Hard Techno

[MARKEG]

OK who are the labels/main ppl out there doing HARD TECHNO. NOT SCHRANZ.

We need a list!

I say ARMS and AUDIO ASSAULT are pretty on it at the mo :)

I could actually go on all night. But I'll let you do that!!

:lol:

[G-BO]

what is this schranz?

heard it being mentioned...fill me in mark

[The Overfiend]

Punish
Heroes
Blackout Audio
Hydraulix
Magnetic
Punish Blue
Template
Internal Error
Syndikaat
Flux
Audio Emotion
Supertech
50 hz
Patterns
Gameface
Emetic
Pathfinder Recordings
LK Rec
Potential
Mastertraxx
Betamax

[orac]

also:

adverse
beast
blueline music
bound
central sound
compound
composure
compressed
construct rhythm
drumworks
enable
fine audio rec
form
fresh grind
global trax
goathead
goodfellas
hardsignal
highland beats
holzplatten
illgorhythm
mafia
mankind
northwest dynamic
planet rhythm
rip off
submissions
su.real
temper
titanium
unknown forces
wicca

+ there are more industrial/hard techno

audio assault & arms are the best example to describe what hard techno truly is

[BloodStar]

Submissions, and i also think what happened with Form recordings; is it down, now; or?

[FuK-NuT]

men in motion
third movement (not all techno)
industrial Movement
Industrial strength (sometimes)
protocast
turning point
enemy
audiodacity
monox
uti
cynic
black monolith
genosha (more industrial)

to name but a few

[Patrick DSP]

:clap: great lists guys!!!!

[Dustin Zahn]

Right so I'm taking this discussion over from the 30th minimal thread this week. I said there wasn't too much for good, solid hard techno coming out these days. For me and my tastes, this is still the case. Looking up at those lists, there are some great labels on there...some are legendary. Unfortunately, a lot of those great labels are finished, or haven't put a release out in a year or two. Another good portion of the lists are labels that have popped up in the past couple years that have done some impressive stuff, but lack the proper beats to achieve that legendary status as some of the labels of yesteryear.

While I'm not completely disillusioned (sp?) with hard techno, I just can't find enough worth buying these days. When I was younger and into the record-buying binge I'd buy like 10 hard techno records a week. Right now I'm broke and I guess its kind of fortunate (for my wallet) that I am lucky to find 10 good records every couple months. Now, when I think of good, hard quality techno I imagine names like Heiko Laux, Steve Rachmad, Petar Dundov, Surgeon, Holy Ghost, Jeff Mills, Beyer in a pissed off mood, Patrik Skoog in top form, etc. For me, not enough of this stuff is coming out as much anymore. Yeah, there's a lot of primate-ish, oliver giacomotto type shit coming out lately and from time to time there is a good one but if I'm going for the hard party techno I'd rather just stick to all the bad ass records I bought from 99-2003. I will say that one of my favorite sources for hard techno right now happens to be audio assault and I'm not trying to be biased here. They tend to hit all corners of the harder side of the spectrum.

Now with the congo bongo techno like Ben Sims, Paul Mac, yadda yadda yadda, I'm also have troubles finding stuff as well. It seems the only techno of this style that really catches me lately is coming from that UK stable, or Joris Voorn, etc. A lot of the rest of it coming out, for me anyway, kinda seems faked or the producer tried too hard. For the Ingoma crew you can tell its in their blood. Plus they do a great job of slowing the bpm's down a bit to get that swing and funk going, but you would think its a tad faster without getting a proper bpm count.

[jon connor]

Punish
Heroes
Blackout Audio
Hydraulix
Magnetic
Punish Blue
Template
Internal Error
Syndikaat
Flux
Audio Emotion
Supertech
50 hz
Patterns
Gameface
Emetic
Pathfinder Recordings
LK Rec
Potential
Mastertraxx
Betamax

ive started wanking over this list phewwwwwwww stop :eyes:

[jon connor]

also:

adverse
beast
blueline music
bound
central sound
compound
composure
compressed
construct rhythm
drumworks
enable
fine audio rec
form
fresh grind
global trax
goathead
goodfellas
hardsignal
highland beats
holzplatten
illgorhythm
mafia
mankind
northwest dynamic
planet rhythm
rip off
submissions
su.real
temper
titanium
unknown forces
wicca

+ there are more industrial/hard techno

audio assault & arms are the best example to describe what hard techno truly is

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh just cum :hammered: hehehehehehe i was gunna strt a list but you lot just about covered it ;) lets face it this real hard techno full on rig smashing fine quality audio

[dirty_bass]

also:

adverse
beast
blueline music
bound
central sound
compound
composure
compressed
construct rhythm
drumworks
enable
fine audio rec
form
fresh grind
global trax
goathead
goodfellas
hardsignal
highland beats
holzplatten
illgorhythm
mafia
mankind
northwest dynamic
planet rhythm
rip off
submissions
su.real
temper
titanium
unknown forces
wicca

+ there are more industrial/hard techno

audio assault & arms are the best example to describe what hard techno truly is

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh just cum :hammered: hehehehehehe i was gunna strt a list but you lot just about covered it ;) lets face it this real hard techno full on rig smashing fine quality audio

John you are great.
you are completely out of your bucket mate!!
:cheese:

[jon connor]

Submissions, and i also think what happened with Form recordings; is it down, now; or?

yes dude form went down with prime dude there was supposed to a new label from thomas pogadl and andreas called pk audio which was gunna be the new form to carry on but there is something going on with andreas and thomas at the moment apparently andreas is not producing all sorts of pollotics but its a dam shame i really miss andreas kramer he is a legend and a pioneer of this sound full on gutted he hasent started producing again :( there is a few copys of deth sound competition flying about somewhere i think only no1 came out its the last thing andrea produced wot a fukin record dude ;)

more info here man http://www.pkaudio.com/

i think i might start a campain heheheheheheheh bring back andreas please please please i think we should all bombared the message board hahahahahahahah :cheese: wot a fukin bloke man :)

[Dustin Zahn]

Doesn't he still run that expanded label? Or is that somebody else? The ESP relesae that came out on there recently was really good rave stuff.

[orac]

Expanded is Andreas Kremer label if we are talking about the same label.

[MITA]

Heroes,Abiotic,Blacoutaudio,Unknown forces,Planet Rhythm,Overdrive,Punish,Hardsignal,Betamax,Mastert raxx,Audio Assault,Fine audio,Tresor,Submissions,junkfood,Mafia,Invasion,T oneman,Fak,Purples,Enable,
Evil Deception,Humanoid,DrumWorks,Wicca,Giant & Dwarf,Patterns,Primal Confusion,
Definition recs,Super Tech,Fresh Grind,Killaz,Global Traxx,Fod,Planet Visions,Simple Answer,Kick the drum,Highland beats.......list goes on

[Mindful]

DrumWorks is pretty cool, has some deeper sounds on there.

Ive allways liked Compound(mainly cause of the Headroom stuff on there)

Audio assault and Arms are realy the Daddys of hard techno for me over the past year or so,
as Dustin said they are covering the range of the hard sound....plus they have nice covers.

Patterns I like as again it has covers a range of the harder sound.

Betamax has been realy good, Quite fresh as has Mastertraxx and hardsignal.

Form were deadly.

[Scott Kemix]

*glitch ;) probably the only label that does good hard techno when he feels like. Apart from that, its mostly the europeans whom rule the tree...............hard techno/schranz/schranz hard techno etc

[Mindful]

Forgot to mention Fresh Grind

[Aratron]

Cluster
Working VInyl

[The Overfiend]

Who is the contact for Audio Assault?