This evening when driving home - just finished work in the office, upgraded one of my drugs houses at @drugwars and collected property money at ADSactly-City, radio tuned into Dutch best news station - my mind started to wander through time, back to the days when techno was not in the upperground, but deepish in the underground. The days of the loop techno, 140+ bpm with click house aka minimal (well the new style minimal) showing its face around the corner.

In the far end of the spectrum, hard techno. Not necessarily my cup of tea, not back then, not now. But one of the hard techno artists always stood out for me is DJ Rush. A great artist! Roots in house. Produced many fine records! And a great entertainer! Often showing up behind the decks with costumes of all sorts. A guy who brought hard techno with up to 150/160 bpm with such a friendly attitude, I felt like being right at home.

Didn't hear master Rush play for more then a decade though; not in a club or festival at least... WOW! ...I think I have to add to my todo list: "check out DJ Rush in a love setting".

While handling my curation activities for the last two hours, I revisited a set Rush played at the original Tresor, the club where techno had his birth in Berlin, the little techno room down in the basement, a former money vault. Great days; Great times! (feeling a little nostalgic while writing this). The set? Pretty interesting; If I may say so myself :)

Owwww, the first part of the set is a bit of the other side of Rush (LOVE!), while the second part is his hard techno side (NICE!).