Marcel Dettmann must go to sleep with a massive grin on his face every night of the year, knowing as he does that he's got really great hair and is one of the best-loved techno DJs on the planet. Which must be nice for him. Sometimes I think about how well I did at a survival swimming lesson in year 8 at school and find it hard to drift off so I can only begin to imagine how it feels to be the Berghain resident.It turns out that the guys over at !K7 love Marcel and his hair just as much as I do, which is why they've asked him to mix the next instalment of their long-running DJ-Kicks series. Dettmann's entry, which arrives on the 14th of October, is a typically thumping affair that takes in the very best of techno new and old. Featuring the likes of Psychick Warriors Ov Gaia, Sterac, and a whole ton of Dettmann's own productions—including a brand new track with Levon Vincent—it's a techno tale par excellence.This re-rub by former Underground Resistance man Rolando—which closes the mix—is grainy, gritty, lunar-orbiting techno that somehow sounds both organic and utterly not of human hands. In fact, it's so good that if we had a chance to re-write this piece on the best way to end a mix, we'd slap "Let's Do It" right in there.Check it out below, exclusively here on THUMP.
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Dettmann's DJ-Kicks mix arrives on the 14th of October on !K7 records.