RA.221 Shed

RA.221 Shed

The Hard Wax and Ostgut Ton man lays down an energetic, hour-long mix for this week's RA podcast.

As far as contemporary Berlin-based house and techno producers go, you don't get much better than René Pawlowitz. When he's not spending his time behind the counter at the city's legendary Hard Wax record store, he's busy conjuring up all manner of material in his studio, taking inspiration from classic Detroit and Berlin techno while infusing elements of hardcore, breakbeat, dubstep and ambient along the way. Although the majority of his output is released under the Shed banner, Pawlowitz has diversified his sound with a number of different pseudonyms. His white label offerings as Wax and EQD have become essential selections for fans of rugged Teutonic techno, while he's also turned his hand to 140bpm bass music with his work as The Panamax Project.

Although René has garnered a reputation for his prolific and consistent approach club-oriented 12-inch singles, he's also proved his mettle when it comes to creating larger bodies of work. His debut album came in at the #1 spot in our top albums of 2008, with RA's Will Lynch championing its "lustrous aesthetic, oblique rhythms and coherent diversity," so seeing as his sophomore full-length—entitled The Traveller—is due to hit the shops later this month, so we thought that it'd be the ideal time to let Pawlowitz demonstrate his idiosyncratic vision of how techno should be.

Tracklist
Low Density Matter - Blue Steel - Keysound Recordings
Becoming Real - Fast Motion (DVA's Hi Emotions Remix) - Ramp Recordings
Cosmin TRG - See Other People (FaltyDL remix) - Rush Hour Recordings
Delphic - Doubt (Kyle Hall remix)
Duncan Powell - Pushin' (FaltyDL remix) - 2nd Drop Records
Andrea - Got To Forget - Daphne
T++ - Cropped - Honest Jon's Records
Cosmin TRG - Béton Brut - Hemlock Recordings
Screed - Side - Synthetic Catalogue
Robert Hood - Towns That... - M-Plant
Jason Fine - Many To Many (Ben Klock Remix) - Kontra-Musik
Rok/Jonzon - Sequential Polka - International DeeJay Gigolo Records
Silent Phase - Fire (Rewired Mix) – R&S Records
Eliphino - Let Me Love You Forever - Brownswood Recordings
Sepalcure - Love Pressure - Hotflush Recordings

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Shed: The Traveller by factmag