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. I’d hesitate to recommend him to LT42 though as his mixing style can also be a bit ‘shoes in a washing machine’ at times and so might trigger his aversion to electronic machinery somehow.
He’s also one of the current DJs who to my mind often hovers too much around the aforementioned 150bpm mark.
Dan Who Shlomo? I would never in 1000000 years recommending him for you. I’m young, at least by this places standards, and ever I would be slightly old for his scene. Wouldn’t stop me tho!
hugopal Oh agreed. He is going absolutely bananas at the moment. Take this clip from his recent London gig for example, lol. This is EXACTLY the vibe I am after rn.
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 Oakie’s 007 CD2 is better than Digweed’s 006 CD2, but Digweed’s 006 CD1 is great than the sum of all parts.
zackster no way are they “Perc school” - for sure Perc’s current productions are incredibly “crisp and clean”, and occasionally he might use a gabber-esque kick-drum, but that’s where the similarities end. His breakout tracks weren’t 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, it’s very British somehow, not “Euro”.
I also don’t think Dax J “falls in between” Hadone and Perc - he has a lot in common with the Perc industrial side of things, but he’s very far from the Hadone euro style, I’m not sure he’s come close to touching it at all. I’ve 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.
zackster but see, to me that’s basically too fast to really dance to, and when you look at the crowd they’re hardly dancing to it either. There’s 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.
zackster
I think the main problem is the speed of it. Most of the Techno in the early 90’s never went above 130 BPM or possibly less. So all the new stuff you’ve posted is so much faster it just sounds like a racket.
hugopal who is that guy Hadone is in a group with? I forget what they call themselves. They had a set out from a COVID rave that I remember absolutely loving.
zackster I hadn’t clocked that was released on Monnom Black. It must be a more recent development as I can barely recall anything like that from the many sets I’ve heard of him. His 2018 Essential Mix was far from that style. I don’t recall his lockdown sets touching upon it either. His big productions have all been very rhythmic-focused as well, with little in the way of melody.
zackster who is that guy Hadone is in a group with? I forget what they call themselves. They had a set out from a COVID rave that I remember absolutely loving.
Getting this place to actually participate in a techno discussion has been like getting a puppy to listen to commands. I had to wear you all down with 8 days of your favorite thing, before you were calm enough to actually receive information.
zackster like getting a puppy to listen to commands. I had to wear you all down with 8 days of your favorite thing, before you were calm enough to actually receive information.
hugopal
That’s still nearly 10 years on. I bet Sasha was playing tunes in the low 120 bpms in the early 90’s. That’s just how it was back then. I don’t recall ever seeing Jeff mills DJ over here either. I do remember seeing Frankie bones & Lenny see but that was on the back of their Looney tunes ep’s.
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?
zackster Board pillock and general fashion victim Zackster continues to use (and overuse) every ridiculous saying that comes into common usage among the pillockocracy.