I've been listening to techno (not EDM in general, Techno) since the 90s. It's definitely my favorite music for deep work; something about the tight repetitive loops is just perfect for concentration. Since the pandemic started I've been listening to techno mixes almost constantly in order to mask the noise from everyone else in my house. Initially, I found it difficult to find decent mixes since Techno has become a generic term for EDM. I just returned to following the genre so I really didn't know where to look. However once I found a single Soundcloud account curating mixes of the style I like, it opened up an unlimited supply of music through following recommendations. Maybe someone will find this useful:
History of Techno
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#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
Its easy to miss but descriptions of the different genres are the true mvp. Some of the saltiest things I have read, true hilarity. E.g `Eurotrance`: > "The rank repugnance of the self-fellating culture of DJ worship is at the forefront of this many-headed hydra of rapacious rot. Overbearing anthems, boring breakdowns, and tasteless DJ vanity have combined into one monstrous, obnoxious, pompous, unlistenable Babyloni…
You forgot to quote the "best" bit a few paragraphs later : >It's important to first explain the horrible template that ruined Trance music. Somehow a musical artform that devoted itself to hypnotic rhythms and spacey soundscapes became, inside of a decade, a mass produced assembly line McProduct for middle class Europeans (pejoratively known as Trancecrackers because they're white. Terribly, tragically, sunblindingl…
> This was the era when in the US Eminem had lines like "nobody listens to techno", while in Europe
Perhaps it will add a little context to note that Eminem, like Techno, is from Detroit.
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#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
Its easy to miss but descriptions of the different genres are the true mvp. Some of the saltiest things I have read, true hilarity. E.g `Eurotrance`: > "The rank repugnance of the self-fellating culture of DJ worship is at the forefront of this many-headed hydra of rapacious rot. Overbearing anthems, boring breakdowns, and tasteless DJ vanity have combined into one monstrous, obnoxious, pompous, unlistenable Babyloni…
You forgot to quote the "best" bit a few paragraphs later : >It's important to first explain the horrible template that ruined Trance music. Somehow a musical artform that devoted itself to hypnotic rhythms and spacey soundscapes became, inside of a decade, a mass produced assembly line McProduct for middle class Europeans (pejoratively known as Trancecrackers because they're white. Terribly, tragically, sunblindingl…
> This was the era when in the US Eminem had lines like "nobody listens to techno"
That was a diss line about Moby, a "techno" artist who achieved mainstream US popularity around that time. Eminem wasn't trying to accurately depict the state of electronic music in the US, he was being salty.
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#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
You forgot to quote the "best" bit a few paragraphs later : >It's important to first explain the horrible template that ruined Trance music. Somehow a musical artform that devoted itself to hypnotic rhythms and spacey soundscapes became, inside of a decade, a mass produced assembly line McProduct for middle class Europeans (pejoratively known as Trancecrackers because they're white. Terribly, tragically, sunblindingl…
> This was the era when in the US Eminem had lines like "nobody listens to techno", while in Europe Perhaps it will add a little context to note that Eminem, like Techno, is from Detroit.
Yeah, but everyone was listening to Eurotrance and pre-hardbass here in 2000.
Spain, 1999:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dH9W5LRcVzk
Meanwhile, the US got the shittiest EDM ever in 2010-2011 as something "revolutionary".
You kickstarted the acid house genre, but you let it rot in the dust in the 90's.
We Europeans had a huge underground fanbase since late 80's, and since mid-90's trance has been huge for example in Spain and Germany, up to the point to be broadcasted in the state-backed first TV channel in the mornings.
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#105Don`t mind but when i see this kind of title, i always think what will new in post. When i check post i always disappoint with useless information.
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#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
These kind of rants have gone really old for me, like the person is stuck in 2009 at the golden age of Pitchfork/Vice/Hipster blogs... music elitism/criticism.
Except Ishkur is running his electronic music site since 2000. Which is basically since the beginning of time in internet terms.
That's nothing.
Spain, 1999: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dH9W5LRcVzk
This was everywhere. Everywhere.
People did their own remixes with computers at home. Everyone and their cat tried to do their first techno/trance song in High School.
When "modern EDM" hit the US we have been listening to Techno/Trance since where, from 1992-1993? There were even official Techno/Trance remixes bought by everyone, too.
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#107An accurate history. Got to see where this music evolved from in real time. Worked in an all-black mailroom (except me) in the 70s where there was one station and one station only: Los Angeles’ KISS 106. You heard Cerrone, Cameo, Toto, Grandmaster Flash, Prince, Teena Marie, Kool and the Gang, Black Russian, EWF—-the least formatted format on the market. It was a Cambrian explosion of dance music, much of which became the basis of techno styles.
Combine that with the fact that Southern California set so many music trends, and literally nothing until about the Nirvana era was even remotely new to me for decades (and of course Nirvana’s music style isn’t particularly new to anyone who listened to the White Album or Iggy Pop, not that it’s not great music). It was all recycled constantly in the dance music world and continues to be to this day.
Techno and hiphop so obviously came out of these roots that I laugh every time someone names a new variant of EDM, which is about twice a week. Prince, Earth, Wind and Fire, and Kool in the Gang didn’t even call themselves R&B groups. They called themselves rock bands, intentionally. Nothing new etc.
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#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
You don't get on the main stage without words/lyrics. Also, any musician that wants to get big should know that the fastest way is to add words/lyrics. Music is such a universal language that it needs to be annotated or something.
> Also, any musician that wants to get big should know that the fastest way is to add words/lyrics Ahem. I think you'll find it's a little bit more complicated than that
It's not though.
In the last 50 years, you can probably count the number of chart-toppers without lyrics on one hand. Animals, Axel F, Doop, Flat Beat, and Sandstorm (and I am not sure if these even topped charts everywhere).
Sure, if you are into the niche of EDM or techno club music, the situation is different, but none of those tunes sell millions of copies.
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#109I've been listening to techno (not EDM in general, Techno) since the 90s. It's definitely my favorite music for deep work; something about the tight repetitive loops is just perfect for concentration. Since the pandemic started I've been listening to techno mixes almost constantly in order to mask the noise from everyone else in my house. Initially, I found it difficult to find decent mixes since Techno has become a…
Here's a great channel I found in 2020 for techno mixes. Seems like its mostly folks from Berlin but there are a few big names also.
https://www.youtube.com/c/H%C3%96RBERLIN/videos
EDIT: There's craploads of content, a lot of styles, although I will observe that oldschool sounds have continued to come back in a big way in 2020. Rave, electro, acid.
Here's my favourite party set from 2020.
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#110Juan García Castillejo wrote in 1944 'La telegrafía rápida: el triteclado y la música eléctrica' (Fast telegraphy, trikeyboard, and electric music). You can read the gist of it at https://nathanjohnthompson.wordpress.com/2014/07/09/la-teleg... Here's the book in Spanish https://archive.org/details/latelegrafiarapida.eltritecladoy... and this is a homage to his work in 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFZk6WrbOKw
Gracias.