The Listening Club

[dirty_bass]

Ok, well, to try to broaden peoples horizons a little, and to show that techno can be more than just Boom-Tish Boom-Tish (Although there is nothing wrong with the Boom-Tish).

I thought we could have a Suggested Listening Area, where people could recommend a new album or single release, or a particularly special Live PA or Mix, that is forward thinking, and then we could discuss, kinda like a book club.

Thanks to XFive for this Idea.

Online links to the albums or singles can be posted here.

[SlavikSvensk]

Steve Reich "Music for 18 Musicians."

it's not techno...it's modern classical, but you'll notice the rhythmic ideas and use of LFO (all done with acoustic instruments) is crazy techno...

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[dirty_bass]

My first recommendation

William Burroughs - Dead City Radio
(with Sonic Youth, John Cale, Chris Stein and more)
There are audio links down the page

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...985349-1984459

Without Burroughs, his writings and the Cut Up technique developed in the 50`s, there may never would have been the sampling and scratching of hip hop, and the early collage of futuristic sounds that was techno. His writings and philosophies, align very much with techno in so many ways, and his audio recordings and collaborations are fantastic.

[xfive]

Good sticky Steve :lol:

Here are a couple of my suggestions, all jazz, being thats probably the one genre I listen to just as much, if not more so than Techno:

Charlie Hunter Trio - Friends Seen And Unseen
Medeski, Martin, and Wood - End of the World Party (Just in Case)
Cal Tjader - The Best of the Concord Years

I don't ever play CDs on repeat... but the Charlie Hunter one got me good.


Enjoy ;)

[Jimfish]

any audio of those xfive?

[xfive]

any audio of those xfive?

Yeah mate the links go to amazon.. they should have multiple format choices :)

[Sunil]

Steve Reich "Music for 18 Musicians."

it's not techno...it's modern classical, but you'll notice the rhythmic ideas and use of LFO (all done with acoustic instruments) is crazy techno...

Yeah, this is a great album. For anyone listening to it for the first time you really need a bit of patience as on the face of it it can sound sort of 'samey'. Listen to it for a while or all the way through and it is a very rewarding listen :clap:

[The Overfiend]

Nubian Minds - Samba 909
http://mp3.juno.co.uk/MP3/SF170112-01-01-01.mp3

[TheRev]

Brian Eno "Music For Airports"

and on the same vein (though made quite a bit later)

Global Communication "76:14"

[TheRev]

Without Burroughs, his writings and the Cut Up technique developed in the 50`s, there may never would have been the sampling and scratching of hip hop, and the early collage of futuristic sounds that was techno. His writings and philosophies, align very much with techno in so many ways, and his audio recordings and collaborations are fantastic.

While Burroughs cut up style's influence in the world of literature is undeniable, I think its a bit of a murky association to draw it to music. John Cage and Pierre Schaeffer were messing with taking found sounds long before Naked Lunch was even a thought. Burroughs was just a famous resonating point for an idea that had been bouncing around human consciousness for sometime.

[BRADLEE]

Pratap Mankind #23 I just picked it up after listening to his Live act. Amazing stuff!!!

[miss bass]

Late night Junction - Radio 3 is always a good listen i find

[herman]

Not techno but a more than worthy listen is Dj Food's Raiding The 20th Century , its basically a cut up about the history of cut ups download it here more info here highly recomend this to anyone with an interest in sampling.

[dirty_bass]

Aha, there you go, Burroughs is on there.
Should have Gysin on there too, as really, he invented the cut up process.

[herman]

Aha, there you go, Burroughs is on there.
Should have Gysin on there too, as really, he invented the cut up process.

the main section of Burroughs is actually a spoken word piece with him explaining how it began and he does credit Gysin ;)

[Traxx]

Not techno but a more than worthy listen is Dj Food's Raiding The 20th Century , its basically a cut up about the history of cut ups download it here more info here highly recomend this to anyone with an interest in sampling.

Yep got this the other day, really good

[massplanck]

Anders Iliar Mix

I think this got posted in the D/E board a while back but its definately worthy of another mention.
Get it here. Dont let the word 'minimal' put you off.

Tracklisting

spacetank - shitkatapult 13
richie hawtin - minus 8e
donnacha costello - force inc 198
niederflur - minus nd
richie hawtin - minus 8e
phylyps trak - basic channel 9
dean decosta - mosaic spl 3
motor - audio.nl 8
andy vaz - sound variation 1-1
deadbeat - revolver 3
*slo-fi - audio.nl 5
anders ilar - pinesky 1
philus - sähkö 14
komet - audio.nl 12
andy vaz - soundvariation 1-1
taylor deupree - audio.nl 13
deadbeat - revolver 3
spacetank - shitkatapult 13
motor - audio.nl 14

[xfive]

Not techno but a more than worthy listen is Dj Food's Raiding The 20th Century , its basically a cut up about the history of cut ups download it here more info here highly recomend this to anyone with an interest in sampling.

Domain expired mate...

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[Traxx]

Yeah i tried loads of links to get that set xfive they had all expired. Try soulseek, you can get it off me if needs be.