Drumcode marks its 30th anniversary with a 20-track compilation

Swedish techno label Drumcode is celebrating 30 years with “30 Years of Drumcode”, a 20-track compilation in two volumes that revisits tracks from its back catalogue. According to 909originals, the release is out now on digital, vinyl and streaming platforms.

Volume 1 collects 14 reworks: founder Adam Beyer asked some of the label's key artists to update their own best-loved Drumcode releases. Among them are Amelie Lens with “In Silence”, Alan Fitzpatrick with “Skeksis”, Victor Ruiz, Nicole Moudaber, Joel Mull, Sam Paganini, Julian Jeweil and Beyer himself with “Don't Go”. The press release calls the project a retrospective, but “not in the traditional sense”.

Volume 2 is a six-track remix set. It includes new takes on Beyer's collaborations with Joseph Capriati, Bart Skils, and Layton Giordani and Green Velvet, as well as Maceo Plex's “Conjure Dreams” remixed by Beyer and Bart Skils. It closes with a Jesper Dahlbäck remix of “DC01” by Adam Beyer and Lenk, the label's first release.

Beyer founded Drumcode in Stockholm in the mid-1990s. Starting out as a label tied to the Swedish techno scene, it grew into an international electronic music brand that now also runs Drumcode Radio and hosts its own events and festivals across Europe and North and South America.