Kinda weird for a self proclaimed classic rock head (over 10 days worth of classic rock) to start two threads, one for hip hop and one for techno in the last week. But who else likes Techno? Here are my favorites: DJ Shadow Aphex Twin Paul Oakenfold Paul Van Dyk The Chemical Brothers Kraftwerk The Crystal Method Squarepusher Daft Punk So what else do you guys like?
Drum and bass is my favorite by far when it comes to electronic music. I've been producing it for around four years now, and recently have started to blend in guitar and styling the songs around those melodies. My main influences in the dnb scene are far too broad to even begin listing. I typically go for the more agressive, darker stuff, although the smooth jazz/funk gets me going some times too. In the broader electronica world, Amon Tobin takes the cake as far as I'm concerned. Nobody compares to his production quality and editing, and I love the broad range of styles he does, from breakbeat to hiphop to jungle to ethnic/ambient stuff. But then again, the Ninja Tune label as a whole kicks ass. Edit: not to hi-jack your thread, but what do you classify bands like Massive Attack, Postal Service, Nine Inch Nails, Tricky, Portisead, and Bjork? I personally consider them electronica, but most don’t. Only reason I ask is because people ask me what kind of music the “band” I’m in does, and I can’t classify it. It’s just like those bands, but rock orientated instead of trip hop/metal/ambient.
I prefer live electronica/trance/dnb/house acts to djs, generally. Check out Sound Tribe Sector 9, Lotus, Lake Trout, the New Deal, Brothers Past, Particle, and the Disco Biscuits (the latter only if you aren't completely intolerant of rocknroll the way a lot of etard club kiddies are, no offense)
PVD, Darude, Tiesto, Ferry Corsten, Chicane, Bullet, Thrillseekers, Tall Paul, Judge Jules, Nu-NRG, Zombie Nation. Trance is wicked.
Some of the guys on Ninja Tune have that same vibe (Kid Koala, Bonobo, Shadow). Other than them, I don't know. He's kinda hard to categorize, as he does so many wildly different styles. He's done some mixes on Breezeblock that are utterly amazing, though, and should be easy to find for download. And I forgot to mention Koop. I love Koop. "Summer Sun" and "Bright Nights" are two songs that will floor you. Yukimi Nagano's voice is heaven.
Do you mean DJ Shadow cos I love his music...or do you mean just Shadow? There is also a Mr.Shadow too that appeared when I did a serach on ares...
I'm pretty sure that Aphex Twin don't produce techno although I'm not TOO familiar with that particular outfit. I know for CERTAIN that Oakenfold isn't techno, and neither is Paul Van Dyk. The Chemical Brothers are, and Kraftwerk, yes although the genre was defined differently in those days. Crystal Method, probably but again I'm not too familiar with them. Squarepusher I haven't heard of and Daft Punk, no but they're ambient so you're covered there. Myself I have a little bit of time for techno, but these days it's an outmoded genre of music. It all died out mostly when the Prodgy came in and took it in a new direction which made all the other techno producers give up pretty much. I'm a big fan of Progressive House, and I like a bit of Trance, as long as it's done properly, and UK Garage is a great blend of all sorts of different genres, especially, house, hip-hop, jazz-funk, and even the bel-canto elements of RnB, and I detest RnB ordinarily. If anyone's interested and has a fast-ish internet connection and use of a messaging client, drop me a PM and I will send you an mp3 of a mix I put together of my favourite house and trance tracks, using the equipment here at work. the file's about 94 megs in size, the mix is about 80 minutes long. If it means anything to you, here's the track list. 1. Satoshi Tomiie - Scandal In New York 2. Lexicon Avenue - From Dusk 'Til Dawn (Sander Kleinenberg Mix) 3. Yann Fontaine - Open Your Eyes (New Phunk Theory's Little Green Dub) 4. Kosheen - Hungry (Satoshi Tomiie Mix) 5. Mooncat & Randall Jones - Visionary Sound (Patrick Turner Mix) 6. Souldoubt - Espiritu 7. Luke Slater - All Exhale (Futureshock Mix) 8. Banco de Gaia - Obsidian (Light vs Pfn. Mix) 9. Aurora - Ordinary World 10. William Orbit - Barber Adagio For Strings (Ferry Corsten Mix) 11. Iio - Rapture (Armin Van Buuren Mix) 12. Tenth Planet - Ghosts (Vincent De Moor Mix) 13. DJ Tiesto - Suburban Train 14. Orion - See Me Here As I said. Drop me a PM and I'll send anyone interested an mp3 of my mix. For those of you on dialup, if you use AOL messenger, it supports resuming of file transfers so with a bit of patience it'll get there on the end. I also use MSN and something called Skype. I await your PMs.
So what are van dyk and oakenfold classified as than? Yeah, kraftwerk has been around since 1968. and yeah, the mix sounds cool.
my collection includes: DJ Tiesto Paul Oakenfold Paul Van Dyk Ferry Corsten John Digweed Underworld DJ Swamp DJ Lev Sandra Collins Marcel Woods
Oakenfold and Van Dyk produce Trance and Hard House, nothing like Techno whatsoever! As do the vast majority of names mentioned since my last post. Although Bonobo is more chillout ambient/trip-hop stuff. Well PM me your instant messaging wossnames and I'll try and send you the mp3 file.
I'm not that into straight "techno"... ethno-ambient/ambient dub-- Bill Laswell, Simon Posford/Shpongle, Entheogenic, Infinity Project, Process, Tabla Beat Science, Ott, Spacetime Continuum, etc. psytrance-- Hallucinogen, Total Eclipse, Astrix, Alien Project, Eat Static, GMS, 1200 Mics, Infected Mushroom, Prometheus, etc. ambient-- Robert Rich, Brian Eno, Pete Namlook, Biosphere, Future Sound of London, Klaus Schulze, Daevid Allen, :Zoviet*France, Rapoon, etc. other/various-- Ozric Tentacles, Squarepusher, Matmos, STS9, DJ Spooky
There is no MAIN genre. These genres all have synthesised sounds in common, but then you wouldn't say that all acoustic music is a main genre either, would you. You wouldn't say that classical music and jazz and folk and blues fit under a main genre just because they involve a lot of the same instruments. The music is electronic music, but electronic music isn't a genre per se. It's like saying that everyone with ginger hair is each other's cousin. Some people call it Dance as well, but Dance music is just any music that people dance to rather than listen to on an intellectual level. This includes all the old commercial swing bands of the 30s such as Glenn Miller's band. There's plenty of mind-numbingly unimaginitive Trance and House out there as well, but then a great deal of it also has a lot going on. The trick is to know what the standards are by which to judge. You don't judge jazz by classical standards, you don't judge rock by jazz standards, and you definitely don't judge House by Techno standards.
I like all different types of electronic. Live stuff: The New Deal Lotus STS-9 Bisco Ambient: Material DJ's: DJ Santana DJ X DJ Monk
