Quote Originally Posted by ncw
FFS, the guy WILL listen to those things first, he just wanted to be pointed in the right direction. Maybe you've forgotton your first trips to record stores that specialise in a style of music you're not familiar with. That feeling of not knowing where to start can be off putting. Everyone will develop their own tastes, but it is useful to have a starting point.
Well said... my initial techno buys included some right turkeys because I didn't really know what labels and styles to look for that represented the music I liked.

I'd also recommend these for very hard techno:

Bitshift
Artillery
Crobar