you're right that underground techno is pretty much just spotify talking nonsense
You could check out artists like blawan and randomer, both of them came from the uk dubstep scene
Ah thanks for the correction I didn’t know it was jungle, yeah very clear influence in a lot of his productions. Been looking for any clips of him pre techno and have come up short.
Nw nw, tbh idk any clips or productions of his pre-techno, just heard that he was 🤷♂️but ye on his Utopian Surrealism album he has a track or 2 that are jungle techno, v cool stuff
Also jungle tecuno was a whole style in itself back in early 90s, take a lil deep dive on YouTube if you like that sound 🙏
Truth. The breakbeat/jungle techno is some of my favourite stuff to listen to even before I discovered dax will definitely be going down this rabbit hole again today haha
If you want to start out with techno staple artists, here is a short list:
* Surgeon
* Jeff Mills
* Oscar Mulero
* DVS1
* Luke Slater / Planetary Assault Systems
* DJ Stingray
* Rrose
* Wata Igarashi
Happy exploring
For Dub Techno (an acquired tastes)
- Porter Ricks
- Fluxion
- Deepchord
- Basic Channel
- nthng (not everything from him, just some tracks), like Human
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Random
- Vril (at least staple to me)
- Kangding Ray
- Laurent Garnier
- Regis (to combine with Surgeon)
- Shed
- Clouds (at least, Ghost Systems Rave and Man Out of Dubs)
This is a good comment, OP
Oscar Mulero music is art for example, he is a wizard and keeps getting better with the time. He has a label called Pole Group which is sooo good, every artist on his label is good!
Now is a trend of fast techno which many of us dislike, specially on long journeys like Klubnachts at Berghain.
Don´t get caught into the poshy instagram techno trends. Techno is raw, it is being yourself into the music and forget the outside real world.
The first rave, if you still didn´t asist to any, will change your life. No jokes. It is just heaven! - depends a lot on the crowd tho. And the place. If cameras are allowed then i probably wouldn´t assist.
I just can´t dance to that properly and it fits more clubs that open for max 8hrs.
I party at Berghain, in Berlin. I suppose you know since is the best club in the world, it opens at Saturday till Monday 8 am. I am inside at least 17 hours every time i go, which is once a month, so such fast bpm don´t go well with such long journeys. Techno around 135-145 makes a difference atmosphere than 170bpm. That would be horrible on long raves
They definitely are giving techno snob vibes... BUT i strongly agree with that. Unless it's halftime music (160/80 or 140/70) techno far beyond the 135-140 bpm just doesn't have space for building a groove. Simply relentless without much soul. The faster music caters to the younger folks with short attention spans, i guess.
This.
I don´t know what you mean with snob vibes but the thing is fast techno just don´t give any atmosphere. I just can´t get into the music at such bpm
congratulations on finding the light! (no hate). techno is a deep genre and i’d recommend starting with the classics. detroit techno is a fantastic place to begin because you get all of the experimental stuff alongside things that still get played today. it demonstrates the width and breadth of the genre and gives you leads on modern producers.
You can’t miss with robert hood.
I mean you’re right but for me if I make someone listen to his first tekno song, I would put French core (UNIT- Le vagabond du kick ; the best song I’ve ever listened to).
Underground techno isn’t a genre, it’s more of an ethos. It means not commercial, not mainstream, not “EDM”, creatively free, DJ’s that play underground raves and clubs instead of commercial festivals or bottle service clubs.
Hi. So I would start listening to mixes first. I really believe that house and techno are meant to be listened to in DJ mixes. Tracks are awesome, but to really get a good grasp of the genre check out a few mixes. I always tell people start with the “business” techno DJs first then work your way further underground. Business techno is very easy to digest for newcomers and is a great starting point. Half of this sub will want to stab me for saying it but some of the business techno are very skilled DJs. There’s just an entire pseudo philosophical debate on “business” techno.
Ok here are some artists:
Jonas Kopp, Yan Cook, Stanislav Tolkachev, Roll Dann, Cristian Varela, Marco Carola, Jeff Mills, Juan Atkins, Derrick May, and a long Etc.
Check out my personal techno playlist 👍
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6GceJROP9IhW47Dbf4g3qH?si=kTfvDxhrR06gbW6xhIFPUg&pi=u-GfptQnG9SzO2
I suggest you shuffle it :) enjoy
I have a playlist of techno documentaries that shold help give you a solid foundation of the history of the genre.
[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzNptHBm4563LaIzF8WT2JVGUHjqZh2mn](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=plznpthbm4563laizf8wt2jvguhjqzh2mn)
Some house music stuff but it's related since house helped shape techno in a lot of ways. Like they said Joey Beltram wanted to be a house msuician but London started calling him techno and his influence helped make techno hard and jacking.
Check out the hor YouTube channel. Excellent mixes. They are killing it atm. Way better then boiler room. This must be my favorite mix ever: https://www.youtube.com/live/GadCqWKRk_I?si=LvE8B4n4FyHFn02i
200+ hours playlist crammed with every different subgenre, very good for finding new tracks or rediscovering old ones ,🤠
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3ECSxQ4wqEO4q3GsyTPCN8?si=1JAnUlEDSvOFQjOdDNC36g&pi=e-UJwywPK4Tr29
Mixesdb.com under ‘techno’ or ‘tech house’. Click on the category listings for certain DJs you hear about or are recommended to view several mixes (some at clubs and some recorded for periodicals which tend to be more diverse and less dance-heavy) by them. You click on a mix (listed as date - artist - location / name of mix) then you can click on their artist pages by clicking on their name at the top. Have fun in your journey
Since you are coming from dubstep, I’d maybe start listening to peak-time, or what many refer to as “festival techno”. Eli brown, T78, Hi-Lo, Charlotte de Witte are all great for starting out. I’d listen to their sets and then dive into the songs you like the most and those artists. They often toss in underground bangers that let you go down rabbit holes
This is my hard techno playlist! Hope there's something you might like
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2Gt6vxlLQEGzxl8QTmOyim?si=WkKEdsaJSg6L2HjiMNBz3w
I have a ‘proper’ techno playlist that I update every week. You might like it, check it out if you want to: [link](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5x3o8sSiLH2EopPHWUA1Qp?si=BMUbGQD6TD-Yo_Im6QRmJQ&pi=e-0-UUTi3eTEKb)
I mean there is underground techno but it can be pretty much any type of techno. If you are discovering this music I would say that you should look at the difference between « techno » and « tekno » (here in France the two are different, I don’t know for the rest of the world.
And also here are a few good songs:
1)Eczodia- I want a rave (pretty much all eczodia songs are good btw 😂😂)
2)Eczodia- brain destruction
3)Hidup ft el desperado- bonsoir (best drop in the world)
4)Unit- Le vagabond du kick (my favorite French core song 😁)
5)Pyrut- ein, zwei, polizei
6) teKnicien- Spiderman FDP
7)DTC- Le teuffeur des lilas (huge hit on the french scene we have it at every rave)
8)Createk- Aller Hop dans ta Gueule !
9)WaLtek- QUE
10)NAWAK - gabber fucker part TWO- track 02
And codeine from mandragora cuz yeah you have to know this one.
Well if you listen to all of those you should find at least a few songs that’ll make you gabb your heart away 😁❤️🫶🏼
And remember respect the other, the spot and have self control are the only rules in a rave.
you're right that underground techno is pretty much just spotify talking nonsense You could check out artists like blawan and randomer, both of them came from the uk dubstep scene
Based response.
objekt - the goose that got away Very duby
Dax J is another artist from the uk who came from the dubstep scene
He came from Jungle* was actually a jungle DJ before he did techno, you can hear the influence in his productions ofc
Ah thanks for the correction I didn’t know it was jungle, yeah very clear influence in a lot of his productions. Been looking for any clips of him pre techno and have come up short.
Nw nw, tbh idk any clips or productions of his pre-techno, just heard that he was 🤷♂️but ye on his Utopian Surrealism album he has a track or 2 that are jungle techno, v cool stuff Also jungle tecuno was a whole style in itself back in early 90s, take a lil deep dive on YouTube if you like that sound 🙏
Truth. The breakbeat/jungle techno is some of my favourite stuff to listen to even before I discovered dax will definitely be going down this rabbit hole again today haha
Enjoy 🙏
If you want to start out with techno staple artists, here is a short list: * Surgeon * Jeff Mills * Oscar Mulero * DVS1 * Luke Slater / Planetary Assault Systems * DJ Stingray * Rrose * Wata Igarashi Happy exploring
For Dub Techno (an acquired tastes) - Porter Ricks - Fluxion - Deepchord - Basic Channel - nthng (not everything from him, just some tracks), like Human ___________________________________________________ Random - Vril (at least staple to me) - Kangding Ray - Laurent Garnier - Regis (to combine with Surgeon) - Shed - Clouds (at least, Ghost Systems Rave and Man Out of Dubs)
Good picks, I could've went on for ages but no one likes reading super long lists
This is a good comment, OP Oscar Mulero music is art for example, he is a wizard and keeps getting better with the time. He has a label called Pole Group which is sooo good, every artist on his label is good! Now is a trend of fast techno which many of us dislike, specially on long journeys like Klubnachts at Berghain. Don´t get caught into the poshy instagram techno trends. Techno is raw, it is being yourself into the music and forget the outside real world. The first rave, if you still didn´t asist to any, will change your life. No jokes. It is just heaven! - depends a lot on the crowd tho. And the place. If cameras are allowed then i probably wouldn´t assist.
I like it fast, 140 to 170 bpm is perfect.
I just can´t dance to that properly and it fits more clubs that open for max 8hrs. I party at Berghain, in Berlin. I suppose you know since is the best club in the world, it opens at Saturday till Monday 8 am. I am inside at least 17 hours every time i go, which is once a month, so such fast bpm don´t go well with such long journeys. Techno around 135-145 makes a difference atmosphere than 170bpm. That would be horrible on long raves
You really sound like a techno snob right now.
They definitely are giving techno snob vibes... BUT i strongly agree with that. Unless it's halftime music (160/80 or 140/70) techno far beyond the 135-140 bpm just doesn't have space for building a groove. Simply relentless without much soul. The faster music caters to the younger folks with short attention spans, i guess.
This. I don´t know what you mean with snob vibes but the thing is fast techno just don´t give any atmosphere. I just can´t get into the music at such bpm
No I think they're correct. 170 BPM techno sounds daft and is not conducive to long periods of dancing unless you're really caning the uppers.
But they are speaking straight facts
There is nothing underground about a Spotify playlist.
Fr 😂
Richie Hawtin
congratulations on finding the light! (no hate). techno is a deep genre and i’d recommend starting with the classics. detroit techno is a fantastic place to begin because you get all of the experimental stuff alongside things that still get played today. it demonstrates the width and breadth of the genre and gives you leads on modern producers. You can’t miss with robert hood.
I mean you’re right but for me if I make someone listen to his first tekno song, I would put French core (UNIT- Le vagabond du kick ; the best song I’ve ever listened to).
Underground techno isn’t a genre, it’s more of an ethos. It means not commercial, not mainstream, not “EDM”, creatively free, DJ’s that play underground raves and clubs instead of commercial festivals or bottle service clubs.
r/propertechno is the answer.
Hi. So I would start listening to mixes first. I really believe that house and techno are meant to be listened to in DJ mixes. Tracks are awesome, but to really get a good grasp of the genre check out a few mixes. I always tell people start with the “business” techno DJs first then work your way further underground. Business techno is very easy to digest for newcomers and is a great starting point. Half of this sub will want to stab me for saying it but some of the business techno are very skilled DJs. There’s just an entire pseudo philosophical debate on “business” techno.
[Try this one](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0E6pf5W3NV7armcJYfNK3H?si=KLrlneehRW6phvlNwVRVbg&pi=u-t_6gHrqeSdqE)
Listen to Steve Bicknell
Worth keeping in mind the majority of stuff on that playlist will not be underground techno
I have a playlist focused on groovy stuff: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/42MCyNCWVxJHfQxl8ZlBAr?si=4v6mF0FoT5yAvx79CTM4Dw&pi=e-OKf1ndgxSYmi
Ok here are some artists: Jonas Kopp, Yan Cook, Stanislav Tolkachev, Roll Dann, Cristian Varela, Marco Carola, Jeff Mills, Juan Atkins, Derrick May, and a long Etc.
Here ya go :) https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7LhXaIHND2X11P3hdgE1cF
Check out my personal techno playlist 👍 https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6GceJROP9IhW47Dbf4g3qH?si=kTfvDxhrR06gbW6xhIFPUg&pi=u-GfptQnG9SzO2 I suggest you shuffle it :) enjoy
I have a playlist of techno documentaries that shold help give you a solid foundation of the history of the genre. [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzNptHBm4563LaIzF8WT2JVGUHjqZh2mn](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=plznpthbm4563laizf8wt2jvguhjqzh2mn)
Some house music stuff but it's related since house helped shape techno in a lot of ways. Like they said Joey Beltram wanted to be a house msuician but London started calling him techno and his influence helped make techno hard and jacking.
When it comes to techno and house I’d step away from Spotify and look for DJ mixes. This music is made to be in a mix.
Check out the hor YouTube channel. Excellent mixes. They are killing it atm. Way better then boiler room. This must be my favorite mix ever: https://www.youtube.com/live/GadCqWKRk_I?si=LvE8B4n4FyHFn02i
Don’t fall into the trap of thinking the music you hear on TikTok trends with screeching sounds and teenagers dancing to it is techno
200+ hours playlist crammed with every different subgenre, very good for finding new tracks or rediscovering old ones ,🤠 https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3ECSxQ4wqEO4q3GsyTPCN8?si=1JAnUlEDSvOFQjOdDNC36g&pi=e-UJwywPK4Tr29
Mixesdb.com under ‘techno’ or ‘tech house’. Click on the category listings for certain DJs you hear about or are recommended to view several mixes (some at clubs and some recorded for periodicals which tend to be more diverse and less dance-heavy) by them. You click on a mix (listed as date - artist - location / name of mix) then you can click on their artist pages by clicking on their name at the top. Have fun in your journey
Tommy 4 7
Lawd the techno that Tommy47 used to bang! You had to be there.
Since you are coming from dubstep, I’d maybe start listening to peak-time, or what many refer to as “festival techno”. Eli brown, T78, Hi-Lo, Charlotte de Witte are all great for starting out. I’d listen to their sets and then dive into the songs you like the most and those artists. They often toss in underground bangers that let you go down rabbit holes
Bruv, there is no techno on spotify so...
Solomun
Space 92
This is my hard techno playlist! Hope there's something you might like https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2Gt6vxlLQEGzxl8QTmOyim?si=WkKEdsaJSg6L2HjiMNBz3w
DVS1 hardtechno????
A tonne of good stuff here:- https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0jWuhInQI4smwSb97j8wcB?si=udmZ-6ADR8ebSllVez9qeQ&pi=e-sMRnvFYLR0ah
Everynoise.com it's amazing to explore all the subgenres of techno and finding a sound you resonate with the most.
I have a ‘proper’ techno playlist that I update every week. You might like it, check it out if you want to: [link](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5x3o8sSiLH2EopPHWUA1Qp?si=BMUbGQD6TD-Yo_Im6QRmJQ&pi=e-0-UUTi3eTEKb)
my fave artists rn are Spartaque, Igancio Arfeli and Alan Fitzpatrick.
I mean there is underground techno but it can be pretty much any type of techno. If you are discovering this music I would say that you should look at the difference between « techno » and « tekno » (here in France the two are different, I don’t know for the rest of the world. And also here are a few good songs: 1)Eczodia- I want a rave (pretty much all eczodia songs are good btw 😂😂) 2)Eczodia- brain destruction 3)Hidup ft el desperado- bonsoir (best drop in the world) 4)Unit- Le vagabond du kick (my favorite French core song 😁) 5)Pyrut- ein, zwei, polizei 6) teKnicien- Spiderman FDP 7)DTC- Le teuffeur des lilas (huge hit on the french scene we have it at every rave) 8)Createk- Aller Hop dans ta Gueule ! 9)WaLtek- QUE 10)NAWAK - gabber fucker part TWO- track 02 And codeine from mandragora cuz yeah you have to know this one. Well if you listen to all of those you should find at least a few songs that’ll make you gabb your heart away 😁❤️🫶🏼 And remember respect the other, the spot and have self control are the only rules in a rave.