Episode 7 of McCarty Shoot features guests Milka López and THEMADDEEJAY on Scientific Sound Asia. Scientific Sound Asia is an Asian radio service for electronic music, a promoter, a DJ agency, and a music-news platform connecting audiences across Asia and internationally.
McCarty Records emerged from an encounter between Europe and the Middle East, and from the friendship of two longstanding music lovers. Both founders had worked in music for many years before combining their experience and enterprise to establish the label.
At the label's birth, the founders felt young and rebellious enough to make it open to everyone and to every musical strand in the Techno releases they championed. McCarty Records releases material across Techno, Melodic, Deep Tech, Minimal and Tech House.
At the time of publication, McCarty Records presented a monthly selection of new label releases, guest material and records from the global Techno scene. The Techno radio show provided a point of reference for the label's releases and collaborators.
Guest DJ Milka López (first hour)
The first guest in this episode is Milka López, an Argentinian DJ and producer from Buenos Aires. Her musical background began with classical music at an early age, giving her a foundation in composition and structure before electronic music became her main focus.
For around ten years, Milka concentrated on composing music connected with her work as a film producer. That period allowed her to develop a strong relationship with mood, arrangement and atmosphere before moving towards club-focused electronic production.
In 2019, her passion for electronic music led her to dedicate herself fully to DJing and producing Techno. The change marked a new stage in her career, bringing her compositional background into a more direct dancefloor environment.
Her productions have since included releases such as Átomos en cámara through Beathey Recordings and Amor X through Bahrein Records. These tracks form part of her developing catalogue as she continues to establish her own identity within the Argentinian Techno scene.
Alongside production, Milka has built experience through regular club performance in Buenos Aires. She is currently a resident DJ at Club Bahrein, one of the city’s established venues for underground electronic music.
Her residency gives her a consistent platform for refining her sets and developing a deeper connection with local audiences. It also places her within a wider community of DJs and producers contributing to Buenos Aires’ long-standing electronic music culture.
For this episode, Milka López brings that background in classical composition, film music and contemporary Techno into the opening guest section. Her contribution reflects an artist who moved from formal musical foundations into the darker, club-focused side of electronic music.
Guest DJ Themaddeejay (second hour)
The next guest in this episode is Themaddeejay, a Dutch DJ and producer from Maastricht whose musical background began long before he moved into electronic music. He started playing guitar at the age of five and later learned drums, establishing an early connection with rhythm and performance.
For many years, he played in bands working mainly across Heavy Metal, Rock and Blues. The experience gave him a strong live-music background, although the difficulty of keeping bands together and securing regular gigs eventually encouraged him to look for a different direction.
That change came in 1996 when he began performing as a DJ and entered a competition at the now-defunct Independent Club in Maastricht. The experience convinced him that DJing offered the creative freedom and direct connection with an audience that he had been searching for.
He began performing under the name Themaddeejay and gradually moved into electronic music production. Techno became the principal focus of his work, combining the rhythmic discipline developed through years of playing instruments with the possibilities offered by electronic production.
Over the following decades, Themaddeejay continued developing both as a DJ and producer while maintaining a strong connection with underground club music. His long musical background gives his work a different foundation from artists who entered electronic music directly through DJ culture.
His releases have appeared through labels including McCarty Records and LETS Techno Records. He has also used his own MadMinds Productions imprint as an independent outlet for his productions and related material.
For this episode, Themaddeejay brings more than two decades of DJ and production experience into the programme. His contribution connects a background in Rock, Blues and Heavy Metal with the Techno direction that has defined the later stages of his career.
Milka López opens the first hour with Empal's Lirane on SLiVER Recordings, a peak-driving Techno selection that sets the tone immediately. Her own Athos follows before FAC3OFF's Dark World pushes further into the darker, more industrial-influenced end of the spectrum, FAC3OFF's post-Detroit sensibility making it one of the more distinctive picks in the set. Blood and Tears' Thorax and F.R.E.D.'s Neat Freak keep the energy consistent through the opening third before Richard Cleber's Indigo on Agile Recordings brings a slightly more textured, groove-aware character to proceedings.
Jhonnypluse's There I Was, Below Surface's 5am Departure and Patrik Berg's Activated form a concentrated mid-section that sustains the hour's harder momentum, Berg's Techno background rooted in Tronic, Terminal M and Filth on Acid fitting naturally into the sequence. George Isaev's 3 A.M. follows, the Russian producer's deep and dark Techno style sitting at the more hypnotic end of the hour's range. Rene Park's Push It then leads into Milka López's closing duo, with Átomos En Cámara rounding out her hour with a personal statement that mirrors the opening Athos in its intent if not its texture.
THEMADDEEJAY takes control of the second hour with Danz Maxine's Carroña opening at a driving Tech House register before Sergio Brea's Line Up and Rob van Hell's Phase Jump maintain the pace. Concat's All Night in the Dadgar Remix and Coach's Perpetual Dark in the DJ Joel Cabana Remix, both familiar from earlier episodes in the series, anchor the hour in the McCarty Records house sound before THEMADDEEJAY's own Overdose makes the first direct statement from the headline act. TechKwando's S.T.A.R.S. and Danz Maxine's Sense Irregularity provide further momentum through the hour's middle passage.
THEMADDEEJAY's material dominates the final third, with Call To Arms, The Day Has Come and La Belva all appearing in close succession alongside Basscontroll's Heavenly Times. Coach closes with World To Come in the COACH Fuck It Remix, the self-remixed version lending a knowing energy to the episode's final moments. Across both hours, McCarty Shoot retains the consistency that defines the series, a tight, label-focused programme that trusts its artists and rarely looks outside its own orbit for inspiration.
McCarty Shoot Episode 6
Milka López Tracklist (first hour)
Empa - Lirane (Original Mix)
Milka López - Athos (Original Mix)
FAC3OFF - Dark World (Original Mix)
Blood and Tears - Thorax (Original Mix)
F.R.E.D. - Neat Freak (Original Mix)
Richard Cleber - Indigo (Original Mix)
Jhonnypluse - There I Was (Original Mix)
Below Surface - 5am Departure (Original Mix)
Patrik Berg - Activated (Original Mix)
George Isaev - 3 A.M. (Original Mix)
Rene Park - Push It (Original Mix)
Milka López - Átomos En Cámara (Original Mix)
THEMADDEEJAY Tracklist (second hour)
Danz Maxine - Carroña (Original Mix)
Sergio Brea - Line Up (Original Mix)
Rob van Hell - Phase Jump (Original Mix)
Concat - All Night (Dadgar Remix)
Coach - Perpetual Dark (DJ Joel Cabana Remix)
THEMADDEEJAY - Overdose (Original Mix)
TechKwando - S.T.A.R.S (Original Mix)
Danz Maxine - Sense Irregularity (Original Mix)
THEMADDEEJAY - Call To Arms (Original Mix)
Basscontroll - Heavenly Times (Original Mix)
THEMADDEEJAY - The Day Has Come (Original Mix)
Coach - World To Come (COACH Fuck it Remix)
THEMADDEEJAY - La Belva (Original Mix)
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