Disc 2s of Superior Quality
See I consider all of those guys to be of the Perc school. They are melodic where he is industrial, but they all follow the more euro style of techno, ie crisp and clean production with hardstyle gabber elements. Nina is all over the place, which I love about her, and I would say CDW is just a very commercialized version of the others. Canât stand her. As far as someone who bridges the gap, Iâd say Dax J is a guy who falls in between a Hadone and Perc.
zackster Anyone wanting something that has all of the above should check out Hecktor Oaks. He is one of my indisputable favorites at the moment, and completely on form right now.
Hector Oaks does straddle most of the en vogue current techno styles and as you say is on form right now. Iâd hesitate to recommend him to LT42 though as his mixing style can also be a bit âshoes in a washing machineâ at times and so might trigger his aversion to electronic machinery somehow.
Heâs also one of the current DJs who to my mind often hovers too much around the aforementioned 150bpm mark.
So far, has anyone genuinely come up with a legit better CD2 than CD1?
Only thing I know for sure from this threat is that Oakieâs 007 CD2 is better than Digweedâs 006 CD2, but Digweedâs 006 CD1 is great than the sum of all parts.
Francios X is a guy who walks the line between sub genres quite well. Also worth checking out imo.
And nobody listens to techno (letâs go)
zackster no way are they âPerc schoolâ - for sure Percâs current productions are incredibly âcrisp and cleanâ, and occasionally he might use a gabber-esque kick-drum, but thatâs where the similarities end. His breakout tracks werenât even crisp either. His sound is incredibly drum/percussion focused. He rarely has any melodies at all. He also leans more towards the 80s/EBM side of things anything resembling 90s hardstyle/gabber/euro stuff. Ultimately, itâs very British somehow, not âEuroâ.
I also donât think Dax J âfalls in betweenâ Hadone and Perc - he has a lot in common with the Perc industrial side of things, but heâs very far from the Hadone euro style, Iâm not sure heâs come close to touching it at all. Iâve generally considered Dax J more falling between the Perc industrial/British style and the more loopy old-school Detroit, Ben Sims etc. style.
Yes Nina is very all over the place, but she was frequently playing 90s fast trance and psy-trance stuff in contemporary techno sets pretty much before anyone, which partly opened the doors to the euro/scandi stuff. She also now plays all the big promos of that euro/scandi stuff alongside all the other random stuff she still does.
This one. Fantastic fucking tune!
zackster but see, to me thatâs basically too fast to really dance to, and when you look at the crowd theyâre hardly dancing to it either. Thereâs no time to do anything other than bop and sway a bit. The music seems be verging on losing the crowd rather than engaging them.
It might sound slightly bananas and I like listening to it for a bit, but it ultimately seems a bit hollow and redundant.