The BOA Guide To Real Hard Techno

[MARK ANXIOUS]

There's alot of new artists for ppl to get their heads around in this new digital age :)

It'll be a great idea I think to post a thread where we can all say who some of the artists are that are really cutting it and a paragraph underneath about them.. Where their websites are, perhaps a pic,a small bio, a link.. etc...

Then we make a guide to it as a press release for the various worldwide hard copy magazines.....

But don't post your own shit here.. just post people you're willing to stand up and recommend... They must be prolific current.... OK perhaps you can put yourself but if anyone doesnt think it's right after it's been posted, let me know on info@markeg.com and I'll take it down!

Off the top of my head as of now, I would ask of you to put recommendations about

Virgil Enzinger
Luis Ruiz
Ritzi Lee
Reeko
Andreas Kremer
Oscar Mulero
Vegim
Oinks
Glenn Wilson
Mattias Friedel
Ryuji Takauchi
Mike Humphries
Machine Code
S-Tek
Andreas Florin
A Paul
Patrick DSP
Brad Lee
Concrete DJz

But I'm so sorry, there's TONNES i have missed out!!!

None of the tribal stuff, or schranz guys. Let's keep it to the hard techno thing...

[DannyBlack]

There's a few on there I would have to strongly disagree with. Hard Techno? Nah, slow and derivative, yes.

Virgil Enzinger- yes. One of my favorites. Interesting moody Techno.
Andreas Kremer- a legend in everything he does be it hard or schranz or whatever. Good music.
Glenn and Mattias- Agreed. I love their stuff. It's off the beaten track for me but it works.
Ryuji and brad lee- savage. Same goes with Paddy DSP. Marvelous.

I can see that there are some that apply to the Hard Techno tag- but there are a lot there that I don't understand.

A Paul for instance. I don't get it. I find it formulaic. Build ups of white noise that go up and up and break with nothing. Let me just add that this is no dig. respect to him for doing his thing and I'm sure he's a nice chap. (he's Portuguese, they are lovely people)

There's a good few that haven't made your list for now. But there is some very very new talent waiting to break that deserve a mention here.

Darren Gale.
Little Fella/Ben Deviant.
Luke Downie/Oris.
SPR.

There's a good few more. The above are the stand outs for me- watch this space too ;-)

[djfilthmonger]

agreed on the A.Paul thing . no interest at all in his music. good production dont get me wrong just boooring

[DannyBlack]

Antonio Lugo. Wetworks. Non stop, no let up consistently interesting hard as nails Techno. A MASSIVE inspiration to me and a top bloke to boot. Hard Techno at it's very finest.

[Woksaus]

Virgil Enzinger
Reeko
Andreas Kremer
Oscar Mulero
Vegim
Ryuji Takauchi

These guys are amazing!

You're forgetting some great stuff though:
Go Hiyama (legend!)
Takaaki Itoh (check out Bloom After Broken Life, wonderful EP)
Asagaoaudio
Exium
Christian Wunsch
Bas Mooy & Jeroen Liebregts (obviously)
And The Advent & Industrialyzer still do it for me ^^

[ritaheed]

Virgil Enzinger
Luis Ruiz
Ritzi Lee
Reeko
Andreas Kremer
Oscar Mulero
Vegim
Oinks
Glenn Wilson
Mattias Friedel
Ryuji Takauchi
Mike Humphries
Machine Code
S-Tek
Andreas Florin
A Paul
Patrick DSP
Brad Lee
Concrete DJz

that list just proves that people's concept of hard techno is way off esp if were going by what they produce nowadays (not a dig)

[teknorich]

Yeah, some of those names are historically harder techno, but their output nowadays has changed.

Ryuji Takeuchi's more recent stuff all sounds like the Dubfire remix of "Spastic" to me - white noise hisses and rolling snare drums. I definitely wouldn't call it hard techno.

[DVNT]

+1 for Wetworks
Hoth System (solid relentless and well produced)

[ritaheed]

+1 for Wetworks
Hoth System (solid relentless and well produced)

Any links to hoth systems stuff mate?

[ethno]

Wavemother
David Moleon
Axel Karakasis
Primus Tech
Thomas Krome made some good hard tech in his day :(

[MITA]

what you on about, speedy J is hard as ever for example.
if you try and work that you might even see that he is.

its 2010 ffs, we got tracktorz, abletonz and all sort of shizz to make the output artist provides a perfect whatever you want it genre (techno)

stop thinking backwards.

[qUE]

Recent stuff I heard is;

Rumenige
Loktibrada
and probably a whole host of other artists from Slovakia and Czech Republic

Inigo Kennedy (still occasionally does some harder tracks)

Riotbot

Max Walder

Those lot from Hungary are putting out some darker tracks (Doryk, etc.)

Leo Laker is still making stuff afaik

People like Takaakit Itoh were doing some really heavy shit earier on, but seemed to have calmed down massively :(

TBH, if I really had a scout there is probably still plenty of it out there, like what's been said on many threads, just too much minimal shit everywhere.

[eppertheleper]

Eric Sneo - He may be a little melodramatic, but the man brings it.
Planetary Assault Systems - Seemed to fall off the map for a while, but back of late, and with a vengeance.
Radial - I think we can all agree here.
Anthony Child - He doesn't produce as much as he used to, but the quality is still there and definitely not glitch.

[Veber]

A.Paul - i differ on above opinions.

and im a convert/soldier for a.paul. Find his work the only kind that exsists and represents proper hard techno. I've made a decision to produce just for his label only if he continues his philosophy.

[Elvio Neto]

A.Paul is not new at all , i see him play live since 1993

is new stuff is boring i agree , but in the 90´s he was a bomb and used to have 3 labels

he have so many classic cd´s and releases in the 90´s just check is old stuff you guys will see the true A.Paul , but the new style he adopted is boring i agree (all old producers are actually with new styles)

its incredible how people know a few Portuguese artists like Ricardo (Industrialyzer) , Francisco Ferreira (The Advent) , Jose Miguel (Ze Mig L) and never heard about the A.Paul... he used to be the best of all in the old days (and was a reference in techno in all Iberic Peninsula Portugal/Spain)

[Mattias_Fridell]

Yeah, some of those names are historically harder techno, but their output nowadays has changed.

Truth. Many of us mentioned there changed direction and is changing it even more soon.

One guy I dig a lot when it comes to "harder Techno" is Luis Ruiz. Brilliant producer but I really like his all around work, chicago stuff, sci-fi inspired and detroit flavored beats. Worthwhile to check up all his stuff.

[FuK-NuT]

lol mark that list reads 70 / 80% tuff minimal...with the exception of a couple...

need to get digging the crates san ;)

[The Overfiend]

Dj Ze Mig L never lost the mother****ing plot
DJ Ze MigL - 02 Sound of Kuduro (DJ Ze MigL BOOTLEG) - SoundCloud

Dare someone to mix into this from Joey Beltram's Gameform, then into that cheeky bit from Thomas Banghalter on Roule

YouTube - Thomas Bangalter - What To Do (A3)

What the **** you guys.
Sorry to say, but some tribalish tech sounds these days trump what's considered "Hard" now.

Somewhere along the way the lines between "minimal" and "hard" got blurred.
I hear nothing but sheer warmth, on what's considered "hard" these days.
Call it "Warm" or "Deep" even intelligent, because the dudes that made it truly are, but "Hard"...

Remember this was hard...

YouTube - Ben Long "In The Nick Of Time"

That track is warm as **** and trumps whats out now and considered hard.

I'm not being a naysayer and hating on any names mentioned, noticed I pointed no one out, but I just think Hard Techno is abbrasive, exciting, rhythm soaked, and just out right knarly, I want to grin and say **** yeah when I hear it, not smoke a cigarrette outside the club, and go oh, man, the space between those kicks, that guy nailed it.

[blistanbul]

There's a few on there I would have to strongly disagree with. Hard Techno? Nah, slow and derivative, yes.

Virgil Enzinger- yes. One of my favorites. Interesting moody Techno.
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ah mate i am confused. on the other thread about dj ghost mix you were going on about how mediocre it was yet there it is:

DJ Ghost - Godfathers Of Techno Volume 1 (CD) at Discogs

track 12.

[gunjack]

who was it that said he had heard "recent stuff" from slovak crew? rumenige? loktibrada? olga+yozef???? haven't heard anything new from them since 2005 when the bottom dropped out of the spanish/slovak thing....

"techno" artists who ring my bell these days are tony wetworks, pat dsp, jay wong, luke creed, sinistra to name a few.... classics i alwasy gravitate back to would be golden age surgeon stuff, old PVC/antidandruff, jay denham and millsy of course....

here is one that has been with me since i was but a wee fuc ker:

YouTube - DJ Hell - Allerseelen (Jeff Mills Remix)

LOVE the acid bit that seeps in at about 2:40

that was the original "HARD MINIMAL" sound fresh off the invention of minimal techno by rob hood...and where it all basically started for me nearly 15 years ago...



GJ