Planetary Assault Systems - Peace frog… One of my faves for the cold bangin
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Go to some clubs? And trust your ears.
can’t find it but once read an interview with Sven Väth where he describes true techno as always pushing the boundaries of available technology and blending what came before, like Juan A did.
the direct association to 4/4 kick drums is interesting.
which is why for me personally Autechre continue to be the purest techno.
The Maurizio output however is perhaps the most classic dub techno sound and astounding works of sonic art.
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I think this video is nice when you learn about techno and making techno
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yeh, peacefrog had loads of classics!
For me, techno is an approach to electronic music. Also very much a rebellious sense of defeating the alienation found in modern day society. You can pinpoint the origins, the more influential labels and such, but it´s really sprung out of an underground diy, punkish sort of attitude. Shouldn´t be too polished. That is also what is still so promising about it, could be produced with very cheap gear/software and still feel/sound great (like Robert Hood).
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You’re entitled to your take, but the influence on early techno is futurism, and specifically afrofuturism, rather than industrial.
The harder, industrial influence happened a little later, and originated in Europe.
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the best thing about going back to the classic labels is that i’m not sure some of the releases have ever been improved upon, so may as well get both a history lesson and some exposure to the best of the best.
If we’re talking about techno history, I’d like to highlight the work of Kelli Hand (aka k-hand) who has been pumping out excellent tracks since 1990 but is sadly still often either overlooked or intentionally left out from Detroit techno history.
Here are some favorites in random order:
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I agree. I did say that techno started in detroit, didnt mean to imply that d tech was inspired by industrial that much… its just what happened to the sound when it met europe.
IIRC the mythical DJ called electrifying mojo was a big influence on the detroit techno artists. I’ve never heard him play so havent got an exact idea what he spun but I’m sure a lot of P funk etc was involved, and that afrofuturism vibe most likely too (which, admittedly I know very little about).
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This documentary gives nice insight into the d tech roots and things. The style might be a lil offputting to some, but IMO it captures something about the spirit, or thats my interpretation anyway.
Love the AdMech reference to the presence of Omnissiah in the beginning of the video!
EDIT: Oops sorry wrong link! fixd
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another astounding 90s recording, i do find it fascinating how a lot of what people people perceive as the genre of techno is derivative of just a few releases from this decade.
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Sounds interesting… can you elaborate on this?
Same word, different thing. Don’t believe everything you read on Wikipedia.
this is nice, if anyone knows earlier footage would like to see.
techno is visceral, and on the right system (and selection) has a profound effect on an audience that can’t really be described unless “you were there”.
it’s something to do with being pummelled by a rhythmic frequency range that shouldn’t exist.
awesome footage, po-lice shutdown a total vibe
Detroit definitely brought the term techno to the fore, but if you read early interviews with Atkins, Saunderson, May etc they all cite Kraftwerk and other European acts as huge influences, which can easily be heard. I think as well acts like Klien and MBO, Newcleus, Chep Nunez, Mantronix, Paul Hardcastle, and many many others were doing their own thing which certainly must have influenced early techno.
Like this from 1982
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Sorry, but that’s disco, not techno.
Why is it so hard to accept that, yes, there were of course some influences from earlier electronic music, but that Detroit techno is still a distinct, new genre? Is that because its origins are entirely black and that we absolutely insist on whitewashing any genre that might even remotely be considered high-brow?
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Future frontier and subsounds, belgium techno at its best