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Godfather
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I've been having a real hard time finding some decent techno out there. It's starting to become a real pain to filter the few gems from the mountains of crap I have to go through.
To give you at taste at what i'm in the market for, Pendulum's "Fasten Your Seatbelts" and Prodigy's "Skylined" are two examples of the type of techno I am looking for.
Anyone?
To give you at taste at what i'm in the market for, Pendulum's "Fasten Your Seatbelts" and Prodigy's "Skylined" are two examples of the type of techno I am looking for.
Anyone?
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Although it might not "count," in relation to your examples, Fischerspooner is also worth a try.
Telefon Tel Aviv (more ambient)
Aphex Twin (again, somewhat related)
Ladytron?
I tried.
If you are feeling a bit more adventurous, you could try Boards of Canada's "Music has the Right to Children".
If you are feeling really really adventurous, then there's Squarepusher. Brilliant but schizophrenic sound, often with insane rhythmic patterns. His early albums and the latest "Hello Everything" are a bit easier to get into, and "Big Loada" is probably at spastic best. I believe Aphex Twin is fairly heavily influenced by him.
On a side note, nobody recommend Sandstorm or Children.
Please.
I'm shooting in random places here to see what happens.
Soulwax
Justice
The Faint (more rock oriented, but still great)
UNKLE
Alright, I'm delirious and deviating too much. Hope you like a few of them.
Ferry Corsten. Got some sweet shit. Give a listen to something like Whatever, or LEF, or Fire, good songs.
moby
portishead
squarepusher
sneakerpimps
basement jaxx
pitchshifter
massive attack
Daft Punk
My friend had a box set that I think was called Tunnel Trance Force and track 6 on that cd is the greatest electronica song ever. I think it's called Lullaby.
Edit: Also Underworld. Their first two albums Mmmmm Skyscraper I Love You and Beaucoup Fish were great.
DJ Mystik
Paul Oakenfold
DJ Quicksilver
Really any of those. Tiesto is easily the best in the business though.
I think you mean Dubnobasswithmyheadman, on which Skyscraper is a single.
Try also:
Chemical Brothers
Juno Reactor
Leftfield
Future Sound of London
Kraftwerk
The Orb
DJ Shadow
LCD Soundsystem
Massive attack
You're right, and also mentioned FSoL. I haven't heard them in a while.
Might want to check out Eric Prydz too.
Sure I generalized.
Music contains upbeat tempos. Check.
Music is created with a synthetic sound or instruments. Check.
I was just trying to recommend some similar sounding stuff he might like.
From Wikipedia:
Techno is a form of electronic dance music that had its early beginnings in Western Europe in the late 1970s and later developed and established as a genre in Detroit, Michigan during the 1980s
Pendulum isn't goddamn techno. And Moby is just goddawful. Anyone who likes Moby, I tell them to check out BT, since he actually cares about the music he makes.
Happy Hardcore
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Tiesto & BT did "Love Comes Again", but I don't know if BT did production, or just the vocals.
(BT's also a great vocalist, in my opinion.)
Personally I really like Cosmic Gate, but they aren't for everyone, hard trance basically, check out "Earth Mover" to start.
Also, Hybrid, very good, check out "Choke" and "I Choose Noise" (the song not album)
Oh shit yeah I forgot about that. I gotta pick that one up... My CDs were stolen in my car a while back... Including a ton of my good techno artists.
Aphex Twin was making music YEARS before Squarepusher.
Sorry, I just love Aphex and his originality is almost purely his own creation.
There's some good techno here, I would only add:
Roni Size - touching down is a great album as is the song brown paper bag and several others. Check it out if you like Drum n Bass.
"Oh what a day, what a LOVELY DAY!"
There is a song called "Never gonna come back down" by BT and the dude from Soul Coughing. Evidentally it is from the "Gone in 60 Seconds" soundtrack (but upon watching the movie, the song isnt played once).
Do a quick youtube on it, easily my favorite "techno" song. Of course, if youre looking for a more non-vocal techno, then i would stay away from it, as it sounds like a real....song, instead of beat.
Just thought i would throw that in since i saw BT's name.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vyq40R2oa6U
BT & M. Doughty, fyi.
Blonde English girls named Cherise, I love that shit.
They've actually done a CD together. It is called "Mike & Rich: Expert Knob Twiddlers" or something like that. Squarepusher is a traditional bassist who got into electronic music because he couldn't make the music he wanted to otherwise. I'm sure his opinion has changed since, but he used to say that he hated using computers.
His single best album is Movement In Still Life, but R&R is tough competition.
I must second this, especially ISoS2. Tiesto is what made me go from "techno fucking sucks" to "holy crap techno can be great."
Also, check out the stations on www.di.fm, I'm hooked on their Trance channel, although you can probably find something you like there too.
I don't know if it classifies as techno or what-have-you, but Juno Reactor, oh God yes yes yes.
I can understand while people can be against microlabeling genres but its kind of important in this case.
TECHNO:
Richie Hawtin
Ricardo Villalobos
Magda
Minilogue
Radioslave
James Holden
Anything on the Label Kompakt
phonique
steve bug
Stephan Bodzin
Umek
Thomas Schumacher
Lützenkirchen (sometimes electro)
BUTCH
Dubfire
Tech House -
The new Sasha stuff on his label emfire (Coma and park it in the shade)
Trentemoller (Sometimes electro house, sometimes minimal house, all the time awesome)
Robert Babicz
Gui Boratto
Guy Gerber
Samim
Marc Romboy
Martin Buttrich (somteimes techno)
BOOKA SHADE
ZOO BRAZIL
Electro House:
Eric Prydz (somtimes tech house somteimes prog house)
JUSTICE
JOHN DAHLBÄCK
Progressive House:
Jody Wisternoff
Nick Warren
Way Out West (Somtimes Progressive Breaks)
Gabriel & Dresden
Josh Gabriel (His new single Summit is awesome)
Deadmau5 (somtimes electro house)
BT (also pioneered trance in the 90's, big beat and breakbeat in early 00's, and prog house, and now his album TBU is really really cool and undefinable)
Other:
Aphex Twin (IDM)
Amon Tobin (IDM)
These are the genres I listen to a lot, these are artists that are consistently good imo.
www.beatport.com - buy music here, look for music here. There are underground jems hidden in the garbage.
I make music too, click the note in my sig.
You're welcome
Ratatat
Two pretty good stuffs.
Nothing worse than a elitist techno nerd.
I really liked his last album This Binary Universe but it's much more ambient and weird than his other stuff.
Knowing genres helps distinguish what it is you actually listen to and makes it easier to find what you like. Using techno as an umbrella term for anything made electronically or with synthesizers is as dumb as calling anything made with guitars rock music.