1. Intro: Vestigial – The Coming (Cold Meat Industry 183)
2. Cangaroo Planet – System Support (Airlock 1215) / Haus Arafna – Invisible (Galakthorrö 014)
3. Wassermann – A2 (Profan 027) / Atom TM – Schlußwort (Raster-Noton R-N 99)
4. Brian Aneurysm – Brot (Sub Static 028) / Robert Henke – Studies For Thunder (Imbalance ICM 05)
5. Omen’s Jot – Toe Job (Ampoule 06) / Nordvargr – Talamaur (Old Europa Café OECD 097)
6. Detroit Diesel – Moto-Rmx (DUM 018) / Ø – Jään alla (Beneath The Ice) – (Sähkö 019)
7. Traktor – Traktor Mood (Traktor) / Fennesz – Live in Japan (A) – (Autofact 09)
8. Richard Devine – Krake Technomix (Detroit Underground 09)
9. Heiko Laux – The Mightiest Beep On Earth (Missile 037) / Front 242 – Operation Tracks (Red Rhino Europe MK1)
10. Roger Rotor – The Bastard Burns In My Head (Ant-Zen 154.4)
11. DJ Dex – Blight (UR7-61)
12. Ancient Methods – White Flames (Ancient Methods 03) / Aphex Twin – Selected Ambient Works D1 (Warp LP21)
13. Gizz TV & Walker – Little Lovesome Astronaut A2 (Force Inc. 077)
14. Mugon – Untitled A (E-COM 015) / Raison d’ être – The Slow Ascent (Cold Meat Industry 078)
15. Patrick Pulsinger – Construction Tool (Disko B 025) / BJ Nilsen – Purple Phase (Touch TO:65)
16. Continuous Mode – Disinformation Design (Klang 049)
17. Ostia – Paved (Seico Corp 03)
18. Various Artists – 8 (Ae Mix) (Fat Cat 08) / Transient Waves – 8.80 (Fat Cat LP02)
19. British Murder Boys – Court of Conscience (Counterbalance 012)
20. Phoenecia – Conummity Coolge (Laboratory Instinct LP01)
21. Function – Semantics (Warm Up 014) / Aidan Baker & Tim Hecker – Phantom On A Pedestal (Alien8 LP81)
22. Brethren – Turn The Other (Sect 02) / Venetian Snares – Room 379 (Planet Mu 199)
23. Luka Baumann – Boys Will Be Boys (Emergence 09)
24. Future/Past – Clinically Inclined (R&S 92010) / Lawrence English – Organs Lost At Sea (Touch 031)
25. Thomas Bangaltar – Outrage (Roulé 309)
26. Adam X – Shifted Gears (Sonic Groove 0835)

An unassuming duo comprised of members Beeks and Trias, Ancient Methods sent shockwaves through the dance music underground last year with their loose trilogy of eye-catchingly packaged EPs – First Method, Second Method and Third Method. Their reputation was swiftly cemented when they contributed a track to a split 12″ from experimental-leaning British label RSB, and collaborated with Regis (Downwards/Sandwell District) as Ugandan Methods on Mat Oput – 1/2.

The producers’ music itself recalls British Murder Boys, Jeff Mills, Surgeon, E Comm, Basic Channel at their steeliest – all artists who make thunderous, full-frontal and at times wilfully distorted techno that is also supremely funky and subtly layered, full of swing and dub-space. The now classic mix that they recorded for the mnml ssgs blog last year featured tracks and textures – in amidst the piledriving club material – from Atom TM, Mika Vainio, Fennesz, BJ Nilsen, which gives you some idea of their sophisticated grasp of sound design.

Ancient Methods’ FACT mix was recorded live at the Life Festival in Ireland earlier this year. “We recorded with an extra, external microphone to capture some of that live atmosphere,” they tell us via e-mail. This is techno that pines for and evokes the cavernous clubs, warehouses and repurposed industrial spaces that nurtured the sound in the early 90s, a time when the music and surrounding culture had no sense of its own future and the limitations that would come with it. True electronic body music

people who read this blog know ancient methods, and know exactly what to expect. the boomkat description i used last time is still the best way i've found to describe their sound: 'pitch black techno war funk'. AM is powerful and brutal, without ever getting too aggressive or banging. this is techno music for warrior gods, it's what i imagine you would hear at a rave at valhalla...

in this new mix baeks and trias mash up and fuse a remarkable blend of techno, industrial, IDM, experimental and everything in between, to make something that is uniquely their own, creating a mix that has the distinctive intensity and strength which defines what AM do. so get ready, this one is a monster

• Cloaks – Desolate Turves 1st (3by3)
• Keith Fullerton Whitman – Bewusstseinserweiternd Tonaufnahme (Kranky Ltd.)
• Tropic of Cancer (Richard H. Kirk remix) (Downwards)
• Traversable Wormhole Vol. 1
• Claude Young - I am nothing (Djax Up)
• Renato Cohen – Power (Sino) / The Caretaker – Poor Enunciation (History always favours the winner)
• Lance Samuel – The Hold (Resounds)
• Audio Injection – Operation (Speedy J remix) (Electric Deluxe) / Aphex Twin – Tassels (Warp)
• Friend & Friend – Origin (Dinner)
• Morbeck – Untitled (Vault Series) / Bad Sector – Spontaneous Reduction (Tantric Harmonies)
• Jeroen Liebgrets – Donau ( Audio Assault) / Monolake – Force (ml/i)
• Andreas Kremer vs. Grimes – Untitled (Mind your head) / Death in June & Boyd Rice – Are you out there? (Dornier 17 mix)
• Casual Violence – Machine we are (Aftertaste Ltd.)
• Mika Vainio – Barbarians (Raster Noton) / Deathprod – Treetop Drive Pt. 3 (Rune Grammofon)
• Björn Svin – Eat like hawks (RSB)
• Christian Vogel – Sarcastically Tempered Powers (Tresor)
• Wishmountain – Radio (Evolution) / Gustaf Hildebrand – Ruins of a failed Utopia (Cyclic Law)
• Speedy J – Armstrong (CLR) / Ophir – Bleibt der Erde true pt. II (Greyland)
• Supagrupa – San Francisco (Infecta 02)
• Regis – Speak to me (Downwards) / IRM – Oedipus Dethroned (Cold Meat Industry)
• DJ Slip – Broken Cake (Missile)
• Abe Duque – Chocolate Delight (Radical Ambient) / Biosphere – City Wakes up (Touch)
• Go Hiyama – Servant (Zwart) / Oren Ambarchi – A final kiss on poisoned cheeks pt. I (Table of the elements)
• The Modernist – Dali Bop Horizon (Auftrieb Mix)
• Tektrax – One way st. (Subvert 01)
• Makaton – Animal Worship (Rodz-Konez)
• DKF – Lärmpegel Minimum (Steinklang Industries)
• Amon Tobin – Rhino Jockey (Ninja Tune) / Jeff Mills – Cycle 2 (Axis)
• Oren Ambarchi – A final kiss on poisoned cheeks pt. II (Table of the elements)

vinyl mix for Robot Army by Baeks