Technotrance Profile

DJ Technotrance started in the early 90's at the legendary Fubar club in Stirling Scotland. He then went on to play at the awesome 101 events. from there he played at just about everywhere in the the uk (2 many to list) then he met his twin brother and best friend Bass Generator who he then went to produce and dj at the Rezerection and Judgement Day events and formed the Bassy G and Technotrance p.a (how imaginative) and are currently remixing and recording new material for at the mo......so watch this space......end of message .....end of message.....this will now destruct in 10 seconds.......

DJ Of The Month – Technotrance

Scotland’s Superb Stomper!

Pas are queuing up for the manic ‘n’ minimalist Technotrance remix. Claire Wyburn meets Scotland’s fastest rising hardcore DJ and they talk about his first album Hard & Happy, out this month on Jumpin’ & Pumpin’.

The sun was slowly setting, casting a deep red glow over bar Kanya, where the Fubar Ibiza crew drank beers and tapped their feet to some house grooves…then Scotland’s superb stomper charged towards the decks and a crescendo of beefy basslines and nutter noise blasted outwards… ravers scraped their chairs back and darted up, bouncin’ to the beat.

It lasted about ten minutes.

“Who’s that mad looking guy on with the chess board hair cut?” Enquired Kanya’s manager grimly. “Get I’m off, I’m not having ‘im on ‘ere, is music’s mental!”

Exit Scotland’s bounciest ‘n’ hardest DJ, still smilin’ ‘co he never lets things get him down and anyway, he managed to give the hardcore worshippers what they wanted another day. Until then Big Techno and Jonesy – his well partied-up partner also known as MC XXX – had some serious holiday-making to do. Armed with a bottle of Baileys (that’s for Technotrance) and some Spanish vodka (for Jonesy), they departed towards the beach, the clubs, the pubs and that little planet somewhere in-between.

Meanwhile back in Britain, Jumpin’ & Pumpin’ were ready and waiting for the Scottish selection of stompers from Scotland’ best hardcore DJ. They weren’t disappointed. Just like Alex Mullin’s hair, his first album Hard & Happy features a wide range of music from hard trance, to classic Scottish hardcore and thrashin’ wild Lenny Dee numbers. It’s also got a couple of exclusives on there for the real hardcore heads, like Kiss My Ass Seduction, by Techno and that Newcastle nutter Mr Party Boss Bassy G.

“Kiss my ass Seduction?” I probed the mad man (minus the chessboard hairdo this time he was actually quite normal, having also got rid of his Dalmation hair cut ‘cos, he informed me in no uncertain terms, ‘it looked totally stupid!’), “Isn’t the title of yer latest track a bit, well RUDE?’

“It’s all in good fun, like!” Alex chortled. “Seduction released Disco Hardcore, his rip off of Scott Brown’s Hardcore Disco because Scott took a bit out of one of his tunes years ago, so this is Seduction’s revenge. Anyway, the second riff from his tune was taken from one of Bass Generator Record’s tunes, so we thought we’d have a wee bit of fun and take one of his riffs and the title’s just a noise up”.

Cautiously, I asked Alex if Seduction new about the tune. “Oh aye”, Big Techno replied heartily, “we took a dub plate to Ibiza”. And he saw the funny side? “Definitely!” Phew.

Kiss My Ass Seduction is actually the B-side to Where’s My Money Mother F**ka?, another beauty from the maddest DJ partnership in the galaxy. It’s dedicated to a few folk out there too, and hey! you know who ya’s are. “We took the line from CB4, a film that takes the piss out of rap. It’s like one of those 0898 numbers cept’ we’re just taking the piss out of ‘em”.

And how would you know then, I queried Alex, been phoning ‘em? “Na na na, not at all”, he replied hastily.

As well as Techno’s own tunes Natural Born Killers, co-written with GT Sampler, and F**k The DEA (that stands for the US Drug Enforcement Agency), an old hardcore favourite, Alex has selected some Scott Brown numbers, Q-Tex vs Technosis’ Hardcore Science, Active Force bouncers, Chill FM’s classic Strobelight (Technotrance’s mix) and a good selection of Gordon Tennant and Jolly Roger releases. But Alex reckoned that no album of his would be complete without including one from Industrial Strength, Lenny Dee’s label, as Alex totally respects the smirf-like lunatic. “I chose The Shaftman ‘cos it’s really, really mad. The sample’s taken from The Dating Game”, he chuckled.

“Yeah well, there’s no one more hardcore in every way than Lenny Dee”, I mused, “apart from you and Guy”, I quickly added as memories of those wild summer nights at Scotland’s best illegal beach parties down the east coast came flooding back to me. Particularly the one where Guy stood with torch in hand searching for something he’d dropped into the pitch black night. Around twenty of us were looking for it as well, until we realised we didn’t even known what the hell it was that Guy had lost.

“I dunno”, Alex said with a frown that grew into a big raving grin, “I reckon you must be the most hardcore female in Scotland”, and ranting into the tape he added: “I challenge anyone out there to be more hardcore than Claire!” I was well chuffed. Still, I thought I’d better check to see what he meant by hardcore.

“Just being mad as f**k and not giving a shit about anybody, whatever they say, and you’re that, and that’s quoted by me and Guy”. He told me. Well, that definitely sounds like Alex, Guy, Jonsesy and a whole load of party animals I’ve met out there (and I ain’t mentioning any names Alex Bielinski, Faye MacDonald, Juicy, Frankie, Christina… perhaps the girls would like to take up that challenge?)

Jumpin’ & Pumpin’ also released the hugely successful European Techno Heaven in association with M8 not long ago, and they were well up for taking on Hard & Happy with M8’s favourite new DJ. It’s not hard to believe that the idea was born of yet another boozy M8 weekender away in Ireland. “Billy (M8’s Music Editor) had a DJ mix tape on in his car and I said “I wouldn’t mind doing that!” and Billy said ‘no bother, big man’ and the next time I heard from him, he told me he’d phoned Jumpin’ & Pumpin’ in London and got the whole thing going for me”, Alex recalled, still delighted with the memory.

Without a doubt, Technotrance is an expert when it comes to understanding what hardened party animals wanna hear on a dance floor, which is why PAs queuing up to get him to remix their tunes.

But it was his first partnership with Scotland’s controversial Chill FM that brought his manic ‘n’ minimalist style to a wider audience. Technotrance’s remixes of Fred West is Dead, Strobelight and Shocker, out on Massive Respect Records, introduce beefy hardcore riffs and simple stomp of the deeper trance supplied by Chill FM. This partnership has taken Scottish hardcore into a different, juicier and more hypnotic sound.

As well as DJing across Scotland, Technotrance has travelled to clubs like Kinetic and Midlands UK and introduced the English to his hard ‘n’ happy selection. With releases like House Aggression with Scott Brown, Acid Thunder and Revenge of The Cosmic Ice Cream Men with Gordon Tennant, and his latest offering out this Christmas YRS Stamp PII, Technotrance is hot on the heels of Bass Generator when it comes to being top of the crop. “The new YRS Stamp mix is 175bpm rather than 165 and it’s got some excellent samples,” Alex hinted, “everybody will know them because they’re really singy vocal samples from an old breakbeat record”.

Watch out also for a long awaited appearance of Alex and Bassy G’s PA “Chanel, Guy’s girlfriend is gonna be one of the dancers, and she’s into wearing a rubber cat suit and carrying whips. We’ve got a couple of inflatable dolls as well”.

Ain’t it amazin’ what a pint of Baileys, Tia Maria and Barcadi can do for a Stirlingshire boy!

Here are some of the tracks recorded by the DJ Technotrance... he also recorded under the name Hyperact with Scott Brown and under various names with Gordon Tennant.......

Releases:

Solar (12") Baldy Records
Untitled (12") Fubar Hard
The Technotrance EP (Hyperact Remixes) (Volume One) (12") Bass Generator Records
1994 Natural Born Killer (12") Jolly Roger Lite Records
1995 Revenge Of The Cosmic Ice Cream Men (12") Jolly Roger Lite Records
1995 The Y.R.S Stomp II (12") Bass Generator Records
1995 Ringpiece No. 1 (12") Bass Generator Records 1996
Everynight / Don't Leave Me (12") Maximum Impact
2005 Together Again / You Make Me Feel (12") Quosh 2006

Remixes:

Past, Present & Future (2xCD) Bounce (DJ Technotranc... We've Got The Bounce EP (12")
We've Got The Bounce (... Massive Respect Records Monster Sound (12") Monster Sound
1994 Shocker EP (12") Shocker (Technotrance ... Massive Respect Records
1994 Chill Out - The Safer Dancing EP (12") Shocker (Technotrance ... Massive Respect 1995 European Techno Heaven (CD) Strobelight (Technotra... Jumpin' & Pumpin'
1995 European Techno Heaven (2xLP) Strobelight (Technotra... Jumpin' & Pumpin'
1995 M8 Presents Hard & Happy (CD) Strobelight (Technotra... Jumpin' & Pumpin'
1995 Strobelight EP (12") Strobelight (DJ Techno... Massive Respect Records
1995 Strobelight EP (CD, Maxi) Strobelight (DJ Techno... Massive Respect Records
1995 Kickin' It Down (12") Kickin' It Down (Techn... Bass Generator Records
1996 Ravers Paradise (CD, Maxi) Ravers Paradise (Techn... Fubar Ultra
1996 Shoop! - The Definition Of Techno (3xCD) Monster Sound (Technot... Shoop!
1996 Hardcore Nation 2 (3xCD) Dominator (Joey Riot &... Warner Strategic Marketing (UK) 2005 Dominator (Remixes) (12") Dominator (Joey Riot &... Next Generation Records
2006 DJ Mixes: M8 Presents Hard & Happy (CD) Jumpin' & Pumpin'
1995 Appears On: Strobelight EP (12") Fred West Is Dead Massive Respect Records
1995 Strobelight EP (CD, Maxi) Fred West Is Dead Massive Respect Records
1995 Tracks Appear On: Past, Present & Future (2xCD) Public Enemy No. 1 Massive Respect Records A Nightmare In Rotterdam Part Three
1994 DJs Downunder Volume 1: Peewee (CD) Y.R.S Stomp Reachin Records (2)
1995 M8 Presents Hard & Happy (CD) Natural Born Killers, ... Jumpin' & Pumpin'
1995 Ravers Revolution II (2xCD) Stompin Stilton Polydor (Netherlands)
1995 The Singles Collection Volume 1 (2x12") Y.R.S. Stomp Bass Generator Records
1995 The Singles Collection Volume 1 (CD) Y.R.S. Stomp Bass Generator Records
1995 The Singles Collection Volume 2 (2x12") The Jimmy Cokehill Exp... Bass Generator
1995 The Singles Collection Volume 2 (CD) The Jimmy Cokehill Exp... Bass Generator
1995 Tom Wilson's Tartan Techno (CD) YRS Stomp Tempo Toons
1995 M8: The Anthems (CD) Revenge Of The Cosmic ... Massive Respect Records
1996 M8: The Anthems (2x12") Revenge Of The Cosmic ... Massive Respect Records
1996 Raveheart (2xLP) You Make Me Feel Sick The Fubar Club
1996 Raveheart (2xCD) You Make Me Feel So Sick The Fubar Club
1996 Bonkers 2 (2xCD) Whores In The House React
1997 Ready To Fly (Cass) Raise The Titanic Alpha Projects
1997 Ready To Fly (2xCD) Raise The Titanic Alpha Projects
1997 The Core Foundation EP (4x12") Raise The Titanic Alpha Projects
1997 Happy Hardcore Foundation (CD) Raise The Titanic V-Wax Inc
1998 Happy Hardcore Foundation (Cass) Raise The Titanic V-Wax Inc
1998 Judgement Day (CD) Kill My Best Friend, Y... M8 Magazine
1998 Bonkers 2 - Silver Edition (2xCD) Whores In The House Resist Music
2005 Hardcore Nation 2 (3xCD) Everynight Warner Strategic Marketing (UK)
2005 Hardcore Heaven 3 (3xCD) Together Again (Sy & U... Resist Music
2006 The No 1 Hardcore Classics (4xCD) Together Again (Sy & U... Decadance