Stacey Pullen – DJ Kicks Mix (1996)

To commemorate techno overlord Stacey Pullen’s return to Texas this month, we’re posting up his highly-acclaimed DJ Kicks mix from 1996.

AllMusic.org tells you everything you need to know about this set.

Part of the German label Studio !K7′s DJ series, Stacey Pullen’s DJ-Kicks gives one a sense of the kind of mix the second-generation Detroit techno artist might create at one of his many international club appearances. As with other DJs in the series, Pullen took a live studio mix and cleaned it up with some digital editing. The resulting sound is in the compact yet warm-sounding techno vein Pullen favors (a style formed in response to the colder, primitive-sounding mixes of techno originator and mentor Derrick May). Pullen expertly blends original material (under aliases like Kosmic Messenger and Silent Phase) with a variety of contemporary cuts by the likes of Cristian Vogel, Acid Jesus, and Kenny Larkin and in the process produces a seamless mélange of acid house, garage, disco, and, of course, techno. Pullen ignores the vogue for tribal, drum’n'bass, and trance sounds, instead creating a focused and innovative marriage of Giorgio Moroder’s expansive disco sound and Kraftwerk’s machine music. One of just a few releases from Pullen in the last decade and certainly essential for techno fans.

Stacey Pullen – DJ Kicks Mix (1996)

Filetype: zip/mp3
Time: 180 min
Size: 84mb
Bitrate: 160kbps

Tracklist:

1. Colora – Jibaros – 2:33
2. Track Relaxer – Mystic Rythem – 1:20
3. Eye to Eye – Kosmic Messenger – 3:47
4. Ram Bunctions (correct title “Rambunctious”) – The Kooky Scientist – 2:45
5. Arkest’s Blaze – Gerd – 4:46
6. Dead Eye – Baby Ford – 2:55
7. Raptures of the Deep – Wulf-N-Bear – 2:14
8. We R Walking – Phume – 2:13
9. Bawdy – Cristian Vogel – 1:11
10. Radium – Acid Jesus – 1:50
11. Try Out – D.I.T. – 2:27
12. The Death March – Kosmic Messenger – 4:26
13. Cosmic Journeys – Vince Watson – 2:11
14. Q – Kenny Larkin – 2:53
15. I’m Tha DJ Roy Davis Jr. – 3:41
16. The Shit – Sean Deason – 2:09
17. Psychotic Funk – Silent Phase – 1:49
18. Say It No Longer – Daphreephunkateerz – 2:31
19. Locked Groove – Patrick Pulsinger & Erdam Tunakan – 2:59
20. Harz – Sensorama – 3:31
21. R-Theme – R-Tyme – 2:22
22. Theme from (It’s All Gone) Pear Shaped – Digital Justice – 2:57
23. Funk de Fino – Gypsy – 2:10
24. Astronotes Pt. 1 – Sterac – 3:54
25. DJ-Kicks (The Track) – Stacey Pullen – 8:52