History of Techno

Post by [deleted] » Wed, May 05, 2021, 5:12 PM UTC

dimal wrote: post #223

kristopolous wrote: post #13

This is about as conventional a narrative as you can get. I've never been happy with it though, it's way too much of a tidy, linear, clean through-line. For instance, this narrative always leave out free-style and electro like Hashim (example: 1983, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykK0uEjSsqY ), Newcleus, etc. Soulsonic Force (1982: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHQ11l4uiM4 ) predated Atkins Cybotron project and At…

Also strange that "I Feel Love" isn't mentioned. I thought this was the first real electronic dance music song. There was other "electronic music" but "I Feel Love" was strictly for dancing, which was new. "Supernature" is mentioned here, but AFAIK, that was released after "I Feel Love" and is pretty derivative.

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Post by tern » Tue, May 11, 2021, 3:55 AM UTC

kristopolous wrote: post #257

tern wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Histories of techno always leave out some of my favorites from the early 2000s Adam Beyer / Drumcode era of fast maximalist techno—Zenit records for instance https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPN0gicPJTTUJVhVMzCne... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOfuXwU6GoQ And I was surprised they mentioned Surgeon and Regis, but not their Downwards Records https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBilbhSIIhgKbRezA7RoO...

That whole movement was kinda self contained. Early 2000s Central Europe. There's a party drug contribution that's really instrumental to these movements. I have been thinking of how to do a musical taxonomy by narcotic, but it's hard to do without making everyone sound like a junkie. New Beat and MDMA, Disco and cocaine, freeform Jazz and heroine, etc. (I'm a big fan of all of these btw, and could likely make you wa…

To be fair a lot of the stuff I mentioned was from Spain and Belgium, more so than Sweden, but I loved your post! Completely agree.

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