I'm not really a warm up expert but a recent warm up set i did started with tracks on Trapez, Kompakt, Gadgets [minimal stuff basically], then stuff like deep Sterac & Mark broom records, D1, Kanzleramt, vocal tribal stuff a la Oliver Ho, then stuff like Tim Wright, Framework and on into more uplifting synty stuff from Tony Rohr, Hacker and so on. Then Umek came on and played Recycled loop type records for 2 hours :roll:

A little while back I did a warm up set at Electricity before Oscar Mulero where the lads billed me as 'electro and deep techno set' so in a way I had no choice but to vary what I played, to be honest I was slightly apprehensive but it was a new challenge that I really enjoyed and it made me think a lot more about how I should build my set when I play out rather than just the easy "right there ye go, **** you if you don't like this hard mutha ****a" attitude.

techno's such a far reaching genre, and a good techno night should be as all inclusive as possible... banging it out at 10 o'clock or whatever is boring, where's the night meant to go from there? people lose interest quite fast this way.. they need to groove a bit first.