Everything Ends In Techno

House music opens the door - it's accessible, warm, and beautiful, drawing people into electronic music with familiar grooves and soulful vocals. House welcomes you to the dance floor, creating community through its infectious rhythms and uplifting energy.

But while house music invites you in, techno takes you deeper. Techno strips away the ornamental, the comfortable, the familiar, revealing the raw mechanical heartbeat that drives all electronic music.

House may be where the journey begins, but techno is where it ends - not as a destination, but a revelation that the driving force of electronic music is the marriage of human emotion and machine precision. We find the fundamental truth: that everything, eventually, ends in techno.

Hybrid Live PA

The "Everything Ends in Techno" project is a a real-time deconstruction and reconstruction of music. New technology in the late 70s and early 80s enabled the birth of techno. Fifty years later, the cycle is repeating. We expand the boundaries once again.

This is possible by a fusion of classic hardware and modern technology. This “Hybrid Live PA” approach bridges the gap between traditional DJing and live electronic music creation and performance.

  • Traktor Pro with Stem Separation - At the core of the setup is Native Instrument’s Traktor Pro 4 software and its leading stem separation. Each sound, loop or beat can be isolated and manipulated with an incredible level of precision, a capability that goes far beyond traditional mixing.

  • 2x APC40 MKIIs - Custom programmed to control 16 channels (4 Traktor decks with 4 stems each).

  • Roland Drum Machine - It’s techno and you need the extra oomf and sparkles.

About MZ

My journey with electronic music began in the raw, energetic warehouses of Toronto in the mid-90s, where driving beats of techno first took hold of me. Leaving a rave at sunrise, with the rhythms still echoing in my mind and my feet (literally dance-walking my way home) is something I've carried with me through all forrms of electronic music.

This has led me to the belief that every genre, when you strip it back to its core, holds a beautiful, mechanical heartbeat that pulses with the spirit of techno.

Everything Ends in Techno is not just a performance; it's a conversation between the music of the past and the technology of the future. I take pieces of the sounds I love and rebuild them in real-time, creating something new and unique.

I'm incredibly excited to share this creative process with you.

Gratitude

The music I perform is a direct result of my lifelong journey through electronic music, a path paved by the incredible artists who have inspired me at every turn. This project is a way for me to celebrate and give thanks to the innovators who have been part of the soundrack(s) of my life, including:

  • Downtempo, Trip hop and Lounge - Air, Bonobo, Café del Mar, Catching Flies, DJ Shadow, Emancipator, Hotel Costes, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Lamb, Massive Attack, Morcheeba, Nicolas Jaar, Nightmares on Wax, Thievery Corporation, Tosca…

  • House (in all its forms) - Adriatique, âme, Ben Watt, Dimitri from Paris, D-Nox, Everything but the Girl, Ian Pooley, Jesper Dahlbäck, Kerri Chandler, Kollektiv Turmstrasse, Mark Farina, Masters at Work, Miguel Migs, Rampue, Solomun, St Germain…

  • Techno (yes I know some of these are melodic techno/progressive house sometimes) - Adam Beyer, Anna, Austrian Apparel, Bebetta, Boris Brejcha, Dave Clarke, Dubfire, Einmusik, Hidden Empire, Kevin Saunderson, Maceo Plex, Marco Carola, Moonwalk, Ritchie Hawtin, Solee, Stacey Pullen, Stephan Bodzin, Sven Väth, Tale of Us, Township Rebellion, Victor Ruiz…

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