Techno Music

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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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.
 
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....
 
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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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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That is indeed very very good. Nice inclines that are gentle enough to set it apart from euphoria, and a complete absence of trance effects. Just my cuppa. It's been a long time since I veered from pure minimal.

I find it's very difficult to discuss the dividing lines of what is techno and what is not when you see how varied it really is. I remembered this site from years ago and after reading I decided never to get in an argument over what song belongs to which sub-genre.
http://techno.org/electronic-music-guide/
There are just too many.

Obligatory minimal link: with so little going on, the subtlties are massive:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmCQztG-tJk
It changes gear around the 5 min mark if you find it too boring. Not massively. Just an extra layer.


One artist I've been confused over for a while is Paul Kalkbrenner. Is anyone familiar with his stuff? He is not minimal and I'm not even sure some of his stuff is techno. But I do love it. Where would you place him in that chart? Berlin Calling here
 
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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 :)
 
I used to be into techno in around 2002-2003 as we had a stint doing DJ competitions locally, a couple of old school friends turned out to be into it some years down the line from last seeing them and I latched on a bit.

Stuff like the below used to get us bopping quite a bit :)





Bangers :cool:

Considering Mauro Picotto used to be a bit of a cheese fest end of the 90's early 00's one of the best nights I ever had was a 6 hour techno set he did @ Gatecrasher, truly awesome night with loads of Italian techno.
 
Claire Danes in Berghain, hot!

I know Hawtin splits a lot of opinions nowadays but this is a good set from back in the day.

 
Thread needs way more underground resistance

And can recommend the French documentary "universal techno" to anyone . Starts at the beginning in berlin/Detroit/uk and ends before hipsters
 
Love UR, some great tunes, although some of their stuff on Discogs is a ridiculous price. Looking at Attack Of The Sonic Samurai by Mad Mike and The Deacon, i knew i should have snapped that vinyl up last year when it was £50, none on Discogs now and it'll easily be worth twice that now.

This is a good documentary, about Larry Levan and Paradise Garage.
 
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