good techno music?

oh yeah, i forgot to mention, Banco de Gaia. i dont really know what kind of trance/techno it falls under. i dont really pay attention to stuff like that. anyway, Banco de Gaia - You Are Here. i like it

 

I don't know much by Banco de Gaia but I really like that track Obsidian. Also the Light vs Pfn mix of it is the dog's bollocks.

 

i really like alot of the tribal and almost Indian(India) sounds and instruments Banco de Gaia uses. its perfect to just chill and smoke a bowl too

 

Sax Machine your completly right about techno and trance, there completly different genres, but when someone new asks for techno, I kinda assume they dont really understand the difference, so I gave her some of the best classic trance I knew to get her hooked, its like heroin baby.

Oh no Floris, you started some shit.

Go to hell Floris... The Britney Spears of trance??!!!! Just because hes popular doesn't mean he isn't brilliant, I dunno if you wanna feel all counterculture or something by saying that, but no, any good DJ doesn't agree, I've heard Paul Van Dyk, Ferry Corsten, and Deep Dish all say that Tiesto is the best. I know a lot of DJ's spinning in Austin, and even though most of 'em play drum 'n bass, they agree that Tiesto is great.

Ok, now that I got that outta my system, James Holden is pretty good. I'm just getting into the prog scene and I like a lot of what I'm hearing.

 

Are you telling me that the term Techno in america is loosely used like the term Dance over here to cover any form of music where the majority of the sounds are generated by synthesis?

I really hate umbrella terms like that. It gets even more confusing when the umbrella names used happen to be names of more specific thigns. Like "Rap" is used to cover all sorts of hip-hop and garage and r'n'b music - basically anything that features rap or MCing. And World Music, doesn't mean anything any more. Classical is also an umbrella term, but shouldn't be, because it should refer to the first viennese school and nothing else. Jazz, well I suppose that's ok these days because there isn't a type of jazz that is just called jazz, but of course there was about 70-80 years ago when jazz was really taking over. Rock, well everyone knows about this anyway as it seems I'm the only music-lover in the world who can't get excited by any of the following: rock, metal, punk, ska, indie or anything else of that ilk (but I do see the point of it though).

So really, if someone's going to learn what Techno is and what it isn't, surely Day one is a good time to do so, don't you think?

 

Yeah unfortunatly it is kinda an umbrella term in the US. Especially if your talking to someone who doesn't know what they are talking about. Electronica is catching on really slowly here, and if you tell a lot of people you listen to house or trance they'll look at you like your speaking chimpanzee.

Your probably right, I dont like the blanket terms either, so I guess its easier to learn at the beggining.

 

DJ Tiesto and Armin van Buuren are pretty easy on the ears and therefore a good place to start if you are new to the techno/trance/house genre's.

I'm no fan of electronic music but admire the fact that Tiesto is so succesful worldwide with a music style that isn't mainstream pop....it would be more fair to call him the Metallica or U2 of Trance.

 

Pretty much. Anything involving a synth(an obvious one, that is) would be labeled techno. That's pretty much all there is to it over here. Almost all the music you listen to has been run through a sound board and tons of effets. My their standards, everything should be techno. Anyways, I forgot to mention the site everyone mentions sooner or later: Ishkur.com
He's got a huge guide to electronica. Read it.

 

Shit, someone I knew once played me something but I've forgot what it was called. I remember he was really into Infected Mushroom too. It was similar. Any idea what it might have been??? They had a really weird name!

 

I remembered. It was an album by Shpongle called Are You Shpongled. It was weird!!!!

 

Check it: Flashback

 

I think you would really like DJ Mark Farina. He mixes mostly jazz piano, sax, trumpet, and stuff like that. It sounds really good. It doesnt sound as digital as other types of techno. It's called house music I think. It sounds like you're in the jungle or something. check it out.

 

If I were to pick anyone in the electronica genre it would be moby... because he's a little bit of all genres.

 

Everything mobys done since Play sucks... I couldn't give 18 away.

 

beginner electronic music listeners should listen to techno trance house crap(see darude, tiesto, etc).

then, move on to some better stuff like GOOD techno house trance stuff (see the Global Underground cd's for the best)

Then, after a few hours of techno torture, DITCH TECHNO TRANCE HOUSE HAPPY HARDCORE for the real deal electronic music. Start exploring the many subgenres of electronic.

Many people have already listed some good artists in the field, covering a wide variety of electronic genres, but i'll add some artists from my quiver:

aphex twin
autechre
banco de gaia
boards of canada
caustic window
chemical brothers
dieselboy
four tet
freaky chakra - "blacklight fantasy"
The Future Sound of London
Jack Dangers
lords of Acid
Meat Beat Manifesto
the Orb
Orbital
photek
prefuse 73
shpongle
squarepusher
sound tribe sector 9
TinoCorp
Underworld

NOW GET GOING!!

 

Listen to DJ Sammy there good.

 

Why start with the crap stuff? It'll only put people of - it already gets too much publicity and gives house and trance a bad name.


Darude is awful. It's pikey/chave/barry music and there's no intelligence behind it really.

Best to start with the good stuff that shows you what the point of it is immediately.

Also good to check out a variety of house, trance, prog, and electronica/trip-hop and probably give techno a miss altogether. (although Prodigy's Music for the Jilted Generation and Fat Of The Land are well worth a listen - something of an acquired taste though).

Oh, someone mentioned fusion of jazz with house, and reminded me of St. Germain - which is modern fusion jazz played over house tracks, and is very well done.

Also, not everyone's cup of tea, but have a look out for stuff by a chap called Martyn Bennett which is Scottish Traditional set to house, hard house, breakbeat, and occasionally drum'n'bass. Not the finest quality of either Scottish Traditional or Hard House, but by fusing the two he really creates something unique and interesting whilst still achieving a sound that has "Scottish" written all over it. And incidentally, a fair bit of that COULD be called Techno.

He's also recorded one album entitled Glenn Lyon as a song cycle of traditional Scots Gallic singing and done some exciting things with the production to bring the songs to life for those who don't speak Gallic (myself included, although it's about time I started learning Gaelic at least). Very little in the way of house, techno or anything else in that one though - that one's more for the fans of Traditional music. I recommend his album Bothy Culture, and his newest album- GRIT. He has another couple of albums, his first album called "Martyn Bennett" concentrated more on the tuneful element of things while he added some basic house grooves and beats. And in "Hardland", he went completely to the other extreme so most of it is all about loud, fast, heavy beats, and the bagpipes do the rest. "Bothy Culture" is something of a halfway house there and he also uses traditional styles other than Scottish in there too. In "GRIT" he really has matured and knows exactly what he's doing.

 

good techno music..? you're jokin', not..? techno is NOT music.. it's just some stuff made by computer...

 

You're young, and I spent a week in Prague, its a great town, and you might be kidding, so i'll be gentle.

A computer is a musical instrument... its a very advanced musical instrument thats capable of producing symphonys that even the greatest classical composers would be jealous. Not only that but it take months of work to create simple beats, and decades to master the musical brilliance of some of the greats in electornica. Its so far beyond the three cords and some guy whining that makes up the majority of rock, its a revolution in music that would bring Mozart to his knees. Trance is the future of music... get used to it.

 

well, maybe.. but techno..? oh woow.. no no no, thanx