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Our fifteenth Electronic Directory podcast is provided by Glasgow DJ and production duo Solab.

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The third in our Subject Detroit/Real Booking Artist Agency partnership series is from (Subject) Belgium’s Trish van Eynde, who shows us how she plays with three turntables.

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Subject Detroit is set to release a compilation, "The Lost Tribe Of Techno", featuring tracks from artists on its roster including Aaron-Carl, Trench, Mister X, DJ Nasty, Niko Marks, Trish Van Eynde, and DJ Bone.

Niko Marks is a heavyweight musically speaking, having played in groups with the likes of Mike Banks and Eddie "Flashin’" Fowlkes, and released records on labels like Planet E, 430 West, City Boy Records and his own label U2X Productions, and a few others as well… He speaks to Electronic Directory about the DEMF, the new album with 365 Blak, and what the future holds for him.

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Subject Detroit is set to release a compilation, "The Lost Tribe Of Techno", featuring tracks from artists on its roster including Aaron-Carl, Trench, Mister X, DJ Nasty, Niko Marks, Trish Van Eynde, and DJ Bone.

Electronic Directory runs an interview for the lost tribe of techno. The first one with DJ Nasty. Hailing from Detroit he has made a name for himself by DJing, producing and running the Twilight 76 sister label, Motor City Electro Company. He talks to Electronic Directory about ghetto-tech, his musical influences and his forthcoming project with Subject Detroit.

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Electronic Directory catches up with Fabrice Lig to find out about his new club, Cielo Belgium.

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Here’s the list of our favourite singles and albums of 2008:

singles

• Ican – Pa’ Mi Gente [Planet E]
  Rather special.
• Soul Designer – Evolutionism (part two) [Third Ear]
  The wonderful thing about Fabrice Lig is he’s funky, funky, funky.
• Niko Marks – West 8 Mile [Logos]
  Inspired and inspiring.
• Pedro Cali – Misty [Fine Art]
• Francesco Tristano – The Melody [Infiné]
• Fabrice Lig – Purple Raw Part One [Versatile]
• Quince – Expanding / Contracting [Delsin]
• DJ Bone – No Sleep (True To Da Roots) [Sect]
• Niko Marks – Hueman Density [U2X Productions]
• Santiago Salazar – Materia Oscura [Rush Hour]
• Chymera – Ellipsis [Figure]
• Tribe – Livin’ In A New Day [Planet E / Community Projects]
• Los Hermanos – Traditions & Concepts [Submerge]
• Jeff Mills – Alpha Centauri [Axis]
• DJ Bone – Circus World [Subject Detroit]
• Laurent Garnier – Back To My Roots EP [Innervisions]
• Master-H and François Dubois – Melody [Komplex De Deep]
• Rennie Foster – Good Time Charlie [Subject Detroit]
• Stephen Brown – Subject Scotland 2 [Subject Detroit]
• Kevin Saunderson – History Elevate 2 [KMS / Planet E]

albums

• Francesco Tristano – Auricle / Bio / On [Infiné]
• Soul Designer – Evolutionism [Third Ear]
• Raiders Of The Lost Arp – Tema5 [Nature]
• Shed – Shedding The Past [Ostgut Ton]
• Maurice Ravel & Modest Mussorgsky – Recomposed By Carl Craig & Moritz von Oswald [Polydor]
• Octogen – Gindofask [Soma]
• The Black Dog – Radio Scarecrow [Soma]
• Octave One – Summers On Jupiter [430 West]
• Kenny Larkin – Keys, Strings, Tambourines [Planet E]
• X-102 re-discovers The Rings Of Saturn [Tresor]

Here’s the list of our favourite remixes of 2008:

• Pedro Cali – Misty (Rodriguez Jr. remix) [Fine Art]
  Dancefloor – 10 out of 10, Radio – 10 out of 10, Personal – 10 out of 10.
• Pedro Cali – The Way (The Duplex way) [Fine Art]
• Francesco Tristano – The Melody (C2 remix) [Infiné]
• Itamar Sagi – One Million Oaks (Funk D’Void remix) [Soma]
• Erell Ranson – Sense Of Our Life (Arne Weinberg remix) [MySelf]
• Kevin Saunderson – Bassline (Joris Voorn mix 07) [KMS / Planet E]
• Rennie Foster – Devil’s Water (The Youngsters remix) [Rebirth]
• Ican – Caminos del Niño (Martyn’s Oscuro mix) [Ican Productions]
• Polar Pair feat. Cornelius Harris – This Is What Happens (Mark Flash rmx) [Unreleased]
• Master-H and François Dubois – Melody (François Dubois The Chord mix) [Komplex De Deep]

Here’s the list of interviews we’ve done with Underground Resistance:

Here’s the list of our favourite labels of 2008:

• Subject Detroit
  No hype / trends – 100% independent label. I’m really into what they are doing.
• Infiné
  The freshest label I’ve heard in a couple of years.
• Planet E / Community Projects
  I’m a big fan of everything Carl Craig’s done. Great to see the Tribe collective as well.
• Ican Productions
  I really like guys like S² and Esteban Adame, both of who are good at keeping a techno sensibility but also have some influences / chords in there too.
• Fine Art
  A label to watch this year.
• Delsin / Ann Aimee
• Rush Hour
• Innervisions
• 20:20 Vision
• Melodika

As Mark Flash mentioned before, Mark Flash, De’Sean Jones and Raphael Merriweathers Jr. are teaming up for a new live high tech jazz trio called Satori 3. Electronic Directory catches up with UR and Tunnel 7 man Raphael Merriweathers Jr. to talk about the Satori 3 project, his forthcoming collaborations, and Underground Resistance.

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