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Ok, so i've always hated 'techno' but i wanna give it a chance...need some help
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| Kytracid |
Well maybe hate is too strong a word, just never got into it, despite having seen almost all the major techno dons spin.
Carl Cox ( <--- Great presence, but his set just didn't do it for me )
Kevin Saunderson
Plastik Man
Picotto ( <---- Made my ears bleed !!! ---> )
Technasia
Dave Clark
Jeff Mills
Danny Howells
Sven Vath ( Played what is probably the only techno set which completely blew me away )
So, who do you tech heads recommend i listen to, so i can change my opinion of techno. I'm willing to give techno a fair chance, but it seems every song is almost exactly the same as the last one, with maybe just subtle variations in fx's or an added layer of sound.
I don't mind the furious techno pace (although it's impossible for me to dance to it), but i'd like to hear a set or mix comp that showcases the best of techno right now...
open to suggestions... |
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| The Highroller |
| Adam Beyer's Essential Mix 2002 |
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| amb_ |
Michel de Hey
Michel de Hey - Essential Mix (06-09-2002)
Secret Cinema
Secret Cinema - live at Dance Valley (02-08-2003)
EDIT: And Cari Lekebusch... MMM.
Cari Lekebusch - live @ Tresspasser (05.05.2002) |
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| Kytracid |
| Nice, i've read Beyer drops some tight sets...gotta track that EM out. Thanks Graham. |
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| crazedcanuck |
Preach and Misstress Barbara, as well and any Hawtin sets you can get.
I'm crazedcanuck on soulseek |
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| Kytracid |
^^^
Must say i'm very curious about what a Preach set sounds like after reading so much good stuff about him. Same with Mistress Barbara (i've heard her spin as Ms Brown (or something -- which was a housey set )) |
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| amb_ |
| One word for her: Relentless! :toothless |
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| DigiNut |
Pff, get with it man, some of those aren't even really techno.
Download a couple of sets from these:
- Adam Beyer
- Ken Ishii
- Umek
- Cave (shut up Graham)
- Gaetano Parisio
- Chris Liebing
- Misstress Barbara (if you like funkier techno - lots of her sets and the Relentless Beats 2 album)
I'm not sure exactly which sets to recommend from all of them, but a few notable ones I can think of that shouldn't be too hard to find are:
- Adam Beyer Live @ Electronica Festival Istanbul, 05/06/2004
- Adam Beyer Essential Mix 2002
- Preach's edmm.ca mix from 2004 (not his very best but pretty good)
- Cave's first (January 2003) or last (August 2004) demo mix, you can get them on his web site, www.cave.no. The older one is more funky/latin, the new one is very tribal. Don't get the middle one, it's kind of iffy.
- Ken Ishii - Millenium Spinning at Reel Up (it's actually an album), or basically almost anything from him :p
I don't think those are even the best sets, they're just good ones.
I also don't even know who's on it but Mirza once posted a gigantic 3½ hour techno set on here that is still probably one of the best I've ever heard - just give me a shout on IM and I can send it to you. Trust me, you'll find something you like on it. :)
Edit: Or DigiNut on Soulseek when I'm actually online, which is hardly ever. :p |
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| dRale |
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| Kytracid |
| quote: | Originally posted by DigiNut
Pff, get with it man, some of those aren't even really techno.
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hehe, well techno's so generic it's hard to pin down what flava of techno i have listened to. It's like house, everyone has their own definition of what is, and what isn't techno.
I think i've probably heard more detroit techno then 'propa' techno (which is what i suspect ppl like Umek, Beyer, Lieb, Cox, Cave) spin. |
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| DigiNut |
| quote: | Originally posted by Kytracid
I think i've probably heard more detroit techno then 'propa' techno (which is what i suspect ppl like Umek, Beyer, Lieb, Cox, Cave) spin. |
Yeah, or more accurately, European and specifically Swedish/German techno specifically. Cave is from the Netherlands or something but it's all in that same little area. Detroit techno has kind of an old school sound to it that I don't really like much either. They're both technically 'proper', just very different. I think Cox is closer to Detroit than European...
Stay away from DJ Rush, Marco Remus, etc. if you don't like noise, even I can't handle them for more than 20 minutes.
P.S.
KEN ISHII!! :p |
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| Kytracid |
| quote: | Originally posted by DigiNut
Yeah, or more accurately, European and specifically Swedish/German techno specifically. Cave is from the Netherlands or something but it's all in that same little area. Detroit techno has kind of an old school sound to it that I don't really like much either. They're both technically 'proper', just very different. I think Cox is closer to Detroit than European...
Stay away from DJ Rush, Marco Remus, etc. if you don't like noise, even I can't handle them for more than 20 minutes. |
LOL, exactly that old detroit sound might have been cool back in the day, but all those blips and blops just sound outdated now. The only detroit techno track i ever liked was "Nyte of the Jaguar". Thanks for the cautionary tip as well, can't stand noise disguised as techno (that stuff is almost as bad as Happy Hardcore - almost, that honor goes to TerrorCore (which i listened to for about 2.5 minutes :nervous: )still makes me shudder !)
Sven Vath threw down a great set at Twilo a few years back which i enjoyed immensly, so did Jeff Mills when he spun at Limelight (nothing quite like a techno party in a church with dominatrixs and slaves in cages suspended high from the cielings -- blew my mind )
Thanks for the suggestions, i think i'll start the education off with a little Adam Beyer and sprinkle in a few Preach sets as well. Hopefully in a few weeks my opinion will have changed :)
edit: LOL, ok KEN ISHII as well -- just cause i like the way that name rolls off my tongue....ISHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII !!! :toothless |
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