The front cover to this much anticipated mix-CD reads, “Starring Dave Clarke, Adam Beyer, Marco Carola, Umek, The Advent, Ben Sims, Oliver Ho, Mr G, Ben Long & Jamie Bissmire”.

So if you like techno, it’s safe to say you’re already interested.

This two CD release lives up to its byline, as the DJz take a who’s who of international techno and murder their records with a punishing mix.

Ben Long has 29 tracks to his CD. Three of them are his, most of them will be familiar to any techno listener, and all of them are mixed up brilliantly.

Long’s CD has melt in the mouth stuff like Jack de Marseille’s ‘Prima’ mixing into the shrill shriek of ‘Back Stretch’, and it’s this sort of polarised track selection that typifies this conglomerate of sounds that all work so damn well together.

It’s loopy, freaky, fast-paced mixing, and not short on the effects box either. There’s original stuff here too, unsurprisingly from this pioneer. I can’t properly put into words how Long samples and fades a spinback at the end of Ben Sims’ ‘Hardgroove Mix’ – you’ll just have to go out and hear it yourself!

CD2 is Jamie Bissmire’s and is my pick of the two, simply because it’s more consistent and harder – but that’s just my personal taste. Banging tracks like Adam Beyer ‘Lost and Found B2’ get me dancing in my reviewer’s chair and the special touch that Bissmire lends to such tracks is sure to get tekno junkies everywhere salivating. There’s cutting, there’s fading, there’s spinbacks, there’s aggressive, punchy mixing – in short, there’s something sure to please everyone.

Musically, there’s everything from the old-skool hip hop influenced DJ Godfather, to the electro tinged tech of Umek’s ‘Lancor’.

Bissmire self-indulgently chooses four of his own tracks out of twenty on the CD, but who’s complaining? It’s massive TUNES like ‘Number & Measure’ that sit right up there with ‘Voices of Africa’ (Umek again), and ‘Impact’ by Ben Sims.

In fact, there’s a tonne o’ tunes across both CDs. If you want to hear highlights from the whole techno spectrum of recent times, you can’t miss this mix.