El Brujo presents episode 02 of El Brujo and the Wild Bunch, featuring guest DJ Makaja Gonzales, on Scientific Sound Asia. Scientific Sound Asia is an Asian electronic music radio station, promoter, DJ agency and music-news platform for India, China, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, the Philippines and the rest of Asia.
The edition was originally scheduled for Thursday 9 April 2020, from 10 PM to midnight Indochina Time, with a repeat on Mondays from 10 AM to noon ICT. El Brujo, born Robert Milanesi in Italy in 1964, developed an early attachment to music and became known in 1994 as one of the founding figures of Bologna's underground rave scene.
His first official release was Warriors, issued in 2008 on the Milan label Open Legs. His label, Jambalay Records, launched at its 2010 opening party at Club Geminis in Ibiza harbour, Spain.
Jambalay Records and El Brujo then gained worldwide attention when the legendary Maya Jane Coles charted his work in her February 2011 chart. The track was ‘Mozambique’, made with Big Mojo and released as his first physical CD release, Nutty Fellas Are Go.
In January 2019, his release Plastic Dreams, originally issued on Frame Workxx, reached number 33 in the Beatport Hard Techno Top 100. El Brujo has released on Elektrax, Frame Workxx, LW Recordings, Subwoofer, Berlin After Dark, Music Is The Drug, Gobekli Tepe, Fortwin Rec, Bunker, Mad Rhythm, SE7ENS, Physical Techno, Professional Rockstars, Serapis, Dublin Xpress, SMR Underground, Hypnotic Skull, Underground Media, Konfused Konfliction, Backbeat, Electrified Mindz, Killer Crossover, Oxytech, Profunda Intellectus, Tanira, Society Music, Toxic, MTZ Noir, NACHT, Ahromatiq, Technological, Plusquam, Ushuaia Music and many others.
His raw approach draws on cosmic and interstellar ideas, whatever genre he chooses to work within. At the time of this edition, El Brujo planned to introduce a guest DJ from his Wild Bunch of Techno producers and artists each month, while this programme included a selection of his own tracks.
Guest DJ (second hour) Makaja Gonzales.
The second-hour guest is Makaja Gonzales, a Dutch Techno producer, founder and owner of Frame Workxx Records, established in 2016. Born in 1964, he is also a composer and former radio host on Fnoob Radio UK, Stormkraftradio-FM in Switzerland and DJ International Radio.
His career as a disc jockey began in 1983 at Radio Contact in the Netherlands alongside Andrew McGabe and Michel van der Linde. Raised with 1970s Disco and Funk influences, he became interested in Electro Funk during the early 1980s, then Hip House, early House and Chicago House later in that decade, before Techno became his passion in the 1990s.
His style is a combination of Deep, Dark and Industrial House with Tek, alongside experiments with an 1980s feel. After several years away, he resumed experimenting in 2010, started Frame Workxx in 2012 and secured his first Fnoob Radio UK show in 2013.
During 2013 and 2014, he hosted Frame Workxx radio shows on Stormkraftradio FM and DJ International Radio in the Netherlands. After three years of making track mixes and mashups, he released his first album, Redline, on Italy's Subwoofer Records in early 2014; he founded Frame Workxx Records in 2016, and this mix features favourite productions from across his career.
El Brujo and the Wild Bunch episode 02 with Makaja Gonzales opens with Ronnie Vineyard's Panic Attack in El Brujo's remix, a Trench release rooted in Hard Dance. El Brujo follows with Brainkilla on Frame Workxx Records, The Black Swan on Toxic Recordings and Wrapped Puppets on Basics Avenue, establishing the Peak Time Techno focus.
Welcome To Lalaland leads into El Brujo's Raw 2 The Bones on Serapis and Hard Reality on Frame Workxx Records. Antonio Lombardo's Vital, in El Brujo's remix for Trench, sits before Kev Willis's Trench cut Ace Take It All, which closes the first hour.
Makaja Gonzales begins the second hour with Devil's Work and It Hunts Us, both on Trench, before SpasmoMan's Sushi Bar on Jambalay Records. His own Sword Of Destiny on Frame Workxx Records then takes over the programme's second half.
Makaja Gonzales follows with Airstrike, Snowstorm and Pervitin, all Frame Workxx Records originals. Bloody Mary, also on Frame Workxx Records, brings the sole confirmed Hard Techno passage into the sequence.
Fire And Fury and The Price You Pay return to Frame Workxx Records, while The Answers We Seek appears on Techno Vinyls Records. Makaja Gonzales then pairs The Man And His Dream from Frame Workxx Records with Lost Dreams on RED CHANNEL RECORDS.
The closing run moves through Makaja Gonzales's Backdraft on RED CHANNEL RECORDS, Escape Plan on Jambalay Records and Head Of The Snake on RED CHANNEL RECORDS. Forgotten Voices and Rage In Heaven, both on Frame Workxx Records, bring the second hour to its close.
El Brujo and The Wild Bunch 9th April 2020
El Brujo (first hour)
Ronnie Vineyard - Panic Attack (El Brujo Remix)
El Brujo - Brainkilla
El Brujo - The Black Swan
El Brujo - Wrapped Puppets
El Brujo - Welcome To Lalaland
El Brujo - Raw 2 The Bones
El Brujo - Hard reality
Antonio Lombardo - Vital (El Brujo Remix)
Emison - Gotterdammerung
Kev Willis - Ace take It All
Makaja Gonzales - Devil’s Work
Makaja Gonzales - It Hunts Us
Spasmoman - Sushi Bar
Makaja Gonzales (second hour)
MaKaJa Gonzales - Sword Of Destiny (Original Mix)
MaKaJa Gonzales - Airstrike (Original Mix)
MaKaJa Gonzales - Snowstorm (Original Mix)
MaKaJa Gonzales - Pervitin (Original Mix)
MaKaJa Gonzales - Bloody Mary (Original Mix)
MaKaJa Gonzales - Fire And Fury (Original Mix)
MaKaJa Gonzales - The Price You Pay (Original Mix)
MaKaJa Gonzales - The Answers We Seek (Original Mix)
MaKaJa Gonzales - The Man And His Dream (Original Mix)
MaKaJa Gonzales - Lost Dreams (Original Mix)
MaKaJa Gonzales - Backdraft (Original Mix)
MaKaJa Gonzales - Escape Plan (Original Mix)
MaKaJa Gonzales - Head Of The Snake (Original Mix)
MaKaJa Gonzales - Forgotten Voices (Original Mix)
MaKaJa Gonzales - Rage In Heaven (Original Mix)
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