A few good ones that I've read:
Dan Sicko - Techno Rebels: The Renegades of Electronic Funk* This is basically the history of techno in the US. Very informative on early developments of Detroit techno.
Matthew Colin - Altered State: The Story of Ecstasy Culture and Acid House* Good, non-partisan look into rave culture and ecstacy use.
Jane Bussmann - Once in a Lifetime: The Crazy Days of Acid House and Afterwards* You could read this as a partisan companion to Altered State. A sort of a "I was there" oral history and photo book of the British acid house scene in the late 80s and 90s. There isn't that much about the music, but it has wide variety of interesting and funny anecdotes told by various scenesters.
Chris Kempster (ed.) - History of House* Extensive and informative interviews with pretty much all the biggest techno and house musicians and DJs around the time the book was published (1996). I think this is pretty hard to find nowadays, but maybe your library carries it?
Martin James - The State of Bass: Jungle: The Story So Far* History of jungle and drum'n'bass up until 1997.
Ulf Poschardt - DJ-Culture* This one is German and it's far more academic than any of the others I've mentioned, but if you're into that sort of thing, it has some cool theories and observations that none of the Anglo books I've read have made.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 13 September 2012 12:23 (eleven years ago) link
what about last night a dj saved my life? worht reading?
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Thursday, 13 September 2012 12:56 (eleven years ago) link
I remember liking it but it was years ago.
On the more disco side, Turn The Beat Around is good, also Love Saves The Day...I don't really remember either as it's been years, but I don't remember hating either! And Mel Cheren's autobiography "My Life and the Paradise Garage" is a pretty essential disco story.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 13 September 2012 14:02 (eleven years ago) link
i don't think anybody's ever written a book on techno i've really enjoyed but i've only read techno rebels, altered states, energy flash and dj-culture
possibly i should just write my own at some point
wanted to find the superior "zagzig jazz" mix of this but this is the best i could do. still, awesome tune
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvYZ_LS6-HM
― the late great, Saturday, 15 September 2012 00:39 (eleven years ago) link
I tried asking on the 90s poll noms thread, and now it's too late for that, but can anyone i.d. the first few tracks on this mix for me?
http://www.modernmusicsf.com/audio/mixes/ScottHenry_FeverVol6_SideB.mp3
I found this incomplete tracklisting using the archive.org's wayback machine, but there really aren't many people talking about scott henry tapes on the internet these days.
volume 60:00 - 4:00 ???4:00 - 8:00 ??? "he's gotta step down or step aside"8:00 - 13:00 ???13:00 - 18:35 lip reed 1 black label/white label 1 sided no info18:35 - 22:30 ???(samples say "this is dope" and "you are now rockin with the best")22:30 - 28:00 discfunktional - free - moonshine28:00 - 33:00 slacker - scared (the lonely traveller) - loaded 33:00 - 37:15 e.t.i. and graeme - babyrise/blue dreamers - oboro records 37:15 - 41:35 FSOL - we have explosive - astralwerks41:35 - end prodigy - narcotic suite: skylined - ???
0:00 - 4:00 ???4:00 - 8:00 ??? "he's gotta step down or step aside"8:00 - 13:00 ???13:00 - 18:35 lip reed 1 black label/white label 1 sided no info18:35 - 22:30 ???(samples say "this is dope" and "you are now rockin with the best")22:30 - 28:00 discfunktional - free - moonshine28:00 - 33:00 slacker - scared (the lonely traveller) - loaded 33:00 - 37:15 e.t.i. and graeme - babyrise/blue dreamers - oboro records 37:15 - 41:35 FSOL - we have explosive - astralwerks41:35 - end prodigy - narcotic suite: skylined - ???
― how's life, Saturday, 15 September 2012 09:56 (eleven years ago) link
no idea
― the late great, Saturday, 15 September 2012 16:31 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVB7w_TVFyI
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Sunday, 16 September 2012 11:28 (eleven years ago) link
I don't think I'd heard this Kerri Chandler until the other week.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5AKux14MUM
― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 16 September 2012 18:49 (eleven years ago) link
That Vandal 'Unraveled' track is incredible.
― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 16 September 2012 19:41 (eleven years ago) link
Loving the deep trancey vibes of the Tata Box Inhibitors record posted a couple of months back.
― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 16 September 2012 20:27 (eleven years ago) link
this is familiar to all but i'm blasting it right now and damn if it doesn't sound better than any "berghain techno" of the last 10 years
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUF5wECcdbg
― the late great, Sunday, 16 September 2012 20:43 (eleven years ago) link
i wouldn't compare the two really, don't see a major connection.
i love that dreamer g record, chewshabadoo, meant to post it here last week actually, heard jus ed play it a few years back. it is hilarious and great.
― Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Sunday, 16 September 2012 20:47 (eleven years ago) link
I've never managed to get into Berghain techno, but can you really compare the Craig with that sound?(x-post)
On a different tangent, I was very happy to find out someone had edited the AVH mix of Kim English 'Nite Life' and removed the ravey stabs which always seemed to detract from the sensual, rolling nature of the rest of the track:
http://soundcloud.com/homeroespinosa/kim-english-nitelife-avh-vs
― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 16 September 2012 20:51 (eleven years ago) link
xp i didn't really mean to compare the two except to say that carl craig sounds as good now as he did back then
― the late great, Sunday, 16 September 2012 20:52 (eleven years ago) link
"berghain techno" being shorthand for the kind of techno i really, really like right now
that said, if you take the melodic synths out and just leave drums and bass you could have a norman nodge track
― the late great, Sunday, 16 September 2012 20:53 (eleven years ago) link
its not so different in construction from what is probably my favorite techno track of the last five years, "native rhythm electric"
― the late great, Sunday, 16 September 2012 20:54 (eleven years ago) link
Cheers Ronan! My housemate DJ'd it out at a party the other week and it blew my mind. The vocal and those off-beat kicks bring a huge grin to my face.
― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 16 September 2012 20:57 (eleven years ago) link
If that Nodge track reminds me of anything, it's like an austere version of Crispy Bacon.
― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 16 September 2012 21:35 (eleven years ago) link
that too!
― the late great, Sunday, 16 September 2012 21:59 (eleven years ago) link
excellent call on crispy bacon chewshabadoo!!
i never thought i cared much for stefan robbers but this track is killing me these days
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkH49kiNIQk
― the late great, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 07:13 (eleven years ago) link
<3 <3 <3 the artwork too
It's been ages since I listened to the 4 My Peepz EP, but isn't there another track on it that does exactly this? (I.e. takes away the synths and leaves just the drums and bass?) Though IIRC it wasn't particularly memorable.
By biggest problem with Paperclip People isn't the use of high-pitched synth sounds per se, but that they sometimes sound oddly weak. Like the synth riff that begins "The Climax"... How could CC come up with something so feeble, when the drums and bass on that material is so kicking?
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 08:33 (eleven years ago) link
you bring feeble all the time
― the late great, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 08:44 (eleven years ago) link
I guess there's this thing called dynamics. Also, those types of synth strings are very classic techno.
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 09:39 (eleven years ago) link
― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, September 16, 2012 8:51 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I imagine it'd fit nicely into this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6b9bsy5SiWA
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 10:48 (eleven years ago) link
Sure, but there are many classic techno tracks where they pack much more punch than in "The Climax"... And there's a difference between dynamics and just sounding weak, in my opinion. The second synth in "The Climax", the higher-pitched one that plays the main melody, has a nice dynamic with bass and drums, but the opening riff just sounds lame. Especially since the track starts with it playing a cappella, so you're attention is drawn to its lameness.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 10:48 (eleven years ago) link
(x-post)
It's usually preferable for a dance track to build up in my opinion, as it then works with the previous track as an evolving blend. I wouldn't say it sounds 'weak' though: muffled and murky perhaps - but I like sounds like that; The glossiness of Carl Craig's "Sunglasses Techno" of the last 10 years is a big turn off for my ears.
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 11:01 (eleven years ago) link
ahh that dreamer g is SO GOOD
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 11:06 (eleven years ago) link
if there's a better record to blare when you're cleaning your flat i've yet to find it
― Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 11:19 (eleven years ago) link
Gs Louisehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY-fNVHOpjQ
― andrew m., Tuesday, 18 September 2012 18:04 (eleven years ago) link
yeah g flame is one of the dudes from the advent doing housier stuff? his kick drum / bassline production is like the epitome of PUMPIN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJRQMFuIT4Y
― the late great, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:56 (eleven years ago) link
those little spinbacks!
― the late great, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:57 (eleven years ago) link
the tiny lfo filter sweeps at 0:14, 0:40 etc
dude was a genius
― the late great, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:58 (eleven years ago) link
loving this stuff atm.
re the other g, this little item on mr. g from ugh mixmag makes me want to toss everything, get a mpc and a mixer and pound it out.http://ow.ly/i/TkW2/original
― andrew m., Tuesday, 18 September 2012 20:25 (eleven years ago) link
or finesse shit out, as the case may be
― andrew m., Tuesday, 18 September 2012 20:26 (eleven years ago) link
I am sorry about posting about this in the thread because it it neither techno nor bobbins really but that new fred judd electronics without tears reissue or w/e is amazing
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 21:24 (eleven years ago) link
If you like that Dreamer G song you will like this other early 1990s Kerri Chandler production:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61WSQ5IM6tM
― elan, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 02:46 (eleven years ago) link
If we're talking about Mr G:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhgnpsKjAec
― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 08:33 (eleven years ago) link
^^total classic
― Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 08:53 (eleven years ago) link
that remix of the mike grant is all time +_+
never heard anyone play it out until this year tho (zip)
― suare, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 09:14 (eleven years ago) link
fairly sure it's been heard in my living room
― Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 09:27 (eleven years ago) link
Haha.
― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 09:52 (eleven years ago) link
if we're talking classic kerri, this is the first one i heard and it blew me away as a 16 year old kid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0WRW_6Yjjg
― second only to popcorn (or something), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 09:58 (eleven years ago) link
Apropos of nothing, I've made a playlist on youtube featuring almost all of the tracks from Chain Reaction's vinyl releases. Some tracks aren't on yt so I've obviously been unable to include them.
Link to playlist - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBCZbbilck97qLXcdKVY1ORX8Wk7Ss-Hg&feature=mh_lolz
List of missing tracks
shed - relish dubmonolake - magenta IIresilient - 1.2resilient - 2porter ricks - nautical dub (tidal mix) vainquer - erosion 2continuous mode - direct out (mode 1)continuous mode - direct out (mode 2)substance - relish (wildlife reshape) fluxion - atloshallucinator - sethosmatrix - fMatrix - Blue Film #2 fluxion - Stream I hallucinator - frontierhallucinator - reverie (edit II)
― neilasimpson, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 10:11 (eleven years ago) link
Kept hearing this from time to time but didn't find out what it was until the other day:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDq8R1JBmOk
― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 10:18 (eleven years ago) link
Re the Grampa track above. Someone should put together a mix of the best 'Lately Bass' preset tracks.
Some of my favourite KCs are his collaborations with YC, such as:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbPgDCroibo
― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 10:25 (eleven years ago) link
lately bass, is that what you call that bumping new jersey bass sound? greatest example of which is this, all-time house top 10 material:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UO8uJHMs68Y
― second only to popcorn (or something), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 10:38 (eleven years ago) link
nice feeling contributing towards a bucolic environment
― suare, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 10:44 (eleven years ago) link
Choice track choice.
That's the one, the prest was based on the bass sound in Janet Jackson's "What Have You Done For Me Lately", and found on the great second-hand value Yamaha TX81Z.
― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 10:44 (eleven years ago) link