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Click here to listen to Jonty Skrufff's Gothic Horror Remix of Ghost Machine

“I don’t know what it is about the harder, faster style that grabs my attention more. It just seems more vital and alive somehow. It challenges you and pushes you to some amazing thoughts. The momentum and pulsating nature of music like this just makes me feel more fluid and patterns emerge in life that are otherwise invisible.”

With the likes of Slam, Chris Liberator and Dave Clarke already supporting his debut album ‘the Sinister Sound System’ British upcoming producer Martin Radcliffe’s views on techno carry weight, a point amplified even further recently by Britain’s Sunday Times.

“Dare & Haste’s music is proper techno, I didn’t know they still made it. Lovely,” The Times’ critic declared, “Weird how you can make decent techno now that’s not really any different from how it was in ‘94, and it still sounds bang up to date.”

With most of the album pounding away at a take-no-prisoners decidedly retro tempo of 135 bpm, his music has attracted suggestions he’s no fan of minimal, an assertion Martin’s quick to dispel.

“A review of the album in the Irish Daily Star said it ’sticks two fingers up at all things minimal’ but I wanted my album to be as hard as it is because that’s my personal favourite style as a producer, not because I hate minimal,” he stresses.

“I have even had to stop people from trying to mention me on some of these anti-minimal sites that actually exist. How the fuck can people say they like music if they only like one style? If all you like is hard techno you don’t like music, you like hard techno,” he snorts.

“I have lots of minimal-esque tracks that I have produced. Maybe I’ll put them up on my Myspace and confuse the hell out of people. The truth is I like it all but when I sit down to work the driving factors are usually hard, challenging and uncompromising,” he says.

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Click on the picture to hear Ghost Machine on Radio 1

Click here to hear Judge Jules spinning my new remix of Dare and Haste’s Ghost Machine on his Radio 1 show (which went out live on Friday February 7). This is the second week running Jules has played the track: to hear it in full click here (or click on the soundcloud widget on the right)

It’s 42 minutes along (you can scroll along easily by dragging the slider if you’re in a rush..;-)))))

Live @ D-Edge (Sao Paulo) 2008

Upcoming electro-tech DJ and pioneering blogger Jonty Skrufff has delivered a turbo-charged remix of British techno newcomer Dare & Haste’s new single Ghost Machine, which comes out on Advanced Records in March (listen to the remix on Soundcloud here)

His high octane crunchy electro-tech version (dubbed the Gothic Horror Remix) has gained the immediate and enthusiastic support of DJs including Judge Jules, acid house pioneer DJ Pierre and French techno hero Laurent Garnier following an ultra-limited initial mail-out to a wildly eclectic bunch of just 25 DJs and tastemakers.

While Bedrock guru Nick Muir praised its ‘spacey and haunting rock solid sounds and unexpected twists and turns’ and alternative legends Tom Tom Club gave props (I’d love to hear it in a club on a proper PA’), Judge Jules tore up his radio playlist.

“Thanks for the tune, I think the music is excellent,” said Jules, “I’m going to play it on tonight’s Radio 1 show.”

Spinning Ghost Machine last Friday (January 29th) Jules played it at the beginning of his show as his second track, just five minutes into his broadcast (click here to listen)

Live in Prague (Roxy) 2008

Jules’ enthusiastic support matched that of media tipsters including Billboard’s Gary Smith (‘relentlessly and unapologetically inventive’) and Neale Lytollis from Germany’s Electronic Beats Magazine who hailed its ‘fat and heavy beats and ‘howling electro hell hound sounds’.
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Click on the picture to hear Judge Jules' latest show on Radio 1 (my new remix is the second track)

http://tinyurl.com/yz57o9h (Judge Jules on Radio 1, UK)

I just completed a new remix this week of Dare and Haste’s Ghost Machine and Judge Jules has played it immediately on his show on Britain’s Radio 1. You can hear the remix (called Jonty Skrufff’s Gothic Horror Remix) by clicking on the link above- it’s the second track and is about 5 minutes in.