The BOA Guide To Real Hard Techno

[Mattias_Fridell]

As for posting our own stuff, well you've just said a very good reason for that, the artists that did make stonking hard techno tunes don't anymore, they've seen the money and have followed that (I'm not a believer of the old excuse "we're searching for a new sound").

That's the minimal guys you're speaking of, the rest of us who changed direction done it for one reason: We got bored of our old sound, even in its refined form.

[markandrew]

That's the minimal guys you're speaking of, the rest of us who changed direction done it for one reason: We got bored of our old sound, even in its refined form.

if you make hard techno year after year your gonna get the itch to make some thing different at some point nothing wrong with that i would be bored shitless playin hard techno day in day out for the rest of me life same with house techno trance mininal breakbeat jungle you can always go back to it when you ready with a clear head an produce great tunes with a new edge

[Mattias_Fridell]

if you make hard techno year after year your gonna get the itch to make some thing different at some point nothing wrong with that i would be bored shitless playin hard techno day in day out for the rest of me life same with house techno trance mininal breakbeat jungle you can always go back to it when you ready with a clear head an produce great tunes with a new edge

Right, that's my feeling exactly. I started to produce in the 90s, released my stuff early 2000 up till now and for over a decade I've done "hard" techno but also much other music but I felt I came to the point I'm fed up with it. My coming stuff will still be "hard" on some release but with a totally different direction.

I'm much more interested in tone, mood, dirt, emptiness, subtle movements and experimental thinking now, all of those things I rejected in much of my techno production before. Respect to those who can stay with what they've always done (even if it really boring from a production point of view) but thats just nothing for me.

[qUE]

Right, that's my feeling exactly. I started to produce in the 90s, released my stuff early 2000 up till now and for over a decade I've done "hard" techno but also much other music but I felt I came to the point I'm fed up with it. My coming stuff will still be "hard" on some release but with a totally different direction.

I'm much more interested in tone, mood, dirt, emptiness, subtle movements and experimental thinking now, all of those things I rejected in much of my techno production before. Respect to those who can stay with what they've always done (even if it really boring from a production point of view) but thats just nothing for me.

Yeah, the emotiveness, that's music theory. I find if the sequence and tweaking are done live, the emotion is pretty much put in there as standard. I've personally always been into technical intricacies and instability, hopefully aiming to let the machines add their own character, I'm a fair way there, still quite a bit of R&D to do though.

[Mattias_Fridell]

Yeah, the emotiveness, that's music theory. I find if the sequence and tweaking are done live, the emotion is pretty much put in there as standard. I've personally always been into technical intricacies and instability, hopefully aiming to let the machines add their own character, I'm a fair way there, still quite a bit of R&D to do though.

You think much like me I can hear. I'm old school when it comes to production, I like to record and tweak everything live (though it takes layer recordings at times obviously) and like to program with step sequencing & pattern based writing just like how everything started. I'm not into drawing lines in Cubase to make music, I find its killing my inspiration and ideas pretty quick for example.

As my mate MITA says, TMMR is a good label and combines a bit of everything, theres some real solid releases on there.

The Overfiend; always great wisdom coming from you.