Avenue Red Podcast #059 - Dan Cugudda

For the 59th Avenue Red Podcast we bring a local lad from Durham to the fray with an immense selection of deep, cosmic electronic music. Mostly 4/4 but with some more broken and obscure tracks also in the blend... and the man doing the blending shows his exquisite taste, keen ear for a transition and a very steady hand on the 1's & 2's. If you are in the North East you can catch Dan playing at The Tanners Arms, Newcastle for Avenue Red on Saturday 26th March.

“I have been DJ'ing for 15 years now and since I was about 13 I've been hooked on electronic music. I grew up listening to a variety of music but was mostly onto UK techno and earlier, more underground trance and later Detroit techno music. I love how all of those genres have that underground feel but are also very accessible to the more casual listener.

The music I featured on this mix is stylistically different but has the same fundamental qualities: melodic, but with dark undertones, always with a spacey, cosmic feel. This is a constant theme when I DJ, whether I'm playing electro, house, techno or broken beat stuff! The mix is a blend of old and new: there's tracks in there from the early 90's and features records I have collected right up to the present day. I hope you enjoy listening to it as much as I did mixing it! :)” Dan Cugudda, February 2016