Techno Music

ScoTTyBEEE

ScoTTyBEEE

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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:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqaaU45wM4E

This is my sort of techno:

Pan Pot:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55N4h7OHC2Q

Julyukie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uzTRgAqFLA

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7csk_Av1W6c

Pappenheimer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdafBgPDqTY
 
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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!
 
sigma said:
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.
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To that, I'd say listen to that Julyukie link.
 
sigma said:
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.
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Check it out from this spot:

https://youtu.be/_uzTRgAqFLA?t=7m58s

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.
 
AndyT said:
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.
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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.
 
AndyT said:
https://youtu.be/-Da-WSegfas

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOpIUn3adhY&index=3&list=PLA3238405095D8AC2

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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