New Directions in Techno?

[SlavikSvensk]

ok, so before anyone jumps on me, i'm not saying techno is crap now. but i would like to know which artists people think are really pushing the boundaries of the genre in new directions. in what ways are they doing this? what makes them revolutionary, or just a bit different?

who is on the cutting edge and what are they doing that people should know about?

[rhythmtech]

eric prydz (cirez d) is really doin it for me right now. he seems to have taken a quirky simple approach to techno which is a refreshing change from the bigger, faster, heavier way of thinking. Elton d aswell - very funky percussive stuff. henrys apex stuff is comin on nicely and some of the less acid orientated stuff on wah wah is nice. Some of preach's stuff rocks but i'm not so keen on some of it aswell.

[orac]

now i dont like this hype in techno, but i must mention it. it's about producers changing their style almost completely:
T.Hades, Redhead, M.Bailey - in the past making some proper pumping techno, now they slowed down and i dont like it (imo). i miss ep's like "look up", "icelandic", "sad homecoming" or "fiesta leblon"
Stanny Franssen the same
Henrik B a little
A.Beyer

really i miss their old style, now i cant find new records which i really love, that i would listen to them all the time...
but maybe im just moaning right now, maybe i'm listening to techno too much in a day, i dont know

[Jay Pace]

Matthew Dear.

My favourite artist at the mo' - love that squelchy raw sound he produces.

[dirty_bass]

Luka Bauman - combining the sound of dark minimal techno with the sound of coil
Innigo Kennedy - Always on the edge, never affraid to experiment, normally way ahead.
Can`t think of many others right now.

[SlavikSvensk]

i really like secret cinema, not because he's revolutionary, but because the way he thinks of melody is pretty atypical for techno, even if his beats are pretty orthodox...

okay, so where are all these innovators taking techno? how will the genre change because of them?

[Jay Pace]

I hope to God it slows down.

I'm loving everyone who can kill at crowd at 130bpm, instead of just exhausting them at 150bpm.

Saw Sims, Voorn and Hood play a while back. Chris Finke "warmed up" at full pelt from 10pm, and no one had it in them to slow down. I'm not that long in the tooth, but by the end of the night I just felt knackered and old.

Slow down, all of you. More funk, less speed.

[Miromiric]

would love to see more progressive songs, that would morph through the arrangement. maybe the new digital releasing format will encourage people to make more of such music. but then again to many people think about djing when making music.

[Francisco Scaramanga]

After Saturdays gig in Liverpool, I would definately have to say - Underground Resistance, or more specifically Galaxy 2 Galaxy live. Not for their tunes or production or anything (they've done their bit there already), but for the way they are currently playing them. It was a full band at Voodoo, and it was as live as music could ever be, a full on stage show, but playing all their classic tunes, and managing to improve on the recorded versions. I've never seen anything like it in terms of dance music, never even really thought anyone would ever try it. Anyway, not just anyone can pull that off, but I'm sure their current tour will inspire a few to try and do something like that, which would be quite an interesting direction for techno to meander down.

[The Overfiend]

Xfive aka Villain is going to shock a lot of people with his new material.

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Xfive aka Villain is going to shock a lot of people with his new material.

werd to the bird

[eyeswithoutaface]

After Saturdays gig in Liverpool, I would definately have to say - Underground Resistance, or more specifically Galaxy 2 Galaxy live. Not for their tunes or production or anything (they've done their bit there already), but for the way they are currently playing them. It was a full band at Voodoo, and it was as live as music could ever be, a full on stage show, but playing all their classic tunes, and managing to improve on the recorded versions. I've never seen anything like it in terms of dance music, never even really thought anyone would ever try it. Anyway, not just anyone can pull that off, but I'm sure their current tour will inspire a few to try and do something like that, which would be quite an interesting direction for techno to meander down.

WORD! Saturday was an absolute lesson in music. full stop.

Seem's its the originators still at the front

[dirty_bass]

Xfive aka Villain is going to shock a lot of people with his new material.

Yep, I gotta agree, although his work is slow to arrive, I`m lovin it, and releasing it. There`s a hidden complexity in his Villain stuff that really makes me wanna work my programming a lot harder.

[orac]

I hope to God it slows down.

I'm loving everyone who can kill at crowd at 130bpm, instead of just exhausting them at 150bpm.

Saw Sims, Voorn and Hood play a while back. Chris Finke "warmed up" at full pelt from 10pm, and no one had it in them to slow down. I'm not that long in the tooth, but by the end of the night I just felt knackered and old.

Slow down, all of you. More funk, less speed.

You are right ! When i mentioned about slowing down i wasn't talking about bpm, but different way in producing music by artist which i mentioned earlier.

[el salvador]

in south america the schranz is now what the peoples are likeing. crazy when we have the funk and the rhythms of sexy latin beats. i am thinking it is just a fashion in the techno to play harder and faster here right now

[SlavikSvensk]

would love to see more progressive songs, that would morph through the arrangement. maybe the new digital releasing format will encourage people to make more of such music. but then again to many people think about djing when making music.

possibilities are limitless, and even on vinyl. i mean, someone could release records with only one track per side, but 20 minutes of music, progressing greatly, on each side. good idea...

[Mindful]

Seem's its the originators still at the front

Intresting comment mr Gray.

It seems to me that the "new blood" would be stupid to ignore the original founders of this music.
Too many people IMO taking insperation(maybe the wrong word..perhaps COPYING would be the correct term)from the wrong places.

If techno is going to have some sort of insperation from itself at least let it be from the people who were/are original and not from the SAFE sound that gets hammerd all too often nowadays IMO

Im not saying that techno is the best place to draw insperation from when making or playing erm...techno but that to me the older sounds of labels like Tresor,Downwards,Missile ect sound more inovative than alot of the safe and retarded uncreative techno of current times.

Of course I am talking bolloks and this is only my opinion and not fact ;)

[SlavikSvensk]

It seems to me that the "new blood" would be stupid to ignore the original founders of this music.
Too many people IMO taking insperation(maybe the wrong word..perhaps COPYING would be the correct term)from the wrong places.

If techno is going to have some sort of insperation from itself at least let it be from the people who were/are original and not from the SAFE sound that gets hammerd all too often nowadays IMO

Im not saying that techno is the best place to draw insperation from when making or playing erm...techno but that to me the older sounds of labels like Tresor,Downwards,Missile ect sound more inovative than alot of the safe and retarded uncreative techno of current times.

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Of course I am talking bolloks and this is only my opinion and not fact ;)

[SlavikSvensk]

those clappies are from me...not sure why they ended up in your text...

[fresh_an_funky_design]

would love to see more progressive songs, that would morph through the arrangement. maybe the new digital releasing format will encourage people to make more of such music. but then again to many people think about djing when making music.

possibilities are limitless, and even on vinyl. i mean, someone could release records with only one track per side, but 20 minutes of music, progressing greatly, on each side. good idea...

you'd get a thin cut not a lot of bass in it. 12 mins is about ure max for a good cut on 12" vinyl anything more and you'd be filtering out the low end frequencies to fit it all in.