fascination with "low intensity" literature. 

Staying on the experimental tip, Arne Weinberg’s Valanx alias released the Xenolith LP via autonomous Glaswegian imprint Diametric - each release is limited to a 300 copy run. This was the only release for Weinberg this year over his three production aliases. 

Although not an album, Stroboscopic Artefacts four part Stellate series saw some sublime productions from artists usually associated with dance floor techno, as well as some other abstract mainstays such as Roll The Dice, DSCRD and Kanding Ray. 



Lucy opened Stellate 1 with two Aphex Twin inspired cuts in “Vladimir” and “Estragon”. Other highlights throughout the four part series include L.B Dub Corps “Choctaw Dub”, Sendai’s "Without the Written Word (Part 2)", NSI’s “Unexpected” and Dadubs spectacularly loud “Refraction” and “Endless”.

Pic Credit: Filippo di Remigio (Lights)
Pic Credit: Paul Derons (LADA Live)
Pic Credit: Tea Guarrascio (Dino Sabatini)

Put the Kettl' On

It's pre-TEA party Thursday, so to get you through the next working day and the trip out to My Aeon, I've brewed a quick pot of sugared beats and techno infusions.

Expect servings from Herr Dettmann, Markus Suckut, Robert Hood, Shifted, Ctrls, Mod.Civil and some TEA podcastees.  

Sverca's new mix of AnD is floating around too.

Nick Tuohey flicks the switch at 10:00pm

Bloggers Delight: Continuity In Clubs

Some find enlightenment in India, I found mine in the form of a hot salt beef bagel in Brick Lane. Cliché? Maybe, but a twenty something Adelaidean, lapping up London’s nightlife, was for me at least a life changing experience. 

After my two year stint in the UK, I returned to Melbourne in March 2010, around the same time I started this blog. For the Australian youth, an extended trip to London is somewhat a rite of passage and gateway to experiencing Europe and the rest of the world. Berlin, Sonar and various other obvious festivals and super-clubs soon followed.

My London experience was made up of working toward the weekends, catching a mid week show if I possible and experiencing as much music, history, culture, culinary delights and weekend getaways as possible. London as a city is inundated with music; whether it be in lounge rooms, night clubs, live venues or warehouses, there’s something to suite every taste. 

With such a vibrant scene, comes an educated crowd - one or three big names on a bill won’t get heads through the door - people have to trust their hard earned pound is going toward a party that will not only supply them with music, but an experience.

One of London's better monthly music sessions run by Andy Blake and Joe Hart out of Brixton.

Besides Japan, Melbourne (and Sydney) arguably receive the biggest influx of touring artists and DJs outside of Europe and America. Melbourne, at the moment could be considered Australia’s most internationally recognised city for house music...right? So why is it  that Melbourne offers so many bizarre line ups, often advertised on screaming fluorescent bill posters?

This Easter Sunday saw Moodymann headline a event with Roman Flugel, Martin Buttrich and tINI. This should be two different events. Event 1: Moodymann. Event 2: Roman Flugel, Martin Buttrich and tINI. If Moodymann were to play separately on the same night, Melbourne’s clubbing population does have the capacity for both parties to be a success. 

In Adelaide, Moodymann played alongside local legend HMC at Sugar, for what was reported as an intimate and memorable night. How memorable Moodymann with Roman Flugel, Martin Buttrich and tINI was in Melbourne, I'm not so sure.

In 2010, Surgeon played alongside Robert Dietz; a Running Back, Cadenza and Cécille Numbers label regular - where is the continuity between artists? Does having Robert Dietz on the same bill as Surgeon persuade those on the edge of not going, to attend? Are Robert Dietz fans jumping up and down with excitement because Surgeon is also playing?

The same night I hosted Stroboscopic Artefacts head Lucy with MACHINE, the very next nightclub up the road presented Robag Whrume, Tommy Four Seven and Guti. I tried coming up with a thread linking the three, sonically or otherwise, but I was at a loss. 

A few months prior, the same nightclub offered James Zabiela, Robert Hood, Midland and Tom Budden as part of the same bill. This mixed bag saw a progressive house pioneer, thrown in with a Detroit techno legend and two UK acts representing tech house and post-xx? sounds. Some may argue this “mixes things up” but it is nothing more than a gimmick and lack of consideration to what constitutes a professionally and well planned event.

One of the more baffling line ups I have seen of late was Greg Wilson and Kirk Degiorgio. Greg Wilson; a reel-to-reel playing, electro, disco-edits legend - next to the techno heavy sounds of Kirk Degiorgio? Booking big name DJs that fall loosely under a house and techno - and at a stretch disco banner - does not constitute a good party.

A concern is that promoters feel they must, or are being pressured into booking supplementary acts in order to host a successful night, especially in larger venues. Continuity is lost if little thought is put into line ups and therefore so is the experience. 

Rather than add unrelated DJs simply because they are in town, why not offer warm up and support slots to local talent? For most local DJs, the best they could hope for when supporting an international is the lonely warm up set, something in room two or a depleted closing set. 

Promoters who support local DJs help nurture and define a city’s scene and sound, it also provides potential networking opportunities for DJs and producers, but most importantly, internationals that do travel to Melbourne will sense a realness within the local scene rather than flying in - performing - flying out.

Melbourne's larger parties are often rammed with locals DJs who are given one hour sets, in either rooms two or three. Up to 25 local DJs can be playing on the one night, which is more than Fabric's 12th Birthday On&On&On, where the club was open for 30 hours non stop. Is this a marketing ploy by promoters to draw in more numbers? A room can be curated successfully by three DJs, with ideally no more than five on the one night.

Keeping in line with consistency adds to the education of club goers that otherwise may not care. Rather than jumping up and down because Octave One is playing with John Roberts and Fritz Kalkbrenner, they may question whether the line up works before enjoying their night out. 

Unless your are Kanye West hooking up with U2, oddball line ups rarely work. As long as there is an underlying continuity between the artists, sound and event, promoters need not book additional DJs simply because they are available.

Great parties are still to be had in Melbourne, which are run by people doing it for the right reasons. But when the stakes are higher, that's when the wheels can fall off. I look forward to seeing Levon Vincent on the 1st of June.

TEA - Robert Hood - Cuckoo - 01/07/10

TEA threw its first party at Adelaide's techno savvy Cuckoo Bar hosted by none other then Detroit techno legend Robert Hood with straddling support from Adelaide's HMC, The Carter Bros and Clyde Drexler.

The Detroit sound is and has always been big in the south and Cuckoo bar with its Funktion One was tingling with excitement at the chance to see one of techno's finest. Clyde Drexler kicked the night off and kept things deep and foot tapping until Adelaide's renowned HMC took over with a warm up set played from the heart and the head receiving woops and yiews from Cuckoo's adoring connoisseurs and first timers alike.

Pic Derek Lang

The Omega man was last in Adelaide 18 years ago and with Cuckoo buzzing from HMC's perfectly timed drops of Carl Craig, Mr Bojangles and Chuck Roberts "In the beginning there was jack!" cometh Robert Hood. Hood opened with Alpha "The Beginning" before getting the party started in true Hood fashion with machined 4 by 4's and those hats that we all love.

A predominately vinyl set saw Hoods vintage Detroit jams sequenced between snippets from his new album 'Omega' with Alpha and Omega getting the most from Cuckoos F1 soundsystem. Hood played to a packed house until 3:30am on a Thursday with the Adelaide faithful proving they know and love their techno.

Pic Jess Harper

The Carter Bros finished up for Cuckoo's school night revelers keeping the vibe strong until 5am, sealing off a party that will no doubt be talked about for another 18 years to come.

Download HMC steller warm up set here

TEA Podcast #2 - HMC

Cam Bianchetti has kindly allowed TEA to upload for download over 2 hours of his stellar warm up set for TEA's inaugural party with Detroit techno legend Robert Hood.

HMC's set which features silky smooth transition of Carl Craig, DJ Sprinkles and Chuck Roberts timeless In the beginning there was jack! had Cuckoo's adoring connoisseurs and first timers alike whooping in a hands up celebration to the sight of HMC before Robert Hood, a memorable night to say the least.

Download HMC's warm up set here

TEA Presents ROBERT HOOD

TEA proudly presents Detroit techno legend Robert Hood for its inaugural TEA Party!

Robert Hood will be playing an intimate Adelaide set at Hindley Streets Cuckoo Bar on Thursday July 1 along side HMC, The Carter Bros [Live] and Clyde Drexler.

Sir Hood will be making his way from Sonar festival in Barcelona where he just launched his much anticipated Omega Man LP.

Tickets for the M-Plant massive are $10 on the door or $5 for you lucky Cuckoo members.

Event details here

Become a Cuckoo member here

Download TEA Podcast #1 featuring Robert Hood - Saved By The Fire off the just released Omega Man LP