Welcome to Techno Tales. My name is Will, and in this podcast we learn about important tracks and artists from the histories of techno and associated genres. Techno Tales is a nonprofit passion project. All research uses publicly available sources, and song samples are included for educational purposes.
It’s the very early 2000s, and Adriana Lopez, a recent business administration university graduate in Bogota, Colombia, is feeling disillusioned about the new marketing job she has taken following her studies. As she is beginning this career in business though, Lopez is actively exploring the side of her life that is occupied with electronic music, which includes djing techno parties. Such is Lopez’s passion for these latter pursuits, that she will have soon quit her commitments in the business world, to instead prioritise her music endeavours. This new focus will, in the very near future, take her to Barcelona, Spain, a move which contributes to her developing a style of moody, driving techno, that in a decade or so will manifest in one of her earliest tracks, “Estructura”.
15 Aug 2026
Episode 38 –Joey Beltram - Energy Flash
It’s the mid-1980s in Queens, New York, where teenage graffiti artist, Joey Beltram, regularly rides the local M-train. These journeys of his begin from the last stop on the line, near where he lives in Middle Village. As Beltram takes the train, he meets other graffiti artists, and through these acquaintances he becomes introduced not only to different aspects of graffiti art, but also to the street parties that occur in their neighbourhoods. It is at these street parties that Beltram encounters djs playing a mix of hip hop and new electronic music sounds, including house. So drawn is he to the djs at these events, that Beltram will soon shift his creative energies from graffitiing to making music, eventually leading to him producing one of techno’s most iconic tracks, "Energy Flash".
15 Jul 2026
Episode 37 –Ken Ishii - Naiad
It’s 1989 when university student, Ken Ishii, visits a musical instrument store in Tokyo, Japan. Ishii has long been enthralled by electronic music, such as that made by the Japanese group, Yellow Music Orchestra. It is however what he interprets as the less complicated production qualities of the techno coming out of Detroit at the time, that really galvanises his passion for this type of music, deciding that this is the kind of sound he wants to make and play himself. In the music store that day, Ishii accordingly purchases a Korg M1 synthesiser, which he learns is able to function as an all-in-one music workstation. Four years following this, Ishii will have released his first productions through one of the world’s most important techno record labels, including the track, Naiad.
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