I dunno if its making a surge, but Ill always take a full on techno set over the minimal glitchy kind.. so your not alone on that

Hell yea my Techno brotha! Its in our blood! Im happy to see its makin a comeback. In the last year it was very quiet and hard to come by. I noticed lately as well that its been popping up much more often. The only problem is convincing guys like Creator, Yaz etc to start playing stuff like that which is very unlikely.

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Originally posted by Mr Moss Ill always take a full on techno set over the minimal glitchy kind.. so your not alone on that

same here

more tech!!
less blip blop bloop!

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natch is yaz still playing? long time i heard from him.

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Originally posted by mastercongo its my cup of tea, the stuff i used to and still love, just nice to see that its being supported a lot this days hehe. i like my minimal but the hard stuff never left me.

x2... my Juno orders have been great lately, and I picked up a handful of those Advent releases too (check out the Fractals release with Joey Beltram on KM that came out late Oct if you haven't heard it yet).
To be honest Raul, since moving to Amsterdam I have been encouraged by the variety of techno over here, there are still DJs bangin' it out propah without it having to be schranz (around 138-146 bpm). I was/am disheartened that so many of my favourite DJs and producers went too soft for my liking in recent years, but the glass looks half full to me these days!

It's a shame that Montreal promoters aren't taking advantage of some of the sweet bookings Toronto has had lately courtesy of Platform... Speedy J, Alex Bau, Chris Liebing, Tony Rohr... etc.
times have changed

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hey kate nice to hear from you again.

i heard that fractal one. excellent tracks. and yeah some of this guys went way to soft for me hehe, i mean liebing played slow sometimes but he always has those banging tracks also plus the stuff he made was good , for example the one with sims was a great track.

so hopefully this sounds starts showing a little bit again.

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yeah I agree - Liebing managed to keep some semblance of his 'older style'... unlike someone such as Barbara who basically just shifted genres completely (I would loooove to hear her play a bangin set again though, however unlikely that would be)

I haven't really been a fan of Liebing's CLR releases since that Sims EP in 2005... but I did pick up that A, B C & D release last year... a few goodies on that one!
A producer I have been missing lately though is Henrik B... I think he is mostly producing house now which is a shame, Illgorhythm is one of my favourite techno labels ever. Thomas Krome has also practically disappeared, but I noticed he had a handful of UK bookings recently.
On the harder tek side, a producer I have really been into lately is Ogi, I think I have bought maybe 6 out of his last 8 releases.

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yeah henrik got to the other side with house, for a while i tought the wame will happen with hertz but he managed to keep his techno sound kinda intact with his sway label, always good things from there. as for ogi, i find harder than the usual, like almost going to the dark side haha with the viper xxl, frank kvitta stuff, maybe hes not as hard now, been a while since i heard his stuff.

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been really liking the new liebing stuff...

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yeah I have still been picking up most of the Sway releases, and was impressed with Hertz's set when I saw him at Awakenings last year. I've also been consistently buying Wehbba records, a lot of fun tracks!

As for Ogi, most of the releases of his that I have are from the past year or so, some of it is a bit much for sure, but I find he has a nice harder style... as opposed to Arkus P or Wittekind releases which I tend to just skip over.

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I miss techno talk! Raul I have no idea what Yaz is up to but I havent heard anything about him for a while. Henrik B used to be really bangin till he made those two toons overun and I forget the other. Cave is still going strong and so is Boriqua Tribez I see a lot of releases from them during the last year. Misstress was really good at doing the techno thing especially on turntables, I miss it!