Acutally good techno songs?

[highlander]

I don't exactly have many, if any techno songs, so I'm just wondering, what're some good songs too start out on?

 

[soulslicer]

I hate techno (genre confusion..), but I like trance though, as of now I've been listening to Chicane and The Thrillseekers mostly, for some relaxing stuff yeah...

 

[AtomicSpark]

Half-life 2 Soundtrack

 

[Viperidae]

Probably the best overall house mix in the last while is James Holden's Balance 005. Everything else these days is just the same old. Hmm but Sasha's latest thing has also come out so I should check that out.

I don't listen to techno.

 

[kineaesth]

Oh, hi! I see you've confused the specific genre of 'techno' with the much broader classification of electronic/dance music!

The only people that listen to techno currently are Germans and Portugese.

 

[Dinkleberry]

I just found a site that might be a good starting point:
http://www.detroitinstitute.org/

I've enjoyed this set a few times before:
http://www.detroitinstitute.org/techno/Tomasso_Ferrari_-_Party_on__Luna_Rossa_Yacht/

 

[Remus]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bV9yhAo7rE

 

[Pivovar]

I hate the term techno, it's outdated and it's way to broad.
Anyway, Blank & Jones and OceanLab FTW

Edit: the song posted above rocks, name+title plox

 

[staticprimer]

Infinite Journey by Jason Sean is really good.

 

[kineaesth]

I hate the term techno, it's outdated and it's way to broad.

I would disagree. It's simply an ignorant term for electronic music. And it's not really broad - it's incredibly specific.

 

[Mellish]

Eric Prydz - Pjanoo

It's not exactly trance but I ****ing love it.

 

[The_E]

Eifell 65 - Blue

 

[thefiznut]

i'm just going to assume by techno you really don't have any idea what you're looking for, so here's a list of goodies to try.


anything on the kompakt record label
particularly michael mayer,
alex smoke's paradolia
the field
the analord series (all of them)
ceephax acid crew
basic channel
minilogue - animals
ricardo villalobos
ellen allien
http://www.discogs.com/artist/DeepChord

etc

disregard most of what's been said

 

[Steven]

I think about a year ago I tried to convince you (on msn) that there is good electronic music being made aside from all that night club/dance mumbo-jumbo that those hip hop'n teenagers listen to. It's called ambient, personally I'd reccomend any of Brian Eno's ambient albums aside from Music for Airports (I don't really like it, it's probably famous because it invented the genre), Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works Volume 2 (might take a while to get into), and anything by Boards of Canada.

 

[kineaesth]

It's called ambient,

... You mean some of it's called ambient? I'm pretty sure there's a lot of good electronic music out there that isn't all that night club/dance mumbo-jumbo that those hip hop'n teenagers listen to, and also isn't ambient.

But yeah, can't go wrong with Eno and Boards. Why not chuck in some Shadow, he's always good.

 

[Steven]

... You mean some of it's called ambient? I'm pretty sure there's a lot of good electronic music out there that isn't all that night club/dance mumbo-jumbo that those hip hop'n teenagers listen to, and also isn't ambient.

But yeah, can't go wrong with Eno and Boards. Why not chuck in some Shadow, he's always good.

I knew someone was going to say that, I just couldn't be bothered changing my words. D:

 

[Gemma]

techno?
no
no
no
no
no
!
>=(

 

[Kula Meenur]

^Oh? Then what missy?

DJ Sasha's Xpander is the bomb Viper. Cav, try to buy a CD called Anjuna Beats also check out soulslicer's Hl2 page clicky. Also check out Gouryellal is Armin van Buuren + Tiesto mixing together. ****in awes. Most of this'll prolly be tl;dr for ya Cav, but that's cool mate i hope you take your time.


Happy tunin'.


Andy Moor
ATB
Above & Beyond
Alex Bartlett (aka Alex B.)
Arcane
Alanah
Allure
Aly & Fila (check out their remix to Lost Witness's and Sassot's: Whatever
Armin van Buuren

BT
Leon Boiler

Cara Carrilion (vs. 2Devine)
Cass
Cerf
Chakra
ClairevanderBoom(/jasefos)
Cosmic Gate

Darren Tate (vs. Jono Grant)
Dave 202
Deepsky (check out the song, Ghost, feat. Jes)
Deadmaus
Delerium (You'll love 'em. ****ing most influential group)
DJ Dean
The Drill
DT8 Project

Esteura
DJ Energy
Electric Pulse (check out White Noise...you'll see)

Fable
Ferry Corsten (has a lot of alias', check out System F: Exhale)
FKN (check out the remix of Why, feat. Jahala)
Filo & Peri
First State
Filterheadz
Fonzerelli (great group)
Forunners
Fred Baker (classy bloke)
Funabashi

Gabriel & Dresden
Galen Behr (check out Carabella feat. Hydroid)
GIGI (an italian trance/progressive artist)
Gigi D'Agostino
Gigi Lav
Guiseppi Ottaviani (fantastic artist)
Glenn Morrison (****in huge in Amsterdam's progressive scene atm, check out Rubber Band)
Global Experience
Global Illumination (check out Tremble)
Goldenscan
Gouryella
GTR

Hammock Brothers
Haylon
Headstrong (check out Symphony of Soul feat. Tiff Lacey)
Hiroyuki Oda (check out the track Transmigration by this artist, great track)
Hixxy & Styles

Inertia
Inner Stories (check out the song, Beyond by this artist. This song will always haunt my dreams lol)
Interstate

Jaytech
Jedidja
Jericho
Jes (also JES capitalised, great vocal trance artist)
JFK
Jin Key (check out the song Only One (Rave Mix), feat Sensorica)
Jonas Steur
Jose Amnesia
Jennifer Rene (check out the songsLouder and Fall To Pieces feat the above two artists...fantastic tracks)
Jody Wisternoff (artist who wrote, Cold Drink, Hot Girl
Julie Harrington (check out the song Slow It Down feat. Mads Arp)

Kamaya Painters
Karen Overton (Artist who wrote Your Loving Arms)
Kirsty Hawkshaw (listen to Reasons To Forgive, you may recognise her from some tracks off Tiesto's Just Be album)
Kyau & Albert (Huuuuuge trance artists. They wrote: Kiksu, Always A Fool, and the classic Are You Fine?)

Lost World
LAX
L.S.G. (check out Netherworld (Oliver Prime Remix) by this artist)
Late Night Alumini (check out Empty Streets)
Lange
Leama (check out Reqium For A Dream (Leama's Dream Mix)
Leama & Moor (check out Everything Matters, great track)
Leon Boiler (mentioning his name twice because he deserves it....really. check out Poseidon feat Supresa)
Libra (check out Calling Your Name feat. Taylor)
LNQ (listen to People I Used To Know)
Lost Witness & Sassot (as mentioned above, check out the track Aly & Fila's remix to Whatever)
Luminary (and their successive Andy Moor remixes)
Lucas & Beltram

Mannix vs. Kaymak
M.I.D.O.R. vs. Lynn (check out Breathing Prgz)
M.I.K.E. (check out World Gone Mad and Salvation, great tracks man)
Maor Levi (the writer of Illumina and Reflect, both two fantastic songs)
Marcel Woods (one of the worlds best DJ's imo)
Marco V (check out Any Better, Or? by him, good track)
Marcus Schossow
Markus Schulz (his name speaks for itself, check out his songs with Chakra, Carrie Skipper, Departure, Anita Kelsey and Andy Moor
Matthew Dekay (check out Bad great track)
Menno De Jong (another DJ who's name speaks for itself)
Michael Dow (check out the song Ascent, ****ing great track)
Mike Foyle
Mizja vs. Jasper
Mirco De Govia
Moogwai
Moonbeam
Motorcycle (feat. Jes)
Mr Sam (check out the song, Lyteo great track)

Naline & Kane
Nic Chagall (he wrote What You Need, which is still played in Perth clubs to date!)
Niclas Harding (check out the track Ice Beach, remixed by Jonas Stuer)
Niyaz (they wrote Dilruba, fantastic track)
Nog Assembly

O'Callaghan & Kearny (check out the song Exactly)
Odysee
Ohmna
Ozgur Can (listen to Irony by this artist...= win)

Parker & Hanson
P.O.S.
Paul Oakenfold
Phil Green
Paul van Dyk (eeeeeeeppppppiiiiiccc DJ. Check out the Deep Dish remix of The Other Side feat. Wayne Jackson)
Perasma
Perry O'Neill
Petter (check out These Days by this artist, epic track)
Plastic Angel
PPK (check these guys out, it's tech, not trance...lol)
Primer
Progression
Pulser
Purple Haze

DJ Quicksilver

Rachael Starr
Rank 1 (kiiiicccckkkssss aaaaaaaass!
Rapid-Eye
Reeves (check out the song Lonely feat Alanah good track)
Rex Mundi
Ricky Forbis
Rio Addicts
Robert Miles (check out Children 2000)
Roland Klinkenberg
The Roc. Project (feat. Tina Arena)
Rob van Den Beken
Ronald van Gelderen
Ronski Speed (check out The Space We Are, feat. Sir Adrian)
Russenmafia

Salt Tank
Signal Runners
Sensorica
Simon Le Bon
Sophie Sugar (=****in awes, check out Day Seven by this artist. It'll have you dancin all night)
Sander van Doorn (check out his remix of Armin van Buuren's Control Freak...epic)
Sean Tyas (hhhhuuuuuuge DJ, he wrote tunes such as One More Night Out, and Lift)
Sebastian Sands
Selu Vibra (check out Stargazing)
DJ Shah (epic DJ, listen to the track Beautiful...great trance track)
Signum (check out the track Second Wave...you'll see that it suits the title)
Smart System
Solar Factor
Solarstone
Sirocco
Solid Globe
Sonic Division
Soana
Soultanas (check out the song Moments feat. ToneDepth)
The Space Brothers
A Split Second
Steve Forte Rio
Steve May
Stoneface & Terminal
Sunlounger (check out this artist's song White Sand, epic guitar riffs)
Sunny Lax
Supers and DJ Tab (check out the song Suru another kick ass euphoric trance tune)
System F (an alias of Ferry Corsten

Taxigirl
Terri Ferminal (check out the song Walk Away feat. Mark Sherry)
DJ Tab
Thomas Bronszwaer
Thrillseekers
Tom Cloud
Tilt
Tiesto (no trance list can ever be complete without him, ay?)
Tom Mangan
Tremor

Under Sun

Vibrasphere
The Veil Kings
The Viceroy

Way Out West (one of the best vocal trance groups out there to date, check out Don't Forget Me and Mindcircus...also Killa)
World Clique
Will Holland
DJ Wag
Wighnomy Bros. (they wrote Wurz + Blosse which is an epic song feat. on Vol 4. of Tiesto's In Search of Sunrise series)

Yahel
Yakooza (famous for many qualities, also did a lot of Warp Brothers reworks)
Yilmaz Althanan (check out the song Eighties by this artist, ****in epic tune)
York
Young Parisians

Ziggy X (personally don't mind his tech stuff...)
Zirenz
Zmith & Pledger (check out the song Hi Jack where the artist, Aspekt is presented)


I hope you're happy Cav, i now have the biggest heeeaaaadfuuuuck...



Also, I'm going to Armin van Buuren's Concert this Fri at Metro City....f.u.c.k..y.e.a.h...!

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[Kamikazie]

Some of Dj Kydds stuff, mostly Ready For Love 2007. Then there's one called Dance Floor. I think it's a house mix... i'll post the title/artist later when i have my iPod.

 

[Vegeta897]

techno?
no
no
no
no
no
!
>=(

Please just stop posting.

 

[Kamikazie]

Dj Kydd - Ready For Love 2007

 

[kineaesth]

Uh.

Klute
Carbon Based Lifeforms
Autechre
Squarepusher
Boards of Canada
Booka Shade
M.A.N.D.Y.
DJ Shadow
Burial
Diplo
DJ Krush
Four Tet
Ladytron
Zinc
Tubbs
Thom Yorke
Talvin Singh
Spor
Rjd2
Portishead
Pitch Black (Not the rappers)
Mylo
Mr. Scruff
Minuit
Midnight Juggernauts

Alter Ego
SebastiAn
Vitalic
Justic
MSTRKRFT
Danger
Boys Noize
Digitalism
Goose
Para One

More stuff:
Mr. Oizo (very ahead of the curve french electronic music, very electic)
eDIT (hip-hop style beats with a glitchy edge)
Alex Gopher (new French Touch style house.. )
Jackson & His Computer Band (nice glitchy IDM)
Metronomy (two absolutely amazing songs, rest boring imo, but still worth a look)
808 State (acid house)
Altern-8 (more acid house)
Eats Tapes (nice harsh experimental music, vaguely techno)
Holy **** (experiemental instrumental stuff, really worth checking out)
A Mountain Of One (more prog-rock styled, baleric stuff)
Kavinsky (80s tinged synth stuff, lovely, really cool)
Feadz (Uffie's tour DJ, some interesting stuff here - a lot of his older stuff is really nice minimal techno)
Ricardo Villalobos (my fave minimal techno DJ/producer.. awesome stuff)
The Field (minimal atmospheric techno)
Dead Soul Brothers (veers between a fidget house take on garage rock, to more ambient stuff)
Herve / The Count Of Monte Cristal (one half of Dead Soul Brothers, and a fantastic fidget house producer and DJ)
Crookers (my favourite fidget house DJ/producers, absolutely fantastic)
Switch (sick sick sick bassy stuff)
Burial (veers between dubstep and ambient)
Motor (harsh industrial style electro)
Shackleton (fantastic dubstep artists)
Ratatat (probably already heard of them, but they're ace)
Sinden (speed garage styled fidget house)
DatA (as crunchy as Alter Ego etc, but often with a lot of musiciality)
Culture Prophet (more more more crunchy.. not for the fient of heart)
The Bloody Beetroots (crunchy but with a sound all of their own,
Drop The Lime (dubstep/BMore/electro.. lots of bass)

Let me know if this helps, got plenty more to recommend!!

Even more worth a look:
The Presets (aussie electro)
Does It Offend You, Yeah?
The Teenagers
Late Of The Pier
Chromeo
GameBoy/Gamegirl
LA Priest
Pirate Soundsystem
Herbert
Tapedeck
Guns N Bombs
Hostage
Skream
Benga & Coki
Dmitry Fyodrov
Jack Beats
Boy 8-Bit
Simian Mobile Disco
The Black Ghosts
Simon Baker
Villains
Bart B More
Japanese Popstars

all these (range from ambient to psytrance to idm) are worth checking out:
bolded are my personal favorites

infected mushroom
1200 mics
juno reactor
astral projection
the infinity project
shpongle
hallucinogen
carbon based lifeforms
biosphere
pole
the field
bluetech
boards of canada
squarepusher
autechre
amon tobin
AFX (another project of Aphex Twin / RDJ)
apparat
the chemical brothers
delerium
equinox
four tet
gescom (autechre sideproject)
justice
kelly bailey (HL2 soundtrack)
matmos
monolake
mum
orbital
ott
the prodigy
venetian snares
zero 7

Oh lawdy.

 

[highlander]

Thanks for all the suggestions guys!