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Nobody listens to techno

GiantRoboGiantRobo Registered User regular
edited October 2008 in Debate and/or Discourse
I've been honkering for some new trance/techno/industrial whatthefuckever you want to call it, but I never know any of the DJ's names, so here we can have a database of these wonderful rave-inducing monkeys for everyone to share!

I've been listening to a DJ Isaac, Hardwell, Tiesto(Some stuff I like, some I don't), and Cosmic Gate lately, but my collection still lacks with the other stuff I have. If anyone wants me to change this OP to include a list of all of the people/sub-genre's I will to the best of my extent.

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  • GooeyGooey (\/)┌¶─¶┐(\/) pinch pinchRegistered User regular
    edited May 2008
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  • HilgerHilger Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    The system is down! The system is down! The system is down! The system is down!
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  • FellhandFellhand Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Daft Punk's 'Alive' was the best album I've bought this year.

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  • nexuscrawlernexuscrawler Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Trance and rave music are pretty dead these days. Lots of techno has moved into a more melded rock/electronic sound. LCD soundsystem, Hot Chip and Daft Punk for example.

    Squarepusher is still your god

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  • GiantRoboGiantRobo Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    nexuscrawler wrote: »
    Trance and rave music are pretty dead these days. Lots of techno has moved into a more melded rock/electronic sound. LCD soundsystem, Hot Chip and Daft Punk for example.

    Squarepusher is still your god

    I don't like the emo/scene stuff they play at clubs, screw that.

    I just like any style of it that's hard/heavy. I've always had Squarepusher thanks to my brother at a young age.

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  • Grid SystemGrid System Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    It's pretty much impossible to have a sensible conversation about electronic music without narrowing the field at least somewhat.

    Having said that, The Flashbulb is awesome, and so is The Polish Ambassador.

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  • KublaKhanKublaKhan Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    I always tell people to try Cosmic Gate, but it looks like you are already there, you should looks at some of Nic Chagall's solo stuff (he's 1/2 of CG, try Monday Bar and his remix of Virtual Discotec)

    While it's actually electro not trance, you should check out Justice (start with Phantom pt.2), and Crystal Castles (start with Untrust Us)

    DJ Dean is good but really cheasy... one of the lines is actually: "If the bass is too hard, you are too weak."

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  • nexuscrawlernexuscrawler Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Emo? Scene? None of those I named are close to either. Hot Chip and LCD definitely take a few stylistic choices from pop rock but it's hardly emo.

    Want harder stuff? Try some Vitalic, Amon Tobin or Aphex Twin

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  • TachTach Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
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  • HacksawHacksaw J. Duggan Esq. Wrestler at LawRegistered User regular
    edited May 2008
    My flatmate listens to techno. I'm pretty it's just the same 15 seconds of music looped ad infinitum.

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  • HilgerHilger Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Le Castlevania and Crystal Castles are both really good. Get the Crystal Castles album and listen to Vanished because it is awesome.

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  • CantidoCantido Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Does Amon Tobin count? <3

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  • geckahngeckahn Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    As far as tiesto goes, his live stuff is whats really good.

    I'm not really into techno anymore, I'm seeing teisto this summer (for the second time) but I don't know any current new big names, since I was obsessed with techno 5-6 years ago. That said, the top DJs in trance actually havnt changed like at all, since if youre a good fucking dj, youre a good fucking dj.

    So I'd reccomend Paul Van Dyk and Ferry Corsten in addition to live tiesto. oh, and Johan Gielen - specifically one set, In Trance We Trust vol 4. So awesome.

    and for house, which I think is super gay 90% of the time, I always thought Judge Jules was fucking awesome.

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  • Grid SystemGrid System Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Hacksaw wrote: »
    My flatmate listens to techno. I'm pretty it's just the same 15 seconds of music looped ad infinitum.
    Oh my god you are so right I hadn't even noticed that what am I doing listening to this garbage.

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  • Rufus_ShinraRufus_Shinra Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    My current four favorite legitimately "techno" albums:

    The Field - From here we go sublime
    Justice - Cross
    Daft Punk - Alive
    juno reactor - labyrinth

    I also would like to echo the sentiment that a lot of the best "techno" is turning into hybrid electronic rock sound. I am thrilled with the movement.

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  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator, Administrator admin
    edited May 2008
    I mostly listen to industrial and EBM and some noise.

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  • geckahngeckahn Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Justice - Cross is a good album. I can't fucking deal with how bad that track with the chick attempting to rap is though. so bad. Phantom and D.A.N.C.E are awesome though.

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  • KublaKhanKublaKhan Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    If you just want harder trancy stuff, here's some one off songs that are pretty kickass:

    At Night - David Spoon
    Duel - JNC
    Beautiful (Noel Sanger Remix) - Seroya
    Wave (Taucher Mix) - Sosa
    Loniness - Tomcraft
    Who's the Starter - Ernesto vs. Bastian
    Dark Side of the Moon - Ernesto vs. Bastian

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  • YallYall Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    This seems like a good thread to ask this question.

    5 or so years ago I saw this techno video where some kind of puppet/muppet was sitting at a desk and kept gyrating or shaking his head everytime this certain part of the song went 'whup-whup-whup-whup-whup-whup-whup', with the 'whup' part increasing in speed as the part went on.

    Anyone have any idea what song that was or who it was by?

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  • RtyRty Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    deadmau5 has some pretty good trance. More specifically, 'longest road' is one i've been into lately.

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  • MalkorMalkor Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    I've started listening to Chiptune, specifically she and Anamanaguchi.

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=DHmYC8a_4cI

    I don't know if it 'qualifies' or whatever, cause I guess I'm pretty new to the genre. I'm loving Aphex Twin and Justice though.

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  • wakkawawakkawa Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    The only tiesto song I have liked is sweet misery. Its kinda the same style as dark side of the moon by Ernesto vs. Bastian.

    And this one in my playlist right now, and its pretty chill. I don't know how I even got it though.
    Dj Tiesto - In Search Of Sunrise 4 - 104 - Jasefos Ft. Claire Van Der Boom - Do What U Want (Max Graham) .mp3

    And lastly, I can't stand justice. Maybe one or two songs, but christ it gets annoying after awhile.

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  • FeralFeral ＭＥＭＥＴＩＣＨＡＲＩＺＡＲＤ interior crocodile alligator ⇔ ǝɹʇɐǝɥʇ ǝᴉʌoɯ ʇǝloɹʌǝɥɔ ɐ ǝʌᴉɹp ᴉRegistered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Hacksaw wrote: »
    My flatmate listens to techno. I'm pretty it's just the same 15 seconds of music looped ad infinitum.

    Not really; with good techno the difference from one loop to the next might be subtle, but I know subtletly has never been your strong suit, Hax. ;)

    This is what my iPod looks like right now (in terms of techno, anyway - I'm guessing you don't care about the Wu-Tang and Aesop Rock)...

    Black Sun Empire - Cruel and Unusual
    BT - ESCM
    BT - Ima
    BT - Movement in Still Life
    Crystal Method - Vegas
    Daft Punk - Discovery
    DJ Hype - Live at Meditation
    DJ Q-Bert - Wave Twisters
    DJ Shadow - Endtroducing...
    Freestylers - Painkiller
    Hooverphonic - Blue Wonder Power Milk
    Hooverphonic - A New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular
    Hybrid - I Choose Noise
    Hybrid - Remix & Additional Production
    Hybrid - Wide Angle
    Innerpartysystem - The Download EP
    Linkin Park - Reanimation (what? if you listen to it as electronica rather than rock it's actually a fairly decent album)
    Orbital - Altogether
    Orbital - Blue Album
    Orbital - Diversion
    Orbital - In Sides
    Orbital - Middle of Nowhere
    Pendulum - Granite
    Pendulum - Hold Your Colour (oh god so good orgasming right now aaaaaaugh aah)
    Rez - Original Soundtrack
    Sasha & Digweed - Northern Exposure 2
    Underworld - everything they've ever released. (literally, this is like half of my iPod's storage right here.)

    I really need to switch it up a little, though. I need me some Aphex Twin and some Front Line Assembly.

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  • nexuscrawlernexuscrawler Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Needs more Ladytron Feral

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  • KublaKhanKublaKhan Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Rty wrote: »
    deadmau5 has some pretty good trance. More specifically, 'longest road' is one i've been into lately.

    Ah ha, I've been hearing these songs on the radio and in clubs all the time and I couldn't figure out who the djs were until just now, thanks man.

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  • FeralFeral ＭＥＭＥＴＩＣＨＡＲＩＺＡＲＤ interior crocodile alligator ⇔ ǝɹʇɐǝɥʇ ǝᴉʌoɯ ʇǝloɹʌǝɥɔ ɐ ǝʌᴉɹp ᴉRegistered User regular
    edited May 2008
    nexuscrawler wrote: »
    Needs more Ladytron Feral

    Actually I have one track, "Everything you touch" on there. I just didn't list it because I don't have the full release.

    I have a lot of random one-off tracks too, like that MSTRKRFT remix of that Justice song.

    Justice? Meh. MSTRKRFT? Good stuff.

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    the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
  • TheMarshalTheMarshal Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    I'm a fan of Paul Oakenfold, BT, ATB, Tiesto, and a few others. Basically I just went to pandora.com and input a song that I liked and let it pick others to play. I'd give them the thumbs up/down and fine-tune what would come on that way. If I ever noticed that I had thumbs-upped more than one song from a given album/artist, I'd write down the artist and album title to pick up for whenever I found myself at a music store next.

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    edited May 2008
    I also rather like the beatport podcast: http://www.beatportal.com/main/

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    every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.

    the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
  • wakkawawakkawa Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Listing a track list is kind of useless. It would help if you said why you liked those songs and what kind of style they are. Like I won't listen to anything unless it has female vocals in it and I sure as hell don't want to try and for samples of all those songs to listen to just to hate them all.

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  • FeralFeral ＭＥＭＥＴＩＣＨＡＲＩＺＡＲＤ interior crocodile alligator ⇔ ǝɹʇɐǝɥʇ ǝᴉʌoɯ ʇǝloɹʌǝɥɔ ɐ ǝʌᴉɹp ᴉRegistered User regular
    edited May 2008
    wakkawa wrote: »
    Listing a track list is kind of useless.

    I sympathize.
    I might do a longer write-up later. Just didn't have time to put much thought into it right now on my lunch break at work.
    wakkawa wrote: »
    Like I won't listen to anything unless it has female vocals in it

    That's, uh, kinda limiting, isn't it?

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  • wakkawawakkawa Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    There are a few male vocals I can get into. But looking through my play list, 95% of them are female.

    Its weird, I know. But for some reason guys voices bore the shit out of me. The only male singer I have listened to recently is Mika, but thats not exactly straying too far.

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  • SeptusSeptus Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    What would Moby's Play be considered, is that Techno?

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  • geckahngeckahn Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Septus wrote: »
    What would Moby's Play be considered, is that Techno?

    yeah. It's techno. as in the sub-genre.

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  • Mortal SkyMortal Sky queer punk hedge witchRegistered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Moby is awesome. Not sure if he's trance or what, but he's hella good.
    EDIT: Oh, he's actual techno.

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  • MedopineMedopine __BANNED USERS regular
    edited May 2008
    wakkawa wrote: »
    Listing a track list is kind of useless. It would help if you said why you liked those songs and what kind of style they are. Like I won't listen to anything unless it has female vocals in it and I sure as hell don't want to try and for samples of all those songs to listen to just to hate them all.

    Expanding musical horizons is for lame-o's

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  • wakkawawakkawa Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Some people get really defensive over their sub genres. Theres a pretty massive chart out there somewhere that lists all of the sub genres and has examples of them all.
    Medopine wrote: »
    wakkawa wrote: »
    Listing a track list is kind of useless. It would help if you said why you liked those songs and what kind of style they are. Like I won't listen to anything unless it has female vocals in it and I sure as hell don't want to try and for samples of all those songs to listen to just to hate them all.

    Expanding musical horizons is for lame-o's

    And listening to songs you don't like is...

    Seriously what the fuck?

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  • TavTav Irish Minister for DefenceRegistered User regular
    edited May 2008
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  • Mortal SkyMortal Sky queer punk hedge witchRegistered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Wakka:

    Techno.org's guide?

    http://techno.org/electronic-music-guide/

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  • GyralGyral Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    While not my main genre, I do like to break out some techno/dub/drum & bass/industrial from time to time. Personal favorites include Roni Size, anything by Bill Laswell and especially anything by Mick Harris (Scorn, Quiot, Lull).

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  • MedopineMedopine __BANNED USERS regular
    edited May 2008
    wakkawa wrote: »
    Some people get really defensive over their sub genres. Theres a pretty massive chart out there somewhere that lists all of the sub genres and has examples of them all.
    Medopine wrote: »
    wakkawa wrote: »
    Listing a track list is kind of useless. It would help if you said why you liked those songs and what kind of style they are. Like I won't listen to anything unless it has female vocals in it and I sure as hell don't want to try and for samples of all those songs to listen to just to hate them all.

    Expanding musical horizons is for lame-o's

    And listening to songs you don't like is...

    Seriously what the fuck?

    Oh never mind I didn't know you were psychic and could know you disliked a song before you ever listened to it

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