Anyone else HATE were techno is going.

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: BlipBlop
Autechre (earlier stuff, up to and including Tri Repetae)
Orb
Cabaret Voltaire
Orbital
Scanner
Richard H. Kirk
The Black Dog
Aphex Twin (Saw 85-92, SAW II, and his alter egos, Polygon Window, etc.)
Mu-ziq
Coldcut
Nightmares on Wax
Sun Electric
KLF
Banco de Gaia

oh man....

Good list, although unfortunately Orbital has gone downhill on their last 2 albums (and I am a huge fan). Some newer artists and older electronic artists that are still recording good stuff (in addition to your list and some other mentions) that I like are:

Underworld
Boards of Canada
Juno Reactor
Faithless
Four Tet
Hybrid
Karsh Kale
Leftfield
Talvin Singh
Dieselboy
Massive Attack

Of course,some people like to cubbyhole artists like Massive Attack and Four Tet into silly subgenres such as downtempo and electro-coustic (how ironic is that one???) respectively, but IMO for simplicity's sake, they're all electronic artists.

 

[CraigRT]

techno is blah.. it always was.. it has a time and place... otherwise, not enjoyable music.

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: NeuroSynapsis

Originally posted by: Muse

Originally posted by: NeuroSynapsis
then you shouldn't say it doesn't require practice

if you were to SPIN, a turntable would be your instrument

it takes alot of work to produce a GOOD track, and if you can't appreciate the time/effort required to make a GOOD track, oh well

I'm not putting it down and I do like a lot of it. I'm just saying that a lot of it sounds crappy. There are some great artists out there doing it, but I hear a lot of music that's crap - stuff that you know right off the bat that nobody is going to be interested in after a few years. That's the stuff I avoid, or try to. I like a number of artists who work electronically. Blevin Blechtum is a local female techno artist I dig. I am fascinated with what John Oswald does - "Plunderphonics". That stuff takes a LOT of work and I think it's great. But what Oswald does is different from most electronic artists. He used to work with razor blades and tape, I think. Now I'm sure he does it digitally.

like you can't say that about any other genre

Oh, but I can and it's true. A but more so for techno and other genres you produce with machines and not musical instruments. Try getting onstage with a violin and nothing else. You can either play or you can't. It's way easier to produce something with a computer, synthesizer, mixing board, a mic, etc. than with "standard" musical instruments. That doesn't mean that you can't produce great music. It does mean that you will get a proportionately greater (MUCH GREATER) amount of crap. Like I say, I approach synthesized music with suspicion at least initially. That especially includes music that has synthesized drums. I listen for the drum track and if I can tell it isn't a real drummer a red flag goes up. It still might be great, but I've got a knock on it already. - Radio DJ speaking.