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#236205 - 02/10/2004 00:24 Good techno music?
burdell1
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Registered: 14/01/2002
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Loc: Minnetonka, MN
What is some good techno music? I am looking for something in the vein of the Prodigy or the Chemical Brothers.....

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#236206 - 02/10/2004 00:37 Re: Good techno music? [Re: burdell1]
FireFox31
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http://www.mabula.net/mixes/ - all created by our very own BBS member PaulWay

Not quite what you were looking for, but it may open your ears to something new. The track listings reveal the artists names, if you can keep a good count.
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#236207 - 02/10/2004 01:38 Re: Good techno music? [Re: burdell1]
SE_Sport_Driver
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The Prodigy and Chemical Brothers are often classified as "Electronica" or more accurately "Big Beat".

You might want to check out other mainstream Big Beat bands such as:
The Crystal Method
Fatboy Slim
Daft Punk
Uberzone
Propellerheads
Wiseguys
Junkie XL
Death In Vegas
Lo-Fidelity Allstars

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#236208 - 02/10/2004 01:57 Re: Good techno music? [Re: burdell1]
Ezekiel
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Registered: 25/08/2000
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Loc: NH USA
While not really techno (more industrial), check out Funker Vogt.

You probably would also like Lords of Acid. They're classified under 'music you'd not play at any wedding'.

I'll second Paul's mixes.

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#236209 - 02/10/2004 11:33 Re: Good techno music? [Re: burdell1]
webroach
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Registered: 23/07/2003
Posts: 869
Loc: Colorado
Though it stretches the "Techno" label, I'd suggest you look into some Goa Trance. A good band to start with is Infected Mushroom. Another is Dark Soho, though they have a bit harder feel. There's also Mumbo Jumbo and, with my vote for best band name ever, Growling Mad Scientists.

If you want to find stuff by any of them, or other Goa-style groups, check out Psyshop .

Good stuff, but be careful: some of it tends to cause my gas pedal to malfunction, resulting in horribly increased rates of speed.

That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.
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#236210 - 02/10/2004 23:32 Re: Good techno music? [Re: webroach]
canuckInOR
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Though it stretches the "Techno" label, I'd suggest you look into some Goa Trance. A good band to start with is Infected Mushroom. Another is Dark Soho, though they have a bit harder feel. There's also Mumbo Jumbo and, with my vote for best band name ever, Growling Mad Scientists.

Some good choices in there. I picked up some Infected Mushroom after hearing about them in the Desert Island top 10/Bombshelter top 20 thread a while back, and haven't been disappointed. I later found out about GMS (and Shpongle) by wandering through some random stranger's P2P offerings to see what other music is in the collections of people who listen to Infected Mushroom.

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#236211 - 02/10/2004 23:45 Re: Good techno music? [Re: Ezekiel]
cushman
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You probably would also like Lords of Acid. They're classified under 'music you'd not play at any wedding'.


*meow*
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#236212 - 02/10/2004 23:59 Re: Good techno music? [Re: canuckInOR]
FireFox31
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Registered: 19/09/2002
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Loc: East Coast, USA
I third the recommendation for Infected Mushroom. The one single I have of theirs is refreshingly varied, using textures that I don't often hear and changing it up in interesting ways.

Along the lines of "interesting" techno, I'll highly recommend BT (Brian Transeau). Alot of good stuff has come from that guy, including his recent work with DJ Tiesto. But maybe he's a little off the "big beat" track.

Did "Basement Jaxx" get a mention? They are drop some pretty big beats, are pretty mainstream, yet can be pretty quirky and interesting.

And as a stretch, could Rob Zombie be mentioned? I remember his contribution to the Matrix Soundtrack was pretty accessible and huge. Check out the Matrix Soundtrack for some others (though I haven't heard it in years, so I forget what's there).
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#236213 - 03/10/2004 00:02 Re: Good techno music? [Re: FireFox31]
SE_Sport_Driver
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Registered: 05/01/2001
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Loc: Detroit, MI USA
Oh yeah, Bassment Jaxx! How could I have forgotten! Moby's "Play" is a standard too.

Groove Armada?
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#236214 - 03/10/2004 00:35 Re: Good techno music? [Re: canuckInOR]
webroach
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Registered: 23/07/2003
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Loc: Colorado
If you'd like to get a fairly large list of music similar to Infected Mushroom, let me know.
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#236215 - 03/10/2004 01:37 Re: Good techno music? [Re: burdell1]
cushman
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Registered: 21/01/2002
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Loc: Erie, CO
Semi-similar to Prodigy or the Chemical Brothers, in order of amount on my Empeg:

The Crystal Method (you will like this, get Vegas first)
Orbital (less hard than the Chemical Brothers, but great)
Underworld (kind of like Orbital, get the later stuff.. early stuff is 80's synth, kinda)
Apollo 440 (I also like their James remix of Sit Down)
Goldfrapp (beautiful female voice as lead, she's pretty much the band)
Royksopp (almost relaxing techno)
Fluke (harder, listen to Atom Bomb on the Saint soundtrack to see what they are like)
The Propellerheads (the best James Bond remix ever: On Her Majesty's Secret Service)
Boards Of Canada (between Orbital and the Crystal Method, kinda)
Daft Punk (synth-techno)
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#236216 - 03/10/2004 03:06 Re: Good techno music? [Re: cushman]
SE_Sport_Driver
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How could I have forgotten Orbital?

Goldfrapp is excellent, but their earlier stuff is more Massive Attackish and the later stuff is more um.. "pop" along the lines of Fischerspooner.
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#236217 - 03/10/2004 11:16 Re: Good techno music? [Re: cushman]
genixia
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Apollo 440


They once asked me to join their tour as lighting engineer after a gig at my university way in '95. Unfortunately with finals around the corner I declined - I'm sure it would have been a lot of fun.

My favorite of theirs is still the early Liquid Cool, that was released as remixes on 2CDs:

apollo_440/liquid_cool/liquid_cool_reanimation_radio_remix__440_fm.mp3
apollo_440/liquid_cool/liquid_cool_deep_forest_ice_cold_the_equator_mix.mp3
apollo_440/liquid_cool/liquid_cool_future_sound_of_london_remix.mp3
apollo_440/liquid_cool/liquid_cool_theme_for_cryonic_suspension.mp3
apollo_440/liquid_cool/liquid_cool_jah_wobble_remix.mp3
apollo_440/liquid_cool_vol2/01-liquid_cool_deep_forest_transafrique_life_extension_express.mp3apollo_440/liquid_cool_vol2/02-liquid_cool_space_colonization_remix.mp3
apollo_440/liquid_cool_vol2/03-liquid_cool_ollie_js_live_dubs.mp3
apollo_440/liquid_cool_vol2/04-liquid_cool_space_320f_biostatic_ambient_mix_part_1.mp3

Virtually impossible to find now - I paid about $35 for them on ebay a couple of years ago.
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#236218 - 03/10/2004 13:09 Re: Good techno music? [Re: cushman]
Ezekiel
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Cushman:
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#236219 - 03/10/2004 13:24 Re: Good techno music? [Re: burdell1]
SuperQ
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Several good lists, but I'll add Kraftwerk, and Psykosonic (older stuff is more techno, newer is more sythpop) (also not to be confused with semisonic)
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#236220 - 03/10/2004 15:16 Re: Good techno music? [Re: SuperQ]
SE_Sport_Driver
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Kraftwerk is WAY old school. I thought I was the only one that knew about Psychsonic. WaxTrax! f'd up an order I placed once so they made it up to me by tossing in a bunch of Psychsonic CDs.
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#236221 - 03/10/2004 19:31 Re: Good techno music? [Re: SE_Sport_Driver]
webroach
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Registered: 23/07/2003
Posts: 869
Loc: Colorado
I have to admit I have a Psykosonik album or two around, but still....

Somehow it just never hit me right. Kind of like some record exec read Neuromancer and thought "We need to make a boy band, but with lyrics about stuff like this!"

Still fun music though.
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#236222 - 04/10/2004 04:06 Re: Good techno music? [Re: webroach]
canuckInOR
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If you'd like to get a fairly large list of music similar to Infected Mushroom, let me know.

Oooh, don't be shy, post 'em up!

(And if it's *that* big, a plain-text file as attachment would work...)

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#236223 - 04/10/2004 04:57 Re: Good techno music? [Re: canuckInOR]
webroach
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Registered: 23/07/2003
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Loc: Colorado
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If you'd like to get a fairly large list of music similar to Infected Mushroom, let me know.

Oooh, don't be shy, post 'em up!

(And if it's *that* big, a plain-text file as attachment would work...)


Not so much being shy as not wanting to post a list if nobody had interest.

Most of this is Goa / Psychadelic Trance. Some of it is Israeli style. Some might be a little wierd, or a little noisy for some (I tried to weed it out). No even close to a full list of what I have in that style right now, just a sampling; WAYYYY too much homework tonight to really dig in.


1200 Mics
Astral Projection
Astral Engineering
Bamboo Forest
Carbon Based Lifeforms
Charasmatix
Dark Soho
Eargear
Electric Universe
Fractal Glider
Globe
Hallucinator
Hallucinogen
Highpersonic Whomen
Mouse On Mars
Shpongle
Silent Horror
Spirallianz
Space Monkey
System F
Tokyo Ghetto Pussy
Triptych
Yahel
Chromosome
Beat Bizzare
Astrix
Entropy
Exaile
Hydrophonic
Setherian
Sulima
Time Lock
Void
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#236224 - 04/10/2004 10:17 Re: Good techno music? [Re: FireFox31]
PaulWay
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Loc: Canberra, Australia
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http://www.mabula.net/mixes/ - all created by our very own BBS member PaulWay

Not quite what you were looking for, but it may open your ears to something new. The track listings reveal the artists names, if you can keep a good count.


I'll sit down and work out the intro and outro times on all the songs some day - sooner if people want it (hint: ask me).

I don't claim to have a compete cross-section of 'techno' there - I'm still gradually accreting breakbeat, drum and bass, and industrial. But I do think that you may find it easiest to just download some or all of mixes and pick what you like. It's not like it costs you anything (unless you have a slow connection... ) so you can discard those you don't like and be none the worse off .

It might not serve as a good definition of 'Techno', but you can have a look at most of my collection at Discogs. I say 'most' because I'm still waiting for a lot of the Australian CDs I've got to be moderated. I've got 9 pending and about 25 in draft mode waiting for pending slots to become available, and about another 10 or 20 that I still haven't drafted up. I can heartily reccommend Discogs to anyone interested in virtually anything Electronic (or Hip Hop), as much for the Insta-Sharable-Web-Discography above as its precision and detail.

And, of course, I always like to hear what people think of my mixes (hint hint!).

Have fun,

Paul
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#236225 - 06/10/2004 05:25 Re: Good techno music? [Re: webroach]
canuckInOR
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Registered: 13/02/2002
Posts: 3212
Loc: Portland, OR
Wow. I've heard of.... two of those (Shpongle and Astral Projection). :-P

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#236226 - 06/10/2004 06:03 Re: Good techno music? [Re: canuckInOR]
webroach
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Registered: 23/07/2003
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Loc: Colorado
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Wow. I've heard of.... two of those (Shpongle and Astral Projection). :-P


Heh. Shpongle is very good. Tokyo Ghetto Pussy is actually Jam & Spoon under a different name, and is equally good in it's own way.

Right now, though, one of my faves is Dark Soho. Their track Uine Saracomm is my "[censored] [censored] son of a [censored]! I'm late and need to do 95 down I-25 at noon!" track on the empeg.

Although the version I have is a bit harder than the sample linked.
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#236227 - 08/10/2004 01:04 Re: Good techno music? [Re: webroach]
PaulWay
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Registered: 03/08/1999
Posts: 451
Loc: Canberra, Australia
I'm amazed you don't mention Man With No Name...

Paul
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