Techno Music

[ScoTTyBEEE]

My entire life has pretty much been dominated by electronic music. Since I was around 15 years old it's all I've listened to, be it hard house, drum and bass, techno etc. Basically music sans lyrics.

I'm fairly unique amongst my friends. They all grew up loving Oasis, Blur, The Doors etc, and all the usual sort of music.

I lived in Germany almost 10 years ago, and it was that point I discovered I wasn't abnormal. Now, in the UK if you go to a hard techno club here, if you can find one - you won't find many women. In Germany 'normal' music there is techno, and often pretty hard techno, and everyone goes there - including the most amazing looking women. I cannot begin to tell you at home I felt in that country, no longer an outsider lol.

The buzz you can get off a decent hard techno set is unprecedented, for me anyway.

So, this is a thread dedicated to techno.

This is what techno is:

This is my sort of techno:

Pan Pot:

Julyukie:

Dave Clarke (probably one of the best ever technical DJ's)

Pappenheimer:

 

[ScoTTyBEEE]

It's broad I'll give you that. Even my examples are broad, but I think they all fit the category.

Lets share the techno love amongst ourselves. We are an obscure breed in this country!

 

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Bit of minimal techno. You'd probably like DJ Pierre. Try this:

https://1drv.ms/u/s!AoYb3vrMPG5Mg4gUVh_rSW2aet1I-Q

I use this mix to test new headphones as it's so clear and crisp. I luuuuuuuuurve this mix.

 

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I prefer hard trance, hard house (not so much these days, mind) or psytrance, I find there's not enough going on in techno and it's also a bit too slow.

Without trying to be offensive, I could listen to techno as background music whilst working, or something...perhaps that's a way to appreciate it more.

To that, I'd say listen to that Julyukie link.

 

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Yeah it's decent, it's ever so slightly too fast for me but it's not far off hitting the spot most DJs tend to speed up on live sets/nights anyway.

Check it out from this spot:

That, that is what I'm talking about

Most of the rest of the set isn't my thing. Well, just not as good. That's probably tingling those hard house drops you love.

 

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It's difficult to say. Hard house became all crap with it's mad arse weird noises.

Techno has always been about the beat. The non stop repetitive beat, over and over. Hard, non repenting.

That's hard techno. It may share similarities to hard house of yesterday, but it never deviated from its roots. Hard techno and hard house shared similarities, but hard house went stupid, hard techno stayed knowing what was good. That's why it's stilla around.

 

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Also it had that industrial noise over it.

Listen to a classic hard house beat:

notice no 'industrial noise', real bouncy beat.

 

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That's a fair point and I see what you mean as I never really followed it that closely. Perhaps hard techno is my thing then

Probably is mate. It's the best

 

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What's the tune at 22:10? I remember that well.

Lets not get into that. I'm almost going off topic already as it is.

Techno is what we're discussing.

 

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Finally, a techno thread!!! I'll get linking up in the morning

Looking forward to it. Lets share some good mixes around.

 

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OK

Stick around mate. I'm sure you'll find a lot of stuff you like. I've got tons of stuff to eventually link to. Like I say, this is all I've listened to for my whole life

 

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Was there a question? Not sure I really care though...

Dave Clarke is a god. Carl Cox is God's dad.

However recently I prefer the softer techno. Getting old you see.... Saw Lee van Dowski on a roof by a pool in Barca on a Sunday afternoon the other month. Incredible.

There's a techno genre for all of us, of all ages. Lets get some minimalist links posted for us oldies (I'm with you there). Check out that DJ Pierre link I posted.

 

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This guys really good, got a great warehouse style mix from him:

http://www.house-mixes.com/profile/DJ Pat Jensen/play/birthday-mix

Warehouse mix:

https://1drv.ms/u/s!AoYb3vrMPG5Mg4gWJYyE2MdTnwX54w

 

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New, fresh, and happy to hear it.

I spent too many nights in crasher, Sheffield listening to trance music. I will never forget it, best nights ever, but I can't listen to trance on a night out now. Too much like hard work.

Itwillalwaysbewithme etc....

Love it. Proper techno imho.

Same. I spent my youth in London listening to hard house. Loved every minute of it - can't stand HH now. I will admit though it was more the time of Camisra and not the tidy traxx stuff, so far more leaning towards techno.

 

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OK

Here you go Sigma. This is where hard house came from. It came out of techno music (check out the links down the side, lots of good old tunes):

This is where it ended imho:

I'd almost even classify that HH tune as techno. But it isn't and it lost its way after that.

 

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Here's another original techno originating tune that I'm sure many will know:

 

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This is probably the actual song that got me into techno music:

I've never told anyone this. There used to be a TV show in the 90's about computer games that had this mad soundtrack on it. As a, I guess 14-15 year old I phoned up the company that made the tv program to ask them what the music was. I'd never really heard it before but it clicked with me more than anything I'd heard before.

Anyway they told me the name of the album, and also told me so many people had called them asking the same as I had. Being a technology program I can't remember why but I asked them for the 'name of the internet' because I wanted to get involved.

Anyway they told me their name, and in hindsight what they were telling me was their email address. They had as much of an idea of my request as I did. Anyway I drew a picture of an axe in it, because the @ sign wasn't used in that era and I had no idea what they were talking about. I thought they said abc AXE xyz . whatever lol

oh happy days

 

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I take it back. I will categorise that song, and it's happy hardcore.

I can't hear any happy hardcore, but I need sleep before I can give any answers right now.

 

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Another big fan of techno here, it's what made me blow my entire student loan on a set of decks and a mixer at uni.

Dave Clarke, Jeff Mills and Ritchie Hawtin were my faves.

Good Dave Clarke set here:

The bells by Jeff Mills is probably my favourite track:

Nice DC mix, good to have such a clear shot of the mixer.

Looks like he's one something too - the love of the music heh.

 

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