September 3, 2019
Live Painting/Attic Session with techno artist Abdul Haqq & DJ mix by electro vanguard J Shaw
A very exciting program awaits..I had the pleasure to have both Detroit's own techno artist Abdul Haqq and Producer/Dj J Shaw over to the studio for a live "painting to music" session! This episode starts off with a brief interview/introduction of Abdul Haqq which eventually morphs into the mix that J Shaw provided skillfully during the painting session. Haqq, who is one of the most influential painters and artists in the electronic dance music community, outlines how his journey as a techno painter started as well as sharing his thoughts on what electronic dance music means to him. See the finished artwork on Instagram: @anxious_beat
The Drexciyan Empire Lives!
Sept 17, 2020
Interview & DJ Mix w/ DJ Di'jital
This month’s show on The Anxious Beat features one of Detroit’s original and most sonically advanced cyborgs - electro/techno bass producer mastermind Lamont Norwood a.k.a. DJ Di’jital. There is no question that Di’jitals tracks are being used as means of communication - morse code for superior bionic entities amongst us, whether he means for it or not. Either way his bass lines get you every time, transforming the thought of human annihilation into an irresistible sound of mechanical funk. Lamont starts his story referring back to the freakish soul, sci-fi pop and cosmic funk heroes who were the first to make a sonic impression on him early on. Later, he describes how a more “synthetic sound” started to take over the airwaves in the early 80’s, as sample based music came to be the new way of the future - inspiring generations of DJ's to experiment and to pioneer the sound of their time. Di’jital then continues to outline his past and present - getting signed to Direct Beat, meeting and paring up with Aux88 as their tour DJ in the 90’s, hustlin’ mixtapes around the local record stores in Detroit, joining The Aquanauts - a group assembled by Mike Banks of Underground Resistance, Lamont’s label Di’jital AXcess, sonic visions, and much more.
Program schedule:
DJ Di’jital interview and DJ mix entwined
Outro: The Anxious Beat selection and mix of 7 DJ Di’jital associated tracks
Tracklist DJ Di'jital DJ Mix (Outro: last 7 tracks selection and mix by The Anxious Beat)
Posatronix - Night Vision
DJ Di’jital - Electrohop 1
DJ Di’jital - Entity
Steve Poindexter - Work That MF
AUX88 - AUXMIND (Cybotron Remix)
J. Shaw - White label
Sole Tech & Unknown Origin - After Shock
Erik Travis - Rollin’ Through Time
DJ Di’jital - I Am Morpheus
DJ Godfather - Who U Wit
AUX88 - Direct Drive
Databass - Work That Pussy
Ectomorph - Mysteries
Will Web - Humanity Nil Dub
DJ Di’jital - Efx Creed Beats
Vintage FTR - Dookey Booty
DJ Di’jital - Interferance
DJ Di’jital - Jit 2 This
DJ Di'jital - Bang
DJ Di'jital - The Enforcer
DJ Di'jital - Gamma Radiation
DJ Di'jital - Armada (DJ Maaco Remix)
Aaron Carl - Down (Techno Bass Mix by DJ Di'jital)
DJ Di'jital - Prototype 2
DJ Di'jital - Androidika