Breaking news: Germany? Huge techno scene. Seriously massive. I mean, telling people you’re into German techno is like saying you really love paintings, especially the kind that use paint. It’s part of the definition, guys: a rose is a rose is a rose. Techno is Germany is techno.

Because for whatever reason (up to and including my hunch that Ableton Live comes free with every flat), Deutschland does it better. BPitch does it better. Ellen Allien, Paul Kalkbrenner, Thomas Fehlmann, Apparat and AGF/Delay and Pascal Vert—they all do it better. So certainly it’s redundant to base an entire month’s track-hoarding on German releases. A waste. A goes-without-saying. Right?

Well, yeah. Probably. But I’m doing it anyway.

(Except for that Indian re-release post-jump. Variety. Spice of life. Etc.)

Ellen Allien – BPitch Control Artist Video

Producer, BPitch creator and all-around rad babe Ellen Allien is unarguably the modern queen of Berlin techno and minimal, so it’s super-interesting to hear her talk about the what, how and why of the scene she’s helped foster. And I swear I’m not obsessed with her at all. Not even remotely. Look at me: aloof!

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Goldfish + Der Dulz – Plants [Haseland Magnetschallplatten]

Vaguely wacky minimal that skates just left of center. Is it quirky? Aggressive? A little tongue-in-cheek? I can’t quite get my head around  Bremen veterans Goldfish + Der Dulz—but I can’t stop listening to them either.

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Ellen Allien - Feel Like [BPitch Control]

The flip-side to the equally amazing single Pump, ostensibly from her forthcoming full-length. Classic Ellen: both minimal and maximal, hypnotic and glitched-out and absolutely on the brink of exploding before it recedes into the best sort of tease. Not that, like, I think it’s so great or anything. Aloof, remember? Look how aloof!

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Charanjit Singh – Synthesizing: 10 Ragas To A Disco Beat [Bombay Connection]

Now departing Berlin; 10 Ragas To A Disco Beat is too insanely great to ignore. Fabled 1982  proto-techno created by a Bollywood composer supposedly looking to make a dime off the new electronics craze. I’ll spare you the audio-geek details, but this predating proper acid house is straight-up absurd. (Aaaand countdown to speculation about its authenticity)

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Pantha Du Prince – Stick To My Side (Efdemin RMX) [Rough Trade]

Now arriving Berlin. Hendrik Weber’s Panda Bear-guested track gets a rework from Dial Records mainstay Efdemin—and even though it wasn’t the most cohesive cut on Black Noise, “Stick To My Side” molds perfectly to this sort of throbbing, concrete edit.

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Dominik Eulberg – Daten Ubertragungs-Kusschen [Traum]

I came to this via the Minilogue Belledub Mix on Eulberg’s recent remix EP. And as much as I love Minilogue, the OG edit is just too captivating: all machine-like clatter and harmonious sweeps. Eulberg’s got a thing for animating inorganic noise, like some audio-obsessed Dr. Frankenstein. Definitely check the remixes—Minilogue still kills it—but don’t neglect the original.

- Rue Sauvage