For this week's podcast we're pleased to have a true veteran player show off his skills and eclectic music taste: Christian Kreuz a.k.a. Dakar. Originally hailing from Munich, Dakar has been a resident DJ in the city's legendary Ultraschall club for eight years and has recorded his music for labels such as Get Physical, Disko B, and most recently Gomma. Many will further know the charismatic neo-Berliner as part of Dakar & Grinser, the electro pop...

Right in time for the weekend we are happy to present this week's zero" podcast and it is one of our finest so far, coming from Dutch techno stalwart Aroy Dee. In loose association with the Delsin camp Aroy has been running his MOS imprint for many years now, holding up the flag for deep and raw Detroit-style techno on the Dutch west coast. Artists who have appeared on MOS include Morphosis, Legowelt, Gerd, D'Marc Cantu, yet Aroy Dee himself has been...

Born and raised in Barcelona, Georgina 'Baby G' Fernandez has been spreading the disco gospel throughout Europe since the mid 1990s. While living in London Baby G teamed up with veteran disco producer Pete Herbert (of Reverso 68 fame) to form L.S.B.. Signed to the mighty Eskimo Recordings the duo released numerous singles, as well as unofficial edits under the Super Discoteca flag. Now Baby G has taken up residence in Berlin, starting her next...

This week we're happy to present a podcast mix from Berlin's king of the concrete jungle, Shir Khan, who has been busy mashing up modern dancefloor styles with his Exploited label as well as via his famously eclectic DJ sets. It's been four years since Shir Khan founded Exploited as a free-style outlet for hyper-energetic club music, from Baltimore breaks to electro house, from neo-rave to new wave crunk, perfectly representing Shir Khan's similarly...

This week's podcast comes from Gregor Ladenhauf, better known as Zanshin, and as one half of Viennese house duo Ogris Debris. Those who only know Ladenhauf from cheeky club hits like 'Raid The Itch' and 'Salty Womb' or his club-rocking stage appearances with partner Daniel Kohlmeigner might expect a similar style of minimal house music from his solo productions. His Zanshin project is however firmly dedicated to broken beat electronica, perfectly...

Featured DJ in our podcast this week is Philogresz, or Ilker Soylu to his mum, known from his releases of minimalistic, yet sensual techno-house on Team Records and Ware. Born in Turkey's metropolis Istanbul at the beginning of the 80s, Philogresz moved to the Netherlands in the summer of 2002 to start his education in music production at the Art Academy of Utrecht (HKU). Philogresz became part of the Dutch electronic music scene as a DJ,...

This week's podcast showcases of one of our favourite labels at the moment: Frankfurt's Live At Robert Johnson (LARJ) imprint, with sets by Roman Flügel and Oliver Hafenbauer. Associated with the legendary club of the same name, LARJ was set up in 2008 by DJ icon Ata to pick up where his previous labels Playhouse and Klang Elektronik have left off. Managed by Oliver Hafenbauer (of B.H.F.V.) and supported by star producer Roman Flügel the label has...

This week's podcast is once again our Crew Picks edition, which brings you a fresh selection of our favourite tracks from the past few weeks. For every Crew Picks edition each member of our team selects his or her current favourites to be assembled into a one-hour mix by one of the DJs in our crew. This time around the mixing part has been once again done by Georg, editor-in-chief at zero" and also known under the name of DJ Glow from his productions...

For many years now The Exaltics have been holding up the flag for underground electro and subaquatic techno bass in the vein of Drexciya and Dopplereffekt. Undeterred by trends and fashions the production outfit from Eastern Germany has been releasing its music via labels like Transient Force, Z-Bop, and the project's own Solar One imprint, set up in 2006. 2010 turned out to be a break-trough year for The Exaltics, who signed to The Hague's...

London-based producer Jeremy Duffy (aka Duff Disco) has been releasing as Duffstep for less than a year, with just a couple of singles on Saigon Recordings and Electric Minds. Yet he's quickly accumulated many fans with his winning slowed down and funked-up disco and dubstep influenced beats. 'Getting To Sirius' dropped early this year on the label he co-founded, Join The Dots, with a stunning animated video for the unruly bass-stepping 'The Way It's...

Hailing from the small West-Austrian town of St. Veit an der Glan, Wolfram was always going to make it big. Barely in his twenties he set out for New York City with little more than a pair of Helmut Lang jeans and a bag of old disco records. The Big Apple welcomed the boy from the countryside with open arms however, and when Wolfram eventually relocated to Vienna, he had already made a name for himself as a DJ as well as many new friends in NYC's...

The greatest moments in a largely predictable music business are when you're blown away by a release you expected nothing from, recorded by an artist you have never heard of before. Listening to Aeromaschine's recent 'Basement Dubs EP' for Hamburg's Baalsaal imprint was such a moment. Played out loud in our office, its five tracks turned heads across the room, and dutiful answers as to what we were listening to were met with more then one incredulous...

This week's podcast is once again our Crew Picks edition, which brings you a fresh selection of zero" team favourites from the past few weeks. For every Crew Picks edition our entire team compiles a pool of tracks, from which one of us chooses a good dozen to assembles a one-hour set. This time around the mixing part is taken over by our editor Annie, who is keeping busy as a sound artist and audio designer when she's not reviewing releases, conjuring...

Our podcast this week takes us around the globe (at least from where we are standing) to Mexico City, home to Valeria Rueda and Jeronimo Puenta, better known as formidable techno duo Signal Deluxe. Both Valeria and Jerga have been active in Mexico's techno scene for many years before starting to work together as Signal Deluxe in 2005. From there things picked up fast with a continuous stream of releases appearing on international labels such as...

Two of Leipzig's most prominent electronic music artists, Kassem Mosse and Daniel Stefanik, introduce their home-town in this week's edition of our City Focus podcast. Composers like Bach, Wagner, and Mendelssohn Bartholdy made Leipzig one of Europe's musical centres during the 19th century, and after the German reunification in 1990 a new generation of artists was eager to resume this tradition. Leipzig's Distillery opened its doors in 1992 as the...

Chances are you've seen G.Rizo on stage on Patrick Pulsinger's recent album tour, behind the decks at her own Art Klub, or starring in performances by US artist Jen Ray. For the past few years G.Rizo has been busy making waves across the music and art scenes, editing New York's Repellent magazine, releasing on DJ Hell's Gigolo imprint, and working with musicians like In Flagranti, Snax, and Jimmy Edgar. Most recently the multi-talented singer, DJ,...

Originally hailing from the western parts of Austria, Oliver Kargl a.k.a. Rndm has been part of the Dial label's tightly knit family of artists for many years now. Rndm started DJing techno and Chicago house in his home town's Stone Club before moving to Vienna in the late 1990s. It was there he met Philipp Sollman, better known as Efdemin, who at the time was studying at Vienna's Institute for Composition and Electroacoustics, ELAK. Sharing a...

This week's podcast is once again our Crew Picks edition, which brings you a fresh selection of our favourite tracks from the past few weeks. For every Crew Picks edition our entire team selects a number of current favourites to be assembled into a one-hour mix by one of the DJs in our crew. This time around it's our podcaster-in-chief, Sebastian, who is in charge of blending our picks together. As he's also the man behind the eclectic Vienna Wildstyle...

Known to the world by the name of Ulysses, New York's Elliot Taub has undoubtedly been on a roll lately. His 'Acid Reflux' EP has just appeared on The Rapture's hipster imprint Throne of Blood, making waves from RA to XLR8, while his and John Selway's Neurotic Drum Band project is bound to hit it big with its brand-new single 'U Got Me Dancin'. The current buzz surrounding Ulysses might fool you into taking him for a fresh face on the scene, but...

Headhunter and Pinch are our very special guests this week when our City Focus homes in on the UK's secret dubstep capital: Bristol. The British harbour city has been a stronghold of alternative music since the 1970s. From bands combining punk, funk, dub and political consciousness, such as Mark Stewart's The Pop Group, the Bristol trip-hop sound of Tricky and Massive Attack, to drum'n bass artists like Roni Size and DJ Krush. For the past few...