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Re: History of Techno

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Post by dylan604 »

tmearnest wrote: post #101

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…

DI.fm is 100% dance music with so many channels dedicated to the nichest of niche genres. They have channels dedicated to mixes as well.

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Post by yowlingcat »

mmmmmk wrote: post #159

I'm a little confused by the American focus of the article. Kraftwerk's Autobahne came out in 1974, and there was a well established electronic movement coming out of krautrock, which became techno. Americans were late to the scene.

> which became techno

> Americans were late to the scene

I think you've got to pick one or the other. It became techno in America in a culturally deeply American way. I wish people would embrace the cultural exchange and parallel/convergent evolution at the core of musical evolution instead of holding on to laughably provincial notions of cosmogony.

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Post by Jommi »

you_know_the_ wrote: post #162
tmearnest wrote: post #101

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…

Cercle channel on YouTube puts out some great techno shows. They go to historical places and record a set with some of the best djs Here is the link for Pan-Pot set https://youtu.be/hENgrbIMiy4

That's not techno, it's Techno

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Post by HKH2 »

circlefavshape wrote: post #62
HKH2 wrote: post #57

Earlier 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

I probably could've worded it a bit better.

The point is you could spend hours actually developing subtleties in engineering, especially in timing and mixing, to produce something profound.

Or you could get a drum machine and a 303, and get someone sexy to sing/rap/speak over the top, make a video, and save a lot of time. A lot of pop music these days is quite simple, except for the singing, which I can admit is talented, but it's more about personality/fashion than music.

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Post by Jommi »

tmearnest wrote: post #101

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…

It's fascinating how the "techno" moniker nowadays really just means any non festival non house dance music.

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Post by HKH2 »

circlefavshape wrote: post #155
MagnumOpus wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It is though. The number of non -chart-toppers with lyrics is beyond counting. You don't make yourself a chart-topper simply by writing music with lyrics

Okay, it's almost always necessary but not sufficient.

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Post by bityard »

tmearnest wrote: post #101

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…

Nice, I will be checking that out.

I maintain a YouTube playlist called "music to hack by" which is up to over 500 songs now. Basically the criteria are: 1) electronic 2) has a beat (no ambient) 3) few to no vocals, with only one or two exceptions

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2A7B99AB93F1E522

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Post by randomopining »

tmearnest wrote: post #101

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…

I think the repetitive loops of percussion and basslines let you keep a certain part of your mind "busy" so you can focus on other things. Like it occupies some sort of nervous energy and let's other areas of the mind run more free.

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Post by mmmmmk »

yowlingcat wrote: post #172
mmmmmk wrote: post #159

I'm a little confused by the American focus of the article. Kraftwerk's Autobahne came out in 1974, and there was a well established electronic movement coming out of krautrock, which became techno. Americans were late to the scene.

> which became techno > Americans were late to the scene I think you've got to pick one or the other. It became techno in America in a culturally deeply American way. I wish people would embrace the cultural exchange and parallel/convergent evolution at the core of musical evolution instead of holding on to laughably provincial notions of cosmogony.

I'm not holding onto laughably provincial notions of cosmogony- it is just strange to start a history of a subject several years after its development, and only make passing reference to its progenitors. Krautrock developed into electronic music, including Kraftwerk, who coined the term 'techno'

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Post by anthk »

cmrdporcupine wrote: post #153
renaudg wrote: post #146

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>Europe had an _audience_ for techno, yes but also an audience for some of the cheesiest garbage dance music on the planet. That's actually a sign that a genre has taken hold and reached maturity in a location, with subgenres catering for every layer of society. As a genre ambassador, you know you've won when your sound (even a watered down version of it) has become the sound of pop music chart-toppers. That happened…

> That happened in Europe in the early 90s, in America in the early 2010s. Not my recollection, though? "Electronica" was a mainstream record store category and a huge market in the late 90s and early 2000s in North America long before this "EDM" label was applied later. I think, yes, that it fell out of fashion post 9-11 and so in the 10 year gap the EDM thing happened later. So we're really talking about a generati…

We got dance megamixes in Spain too, in early 90's.
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