Track of the Day feat. Mr Bizz and Dosem

Hey everyone. It’s Jeff Devoe again. Here’s a couple more tracks you can find on my upcoming mix dropping Friday right here on the LAMP site. Today we’re going to look at some of the techno tracks I put on the mix; Mr. Bizz’s Badlands, and Dosem’s Become One. They are certainly different styles, but each track hits the mark for me and I found them to be great tunes to help lead the mix to different sonic landscapes.

Mr. Bizz – Badlands

Mr. Bizz are two brothers from Italy named Fabrizio and Matteo Floris. These guys make what I like to describe as ‘rolling techno’. I call it this because their style of techno just seems to roll on forever. The drums are locomotive. The bassline bounces like Jello, and the background textures take you away to another world. Badlands is exactly this kind of tune. As the drums chug and shimmy down the track, a ghostly, arpeggiated synth line seems to float you through the tune. The great part of this track comes when the kick is pulled, and a haunting diva scream slowly makes it’s way to the front of the stage, then disappears in a metallic crash as the beat takes over the tune again. It adds a refreshing dose of humanity to what is a beautifully robotic track.

Dosem – Become One

Dosem released Become One with another tune called Cityscapes as his first release on Tronic for 2014. Become One begins with a stripped down techno beat. The ride cymbals initially sound a bit like a dentist drill if you listen close, but eventually seem to come out of a veil to present themselves as the classic techno rides that they are. Beautiful synthy chord stabs filter in and accompany you throughout this progressive techno ride. The chords keep banging away as hi-pitched pads fade in and slowly float over the tune like a fog over a glassy lake. The drums finally disintegrate to breakbeat-esque percussion hits in the break; panning about the soundscape. The bouncing chords start to build back in to the tune with swaths of white noise and this escalates to a high before the beat is reintroduced with echoed horn stabs. If this sounds epic, it’s because it is. Become One is deep and entrancing; a layered peak time techno masterpiece that rides the boundary between techno and progressive house brilliantly.Jeff Devoe