mono-stereo What is this euro/scandi stuff you speak of??

See the Courtesy set I posted above for an example (Courtesy is Danish) - it’s high bpm, very trance-influenced contemporary techno (with the occasional smidgeon of euro-pop influences as well), that initially appeared to come out of Copenhagen from late 2017. Central early Danish artists included Schacke, Sugar, Funeral Future, Repro, DJ Ibon, Niki Istrefi, and Kasper Marott, releasing on Euromantic (Funeral Future’s label) and Kulor (Courtesy’s label).

The sound spread pretty quickly in techno and quite a few other techno artists from the continent emerged with aligned-sounding productions, including Hadone (from Belgium, some tracks posted above), Blame The Mono (France), Oprofessionell (Norway), and Alpha Tracks (Austria).

A couple of track examples if you can’t be bothered to skim Courtesy’s mix:

A big early track from some of the Danish producers which encapsulates the sound:

Perhaps my fav track from the scene:

Again, also check the later released Hadone / Viper Diva tracks above and the relationship and similarities will seem apparent. It’s also not a surprise that the artists I’ve mentioned above often play each other’s tracks (not only the Danish ones, so even though initially it was mostly a Danish thing, it’s now very much a Euro-wide thing).

      The next Clint Eastwood movie is going to be about @Along_the_Wire going to Berghain to rescue a copy of Leftism from a Serbian nonbinary nu rave Dj who has just put out a new hard style remix of Harder Better Faster Stronger. The films title?

      Song of Life

      This thread has become a Hugo/Zack docking fest. The only question is who has the foreskin.

      I’ll assume this was the plan all along, Zack. Well done if so. 4D chess.

      zackster Board pillock and general fashion victim Zackster continues to use (and overuse) every ridiculous saying that comes into common usage among the pillockocracy.

      Latest being ‘a bop’.

        Zackster simply still doesn’t get it. We create the sayings in this community, then others copy us.

        The we is now Hugo and Zach, David. You are on the outside looking in.

        A recent favorite Hadone set where he plays mostly
        techno, as opposed to the nu hard trance sound.

        If I get another mention today from Hugo I’m gonna get a techno horn.

          LT… The Techno Viking

          LT42 If I get another mention today from Hugo I’m gonna get a techno horn.

          He won’t tek no for an answer

            zackster Liking the first half of this, takes me right back to Voodoo or the like. Noice!

              @zackster can you recommend a good Robert Hood set? I’m almost certain I’ve asked this of you before.

                Amps he did one in Sherwood Forest a few years back that was pretty good

                  LT42 If I get another mention today from Hugo I’m gonna get a techno horn.

                  A techno-induced erection?!

                    hugopal Those last two tracks you posted sound more like traditonal “Trance” tunes to my ears. When I think of Techno I tend to think mainly of percussive music, but most of this genre talk is subjective.

                        mono-stereo yeah, they are very trance-y, but quite a bit of what’s around in the current techno scene leans that way. It’s pretty much melding hard techno percussion and its moody aesthetic with 90s prog trance riffs.

                        There are some DJs like Courtesy and Alpha Tracks who pretty much play whole sets of this kind of style, including a number of original 90s trance tracks mixed in, and others such as Hadone and Sugar who sprinkle them in occasionally amongst modern tracks which you might generally consider a bit closer to more “traditional” loopy percussive-style techno.

                          zackster As far as someone who bridges the gap, I’d say Dax J is a guy who falls in between a Hadone and Perc.

                          I reckon I Hate Models is the DJ who most falls between Hadone and Perc.