What makes you happy about techno???

[MARK ANXIOUS]

I asked my Chrissi what would be a good topic for the forum and she gave me this :) I think this is a really great thing to put into words........ Much respect to Chrissi!!!

For me...

I remember being a kid, listening under the pillow in the early 80's to a pirate radio show that played electro and early techno....This has stayed with me, to the point I ****ed what my parents had planned for me and made my life music. Sure I've got into other music too over the years, but that thing of listening to 'spacey' futuristic music has stayed with me forever. Now when I hear techno music, I love the idea that I'm doing something that no-one wants me to do. Sure, I want ppl to love it, but really I don't care if I'm being honest. Techno has kept me sooooo intrigued cause it's always changing, always moving on. It's music that doesn't give a shit....

I could go on....

Anyway come on, let's hear your stories! What makes you happy about techno?!!!

[xes]

Anyway come on, let's hear your stories! What makes you happy about techno?!!!

Well,coming from the angle of a listener,not a producer/dj.....

I remember hearling some crackely te **** old tapes,could hardly hear the music,but I knew that I loved it there and then. It had such a fresh feel to it,like a new car or something. (ok,I was about 12,more like a new transformer) Listened to this new sound every day,till I was about 14,then I went to my first rave. Now,I hadn't really heard techno up until this point,it was more the "old school breaks" sound,nice and dirty,but still. I was standing there,just a little kid,umungst all these fecked up people,having a great time. When BANG BANG BANG BANG. It knocked me back a bit,I just danced,the music made me do it (an excuse I still use) The feeling I got from rocking around to techno just won't fecking go away. I love it,can't get enough of it. The savage relentness pounding of the beats,the little intricate noises that twist and turn through the tunes,there's just nothing else like it. People tell me that you need drugs to listen to"music like that" but the music makes me buzz,it gets me high*. I could also go on,I have many "first rave" memories,that have all blended into one big happy hazey bubble.

*That is what makes me happy about techno/acid techno. I even wrote a little ditty about it,if you're lucky,I'm still hungover enough to share it with you. (please remember I was about 16,and tripping when I wrote it.)

I do not need xtc,anphetamines or lsd
ketamine,scag or coke you see
cos techno is a drug for me
it makes me dance,move my body
jump like a twat,at the party
you could say I'm a techno junkie
cos I'm quite happy with a spearmint wriggly.

I can't believe I'm actually going to press the post reply button. :ohdear:

[jeroenliebregts]

for me techno is the only repetitive music that makes full use of it's repetitiveness. The abstract quality, combined with highly repetitive elements make me hear new stuff in the same tracks all the time. Good techno often has no dominance of 1 aspect of the music (eg melody), but all elements are on equal footing. That's what pulls me to it.
No exciting anecdotes here Mark, sorry :)

[rhythmtech]

about 94/95 i was discovering 1 or 2 mind altering substances

listening to mostly chems/underworld etc.. didnt really know what techno was at the time. went into the local record shop one day and the guy behind the counter gave me this second hand cd someone had traded in. said i'd love it. turned out to be chris liberators "prolekulture! mix.. i got home and put it straight on.. BAM ****.. WHAT THE HELL..

it was like discovering rock'n'roll!!! i must have listened to it 100 times that day.. just sitting staring at the socialist imagery on the cover..

thats what i love about techno.. the tingles, the feeling of discovering something new, the idea that if i played it to my mum she'd have a heart attack and try have me commited.

to me, music that inspires is also music that offends. music that makes other people wonder have you lost the plot.. theres something very exciting about understanding whats going on in a track when everyone else just thinks its noise.

thankfully that feeling i got back then has never left me. to this day, every time i get a new track that i love, i get this weird feeling that somethings not quite right about this music, yet everything is right about it for me..

i guess it boils down to the old "i discovered it first feeling" that all music lovers get. you know when you put a record on and make your m8s listen to it b4 telling them proudly that its a limited press by some obscure producer but it sounds like it should be played at every club forever!!!!

waffle over.. im now going to go dig out "avin it 1" and dance around my sittin room till im dizzy :cheese:

[fils_here]

back in the 90's i got into the festival/traveller scene along with my dreadlocks hehe got into RDF, back to the planet etc then got into eat static & discovered megadog & the herbal tea parties. then went onto discover acid techno a night 'havok' in manchester ooh what a night, just loved the 303 sound, soon discovered the liberators stay up forever etc, for a few years i was into the acid techno(not techno) then as the labels at the time ie routemaster started putting out tracks with no 303 but still with the party sound i started getting more into techno discovering import lables too :) & now i'm fixed hehe!! :-) the thing i love about techno is the different styles & boundaries you can cross especially when your on one mixing you can't really incorporate that into an acid techno set but with techno you can say drop an obscure track into the middle of your set then build it right up again & your off, well that's enough babbling for now...

[Mucky Beats]

I love techno because I could leave it on 24/7 and never get board of it ... its like when im at a free party and the mission is to keep the techno banging out for like 3 days non stop!
Its also great to meet fellow techno lovers because lets be fair 99% of the time if you are in the company of techno heads anywhere in the world you can feel at ease in someway...like your on the same wave length or something! also wicked to learn more and more all the time and still have loads more to learn!


LOVE IT he he

[Jak]

When I first started attending parties much of the music here was West-Coast House. Coming from a hard rock background I couldn’t get in to the diva vocals and disco shit that I was hearing. So when I was first introduced to the sounds of acid techno via the prolekult label, stay up forever, routmaster, etc I felt like…. here is dance music that kicks that other shit in the teeth, it’s raw, it’s dark, it’s got a heavy in your face beat and it is completely devoid of those diva vocals, plus no e-motional breakdowns. It’s funny cuz now I enjoy some funk and disco elements, although I still can’t stand most diva vocals and trance styled breakdowns.

So to answer the question specifically… techno makes me happy because it is bad-ass!

I also really love the diversity. Reggae, funk, hip hop, spoken word, disco, world music and even rock and pop, pretty much any genre you can think of has been incorporated with techno somewhere along the line. It keeps things interesting.

[audioinjection]

i love the fact that techno can be hard, deep, minimal, funky, distorted, no matter what, it all sounds good to me, makes me come back for more :)

[dan the acid man]

i love seeing people enjoy it as much as i do

[Miromiric]

Anyway come on, let's hear your stories! What makes you happy about techno?!!!

sexy time with miss jockey sluts

[rotten]

sexy time with miss jockey sluts

hehe agree here! ;)

and you get drinks for free!

[Miromiric]

sexy time with trainspotters.

[thomas_figo]

im on a dance floor.............having double vodka with coke...........my eyes shut...............listen to the laud techno..............ooo yeaaaaah.........fantastic track............im smiling

[[F/17]]

there's definitely something in techno that attracts the right kind of ppl and leaves all shit away.
there's something in the groove that makes me high.
and thers's always something to make me smile

[Sinister_Minister]

many reasons for me.

First, techno just flat out scratches a very deep and primal itch that nothing else can except great sex

Second, it's diversity. Good hard poundin techno is like Slayer without the evil because evil is bad right? Detroit Techno isvery soulful and beautiful and minimal techno to me is almost meditative and intelectual.

Third, it scares wankers, well the pounding variety does anyway.

And lastly its about as diametrically opposed to a Robbie Williams or a Black Eyed Peas song as any music can be.

Peace and long live techno.

[The Overfiend]

many reasons for me.

First, techno just flat out scratches a very deep and primal itch that nothing else can except great sex

Second, it's diversity. Good hard poundin techno is like Slayer without the evil because evil is bad right? Detroit Techno isvery soulful and beautiful and minimal techno to me is almost meditative and intelectual.

Third, it scares wankers, well the pounding variety does anyway.

And lastly its about as diametrically opposed to a Robbie Williams or a Black Eyed Peas song as any music can be.

Peace and long live techno.

Slayer is bad.
Not meaning bad, but bad meaning good.

[Sinister_Minister]

Slayer is bad.
Not meaning bad, but bad meaning good.

agreed ;)

[thomas_figo]

Third, it scares wankers, well the pounding variety does anyway.

i agree with u m8. their brains r to slow to handle it.

[RDR]

i agree with u m8. their brains r to slow to handle it.

I like techno because there are no boundaries, except those in people's minds... techno doesnt have to have beat or structure, tonality or dissonance, it can tell or story or let you make the story, it can be funky or staccato. It can use EVERY single sound known to the ears or it can use sounds never heard before. It draws upon every genre of music, every production style. Its emotive and vacant at the same time, it assumes nothing about nationality, sex, sexuality or attitude.

It is everything yet it is nothing measurable.

I love it and hate it in equal measure, i can take it or leave it. It bores me and excites me.

[oldbugger]

I like techno because there are no boundaries, except those in people's minds... techno doesnt have to have beat or structure, tonality or dissonance, it can tell or story or let you make the story, it can be funky or staccato. It can use EVERY single sound known to the ears or it can use sounds never heard before. It draws upon every genre of music, every production style. Its emotive and vacant at the same time, it assumes nothing about nationality, sex, sexuality or attitude.

It is everything yet it is nothing measurable.

I love it and hate it in equal measure, i can take it or leave it. It bores me and excites me.

:icon14: sums it up nicely