Detroit Techno - Crap/Not Crap

[Dask]

Seawolf is boss.

 

[sam/phallocrat]

fukkit, I love all techno, be it bouncy or stompy, earth-shatteringly hard or deliciously smooth, it's all fucking great

 

[mwgdrwg]

Well I just fucking love it.

 

[panpete]

Listening to it now. its nice. trying to remember wher i heard it before....
Oh i remember; it was in between the 3rd and 4th floor, then the doors opened and i got out

Just downloaded this and i dono if theres something wrong with the sound cos its come through all broken up on my pc, kinda like experimental music.

 

[Taxamo Welf]

no thats not right at all.

should really smooth mellow sounds.

 

[panpete]

no thats not right at all.

should really smooth mellow sounds.

Dono why it's doing this, also downloaded some (not detroit techno) off squatjuice, which came out the same, but I assumed that it was experimental with bleeps and blips.

 

[blossie33]

I love all types of techno too, Detroit, Acid, London,....
Banging for dancing and more mellow for listening to at home.

 

[Dubversion]

i respect and admire it more than i actually listen to it, if that makes sense.

love Jeff Mills though

 

[souljacker]

Absolutely not crap at all, no siree bob.

Derrick May is my hero.

 

[thestraightman]

I once wen't to a Jeff Mills concert with a not very nice Spanish Girlfriend, we Q'd for an hour, but they only let her in, she said, go to another club, I'll meet you at 3 . Well it was Jeff Mills, so fair enough like.

 

[chieftain]

no way crap

robotman:

Got to do the do........ do , do ,do

 

[Orang Utan]

New Carl Craig mix on Beats In Space here:
http://www.beatsinspace.net/main.html
That radio show is the nuts - lots of eclectic 'dance' music - not much Detroit apart from the Craig mix - there's even a Crass track one show!

Everyone speaks about UR, Hood, Mills and the Belleville Three, but for me the don is Carl Craig

 

[Spandex]

Everyone speaks about UR, Hood, Mills and the Belleville Three, but for me the don is Carl Craig

Have you heard his 'The Album Formerly Known As...'?

'94s not quite as good as it should have been album Landcruising completely rerecorded, dumping the dubious 'journey' concept and those fucking awful prog-rock guitar solos that destroyed the first couple of tracks and taking it towards a more back-to-basics techno/electro sound.

Fucking great

 

[MysteryGuest]

no way crap

robotman:

Got to do the do........ do , do ,do

Oh man, that tune *gets goosebumps at the thought of it* I remember when it first came out back in the blissful summer of 94... absolutely fucking incredible hynposis equipment imo. And still with the funk (though cyberfunk in this instance, of course )

 

[Orang Utan]

Have you heard his 'The Album Formerly Known As...'?

'94s not quite as good as it should have been album Landcruising completely rerecorded, dumping the dubious 'journey' concept and those fucking awful prog-rock guitar solos that destroyed the first couple of tracks and taking it towards a more back-to-basics techno/electro sound.

Fucking great

Not heard it yet - must get me to a record shop - there's some new Designer Music stuff out too apparently and I hear he has just done a stellar remix of Theo Parrish's Falling Up.
He is the best remixer I can think of - my fave is his Drums Suck mix of Dave Angel's Airborne

 

[Spandex]

Not heard it yet - must get me to a record shop - there's some new Designer Music stuff out too apparently and I hear he has just done a stellar remix of Theo Parrish's Falling Up.
He is the best remixer I can think of - my fave is his Drums Suck mix of Dave Angel's Airborne

My fave is probably his mix of BT's Relativity - one of the first Detroit tracks I heard - totally lush and still sounding fresh after about 12 years.

 

[Taxamo Welf]

i respect and admire it more than i actually listen to it, if that makes sense.

Yep, your a poser.

we know

 

[chooch]

Fucking great stuff. Drexciya in particular.
A word too for fake Detroit techno like B12 and some of the early djax stuff. Thought they were from detroit for years.

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

That's not really 'fake' is it? I think of it as a style not just as 'techno from Detroit.'

 

[Orang Utan]

I would agree but many of the 313 brethren would lynch you for saying that

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

They'd have to form a queue behind the PWEI fans. The music forum is a dangerous place to be these days.


They'd still be purist tossers though, killing me wouldn't change anything.

 

[Orang Utan]

Now listening to UR's Jupiter Jazz - well weapon

 

[killer b]

i picked up 'final frontier' on vinyl the other week.

tis truly awesome...

the good thing about detroit (imo) is that it's sounded pretty much the same for 15 years, but the new stuff doesn't sound jaded or by numbers. it may be to a formula, but what a formula!

 

[Dask]

Final Frontier is amazing.

It's proper when the strings come in.

 

[Orang Utan]

It's the 303 that does it for me

 

[chieftain]

Fucking great stuff. Drexciya in particular.
A word too for fake Detroit techno like B12 and some of the early djax stuff. Thought they were from detroit for years.

I've got a really old Drexciya tune which plays from the inside out.... its called "Deep sea Dweller" and........ its FUCKING awsome

 

[chieftain]

It's the 303 that does it for me

yep me to... that and a simple very heavy thump thump thump bass beat, about the same spead as my heart beat... maybe a little faster

 

[gentlegreen]

I really love the sound and accumulated loads of great vinyl singles over the years, several of which have been mentioned above. However, I haven't come across any good detroit albums for the last few years -

Anyone got any recommendations?

These are amazing, but are a few years old now ...

Aril Brikha - Deeparture in time
Vince Watson - Moments in time

ooh - I can feel an Amazon mini-binge approaching

In looking for these I discovered :-
http://www.last.fm/music/Vince+Watson

 

[Orang Utan]

Vince has a new album out on Headspace called Sublimina - it ain't bad

 

[killer b]

albums....

the suburban night album 'my sol dark direction' is pretty solid.

and the secret cinema album from about 2-3 years ago is amazing (not from detroit, but sounds in the same region)

techno ain't really an album kind of music though, is it?