Banging techno is dead and buried

Psychedelic

I just spent the past couple of hours going through all the newest techno releases on JunoDownload, bloody hell it's a sad state of affairs these days.

I'd say over 95% of the tunes are under 130bpm, a lot of it even in the pathetically low 120's, can't even find enough good tunes to do a mix with. The few banging tunes I did find were mostly just average or boring. I didn't see one schranz release, not one.

Then just listening to DJ sets, they are all way slower than they used to be, even the likes of Dave Clarke are playing pedestrian stuff now.

es-cee

The majority of the Hard Techno/Schranz stuff is old-ish, doesn't seem to be as much of it coming through these days, compared to the slower more minimal sounding stuff. I'm with ya on the slow bpm thing, does my nut in listening to Techno at that tempo!

Here's the Hard Techno section, some newer stuff in it, might find something of interest http://www.junodownload.com/hard-techno/

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Psychedelic

es-cee wrote: »

The majority of the Hard Techno/Schranz stuff is old-ish, doesn't seem to be as much of it coming through these days, compared to the slower more minimal sounding stuff. I'm with ya on the slow bpm thing, does my nut in listening to Techno at that tempo!

Here's the Hard Techno section, some newer stuff in it, might find something of interest http://www.junodownload.com/hard-techno/

Aha, nice one! Didn't know they had a specific section for that now.

Techno Mick

Just back from London where Acid and Hard Techno are still alive and well.

Acid was the main in London for the last 15 years, but now it's hard/shranz, which is what I have been spinning for a while, mostly German/Dutch.

Any nights in the Midlands or West requiring some tunes, give me a shout.

Also, I used to be a member of an Irish dance board, but just can't remember the fing name of it!!!!!

On the hunt for decent 1210s and a Pioneer 600 or Bheringer 750.

www.htfr.com good start for hard techno

gccbrrr

proper 1210s are are hard to come by these days, i could never mix but man i used to love techno and dutch/german hardcore. youl never find anything like that in dublin these days but if you know of anywhere please let me know

FinDust

There was an acid/banging techno night in Dublin two months back with Aaron Liberator.

g5fd6ow0hseima

I'd be of the opposite opinion to be honest. Thankfully minimal techno is now dead and its adherents have long since moved over to ****ty deep house.

Look at the absolute techno belters over the past couple of years from the likes of Sigha, Joy O & Boddika, Karenn, Blawan etc... Even the dark techno that Virgil Enzinger has been putting out is fantastic. To me the current techno scene looks very promising, yet only a few years ago seemed to me to be on life support machine being kept alive by Dave Clarke and a few others.

Only pity is that I'm all the way over in Oz since 2011 so am struggling to track of it from here, as it's all about handbag house and psytrance in these parts. Probably the main thing I have to look forward to when I go back home

djhaxman

Peak time for techno in Dublin for me was around 2001-2004, there was a big name playing at least once a month if not more often. BPM was up around the 140 mark. Listening back now, even though I loved it, I don't know how we listened to that back then, it was just too fast. I much prefer the stuff on CLR, Electric Deluxe and Drumcode these days.

g5fd6ow0hseima

djhaxman wrote: »

Peak time for techno in Dublin for me was around 2001-2004, there was a big name playing at least once a month if not more often. BPM was up around the 140 mark. Listening back now, even though I loved it, I don't know how we listened to that back then, it was just too fast. I much prefer the stuff on CLR, Electric Deluxe and Drumcode these days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnMVAxd07FE

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