Will check out Aurora Halal and Olivia. I think I might enjoy Olivia more than Halal based on what I checked out on Soundcloud, but they both sound pretty legit. Will report back.
Originally posted by Zak McKracken
no one mentioned marusha? rocking it since 89
I really liked Marusha during the 90s. She lost a lot of her fans though because she began to make more commercial music.
Surprised nobody's mentioned Miss Djax yet. She's stuck to her roots and has maintained popularity from the early 90s to now, which is very rare for an artist from that time.
Woony
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Originally posted by kosmotika
I really liked Marusha during the 90s. She lost a lot of her fans though because she began to make more commercial music.
Surprised nobody's mentioned Miss Djax yet. She's stuck to her roots and has maintained popularity from the early 90s to now, which is very rare for an artist from that time.
When did you think Marusha "sold out"? Low Spirit was a commercial techno label from the beginning, everybody in the german techno scene was very sceptical of them. Then she released Over The Rainbow in 1994, one of the most ridiculous sell-out tracks in dance music history. Everyone from the first techno generation in germany still hates her for that, it was seen as a huge betrayal to a scene that managed to stay out of the usual pop-mechanism until then. It was different in the UK, where rave had already gone commercial a few years earlier but in germany it was a huge shock.
Miss Djax is one of those names that still seems to play regularily but I never hear her name anymore, not sure what kind of parties she plays at.
lacksesepsotygh
A couple of years ago, she seemed to play lots of hardtechno/schranz parties. Not really sure about now
I kind of miss hearing music like this going out.. As long as it's not interrupted by top 40 samples, matrix film scores and pauses every four seconds.
kosmotika
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Originally posted by Woony
When did you think Marusha "sold out"? Low Spirit was a commercial techno label from the beginning, everybody in the german techno scene was very sceptical of them. Then she released Over The Rainbow in 1994, one of the most ridiculous sell-out tracks in dance music history. Everyone from the first techno generation in germany still hates her for that, it was seen as a huge betrayal to a scene that managed to stay out of the usual pop-mechanism until then. It was different in the UK, where rave had already gone commercial a few years earlier but in germany it was a huge shock.
Miss Djax is one of those names that still seems to play regularily but I never hear her name anymore, not sure what kind of parties she plays at.
I think that judgment was unfair; her first 2 singles were heavily co-produced.
Once she became a true solo act she was mainly making happy hardcore style tracks from the start, which is where Over The Rainbow came in, so it fit in with what she was putting out at the time. Her happy hardcore tracks were very popular, so once she started to work with other genres, many of her listeners lost interest. I never considered Marusha a techno artist, although she often played techno sets. At the end of the day I think she fell victim to wanting to do too much; she experimented with multiple genres, played multiple genres, so it was difficult for her to get a proper foothold in any specific scene. The happy hardcore crowd didn't want her because sometimes she played techno, the techno crowd didn't want her because sometimes she played happy hardcore, the trance crowd didn't want her because sometimes she'd play jungle, the junglists didn't want her because she'd play trance and so on...
Silky Johnson
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Originally posted by Silky Johnson
Going to this on Saturday:
Will check out Aurora Halal and Olivia. I think I might enjoy Olivia more than Halal based on what I checked out on Soundcloud, but they both sound pretty legit. Will report back.
Well I caught only Aurora Halal and holy in , I have not heard techno like that out, live, ever. I mean, Ancient Methods followed her so I'm sure she knew what kind of pace to keep, but damn. She brung itttt. Really aggressive driving . Skull shattering his that didn't cause ear rape. .
Silky Johnson
Hah, well whaddya know. Aurora Halal on BIS this week. Around 40 mins she plays some stuff that sounds like what she was throwing down last weekend, it was definitely appropriate and enjoyable for the venue (she described it on her Twitter as "ok this is insane. like inside the 'real' part of the matrix.. everywhere vast chaotic decaying grids & dystopian doomy echoes"), but overall I like the variety in this mix better. More hypnotic, groovier rhythms. Pretteh, pretteh, pretteh good.
That tracklist doesn't look bad but half of the tracklist is tracks that were hot a few years ago. They sit in that awkward middle where they're played out but not old enough to be fresh again. I have a bit of a pet peeve with DJs that play a bunch of hits from a few seasons ago in podcasts. It makes them look like they don't dig at all. But then again, there's DJ that can't dig for but do well in terms of mixing and flow / track selection.
Silky Johnson
I personally don't care that much about stuff like that. Nit picking over whether or not a DJ is playing upfront tracks makes people sound like cunts. Good music is good music, regardless of when it was released and a DJ chooses to put it in their set. Granted, it's pretty obvious when someone hasn't done their own homework and I don't agree with that either, but eh.
Woony
I know that most people don't care but as someone that's always keeping up, hearing tracks that have been canned to death not too long ago is a bit tiring. If you're hearing a track played out for the tenth time the thrill is gone most of the time.
But it's probably a bit more noticable here in Berlin where you can go to Berghain and listen to techno for 12 hours every sunday. The 'hits' get played out very quickly.
And I don't know, to me the point of frequent podcasts and radio shows is to play upfront material or at least stuff people haven't heard yet most likely.
