Familiarity Breeds Contempt ? Is Techno Losing Its Edge ?

[teknorich]

Fair enough. Tbh, I think people like Mike Denhert, Peter Van Hoesen, Marcel Fengler, Shed etc are a lot closer to minimal than you might like to think (they have literally all been featured on the mnml ssgs page, and they are very popular with minimal heads) but they are definitely Minimal Techno rather than Minimal house, which is a big difference.

What do you think it was that made artists like them decide they needed to adapt and do something different, to make this new slower sound of Techno? Was it that Techno was stuck in a rut, churning out the same old sounds? Had people got used to it, and bored by it?

[Numeric]

Fair enough. Tbh, I think people like Mike Denhert, Peter Van Hoesen, Marcel Fengler, Shed etc are a lot closer to minimal than you might like to think (they have literally all been featured on the mnml ssgs page, and they are very popular with minimal heads) but they are definitely Minimal Techno rather than Minimal house, which is a big difference.

peter van hoesen - quartz no1

peter van hoesen - strip it, boost it (entropic dub)

to me, that sounds like just techno my old friend, no need for any minimal tags

[morbid]

so much good techno about nowadays

Things are going full circle

YouTube - Ancient Methods vs. Adam X - Mital Regurgitation (Ancient Methods Mix)

YouTube - Kevin Gorman - Insomnia (Joseph Capriati's Dark Night Remix)

YouTube - Deadbeat - Grounation (Berghain Drum Jack)

YouTube - Marcel Fengler - Thwack

YouTube - Traversable Wormhole - Transducer

YouTube - Terence Fixmer - Drastik (Planetary Assault Systems Remix)

YouTube - Sascha Müller - Destruction

[djshiva]

Some great music suggested above!

Some Youtube links to tunes that have really been hitting on a level that brings back my excitement about techno:

MD2 - MD2.3 (Mike Dehnert)

Adam Jay - Techno's Coming Back

EQD - Equalized 003 A

EQD - Equalized 003 B

^^^I love both of those so much I couldn't pick just one. LOL

Dexter - Redbox

Mike Humphries - Tactical Recon

Traversable Wormhole - Closed Timelike Curve (Marcel Dettmann Rmx)

Pfirter - Superventricular

There is fantastic music out there, with plenty of "edge". I promise. :D

[djshiva]

YouTube - Deadbeat - Grounation (Berghain Drum Jack)

Oh my. Thanks for the heads up on that one!!! :D