We’re rapidly approaching a year of podcasts! and you’re in for a treat when it comes to number 11, we’ve drafted in rave and techno legend Tanith from Berlin to have a piece of the action. Originally one of the residents for Tresor back when rave culture hit Berlin, and backed with a DJ and production career that spans way over 20 years, we’re privileged to him mix for our podcast series.

Tanith mixes up the techno and dubstep fused sounds of Objekt right through to the juke inspired Addison Groove, with a healthy dose of UK house and featuring one of the finest Warp tracks from 1990, LFO by LFO himself. Grab the podcast and have a little read of what Tanith had to say..

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1) Objekt – The Goose That Got Away
2) Instra:Mental – Thomp
3) Sunday Roast – Occuring
4) Orphan101- Typical
5) Gannet – Gfnky
6) Addison Groove – Work it
7) Hardrive – Deep Inside (Pearson Sound Edit)
8) CRST – Dance (Mosca Remix)
9) Pangaea – Wont Hurt
10) Jacques Greene – Holdin’ On (Braiden Remix)
11) Sunday Roast – Dub BK
12) Greenmoney – Head Bash
13) Spoek Mathambo – Mshini Wam (Canblaster Remix)
14) Jup1ter – This 1 (Rave Step M1X)
15) LFO – LFO
16) MJ Cole – Bordeaux
17) Instra:Mental – From The Start

Firstly for those that don’t know you.. can you tell us a bit about yourself?
Hi, my name is Tanith and I’m a Berliner. Mostly known for Techno here but my love for everything with broken rhythms goes back to the time when electronic music wasn’t divided by 4tothefloor or breaks. As much as I love Techno I followed early UK Hardcore, D&B, Nuskool Breaks, 2 Step, Breaksgarage and Dubstep, I try to be an Ambassador for the Hardcore Continuum in a country with march-music in it’s genes.

And your musical career, it’s spanned over 20 years right?
Even longer, I started with Djing in 85, playing Industrial like Cabaret Voltaire, Einstürzende Neubauten, Throbbing Gristle and Skinny Puppy. Stopped that when I moved to Berlin in 87 but got hooked again when Acid came along, I was one of the first residents of Tresor Club here and still play there, played the first raves here and was the first german guy to get booked on a UK rave in 92, which was Tribal Gathering. Played everywhere, had a major deal, had two labels, got bored with that, stopped it, got into blogging (at tanith.org mostly in german though) as a better way for my send consciousness and still spin tunes.

How and where was the mix recorded?
Recorded at home with my beloved Traktor S4.

Did you have any set agenda for the mix? or did you just go with the flow?
I made a preselection of favorites and had two goes until I was satisfied with the storytelling.

The tracklisting reads as a mix certainly influenced heavily by the sounds of the UK, how are you finding those selections working in the current scene in Berlin?
Besides the much hyped Minimal sound, there is a really open minded and knowlegeable crowd here who’s into these sounds and the combination of that with Techno. There is a quite a following, you’ll find them at Sub:Stance or Leisure System at Berghain or Wax Treatment at Horst krzbrg for example.

Any plans for production work again? I’ve noticed you haven’t released in a while?
I’m always willing but I hardly find the time, with a dayjob and a little son, but I’m really craving to get some tracks done finally, it’s a really annoying mess of unfinished ideas at the moment.

Is there anything you would like to say about the mix?
This mix was made with the hope in the back of my mind, that it makes UK sounds also more comprehensible for the more techno-oriented listener.

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