Let's talk Techno (NOT Trance/House/Hard/Goa/Ambient etc.)

[pestro87]

Stuff like this:

Eat Static - Hybrid
Eat Static - Contact
Bryan Zentz - D-Clash (Original Mix)
G.I.T.S Megatech Body - Spook & Spell (Fast Version)
Jeff Mills - The Bells

What are some of you guys' favorite artists/albums/tracks?

Also, please refrain from posting sub-genre snobbery like "This is actually ambient crossover west-Irish acid rave dnb, NOT ambient acid rave like you stated". Let's try and keep the discussion on the music itself and not delve too much into how it should be categorized.

Cheers

[emphatic]

Eat Static is techno now? (Sorry, but I just had to).

Here are some of my favorite techno tracks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4dSRpSnPOU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_b2P_xQolA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b831oSc4ICg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdeVX7UjeIk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jicwnThwjzc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA9HjxeKDEc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALsHox5sYCk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEqj7bVNaUI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB5h5Z8peDs

[Xyga]

Sebastien Leger - Majuro
Whim-ee - You Like It D
Rick Wade - Deep Subliminal

It's hard not to use subgenre designation terms though, let's say I like it housey-acidey-Detroitey...old school.

And just for fun because for a short period of time I was into gabber (and barely any older than these kids lol) http://youtu.be/lkqtQ61k58E
Winners don't use drugs.

[pestro87]

Eat Static is techno now? (Sorry, but I just had to).

Haha Yeah they (or "he" I suppose since it's just Merv now) dabble into many genres but they have a few tracks that I would personally categorize as techno such as the ones listed in the OP. Awesome tracks btw!!! I will give them a proper listen tonight accompanied by a glass of whiskey

It's hard not to use subgenre designation terms though, let's say I like it housey-acidey-Detroitey...old school.

Agreed, feel free to use those terms so that people know approximately what you're talking about. What I meant was that it's easy to get lost in discussions about how an artist should be categorized so I was hoping to keep the focus of the conversation on the actual music itself.

[GaijinPunch]

While I love Eat Static, they are definitely not Techno by today's standards, and pretty questionably back in their hay day. Some excellent stuff out of those wacky guys.

Best techno I've heard in a while, and I've been clubbing for over 20 years:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiMLuWOP_GQ

Spot me in the video and get a free kiss blown to you through the internet.

Maceo Plex's Essential Mix from last week is apparently the cat's meow. I've not gotten around to it yet.

Jeff Mills - The Bells

My first weekend living here in Chicago, I went to see Interstellar at the IMAX, and low and behold, the man himself was there lined up to buy popcorn.

[Obiwanshinobi]

I doubt it's "techno", but speaking of genres, what would any of you would call this?

[CIT]

Good thread!

My top picks, chronologically:

Cybotron - Clear One of the great classics.
R-Tyme - R-Theme My favorite Derrick May track.
Inner City - Good Life All the 90s dance stuff was basically a poor copy of this.
UR - Jupiter Jazz Garegga stage 2!
Carl Craig - Future Love Theme This whole album is mindblowing.
Ben Klock - Subzero Quintessential Berlin sound.

I doubt it's "techno", but speaking of genres, what would any of you would call this?

Techno or house, I mean who cares what you call it.

[Cee]

Detroit
Aril brikha - departure in time is one of the best techno albums out there definitely check it out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzbQGP_ ... 0D&index=6
Couple detroit classics from suburban knight, model 500 (juan atkins) and MK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD4BQIJo4f0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtxmCVbUsdY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvaWRDHBLSE
Berlin
Sandwell district and Rrose make some crazy intense techno.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bsu0GiJP9Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=245edaBPV8Q
Dub techno
Basic channel pioneered the dub techno sound, these guys were way ahead of their time, incredible producers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppEhaH3jSzo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7emQ-9 ... q--flPfFwt

Thanks for posting that "Soma - Slam Positive Education" emphatic been trying to id that one for a whilst, what a tune!

[lilmanjs]

There is too much Techno I could give from the Ambient Techno and Dub Techno genres that I think I'd bore you all. I will say that anything Coppice Halifax does is amazing. One of the best Techno producers out there and he's getting more and more experimental as time goes on.
He remixed a track of mine for a single to promo a Dub Techno album I had come out on the label. He then mentioned after the full album was out that the remix he gave was a remix of the first remix he made. Both are on this release
https://coppicehalifax.bandcamp.com/alb ... l-fortress
and some other CH stuff that is worth hearing.
https://coppicehalifax.bandcamp.com/album/leaf-cloak
https://coppicehalifax.bandcamp.com/album/earthworks-i
https://coppicehalifax.bandcamp.com/album/u-p-b
https://coppicehalifax.bandcamp.com/album/whitehope

[emphatic]

Thanks for posting that "Soma - Slam Positive Education" emphatic been trying to id that one for a whilst, what a tune!

Cool! It's "Positive Education" by Slam. SOMA is the record label run by Slam and was responsible for releasing Daft Punk's "Da Funk" before they were picked up by that major label.

[Xyga]

Ken Ishii's Extra + animation. <3 http://youtu.be/t6maVVFs0As

[GaijinPunch]

Green Velvet - Bigger Than Prince (Hot Since 82 Remix). Drop this mofo and watch the kids fill the floor.

[GaijinPunch]

Green Velvet - Bigger Than Prince (Hot Since 82 Remix). Drop this mofo and watch the kids fill the floor.

[Immryr]

for techno I generally like Detroit stuff, underground resistance, drexciya, Kenny larkin etc.

here's a fairly overlooked gem:

0733 - sector 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_d4UkWiesQ

[emphatic]

Ken Ishii's Extra + animation. <3

Awesome.

[Skykid]

Awesome stuff in this thread. A lot of it is kind of blurred between trance and ambient though. I'm a bit of a dirty drum & bass enthusiast personally, although recently I've been listening to all sorts of odd shit from The Kooks to the Chappie soundtrack (Not the Die Antwoord stuff, the the Hans Zimmer absolute boner inducing reverb stuff) I also gave some time to Chase & Status's No More Idols. I quite liked it's eclectic mix of styles.

[MathU]

Martin Damm is the king of hardcore techno. It's always been a little perplexing to me how he seems to be so relatively unknown when he's one of the most insanely prolific producers in the industry.

[DJ Incompetent]

Channel X - The Old Train
Richie Hawtin - The Tunnel
Peace Division - Club Therapy
Aaron Cross - A Little Blue
Underworld - Rez/Cowgirl

ITANO CIRCUS? ITANO CIRCUS!

[pestro87]

@emphatic Tim Taylor & Dan Zamani - The Horn Track is such a fantastic track! Can't stop listening to it! The Soma track is also really sweet!

@GP Wow, you've been to the Labyrinth Festival? That's super awesome! Some great stuff in that video btw. Haha nice, really cool to hear that you saw him in Chicago! What a legend. His live sets never ceases to amaze me.

@Xyga I've heard a few Ken Ishii tracks but nothing that really grabbed me. That track is amazing though! And really cool video as well!

ITANO CIRCUS? ITANO CIRCUS!

Outstanding!

[emphatic]

http://youtu.be/msORpOH3Zbw

http://youtu.be/SDz3Ph0Owlk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vm6pm5mCLXg

[Cata]

Shed/Head High/Wax/WK7
Blawan
Joy Orbison
Rrose
Robert Hood

That's my kinda techno

[Cata]

http://youtu.be/msORpOH3Zbw

http://youtu.be/SDz3Ph0Owlk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vm6pm5mCLXg

Also, these tracks are really good!

[GaijinPunch]

@GP Wow, you've been to the Labyrinth Festival? That's super awesome! Some great stuff in that video btw. Haha nice, really cool to hear that you saw him in Chicago! What a legend. His live sets never ceases to amaze me.

3 times. I was a late bloomer to that. It was getting good when I went back to Japan, but had just had a kid, then marriage crumbled, then economy crumbled, and I finally bounced back and decided to enjoy life. My first year was the year with the infamous typhoon... the one that went all the way up into the mountains.

I've seen Jeff Mills around, not DJing, a few times. I actually rode from Tokyo to Kyoto with him (as a translator/handler) in 1999. This was the 3-vinyl turntables and a drum machine days. He is amazing, no two ways about it.

[emphatic]

That's really cool, GP. So much good stuff in this thread already. I'm gonna be broke, hunting records.

[Zaarock]

Dan Curtin - Intertwined / Subconscious Awareness

really good stuff in this thread, lots of new artists to check out for me

[lilmanjs]

Yagya - Snowflake 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mbk8M86rwg
Ambient Techno classic from a man who moved onto Dub Techno after his debut. Entire album is pure classic.
Gas - Gas 5 (All tracks are untitled on all albums) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-q9ReQjIA4
Amazing debut from Wolfgang Voigt as Gas. The rest is orchestral sampled Ambient Techno, but that debut is pure synth Ambient Techno of the highest order.

[Feedbacker]

Slam - Groovelock (Deepchord Centrum Remix)
Voices From The Lake - S.T. (VFTL Rework)
The Field - The Deal
Voiski - From White To The Red
Nummer - To The D
Deepthroat - Double Ended YB
Deepthroat - Needing You
Recondite - Felicity
Deepside - French
Obsolete Music Technology - Mmmmmusic
Underworld - Peach Tree
Adam Beyer - Pumpin Mate V.2 (Marco Carola Remix)
Love Inc. - R.E.S.P.E.C.T. (Mike Ink Remix)
Duplex - Where's My City

[emphatic]

Slam - Groovelock (Deepchord Centrum Remix)
Voices From The Lake - S.T. (VFTL Rework)
The Field - The Deal
Voiski - From White To The Red
Nummer - To The D
Deepthroat - Double Ended YB
Deepthroat - Needing You
Recondite - Felicity
Deepside - French
Obsolete Music Technology - Mmmmmusic
Underworld - Peach Tree
Adam Beyer - Pumpin Mate V.2 (Marco Carola Remix)
Love Inc. - R.E.S.P.E.C.T. (Mike Ink Remix)
Duplex - Where's My City

^^Very good tracks here.

Here are some nice Ian Pooley tech-house/techno stuff:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-22AAnhhjY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLDNOlfqlLw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMw6l3Tg4Xs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQiU0GqOzhI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xIBml8l1x4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th2qi2jt_wg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=731twxvu8Ic

I've always loved this Alec Empire track too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MohV3ilFOM

[Geist]

Interesting thread with some really nice tunes- bringing back good memories.

Makes me wanna unbox my Technics again

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Vince Watson - Spectral Emotions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nbgu5qrue8

Gecko -- Just Close Your Eyes (Pascal Feos Remix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfL60bvqPJA

Jay Denham - Reform
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBgfdq5Uvbc

Heiko Laux - Souldancer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exczzMEts_0

Maurizio - M4.5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KjKTvsNVo8

Steve Rachmad - Tir Na Nog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iTvvvLVC6w

Mathew Jonson - Decompression
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utY7cmgVNPg

Elektrochemie LK : Schall (Original 1996)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_HmsUg3vjI

Ben Sims - Manipulated (Adam Beyer Remix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtY4rSf3IJg

[GaijinPunch]

That's really cool, GP. So much good stuff in this thread already. I'm gonna be broke, hunting records.

werd -- glad to help.

Fun Fact:
Feedbacker's avatar comes from the album cover of the Ghost in the Shell Playstation Game soundtrack (CD, verison)



I owns the vinyl, which ain't cheap.



The title track of which is a pretty bangin' techno track from Takkyu Ishino. The opening animation of which is more inline w/ the original manga than any of the other ones... which I quite prefer. Oh, the 90's...