Techno in typical Plaslaiko fashion – weird, acid and bangin’ with a touch of booty-shakin’. Play it loud!

Some people filter through the record bins, taking what are on the wall or record store employee suggestions. Then there are people who dig deeper into the dusty crates, and absorb music like a sponge; ignoring labels, bucking trends and are forever on a quest to find the perfect record. The ones that make the staunchest of chin stroking, note taking trainspotters lose their sh*t on the dancefloor, hanging on every record from one to the next. Derek Plaslaiko unquestionably falls into the latter category.

With a reputation for high energy sets that are versatile, impeccable and heavily peppered with acid, Plaslaiko is an seasoned professional. A child of Detroit techno’s 3rd wave, he has shared the stage with such luminares as John Acquaviva, Kevin Saunderson, Richardo Villalobos, Baby Ford, and Matthew Herbert, and was asked by Carl Craig to perform at the inaugural edition of the Detroit Electronic Music Festival.

Currently Plaslaiko is a resident of the famed weekly The Bunker in NYC. He was honored in the Village Voice 2006’s “Best Of” poll as New York’s Best Techno DJ. In 2009 he jumped headlong into production, with music scheduled to land on Perc Trax and Introduction Records this year.

1. Emptyset - Awake - Caravan
2. Alex Smoke - Lux+ - Hum + Haw
3. Oliver Dodd - Hegemone - Konstructure
4. Oliver Dodd - Thelxinoe - Konstructure
5. The Mole - For The Lost - Internasjonal
6. Jacek Sien...kievicz - Modern Dance - Recognition
7. Scalameriya - Kalikancar - Konstructure
8. Ed Rush & Nico - Defect (Peter Van Hoesen's Twisted Spine Remix) - Perc Trax
9. Maetrik - Show Me - Mothership
10. James Ruskin - The Outsider - Blueprint
11. Mladen Tomic - Fly and Drive - Loose Records
12. Valmay - Radiated Future - Blueprint
13. The Advent & Industrializer - Low Box - Hedegehog
14. Ploy - Sexy Regrets - (unreleased)
15. Pfirter & Flug - Blacksmoke - Stockholm LTD
16. Gurtz - Trippy Monkey - Introduction Records
17. John Selway - The Ocean Before Me (Paul Brtschitsch Remix) - CSM
18. Darkko - Fever 103 - (unreleased)
19. Alessio Mereu & Andrea Ferlin - Boxis - Contexterrior
20. Jabberjaw - Saftey Flirt - Spectral
21. Hobo - Touch - Minus
22. Dilo - Awesome Croissant (Inxec Remix) - Igloo Digital
23. No Regular Play - Derecha (Soul Clap remix) - Wolf + Lamb
24. Kate Simko - Just Saying - Introduction Records