Top three legends of techno?

[dirty_bass]

and if you take all the mad wierdness in techno it will always trace back to aphex

I kinda agree with everything apart from this comment, which is based on your own respect for aphex, and not really in fact.
When he start outed he was merely a poor carbon copy of the european mad electronic industrial noise producers, and true experimental electronik body music had been going on since the late 70`s and early 80`s, so his sound can be traced back to Throbbing Gristle, and possibly NON, Clock DVA etc

But this is all subjective, we all have our own legends, and this question is subjective, their is no true answer. You can keep tracing things back, until really you end up with the inventors of the equipment.

[serox]

hard to name 3 people, but here goes


kraftwerk
ahpex twin
marc acardipane

[azerom04]

Don't you have to be dead to make legend status or at least not doing what gives you potential legend status.

If this is true, I don't think any of the names mentioned here would make it. YET!

These people may have made some genius music or played some legendary sets.

But at the end of the day they are still practising what they preach and in this modern day of music you are only as good as your last single or set.

[MARKEG]

> until really you end up with the inventors of the equipment.

TOTALLY! :lol:

[dreadnought]

Kraftwerk - Made music 20 years ago that still sounds a million times more futuristic than anything made today. Influenced nearly all the big name Detroit boys. Listen to It's more fun to compute - proper dark electro. In fact the whole computer world album is seminal.

Jeff Mills - Enough has already been said but he brought a hip hop style to playing techno that revitalised it. As a producer totally rewrote the rulebook in the mid nineties and has written a ton of classics. Has spawned a horde of imitators.

Warp Records - Label that inspired, put out, influenced a generation of artists and labels. Slightly off the boil now but are an integral part of the vast pantheon of electronic music.

[The Overfiend]

Clock DVA

Havent heard that name in a brutally long time.

[dirty_bass]

Havent heard that name in a brutally long time.

Hehe

the thing is, I picked up a mint copy of Clock DVA`s "Sound Mirror" 12"
this week. From a fine boutique in london that stocks loads of experimental and industrial.
I`ve been listening to it. And it`s feckin excellent.
Then I stuck on BMB stuff. And thought, hmmmm is techno really going forwards any more?
The Sound Mirror EP was made in 1989 and sounds fresher than the new makaton stuff.