What was the record that got you into techno?

4th Sign-CJ Bolland

one of many

Mostly tracks I heard a DJ play on the local student radio, although I did buy the odd techno record. As far as I know there was no rave culture in New Zealand, back in the day and I hated clubs, I was into punk and metal gigs.

Maurizio - M4
Robert Armani - Supermarket Sweep
Caustic Window - Garden Of Linmari
Plastikman - Fuk

2nd hand copy of Tresor II Berlin-Detroit A Techno Alliance CD.

Seeing Phil Subhead at Studio 9 in Wellington June 2000.

I would trace my interest in electronic music back to groups/records like Front 242 - Geography, Foetus, Throbbing Gristle - 2nd Annual Report, Cabaret Voltaire - Live Leeds 1979, A Split Second - Smell Of Buddha, blahblahblah.

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Showing my age here, but for me it was all about this album :

http://stat.discogs.com/R/57919-1082737307.jpg

http://www.discogs.com/release/57919

I'd been to a few parties and heard some techno in amongst the acid house selections and never knew what they were, but finding a cd copy of that album by pure chance in a second hand shop stopped me in my tracks and made me realise that techno was a whole different world.

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Phew im glad someone else posted something from this era i was begining to feel old there.

it was nude photo - rythmn is rythmn (transmat) for me i suppose you could say cybotron - techno city (fantasy) but we didn't even know what techno was then it was just all electro , bloody hell was that really 1984 ,20 years ago! jesus i am old ;)

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Nobody got into techno because of Africa Bambatta Planet Rock?

Front 242: Headhunter V.1.1 1988
Classic!!

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Originally Posted by dirty_bass

Front 242: Headhunter V.1.1 1988
Classic!!

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Ooooooooohhhhhh Dbass with the real deal!

Ok since it's cool to show our age in here then I have to say People Are Still Having Sex is up there with me.

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Originally Posted by Deathfactory

Mostly tracks I heard a DJ play on the local student radio, although I did buy the odd techno record. As far as I know there was no rave culture in New Zealand, back in the day and I hated clubs, I was into punk and metal gigs.

Maurizio - M4
Robert Armani - Supermarket Sweep
Caustic Window - Garden Of Linmari
Plastikman - Fuk

2nd hand copy of Tresor II Berlin-Detroit A Techno Alliance CD.

Seeing Phil Subhead at Studio 9 in Wellington June 2000.

I would trace my interest in electronic music back to groups/records like Front 242 - Geography, Foetus, Throbbing Gristle - 2nd Annual Report, Cabaret Voltaire - Live Leeds 1979, A Split Second - Smell Of Buddha, blahblahblah.

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plastikman - fuk, damn not heard that in years. will have to hunt that out

Reck - A Spark of Life(Eukatech)... ;)

No 1 record got me into techno, it was a natural progression since childhood.

The first tunes I liked were shit like Second phase - Mentasm and LFO-LFO etc. Then later on I started liking Jeff Mills stuff but on the whole it was a step by step process I think. I think my older brother had a bit of an influence exposing me to the electronic stuff, but not the "pure" techno sound.

NIN were quite a big influence on me, in that they showed me there was heavy stuff that wasn't metal :twisted:
there was one of their tracks on a tape that came free with select mag....
found it,

NIN - Wish

same tape has got, Disposible heroes of hiphoprisy - calfornia uber alles!!!

and off another tape,

Orbital - Chime/Impact (live) :love:


how the **** could i forget:

LSG - Hearts, still looking for this :lol:

shit, that a lot more than 1 record, impossible to nail it down to 1 though :scratch:

Sven Vath... ;)

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Originally Posted by SummerOfSam

Laidback Luke - Act The Fool (Touche)
Paul Johnson - The Music In Me (Relief)
Armand Van Helden Vs Dj Sneak - Psychic Bounty Killas (Relief)
Cajmere - Only For You (Green Velvet Remix)
House Of God Surgeon Remix.
Dave Clarke - RED 1-3

Somebody make me a mix of all of those records so I can cream myself to sleep please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Would someone really make me a mix of these please?

yeah man,
if i owned em ;)

I used to only listen to hardcore punk and ska (and some surf music), but the energy I felt when I went to my first techno party was undescribable. I started taping Umek's weekly radio show "Consumer recreation" and got into techno and electro, I started buying records and it went from there.
The first record I bought was Aux 88's "Xeo-genetic", but the first techno track I heard was Umek's "Lanicor" about five years ago, an MP3 off DC's Fuse album... When I went to my first techno party, Kanzyani was spinning and I was immediately hooked... But the funny thing is I started exploring electronic music when I first heard a Thunderdome hardcore compilation... The Massochist "MzKzM" - anyone know this track? Cheeky one :lol: