I grew up playing video games and wonder if my addiction to techno comes from all of the electronic bleeps and sounds with the basic midi soundtracks blasting throughout the arcade. Anyhow, I wouldn't be shocked if there were many Techno Head members here. Here is a new Techno Mix I put together recently. thttps://soundcloud.com/every-other-dimension/standing-on-a-70s-street Feel free to share dj sets, original tracks...
I've gotten into more of the dubstep crowd. I don't make tracks or anything but I do tweak them up a bit. Someone known as "TheLivingTombstone" on YouTube made a track called "Dubstep Dishwasher". I took the track and edited it up a bit. I deleted the vocal pauses and pumped the baseline up by around 6 db. It really thumps nice and hard on my subs. Poor grandparents can hear it at times even at only 1/4 volume... They're gonna really love it once I get my amped 5.1 surround setup on my Xbox. Nice big amped sub there. Just waiting on the SPDIF to analog adapter to come in now. The wait is killing me...
Impressive that you are doing edits. There is a DJ software tool called Traktor which is very user friendly and allows a lot of creative choices in compiling a mix. You can get some mp3's and mash up many different tracks. I enjoy some of the older dubstep and have a few tracks, Roska's Squark for example, which is stripped down to it's bare components. I have noticed a trend with dubstep in which it seems to be heading towards R&B and commercial trance. I can't get into those tunes. Regarding noise pollution, I try to keep Techno to every other day so that my neighbors get a rest.
I like techno but more towards the original sound when it first came about. I can't stand dubstep or drum&base though.
I love Aphex Twin, and a few other artists. I think I'm the same - I was immediately receptive to electronic music because I had been playing videogames since I was a kid. Vectorman's music has a very techno feel to it. I think that was a good way for me to be introduced into the genre. I'm more interested in 90s electronic music, although there are a few modern musicians I'm interested in, like Nosaj Thing.
I definitely wouldn't call myself a Techno Head but I enjoy electronic music sometime, to change from all the punk stuff I usually listen to... On my current playlist is the second album of "Mungolian Jet Set" called "we gave it all away...and now we are taking it back" http://www.mungolian.com/well_of_souls/audioaids.html, some tracks by Xewin http://www.xewin.com and old YMO LPs ("Solid State Survivor" and the US edition of "Multiples"). I occasionally have fun with Korg DS-10+, wich I bought my 3rd copy yesterday...the japanese limited edition with Rydeen from YMO as a demo track, can't wait to get it Nothing worth sharing, I just make patterns and edit them until I'm either bored or like them enough to let them run for ten minutes straight, then modify a bit further...I encourage all of you to get a copy, you won't regret it.
Yeah, my techno tastes are essentially 4x4 or the driving thump thump base beat as I find it to more tightly structured and energetic. I have over the years opened my taste somewhat as a means to cater to different audiences, finding ways to utilize breakdowns through an occasional dubstep or breakbeat track so as to take a mix into different directions. Presently, I mainly listen to minimal techno which seems to be carrying the torch of where techno grew from, which is the punk movement, continually pushing the envelope and reinventing itself , drawing other genres in and hybridizing to the point of non recognition. At it's heart, Techno is an artist's platform driving innovation as a vehicle unto itself. Of course there are loads of garbage techno. In this case, compare it the world of literature. There are groundbreaking writers at the vanguard with massive waves of "litter-ature" biting at it's heels. Perhaps the state of techno today could best be compared to, well anything else regarding creative commodities, the constant threat of being exploited to extinction. Nice. Listening to the Mungolian Jetset, very good, in fact, I am seeking out the tune right now. Thanks!
At least around where I live "Techno" has become a catch all term for any form of music that has so much as a synthesised sound. You wouldn't believe some of the stuff they refer to as techno here. I don't actually know a great deal about Techno. I've only really heard the early Detroit style and Schranz. Im big into hard trance but certainly understand what you mean. Electronic styles seem to work in cycles. Each style gets roughly 3-4 years in the club limelight (commercial popularity) before being dropped like a hot potato. In the mid 90's Eurodance was big. Then trance. Then electro house. Now dubstep. The final stage before a genres decline is overcommercialisation (for example using dubstep breaks and the like in pop songs). So according to my theory dubstep probably has 18 months tops. Does commercial trance still exist? At least that pushes some listeners onto other forms of electronic music. But Pop and R&B influences help nobody So I guess the overall trend is that pop has become alot more electronic over the last 4 or so years. I always hoped electronic music would become mainstream, but god, please not like this!
Had a listen, nice mix, very laidback. The Techno is mostly listen to is German 140bpm techno but I appreciate more laidback mixes as well
I love 80's 90's techno, and some from early 2000 since it's from my child, and loved in many arcade racers. Dub Step was a phase I went through, my friend listens to it all the time, but I can't like it now, it's too over used lol.
Nice. I used to play out hardcore techno with bpm rates up to 200. Two things changed this. First, I started practicing Nichiren Buddhism and the meditation brought my blood pressure levels down and secondly, I got a nice gift from my DNA, the early onset of severe arthritis. I am now prescribed fairly powerful pain medication which has put my mind in a state comparable to the dusty creaks of sunlight filtering into an opium den. This has turned me into a blushing hippie with lounge music coursing through my veins. Sega Freak, what Dj's are you listening to? I am always seeking out new electronic sounds. Actually, I am putting together today a darker set of hard techno with the likes of Ancient Methods and Monoloc, basically German and Austrian tracks with machine drone narratives. Still the Bpm range is below 140. Interestingly, I have been wanting to get back into harder sounds as the Dubstep scene here is starting to burn out and why not introduce something that would turn them into raving monkeys. To the post above....Yes! Wipeout was the great ambassador of techno surely creating neophytes in every family home. I even had the two vinyl set of Wipeout 2097 when it came out.
Yeah, I do like Wipeout, especially Wipeout HD. That's a pretty fun game, and it has some pretty good music and visuals. I recently got Wipeout 64, and while it's certainly not the best of the series by a long shot, it's still cool - and it's interesting because I think it's one of the few N64 games that uses minimal edge-antialiasing.
I like artists like Future Breeze, RMB (not to be confused with the music style R 'N B), 4Clubbers, Avancada, X-Pact, Sven Väth, Balloon, Airscape (mostly their remixes), Yomanda, Junkfood Junkies, Laurent Garnier, Mario Piu, Storm.. that's not all techno though. Oh and try the Scorcher (videogame) and SEGA Touring Car championship soundtracks as well
Thanks for the suggestions! I listened to your list and grabbed a few tunes out of what I heard, thank you. I too like Laurent Garnier and Vath. I still recall "accident in paradise" with it's acid notes a pure classic. Let's see, I basically sought out all of the artists you mentioned. Your tastes range from upbeat and progressive hard trance and house to outright rave nuttiness. Lot's of high production. I enjoyed Balloon's bad and sexy, which is a fun tune providing purposeful cheese to keep things from getting stiff. I downloaded, x-pact's excess and mario piu's answer the phone. Also, Yomanda's sunshine hi gate edit, which is pure classic rave. Avacanda is very hard. 4clubber's children, I had heard in the club years ago and I also listened to an airscape remix, Chicane, Halycon. Overall very energetic tunes with upbeat melodies. Good stuff. Thank you for sharing.
New Techno mix. Big Tymer Techno Power Mix. This mix is a stormer with faster Bpm rates and all around harder compositions. Pentagram shaped XTC tablet gurn fest. https://soundcloud.com/every-other-dimension/big-tymer-techno-power-mix
dubstep is something i've never been able to get into. i like a whole range of electronic music all the way from early rave to trance to harder stuff though which includes techno kinda grew up with it and older sister was into the scene lol, still like a whole range of other music too.
I don't get into it present day dubstep as it seems static and a majority of the content seems to be following a top 40 evolution. I don't get any rush out of it. I do have a fewj minimal stripped down dubstep tracks for transitions in mixes and the older dub step I found to be acceptable, as it was basically tripped out bass heavy instrumental hip hop, but overall I haven't found myself nurturing the scene. Where I live presently, dubstep is the prevailing trend basically taking over techno all together with a smaller scene of mainstream house.
