I've got the chance to see these guys on NYE in an old factory in Sheffield. Yay or nay?
Woony
I'll admit I haven't seen them live but if you want some silly bangarama into the new year, they'll certainly deliver.
This should be a pretty good indication of their live set as O/V/R although they'll probably play harder.
No idea how their DJing is although I haven't heard bad things.
Guest
Regis has been around forever in the techno world right? Seems like something worth taking a chance on, for Regis at least. Plus think of the crowd that Regis would draw. It'd probably be a chin stroker fest. You'll fit right in!! :)
Woony
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Regis has been around forever in the techno world right? Seems like something worth taking a chance on, for Regis at least.
Regis might just be the most influential techno producer of the last 17 years, alongside Surgeon. The effect Downwards has had on the techno is ridiculous. He recently released an anthology, a lot of the stuff doesn't make that much sense in today's era but some of it still bangs so ing hard. Like this track, so much raw energy and agression in a single loop.
Woony
On the slower side, but the way the synths evolve is so ing sexy.
SYSTEM-J
Sheffield really isn't a chin-stroker kind of scene, so I'm hoping he'll opt for the banging old-school sound. I'm not really into the Berghain thing at all.
Woony
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Sheffield really isn't a chin-stroker kind of scene, so I'm hoping he'll opt for the banging old-school sound. I'm not really into the Berghain thing at all.
Honestly, the whole distinction between the "oldschool" or "UK" and the "Berghain" sound is completely ridiculous and nonsensical. It's a bunch of labels that make no ing sense. I couldn't even properly define them. It's like psy heads making up 10 genres out of the same ing thing. Every proper techno DJ plays all of these "genres" anyways. In the end it's all just techno.
/rant over :p
SYSTEM-J
And yet you have no qualms about using the term "basement techno"? The stuff I hear associated with Berghain these days sounds nothing like the '90s techno sound that used to dominate clubs like The Orbit. And I know which sound I prefer.
Adam420
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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
And yet you have no qualms about using the term "basement techno"? The stuff I hear associated with Berghain these days sounds nothing like the '90s techno sound that used to dominate clubs like The Orbit. And I know which sound I prefer.
My guess is that night you will hear a healthy combination of newer and older techno.
SYSTEM-J
Don't get me wrong, I don't want to sound close-minded because I love a lot of new techno, just not necessarily the dark and grimey stomping sound that seems very in vogue right now. I don't mind hearing it as part of a really good line-up or event, but not really as the apex of the night.
Woony
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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
And yet you have no qualms about using the term "basement techno"? The stuff I hear associated with Berghain these days sounds nothing like the '90s techno sound that used to dominate clubs like The Orbit. And I know which sound I prefer.
"Basement techno" was more of a humorous descreptive term made up by me. It's sort of like "banging techno", as in it can describe a wider range of sounds.
Obviously the sound of a club in germany in 2012 isn't the same as a club in the UK 1994. But you're still going to hear these old tracks (obviously not all the time) which is why the distinction is sort of silly. Good DJs like the berghain residents will fit both new and old stuff in the same set.
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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
Don't get me wrong, I don't want to sound close-minded because I love a lot of new techno, just not necessarily the dark and grimey stomping sound that seems very in vogue right now. I don't mind hearing it as part of a really good line-up or event, but not really as the apex of the night.
I'm sort of on the same boat, I mean I don't mind hearing techno the whole night but I'd like to see some more colour than what DJs currently play. On a somewhat ironic note, various DJs have come out and said that they play more varied and less hard at berghain than in other places, because the soundsystem and the pacing of the night allows them to.
Also I'd be interested to hear some old sets you are referring to, from The Orbit and the like. I mean, nowadays people remember stuff like the Red Series, but from what I can tell, at least in germany the vast majority of stuff being played at the time was fairly generic and by todays standards low quality acid stuff.
SYSTEM-J
Congratulations. You've just invented a new sub-genre.
I don't have any sets from The Orbit. As I've probably mentioned before, there's a night in Leeds called Future-Past which specialises in Orbit-style techno. That's where I've experienced it, and it really does make other techno seem dull by comparison. The Orbit is legendary in these parts. You talk to clubbers of a certain age in Leeds and all they can talk about is how they used to go to the The Orbit, and how it was brilliant. It was reputed in its day to be the best techno night in the world, although it had an extremely stringent techno-only policy dictated by the crowd: more than a few big DJs tried to diversify in their sets and were met with open derision from the dancefloor.
