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saw steve bug recently, and although he played a lot of deep house, there was some peak time techy tracks too, twas good enoufgh to inpsire me to make some minimal techno bollocks of my own.

Zkeeto wrote:i dont get why people call it techno... thats exactly like calling it electro. its such a huge a broad music classification. technically you could call house, dubstep, glitchhop,moombahton techno because its all techno- logy music. techno seems like a candy kid term haha

youve never been to germany then. techno definetly is it's own genre, separate from house.
no one would ever call glitchhop or moombahton or dubstep or dnb or trance or whatever techno here, only ignorant idiots who dismiss electronic music as a whole.

that being said, i dont think a lot of stuff posted in the techno threads here qualifies as techno but words have different meanings in different parts of the world so idk...

If you really know the stylistic characteristics of techno, there is no mistaking it. Same with electro and house.

I have noticed on this forum genre names getting thrown around and the people using these names not really knowing the history of these sounds.

A few tunes I have made that could be considered to be somewhere near techno:

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The tune in my signature is house, but i wouldn't know what to categorize it as. Techno or electro house i guess.

Made the lead on the virus and modulated the filter saturation quite a lot. And pretty much everything is sidechained.

When I first started producing, it was Trance /Psy-Trance. I still dabble in it every once in a while, but for the most part, I work on Drum n' Bass/Dubstep and some Happy Hardcore/Hardstyle.

Maybe when I have some free time again soon, I'll have a go at another trance tune or two.

Smoot wrote:When I first started producing, it was Trance /Psy-Trance. I still dabble in it every once in a while, but for the most part, I work on Drum n' Bass/Dubstep and some Happy Hardcore/Hardstyle.

Maybe when I have some free time again soon, I'll have a go at another trance tune or two.

Well Trance isn't Techno haha

i've been doing house and techno for 10 years. Detroit, dub techno, minimal and deep house. even the dubstep i make is much more techno.

VirtualMark wrote:The tune in my signature is house, but i wouldn't know what to categorize it as. Techno or electro house i guess.

Electro house and techno are like dubstep and jazz if you'd ask me.

AxeD wrote:Electro house and techno are like dubstep and jazz if you'd ask me.

Care to elaborate?

Techno is one of the least well defined genres in the world. It has different meanings everywhere and with time. I don't really know what techno is anymore.

But to me, real techno is (was):








(sorry for the long post, but couldn't resist the opportunity to share my first electronic music anthems, besides Prodigy)

Zkeeto wrote:i dont get why people call it techno... thats exactly like calling it electro. its such a huge a broad music classification. technically you could call house, dubstep, glitchhop,moombahton techno because its all techno- logy music. techno seems like a candy kid term haha

Well 'electro' is just short for electronic-funk music, as in making funk tunes with drum machines, not bands (Afrika Baambaata etc). Techno is the perfect name really, it's been called that since the 80s when using 100% machines/new technology to make music was still a relatively new phenomenon, and being done in a technology driven industrial city (Detroit). It's pretty unheard of today to NOT use electronics in music, most notably computers that emulate old machine technology so the term seems oddly dated yeah. Candy kids call their music happy hardcore.


RmoniK, dunno what you've been listening to, but techno can have just as much and even more sub bass than dubstep, especially these days where midrange sounds rule the majority of the scene. It's not strictly 4x4 either, just like dubstep isn't strictly half-time kick on 1 snare on 3 boring patterns. Techno (and electro) is also famous for digital emulations of break beats as well, just like dubstep was mostly built around sampled break beats before the half-time style took over a few years ago.

Thanks for posting the example tunes e-motion, i enjoyed them! I clearly see the difference now.

Wormcode - happy hardcore was a subset of 90s rave. I'm sure they called that hardcore techno at the time, don't know if it has anything to do with techno. I was right into the rave music when i was a kid but didn't listen to real techno. I suppose it depends on what part of the world you're from, as the web didn't exist back then and we were a bit more isolated.

Yea I would classify the tune in your sig as electro house and this is what I played in my last techno set:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJdFz2KK ... ure=fvwrel

(Mickooyy uploads all the greatest tracks btw )

@virtualmark
Oh I know, I was just joking as I've never seen candy kids until happy hardcore blew up in the 90s. I've seen some sort of resurgence of PLUR kids at nights with the broish DJs, but maybe it's just the popularity of that sound that draws them in.

From the experiences I had, it didn't really have anything to do with the techno scene other than sharing stages, but it was referred to as hardcore and happy hardcore at the warehouse parties (thanks in part to the Happy 2B Hardcore compilations that sold very well), then also UK Hardcore later. There was usually a healthy mix of music though, not just 1 style. The 'real' darker hardcore style was referred to as gabba/gabber.

Pretty much all I do is techno of some sort (from an arrangement standpoint) but when it comes to creating my sounds I like using sounds that aren't from the genre, such as those in glitch, dub step, bass (I.e. Dynamix 2) , ambient, dub, industrial, and some alternative (i.e., my bloody valentine, and certain other "wall of sound" alt rock bands). 909ish kicks/hats/snares are a staple for more traditional techno though so if I'm going for that vibe there's no getting away from them.

Oh, and in my work by more traditional techno I mean the detroit style and the techno that subsequently popped up in the UK and mainland Europe at the turn of the 90's. Yeah, I'm that old. In college I had a radio show devoted to techno so I'd occasionally get contacted by rave promoters in the DC area, back in the day when raves still might not be exactly legal if you know what I mean. That's the stuff that's in my blood so there's no getting away from it's influence when I make a track or even a partial track.

im making stuff in between the acid style, equalized series/conforce kinda thing and moodyman.
got sick of making "dubstep" and anything above 138bpm really. unless its juke...

jsaxton wrote:im making stuff in between the acid style, equalized series/conforce kinda thing and moodyman.
got sick of making "dubstep" and anything above 138bpm really. unless its juke...

haha me too, except i'm drawn upwards of 140, and below it, just not really to 140 anymore. hard dance is great. and acid never dies it seems, i've heard some newer stuff outta UK at about 145 that killed it. also, i haven't heard it mentioned in this thread, HARDTECHNO, i LOVE that stuff. the most recent evolutions of it are REALLY fast, i kinda like it.

Been having a load of fun doing tehcno recently, the oldschool way. No computers!

Saturday me and my mate got our bits together ( ) and had a jam;

TR909 + TR606 + x0xb0x + Vermona DRM + Blofeld + RS7000 plus mixer and effects, sooooo much fun Recorded down to 8 track zoom digital recorder.

Got some recordings done and also a vid, tidying them up at the mo.

edit 117 and 128 bpm ftw!

I have to admit im pretty into techno now, went to a techno night at a festival last year and apart from 50 year old pillheads shuffling about it was pretty sick