Hidden gem of a YouTube channel with hundreds of old-skool house, dnb, and techno mix tapes:
History of Techno
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#122I'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…
Slam, Adam Beyer (Drumcode) and Chris Liebling (CLR) are all good places to start. They all have weekly radio stations. From there on you can follow an guest DJs who you like the style off. Also when did “techno” become an umbrella term again? I was possessed off enough when “EDM” was redefined as a specific genre (and such a lousy one at that).
If you like Slam then Reclaim Your City (https://soundcloud.com/reclaim-your-city) is a good one to go with it.
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#123Classic history tree of electronic music : http://music.ishkur.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26212706
Neither this or OPs seem to give any acknowledgement to Japanese pinoeers (particularly YMO and its members)
No, there's a long paragraph about YMO in "Electro" and some of their songs are played in "Synthpop".
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#124Simon Reynolds's book Energy Flash is a pretty good read on the history of early techno / rave culture up to about the 90s (if I remember corectly, it's been awhile). A lot of history regarding Detroit techno and the roots of the genre.
https://www.amazon.com/Energy-Flash-Journey-Through-Culture/...
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#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
They try to be as concise as possible. For example, they completely missed out Front 242, Nitzer Ebb. However they at least mention the genre, EBM. And to be honest: what is techno else than Tallas invention in a record store? Frontpage magazine? So many things left out, but who cares? You either witnessed parts of the 90th or not. ;) I never understood my parents fondness for Woodstock and how an e guitar could be t…
I think my main contention can be illustrated by trying to discover where Disco comes from. I was looking for this kind of shoestring style story for years. Then I gave up trying to construct it. The reality is it's a bunch of things smashed together like pressing all the buttons at the soda fountain at once. That's what happened. That's where techno came from as well. Sometimes the narratives are super clean, like r…
Thanks for your great contributions in this thread.
Can you please help me understand "rock is super messy"? The traditional narrative is "rock was mostly derived from blues (+ some other influences)" but the counter(?)example you provided is a classic 12 bar blues.
Do you have some messier examples? Or did I miss your point?
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#126Just a remark: Spain had much more variety than Valencia's Ruta del Bakalao and Ibiza.
For example Catalan dance clubs made a huge hit here in 90's/early 00's such as Pont Aeri and Scorpia.
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#128Earlier 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.
Because sarcasm and personal taste have gone out of style? Not to mention those things were a thing at the time of Lester Bangs or the NME, 50+ years ago (and even in reviewers of classical music) hardly a Pitchfork era phenomenon or invention....
I think that music defining one's identity and their lifestyle has kind of gone out of style. I just remember the late 00's/early 10's as crazy on judging people on what they listen (or they clothes, like Vice Do and Don't), not saying it didn't exist before. But maybe I'm a bit sensitive because I did go through that phase and it's still fresh...
Also to add to this the more I lean to the content creation side and work with artists, the more genres become blurry and irrelevant. Seeing critics and the creator of that history tree obsess over this and create micro genres to try to fit every music and their listener into this is just silly and far removed from how a good composer or producer with eclectic tastes works. Nowadays a mainstream song can be surprisingly creative, while the N-th production in a "good taste approved sub-sub-genre of techno" will have 0 artistic value.
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#129I'm pleased to see accuracy in the history of techno. I for one did not know it's roots took place back in the 70s and from the black community. These days when I look at techno artists and their raving followers, its prodimently white. I have since taken active steps to seek out the lesser know black artists to support. Many modern music fundamentals are origins from the black community and very little is correctly…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WpudasPafg
Good documentary on the origins of house and techno from 70s disco, to 4 to the floor disco and the coming of the 808, how this moved to house in chicago and some sci fi nerds with a love for kraftwerk in detroit started techno. Then how the UK got involved and these DJs from the US, used to playing to 50-80 people in tiny underground, often gay clubs would come to the UK and play to 10,000 in massive outdoor / warehouse events and rave was born
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#130Ok, how do we classify this?
(Wait for the narrator)
https://open.spotify.com/track/5O6MFTh1rd9PeN8XEn1yCS?si=jNp...