pre-2000 Techno?

[grain]

Funny how Techno ages isn't it?

Listening back to old records years later, you find some stuff still sounds fresh, while other stuff no longer sounds relevant...

So how about people post up a short list of techno records released 1990 - 2000 that you would still buy or recommend in 2005.

I don't think anything post 2000 should be included cause this is to do with how Techno stands to the test of time...

Well here's my list:

Suburban Knight - 'The Worlds' (Transmat 1990)

UR - X101 (Tresor 1991)

The Prodigy - 'Everybody In The Place' (XL 1992)

Vapourspace - 'Gravitational Arch of 10' (Plus8 1993)

Morganistic - 'Fluids Amniotic' (Input Nueron 1994)

The Advent - 'Elements of Life' (internal 1995)

Edge Records 21 - 'Auslander' (Edge Records 1996)

Neil Landstrumm - 'Bedrooms and Cities' (Tresor 1997)

DJ Rush - 'Tracks Couture' (Djax 1998)

Heiko Laux - 'Liquidism' (Kanzleramt 1998)

Thomas Krome - 'Woodcaver's Nightmare Recarved' (Corb 1999)

Luke Slater - 'Body Freefall, Electronic Inform' (Novamute 2000)

...

Looking forward to seeing some of yo lists, homies!

btw, I found myself wanting to include all sorts of experimental stuff and ambient, but - lets keep it techno!! .. "hey wait a minute - The Prodigy's not techno!" ...

clap :clap:

[oldbugger]

marco carola --- the 1000 collection brilliant lp from 1998. :clap: still fresh as anything

all plastikman, (too much to list)


cari lekebusch --- for those who wnow. another brillian lp from 1996.

minus orange is still great too,

come to think of it isn't music pretty shite these days? considdering were supposed to be evolving all the stuff i have mention above is much better than most stuff i hear these days.

certainly hasn't moved on that much really has it considdering?

[SlavikSvensk]

most of the tracks i like most are from before 2000. some before 1990.

[Jay Pace]

certainly hasn't moved on that much really has it considdering?

Oi! None of that.

Stood the test of time?

All Beltram
All Hood
Most of Mills
All the Fuse records

Basically the people who spent a long time crafting something special, rather than throwing up something quickly that was flavour of the month.

I also have a severe weakness for:

Carl Cox - Lets do it
Lenny D'Ice - We R E

Wah. Too many to list.

[conflict]

fusion frame ep on zenit

[conflict]

force majeure by henrik b

[oldbugger]

certainly hasn't moved on that much really has it considdering?

Oi! None of that.

i didnt mean to be so negative. its just it was so easy to think of good stuff pre 2000. and the stuff that did imideatly sring to mind IS better than 99% of what i'm hearing at the moment. sad but true ;) [/quote]

[SlavikSvensk]

how about let's give it up for rob hood, steve rachmad, dan bell, kenny larkin, black dog, mad mike, gerald donald, cari, adam, joel mull, luke slater, ian o'brien, russ gabriel, regis, surgeon, ken ishii, and all da homeez who i forgot or was too lazy to mention!

:clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:

[g]

Vapourspace - 'Gravitational Arch of 10' (Plus8 1993)

Morganistic - 'Fluids Amniotic' (Input Nueron 1994)

The Advent - 'Elements of Life' (internal 1995)

yes, yes, yes.

[Agent Orange NYC]

I thought that whole COUNTDOWN 2000 series was really dope. Very pure high quality stuff on there. Mhonolink, Henrik B, Pounding Grooves, Jamie Anderson, DJ Misjah - all good stuff

[grain]

how about let's give it up for rob hood, steve rachmad, dan bell, kenny larkin, black dog, mad mike, gerald donald, cari, adam, joel mull, luke slater, ian o'brien, russ gabriel, regis, surgeon, ken ishii, and all da homeez who i forgot or was too lazy to mention!

:clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:

All innovators...

To be honest, I was kind of hoping that some people would actually LIST a few favorites...

Like everyone, I'm sure, I bought what records I could afford over the years but I'm quite sure I missed 1000 times as many...
And as I was saying, listening to stuff that was made 5 - 15 years ago, some of it stands the test of time... way more stuff sounded exiting at the time but doesn't sound so exiting today...

Hence, as I flick through all those records, l come across the odd one that is a true GEM, and I think of how many of those I must have missed, and how many records pre 2000 (indeed, also '00 - today) that I have that I could care less about...

So.. I thought if a few people listed what they thought were true classics, I could see if I could find a few of those records I missed, and everone else could too...

I mean, I love, say, the Advent, but I didn't want to say, oh anything by the Advent is good, cause if I go looking for records and just pick up any advent release pre 2000, I may get something good, or I may get something that sounds outdated, but I can say - "youre going to love this album, 'Elements of Life', It's a must have record if you can get it... it still sounds so fresh, but 'New beginnings' which came after that doesn't sound as good now (even tho I loved it when it came out)... see what I mean?

Then theres Oldbugger, you old bugger!!... mostly likes pre-2000 techno, not so much good stuff now? - nonsense!, not that there isn't heaps of rubbish about these days and buckets of mediocre stuff... but there was heaps of rubbish back then also, thankfully, the mind blots it out......

Theres always the good stuff, it's just elusive - that's why I'm keen to discover a few things I missed - so get the finger out, come on, pick a few favorites and let someone else discover them - share the knowledge people!!

And no cheating - loads of stuff I wanted to include was 2001 (Mills' 'Metropolis', Regis' 'Penetration') but RULES are RULES

Somebody there was saying they were into loads of early nineties stuff, and even BEFORE '90... well fair play, spill the beans, give us some favorites!!

Bottom line is - 1990 - 2000 , RECORDS, not just favorite producers,
I'm looking for THE CREAM OF THE CROP!

C'MON!!!

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[g]

a TON of stuff i'm leaving out, esp detroit, but here's a random list that comes to mind

Moodymann - I Can't Kick This Feelin When It Hits
Moodymann - Shades Of Jae
Earth People - Dance
Hayden Andre Project - Tribal Life
Club MCM - Club MCM
Designer Music - Good Girls
Convextion - Convextion
Basic Channel 1-9
Chain Reaction
Santos Rodriguez - Road To Rio
Thor - Aliens Don't Boogie
Teste - The Wipe
Robotman - Do Da Doo
V/A - Acid House For All
Barada - Baradatrax
Hard Trax - Hardphunk
Circuit Breaker - The End
Speedy J - Public Energy No. 1
Inigo Kennedy - Five Ways To Move ('01?)
CBX001 - CBX005
Female - Angel Plague
Karl O'Connor, Peter Sutton & Ian J. Richardson - A Disintegration Of Our Faith
Karl O'Connor, Peter Sutton & Ian J. Richardson - A Disintegration Of Your Art
Karl O'Connor & Peter Sutton - Againstnature
Oliver Ho - Listening To The Voice Inside
Heiko Laux - Re-Televised
Relief Records
Samuel L. Session - Check Out This I Bring
Samuel L. Session - Moments Of Clarity
Purpose Maker 1-10
Axis 1-21
UR - Amazon
UR - Final Frontier
Fix - Flash
Blueprint 1-16
James Ruskin - Further Design

[grain]

Alright G!!!!


THATS what I'm talking about!!


going to hunt a few of them down.. artists I know and love but some tracks/albums I never knew about....

A couple of post 2000 releases there but I'm going to let you away with it :lol:

Axis 1-21, Blueprint 1-16, Purposemaker 1-10 tho? - that's a bit too vague... not ALL of those are absolutely BRILLIANT... and some of them have not aged well either.. particularly some of the blueprint ones...

But I have to say,
:clap:

[schlongfingers]

all Paul Birken and as mentioned above, Neil Landstrumm

[g]

Axis 1-21, Blueprint 1-16, Purposemaker 1-10 tho? - that's a bit too vague... not ALL of those are absolutely BRILLIANT... and some of them have not aged well either.. particularly some of the blueprint ones...

perhaps.. but i think they are all important. same with the BC stuff. and really most of them have a timeless quality when you go back to them.

speaking of timeless, check Carl Craig - Landcruising

[SlavikSvensk]

To be honest, I was kind of hoping that some people would actually LIST a few favorites...

i just did ;) since i generally prefer pre-2000 techno to current techno, i could name you any number of records in my collection, and chances are they'd be from then.

but just because i'm nice, here's a couple g didn't mention:

red planet "journey to the martian polar cap"
mr. james barth "stealin' music"
UR/Octave One - "aztlan/day star rising"
wild planet "genetic"
conceiled project "pattern 1-4"
ignacio "organa/organon"
surgeon "pet 2000"

[g]

and goodgollygoddamn are you nice! ;) :lol:

[SlavikSvensk]

and goodgollygoddamn are you nice! ;) :lol:

i had to make sure i didn't just list yours again, as i'm thinking our collections have a large amount of crossover...hehe...

(good call on putting the entire basic channel/chain reaction set on there ;))

[marginmaster]

maurizio-ploy strategic mix is one of the best records ever made still to this day i reckon.
and his mix of vainqueer.

wild and taylor bang the acid.

[grain]

... check Carl Craig - Landcruising

Love that album.. havn't heard it in a long time actually... record went walkies... :cry:

Yes.. Important records alright, timeless - quite a few of them (BP06- Oliver Ho 'Swim') ... Just looking for favorites I suppose... Particularly Special ones, know what I mean?.. sure you can say theyre ALL special... It's just, you can't really recommend to someone that they should buy an entire back catalogue of stuff, then again, if you had the money... OK, you win.