Help me find some techno

[NaughtyusMaximus]

For most of my life, I've hated techno with a passion. But its beginning to grow on me (it had to - with my brother pretending to be a DJ in the room next door). I've got all the jungle I could ever want and more, but its not the most pleasing to me right now. I very much like the style of groups like Propellorheads, and Prodigy - but both are starting to sound a little too old to me. I especially like songs that have a little bit of vocals in them (not too much of course). What groups should I look into?

 

[Imported]

Listen to Digitally Imported for some artists..

 

[Demosthenes]

Bahh, first off you don't want actual techno, you want trance.

Or at least is the case with 95% of new electronica listeners.... As ill said, DigitallyImported is the absolute best place to pick up songs you like. Just check their playlist when you hear something you like, and hit up Napster.. err, uhh cdnow.com

 

[DaveJ]

Anything by Enigma or Delerium... good stuff, especially the early Enigma stuff!

Dave

 

[prodigy]

3 words, 1 name.

Paul Van Dyk

 

[paruhd0x]

Bah! Tag's Trance Trip is better than Digitally Imported!

 

[prodigy]

Both are pretty good IMHO

 

[b0red]

BT
Robert Miles

 

[Phuct]

As far as streams go Repruhzent is also a good stream. As far as artists go it depends on your tastes, you seem to be the prodigy/chemical brothers/crystal method kinda guy so i guess i'd suggest some squarepusher or aphex twin. Personnally i like more house/speed garage/trance so house wise, mabye some armand van helden,cassius,dimitri from paris,moloko,modjo,sebastien leger, ian pooley, bob sinclair, carl cox, thomas bangalter among others. Trance wise try some say... scan,dj bobo, dj dado, dolphins mind, red5!, um... god.. my brains hurting now... that'll get ya started tho... just listen to the streams... you'll find some good stuff...

 

[yakko]

Try some of these.

Crystal Method
Bassbin Twins
Drum Club
Mysteries of Science
Olive
Southside Reverb
Trip Theory
BT
808 State
Jega
Spacelab
Spacetime Continuum
Future Sound of London
Alex Reece
Hard Hop Heathen
B12
The Orb
LFO
Aphex Twin/Polygon Window/AFX
John Debo
Dark Side of the Shroom
Central Fire
Freaky Chakra
Single Cell Orchestra


These are different styles of techno but listen and decide what you like.

 

[NaughtyusMaximus]

Thanks for all the suggestions.

 

[b0red]

Massive Attack
Underworld
Leftfield
Orbital
Apollo 440
Basement Jaxx
Groove Armada

 

[andrey]

Enigma, Enya or Robert Miles. Take a look especially at their dance remixes!

Also, take a look at site below, it has good information and videos of of quite a few eurodance artists:

EuroDance Hits

 

[MuuMuu]

Some suggestions...

Daft Punk
Leftfield
Bentley Rhythm Ace
DJ Shadow

The latter two are a bit different... BRA is similar to Propellerheads, but still seemingly "light" in their own way. DJ Shadow makes use of a lot of rap-like beats minus the lyrics; it's actually quite interesting to hear. I like it.

Another artist you may wanna check out is Amon Tobin. Very interesting mix of everything. Seriously, check him out.

Muu

 

[yakko]

MuuMuu,

Bently Rhythm Ace sounds like Pop Will Eat Itself(click sig) if they started making big beat. Oh wait a minute it is Pop Will Eat Itself. Some of them anyway.

 

[snoogans]

UNDERWORLD!!!!!!

 

[LordMaul]

Uhhh....yakko...you need help....I mean, LFO?!

 

[yakko]

LordMaul,

Yea LFO ( Low Frequency Oscillations) Not LFO (Lyte Funky Ones)

 

[CoolTechie]

hmmm this is all ok stuff.. kinda korny though... if u want the afterhours sik sh!t that will put you through the roof.. check out these songs for example

"Scream" - embargo
"FINAL CHAPTER" - MIKE MACALUSO

if u like em i can name more.. these songs r sik sik sik

 

[eakers]

*kat. <-- double poster

 

[eakers]

what the hell?

THAT IS NOT TECHNO. ITS TRANCE.

there is a HUGE difference between the two.

alot of what you guys are calling techno is no where near it. trance, house and trip hop,even old skool london hardcore.
if you must generalilze then call it electronic music.

for really real techno then try to look for: Adam Beyer (sweedish techno), or richie hawtin.


share what you know, learn what you dont.
*kat. <-- loves minimal techno

 

[WooDaddy]

Ok.. let's be a little bit more specific. Asking for good techno is like asking for good rock or classical. There are so many genres.

So to be specifc... I'm really getting nasty endorphin (sp?) highs off of some dude named Edgey. It's more of a jungle/drum and bass techno. You can find his stuff off mp3.com.
Yup.. It's free.

If you're wanting to get into breakbeat, some good cds are Breakbeat Era (produced by Roni Size) or Breakbeat Massive. Check out towerrecords.com. They might still have some left.

My two cents

 

[CoolTechie]

cmon ya dink... its already been stated above that we were assuming he meant electronic music.. im sure most of these people know the difference, but when a new person to the music asks for techno, 99% of the time they r really meaning to aks for trance or house..

 

[loup garou]

Well, kat, the original poster said techno in the sense of &quot;electronic music&quot; as a whole. That's where the problem lies. I agree with Demosthenes, when he says that Naughtyus is actually looking for good trance by his description. I'd add more but yakko and b0red pretty much nailed down my favorite artists.

All I have to say is Orbital's new album is due out in april, with a DVD version following in may!!!!!!!

Oh, and LOL @ LordMaul!

EDIT: CoolTechie beat me too it.

 

[Lars]

Go to the &quot;LOVE PARADE&quot; in Berlin (Germany) like I did.
1.5 million people dancing on the street to techno music
is just amazing. Although I actually don't like techno.