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04-27-2005, 04:18 PM
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Best Techno Album?
So what's your opinion on the best techno album you've ever listened to?
Just straight out electronic music. No vocals.  
(I'm actually considering buying a techno album, but I know nothing of the genre, so I turn to you folk for help.)
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04-27-2005, 04:36 PM
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Depends what you mean by techno. What kind of music do you like? Trance? Progressive? Goa? Jungle? Hardcore? HiNRG? Happy Hardcore? There are a lot of genres that are electronic, it's like asking for the best album that has a guitar in it.
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04-27-2005, 04:47 PM
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What the heck do all those mean? 
(See? I know nothing of the genre.)
Something like ... Sandstorm, by Darude, if you've ever heard that.
Y'know, a sort of uplifting song that you'd dance wildly to, punctuated by those yummy techno beats.
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04-27-2005, 04:51 PM
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Yeah, I guess you could try Darude's new album 
Cosmic Gate's Back2Back is pretty good I think... |
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04-27-2005, 08:59 PM
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Man, I hate techno.
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04-27-2005, 09:48 PM
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Darude? No.
Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works, yes!
Really, if you want fast, uplifting melodies, pick up LSG's Into Deep. True quality.
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04-28-2005, 01:07 PM
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Trilock, you're my new hero. Aphex Twin is a God in human form, and as for the album you selected... couldn't have chosen better myself.
However, if you want something you can properly move to, I recommend another electronic classic, Leftism by Leftfield. It's more house than techno, but if it doesn't get you groovin', nothing will. You should probably get Daft Punk's 'Discovery' as well.
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04-28-2005, 02:02 PM
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Which of them are free of vocals? I don't like vocals in my techno.
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04-28-2005, 02:30 PM
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None of the above are techno in the sense that it has become understood by. Aphex Twin has no vocals, while Leftfield has some, as does Daft Punk. 'Techno' refers to very fast paced dance music which is at its best when inebriated beyond what is healthy. As such, I don't know a great deal about it.
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04-28-2005, 04:22 PM
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'Techno' refers to very fast paced dance music which is at its best when inebriated beyond what is healthy.
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Alrighty, then.
Who knows good no-vocal albums of this genre, then?
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04-28-2005, 04:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Pawn
None of the above are techno in the sense that it has become understood by. Aphex Twin has no vocals, while Leftfield has some, as does Daft Punk. 'Techno' refers to very fast paced dance music which is at its best when inebriated beyond what is healthy. As such, I don't know a great deal about it.
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I watched Panathinaikos Bear before ever hearing Aphex twin and there is no way I can listen to it seriously  |
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04-29-2005, 03:57 PM
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Techno is a form of Electronica. While it shares it's roots with stuff like Darude, Darude isn't techno strictly speaking but more dance music. Some subgenres of techno are minimalist, gabber, experimental, ambient, acid, rave, hardcore. Most chart music electronica is trance or dance. The techno genre comes from early music that was created entirely electronically and later came sampled music where sounds are recorded and then manipulated digitally, still know as techno from it's root elements. My favourite techno tracks are Cybotron: clear
and Pentatonik:catalonia and I like some of the modern tracks like Aphex Twin's Window Licker. A lot of bands like Moby, the Prodigy and even Aphex Twin have crossed over into dance from techno.
Incidently why I am so interested in this is that I play the game myself. I have a track in the charts currently, you can listen here http://www.acidplanet.com/artist.asp?PID=478614&t=7777
dont forget to leave a review if you listen.  |
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04-29-2005, 04:14 PM
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So, among all those genres and subgenres, what would you call "very fast paced dance music which is at its best when inebriated beyond what is healthy?"
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04-29-2005, 05:20 PM
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04-29-2005, 08:14 PM
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Moby "Play" was a great album....not quite the dance beat of Darube though...
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