Max HeyraudDublin’s PageOne is this week’s Mix of the Week, delivering an hour of deep, demented, surging hypnotic techno for Berlin’s FEIERAMT Prozedur podcast series.
PageOne joins a stellar cast of previous guests, including Tehotu, Joton, Mara Menace, and Dublin’s own T-Rail, all of whom have brought their own take on hypnotic, forward-facing techno. For his contribution, PageOne does exactly what you’d expect from the Dublin techno mainstay: an hour of no-frills, absorbing, reduced techno, straddling the line between sci-fi bleeped-out sounds reminiscent of DVS1 and Jeff Mills, and more old-school, rhythm-driven tracks. Tracks that would sit perfectly in a peak-time Matrixxman set at Berghain—thundering, jackin’, yet stripped back to their essential, bare-bones power.
Patience, timing, and pacing are key to mixing this style properly. Contrary to some new and popular beliefs, you don’t need to overwork the mixer, layer endless tracks, or hammer the reverb to tell this kind of story. Sometimes, less is more. Tool-driven tracks with soul and shimmer, given space to breathe, can do all the work themselves, and that’s exactly what PageOne does. He lets the tracks sing together, building a hum of spaced-out, ruthless bliss.
Techno is a genre of evolution. Looking to the future often comes under fire—either for forgetting its history or clinging too hard to the past. This mix feels like the perfect medium: futurism meets tradition, executed with cool, calm tension and razor-sharp precision.