Patrick Siech – Bangers In No Particular Order Except For #1
When a DJ of Patrick Siech's calibre lays his cards on the table with a chart titled Bangers In No Particular Order Except For #1, the name itself is a statement: no filler, no compromise. Twenty meticulously chosen tracks mapping the contemporary techno landscape in its most hypnotic, raw and floor-levelling forms.
The opening is a calculated power move: Moogwai's «Viola (2024 Remastered Original Mix)» on Platipus delivers main floor trance at 142 BPM, reclaiming a nineties lineage through updated production that still obliterates dancefloors. Right behind it, Gregor Tresher and Sniper Mode land «Harvester» via Turbo Recordings, locking the sound into classic electro territory with metallic tension and Detroit-grade precision.
The Core: Raw, Deep, Hypnotic
The bulk of the chart inhabits the Techno (Raw / Deep / Hypnotic) subgenre, and the selection delivers without reservation. Ramsey Neville's «Imminent Collapse» on Evilgroove Records constructs a 140 BPM piece in Db Major that forever threatens to crumble without ever quite doing so, sustained by hypnotic layers of near-clinical precision. Maoh signs «Verapaz» on his own label, an assertion of artistic independence at 142 BPM in G Major where groove rules over noise.
The inclusion of Joel Mull's «Cambodia» on Parabel is one of the chart's boldest moves: 103 BPM in F Major, a techno that breathes and crawls, proving that Siech is after emotional depth as much as raw speed. At the other end of the spectrum, Biocym pushes «E-Storm» to 150 BPM in Gb Major under the De Rio banner, injecting industrial energy and rave urgency into the sequence.
- Arthur Robert – «Lightspeed» (Fuse Imprint, 141 BPM): surgical minimalism wrapped in cinematic texture.
- illousion – «Sundried» (Planet Rhythm, 109 BPM): slow, crushing groove destined for cult status.
- Joline Scheffler – «Strictly Nature» (K S R, 142 BPM): one of the most compelling voices in current European techno.
- Sept – «Tension» (Clergy, 140 BPM): true to the London label's dark, enveloping philosophy.
- KHAS – «Rite of Passage» (Drawner Records, 140 BPM): dramatic architecture that fully earns its title.
The Finish: Peak Time and Beyond
The chart closes at full throttle. Motion Symmetry gets the Franz Jäger treatment on «Stainless Steel» via Temple., pushing the sound into Peak Time / Driving territory at 144 BPM. Hologram People sustains the momentum with «Lingering Along» on Diffuse Reality Records, and Oruam Zior seals the deal with «Vudú» on CYAK: four minutes of hypnotic techno in Gb Minor that leave the dancefloor hanging in mid-air.
A chart that reads as a sonic manifesto: diverse in tempo, coherent in attitude, and absolutely uncompromising in quality.
