a thread about some recent techno tunes which have been smashing my balls

mike dehnert. dark, production technique straight from heaven. wonderful

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldeAswZzXt4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAEBmwzL1UU

EQD. alias of shed, dark, rumbling, trippsy percussion techniques leave you feeling like the wholle tune is ready to unravel itsself and fall apart at any moment.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIt_Iwcyv24

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHUv570E_Fs

Grit. Massive, deep, sounds like waves of rhythmic, audio tarmac washing over your body

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ob5zKYuCUQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgkfPidFf7o

2011 is shaping up to be a serious year for dancing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeFt3A-1Jt8

bonus lovely, melancholy house tune.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvEQw4_MdAk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XGbq9N_zeA

Nice. Will check these links and post some more when I get back from work. I'll begin though by saying this is stunning and should be checked, put it in my last mix I liked it so much

Excellent picks, Messiaen! Out of the artists you mentioned, I am familiar with Grit. Have you listened to his free EP "Tunnel Transmissions Vol. 1"? This is worth a listen.

http://www.archive.org/details/rohs001-netaudiogrit-TunnelTransmissionsVol.1

great thread. some good stuff in the first post.

lately i've been digging scubas techno SCB stuff. sounds crap on youtube but you get the idea

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGUEFI3fJL0&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-mwZfJl3uM&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q08iqp7EhI&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUeknkpE4d8

Great stuff indeed, love the grit and scuba tracks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AMHxRB0WNA

there is a free EP by Baeka on bandcamp that I quite like

http://baeka.bandcamp.com/album/star-project

if you ant to boogie you cant beat a bit of filthy 4/4

i always feel a bit like a twat plodding to dubstep when all i want is to be the techno viking of the dance floor (and most likely still look like a twat)

vee neez more chunky beats

Though I love electronic music, a lot of techno I am wary of (silly people high on drugs, dressed like idiots, prancing around).

Imagine my joy at having the pleasure of discovering this...

I have been listening to Warp stuff for over a decade but all this Detroit stuff hasn't entered my world at all. This Drexicya is mad! I must sound like a right amateur!

  On 2/1/2011 at 7:49 AM, xxx said:

I appreciate this thread as techno is my first and forever love. The trouble I've had lately is that a lot of techno has lost its teeth--tempos have slowed, fewer sonic risks are taken and everything has a restraint that I would like to see lifted. The tracks you posted are all good but they didn't grab my nuts like I'm used to.

 

It's a pornography issue. I got used to going hard, fast, complicated and abrasive with what has been called "The Birmingham Sound" or "Schranz" e.g. Surgeon, Dave Clarke, early Aphex, Ben Sims, Freaky Chakra, Ben Neill, Johannes Heil, Underworld, Tobias Schmidt, Adam Beyer, Female, Regis, BMB, Neil Landstrumm, Chris Liebing, Speedy J, Paul Mac, Ken Ishii, Fumiya Tanaka etc. so the new style is like going back to scrambled Cinemax and HBO softcore. Even Sandwell District, made up of previously ball-busting guys like Regis, Female, Portion Reform, etc. have taken this new, slower and deeper approach.

 

I think I'm probably going to have to buy some select releases and explore the neu sound more throughly than just YouTubes and Bleep samples. I've recently tried to approach making the techno I would want to hear but it's not going as well as I had planned lol. I wrote a track in the summer of 2002 but it's a pretty obvious ape of "Born Slippy" and Ben Sims so I should try harder

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9B1rrM06C8

yeah man, the birmingham sound (cant actually say ive ever heard it called that) is cool, but i massively prefer my techno to have a bit of space to breath. i find the best dance you can have is dark, heavy, 126 bpm stuff, it really lets the muid-beat hi hat rattle your cage when it drops in.

having said that i recently experienced dave clarke for the first time in the subclub and that literally knocked me sideways, the intensity was phenomonal.

and scuba has been rocking it recently, i went to go see him play a 2 hour set where he started dubstep and then digressed too techno with the most fluency ive ever heard it done, was pounding it out by the end.

ima post a few more tracks, il keep it 2011 still

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4c19rN74I0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEjA3LSANMM

turns out youtube isnt actually that upto date, oh well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKf2ibxoMf0

i still think mike dehnert is one of the most fantastic producers ive ever heard. every tune is utter perfection. the mixture between the dark, rumbling berlin sounding beat and the sudden entry of the optimistic melancholy tune before the first kick in is one of the most beautiful things ive heard in techno.

in ''pompage'' that is

Messiaen: the tracks you've posted sound like danceable dub techno. I dig.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfXS04da4Kg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9-q5_qzenk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wItRav6U9s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gQh8AglVa0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzKdyQAHydI

  On 2/1/2011 at 7:49 AM, xxx said:

I appreciate this thread as techno is my first and forever love. The trouble I've had lately is that a lot of techno has lost its teeth--tempos have slowed, fewer sonic risks are taken and everything has a restraint that I would like to see lifted. The tracks you posted are all good but they didn't grab my nuts like I'm used to.

 

It's a pornography issue. I got used to going hard, fast, complicated and abrasive with what has been called "The Birmingham Sound" or "Schranz" e.g. Surgeon, Dave Clarke, early Aphex, Ben Sims, Freaky Chakra, Ben Neill, Johannes Heil, Underworld, Tobias Schmidt, Adam Beyer, Female, Regis, BMB, Neil Landstrumm, Chris Liebing, Speedy J, Paul Mac, Ken Ishii, Fumiya Tanaka etc. so the new style is like going back to scrambled Cinemax and HBO softcore. Even Sandwell District, made up of previously ball-busting guys like Regis, Female, Portion Reform, etc. have taken this new, slower and deeper approach.

 

I think I'm probably going to have to buy some select releases and explore the neu sound more throughly than just YouTubes and Bleep samples. I've recently tried to approach making the techno I would want to hear but it's not going as well as I had planned lol. I wrote a track in the summer of 2002 but it's a pretty obvious ape of "Born Slippy" and Ben Sims so I should try harder

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9B1rrM06C8

I think excatly the same as you. I like mine hard, dirty and fast. Will be looking into your list with great anticipation.

I bought this when I was 12

  On 2/1/2011 at 8:51 AM, Solo Strike said:

Nice. Will check these links and post some more when I get back from work. I'll begin though by saying this is stunning and should be checked, put it in my last mix I liked it so much

 

dammit someone beat me to it. yes this is fucking brilliant love this...I'd never heard of the label before now...great shit...

I'll add two then: a classic from 1995 Kenlou - The Bounce

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaZ6A3jbO9

Kyle Hall - Tomorrow is the Day (pitch it up about 3~4%)

http://vimeo.com/13700219

Edouardo De La Calle aka Analog Solutions on Souncloud