November 2009
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Chickens do Techno →
Friend sent this to me on FB. He knows I have a techno obsession. And then he sent it right after Thanksgiving. Not a turkey, but a chicken…close enough. Funny stuff.
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i just messed my pants…
long day at work. long traffic getting home. left overs for dinner. (they were still yummy.) glass of wine with dinner. (it makes it all better.) spending time looking at the internets while listening to my new CD album of Johannes Heil. IMDB (just clicking around) and lo and behold I find under the drumcode page:
Hardcell and Grindvick : Gainlane Live Techniques
got my purchase off of...
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Album - Future Primitive by Johannes Heil
Well...
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the canooks are coming & they're banging drums!
Schematic - Unemployed (Oct 2009 Mix)
It’s been a little while since I’ve actively listened to DnB, but today on the FB, a friend of mine mentioned a new website/record label out of Canada, STRIDE RECORDINGS. He had linked to a YouTube video of one of their released/free tracks. From there I went to the website and dl’d a full hour long mix. While there are some mild, faint...
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techno is like…
Techno is like an animal. It’s really best when it growls.
Was listening this morning to some tracky techno with some of the early minimal sounds from Byron Bogues (2003 mix - Clubtrax (HR-XXL) 05-31 - you can get it from LAVAMUS). It really didn’t get exciting until I noticed that he brought back the bass sound. It’s not like there wasn’t a deep bass kick in the early...
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Subconscious to consciousness
PLAYING : Izhevski W64
Minimal - not the best techno genre. Hard to get into. It takes it’s sweet time to really tap into your head. Track selection is tough cause all tracks slowly build which is antithesis to mixing. But when the selection is right… Maybe when you have a mix going on in the background and all of a sudden the mix comes alive, with minimal techno sound goodness that...
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Techno Ramblings
Back from 1995, I posted this to the hraves email list, from my fathers email account. It is currently preserved in the Hyperreal archives. I’m reposting to make official claim that these are my words and not Sergio’s. It is from these words that this tumblr blog is inspired from.
what is it about you techno that makes me love you so? how is it that i’m willing to spend more...