yes picotto is a mainstream dj - but he deserves respect and i'll say this even if im the only one!
he does do some horribble horrible shitty trance stuff but you can see that his real love is techno - hence all the amazingly good techno tunes on some of the b sides of those trancey bxr's
a couple of years ago i saw him play last set at a hard house club in london - after 8 hours of mindless bollox i was thourogly bored, then he came on, slowed the silly tempo right down and whapped in an amazing set of twisted techno pretty much all along the lines of that 'joyenergiser' tune - it was class and he rocked it hard....
how many dj's can go into a cheese club and play the most twisted techno??? and make the crowd love it!
The production on his tunes are absolutly top notch...
look at:
baguette
were back
back to cali - funky mix
pegasus (not sure which mix)
bangkok
cyberfood
hong kong
joyenergiser - picotto mix
also on bxr check out the livio trax julia ep - along with baguette that is perfect for the london style dj - except better production
and he was a very down to earth chap when i met him, not at all up his own ass like a lot of the people on his circuit....