Techno! Techno! Techno! Techno!

[jobotic]

Yeah that's great, as are hiss other tracks on youtube. Thanks!

[monkfromhavana]

Merry techno Christmas from the people who brought you "Poing".

Rotterdam Termination Source - Merry X-Mess
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltvbie1zwCA

[Better Midlands]

Yeah that's great, as are hiss other tracks on youtube. Thanks!

Slav - he's got a great channel for new house music on Youtube

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8MLS5X0vWxxa5nyJxfSA1A

[monkfromhavana]

Never heard this before, but it's right up my street for dance floor techno.  Soma is a label that, A Positive Education aside, I've not really listened to much on.

Rejuvination - Don't Forget Who You Are - [Soma Quality Recordings, 1995)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Njz45z2jYw&fmt=18

[jobotic]

Looking up the tracks on Richie Hawtin's classic Mixmag mix I came across Ferox Records. How did i not know them at the time?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEMlE6BnE2I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9XbC1Z8WIY

Something I have on Peacefrog

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RR1HP7Vp7wQ

[monkfromhavana]

Yeah, Russ Gabriel is great.

[BlodwynPig]

Yeah, Russ Gabriel is great.

His later stuff not so much. But Voltage Control is in the top 3 techno albums.

[monkfromhavana]

Did anyone ever like the more commercial, major label chart friendly techno from the likes of The Aloof, Fluke, Finitribe, System 7 etc?

I've been listening to a bit of it over the past few days and I realized I've never met anyone who even knows of them, let alone any of their tunes. God knows how they all got signed to major labels. I can't see and DJs playing any of the stuff, and I'm not sure any of it would massively rock a crowd.

[BlodwynPig]

Did anyone ever like the more commercial, major label chart friendly techno from the likes of The Aloof, Fluke, Finitribe, System 7 etc?

I've been listening to a bit of it over the past few days and I realized I've never met anyone who even knows of them, let alone any of their tunes. God knows how they all got signed to major labels. I can't see and DJs playing any of the stuff, and I'm not sure any of it would massively rock a crowd.

Of course System 7, but they never were that commercial. Finitribe is excellent too, a heady mix of euphoric techno house with Irn Bru undertones. I liked a few remixes of Fluke and The Aloof tracks, but generally not their stand-alone albums. Apart from System 7, they all fell by the wayside, although I think The Aloof were doing something recently. Mid- to late 90s was the heyday for these artists and I think of the 4 you mention only The Aloof were known in wider circles. They bridged a gap between Megadog style electronic and Electronica, a 2nd tier Chemical Brothers (who I never liked) or Underworld.

[Funcrusher]

Of course System 7, but they never were that commercial. Finitribe is excellent too, a heady mix of euphoric techno house with Irn Bru undertones. I liked a few remixes of Fluke and The Aloof tracks, but generally not their stand-alone albums. Apart from System 7, they all fell by the wayside, although I think The Aloof were doing something recently. Mid- to late 90s was the heyday for these artists and I think of the 4 you mention only The Aloof were known in wider circles. They bridged a gap between Megadog style electronic and Electronica, a 2nd tier Chemical Brothers (who I never liked) or Underworld.

Fini Tribe have a life before house and techno as an eighties industrial/ebm combo. I'll still have a few 12 inches of theirs knocking around somewhere.

[steveh]

Not sure there's that much in common with them, other than them all appearing at a similar time and doing the same tours of university towns so they got lumbered with the 'student techno' tag.

The Aloof have more of that dubby Massive Attack-ish 'trip hop' style on the whole. I was never a big fan of Ricky Barrow's vocals and that metallic with aliasing artefacts sound they used early on (which also turns up on Gary Burns and Jagz Kooners's work with Sabres of Paradise) grates rather. However, among their four albums there are some decent tracks, though few people have heard much apart from the One Night Stand single.

System 7 and Steve Hillage in general I've always thought were one of those acts that sounds good on paper but whose actual music never seemed very substantial. Just not my thing really. Finitribe seemed to turn up in the sets of various progressive house DJs, though mostly in remixes.

Fluke I rated up to the Six Wheels On My Wagon album and I saw them live I think three times, when they did prove themselves definitely capable of rocking a crowd. Never ever heard any of their singles played by a DJ though. Unfortunately from Oto onwards they seemed to have found a particular groove and kept mining it with diminishing returns and the last albums (and the one some of them did after as 2 Bit Pie) got increasingly samey. Someone suggested to me that they were partly pushed into that by the record company due because it was popular for licensing in games at the time. There's a track on the remix version of the last Weatherall album that sounds awfully like mid-period Fluke so maybe that sound is coming back.

[BlodwynPig]

Fini Tribe have a life before house and techno as an eighties industrial/ebm combo. I'll still have a few 12 inches of theirs knocking around somewhere.

That was my Irn Bru reference. I like their industrial beginnings.

[monkfromhavana]

Of course System 7, but they never were that commercial. Finitribe is excellent too, a heady mix of euphoric techno house with Irn Bru undertones. I liked a few remixes of Fluke and The Aloof tracks, but generally not their stand-alone albums. Apart from System 7, they all fell by the wayside, although I think The Aloof were doing something recently. Mid- to late 90s was the heyday for these artists and I think of the 4 you mention only The Aloof were known in wider circles. They bridged a gap between Megadog style electronic and Electronica, a 2nd tier Chemical Brothers (who I never liked) or Underworld.

Why did you never like The Chemical Brothers? Even though they were a bit samey, their first album and all their early EPs and remixes were pretty good. I have never understood Underworld or how popular they become, but then again I've never seen them live.

[Dr Syntax Head]

I'm not sure if this is strictly Techno but I heard this on John Peel way way back in around 94. I still love it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFjlDiZki1E

Incidentally it was played pretty much straight after Cut your hair by Pavement IIRC. Another song I still love and first heard on Peel's show.

I miss John Peel's show.

Edit. No labeling of the link is annoying. It's Marine Boy-Fluid

[BlodwynPig]

Anonymous Coward's The Dizzy Tune.

https://nekurakidrecords.bandcamp.com/track/the-dizzy-tune

[jobotic]

I've probably put this up before but Peel played this in 1988 and it all changed for me.

Laurent X - Machines

https://youtu.be/lmfZ_SIMOwg

[monkfromhavana]

Just discovered this one from 1995. I've heard a lot of Erik van den Broek's tunes before, and always liked them and this is no exception. It's a just a straight acid tune, but then from about 7.25 turns into a great piece of acid house funk. It's a shame there weren't more funky acid tunes.

Essit Muzique - Essit Muzique

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIUTe7JKem0

[BlodwynPig]

Has this been mentioned? Dan Curtin's The Waters of Mars EP from last year is a stunning return to his roots - thoroughly enjoying it.

https://clone.nl/item38806.html

[momatt]

Dark Sky are ruling right now.  I loved their Imagin LP from 2014.  All on Monkeytown, modeselektor's label.
Their new single, Kilter is splendid.  A new album is imminent.

Recently discovered this gem from them too:
https://soundcloud.com/dark-sky/iyp

Really nice electro-ish and melodic.  Always using nice breakbeats too.

[jobotic]

Had never heard of this guy before today. Not all my bag but these are.

Inigo Kennedy - Obsidian

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

Inigo Kennedy - There is Nothing More

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2r8uVDnhLg

Inigo Kennedy - Filaments

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMVl43hHMLw

Bit AFXy but that ain't no bad thing.

Apologies if this has already been posted.

[jobotic]

Just discovered this one from 1995. I've heard a lot of Erik van den Broek's tunes before, and always liked them and this is no exception. It's a just a straight acid tune, but then from about 7.25 turns into a great piece of acid house funk. It's a shame there weren't more funky acid tunes.

Essit Muzique - Essit Muzique

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIUTe7JKem0

Knew I knew this - it's on here.

https://www.discogs.com/Laurent-Garnier-Laboratoire-Mix/master/44125

Look at that tracklist

This is wonderful

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

[monkfromhavana]

Ohhh this is fantastic, but maybe not one for the purists. It came out on the experimental Irdial Discs label in 1989, but this is a remix on the Italo-House label DFC. It's a wonderful mix of disco, techno and acid and I am going to listen to it a lot

Aqua Regia - N.Y.C Smile On Me (Attractive Mix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFIdzt5QyJ0&fmt=18

[Sebastian Cobb]

I've probably put this up before but Peel played this in 1988 and it all changed for me.

Laurent X - Machines

https://youtu.be/lmfZ_SIMOwg

If you like stuff from that era, especially Trax stuff and the like, this is a belter of a mix:
http://abasschronicle.co.uk/abc-history-sessions-1980s-house-techno/

[jobotic]

Ohhh this is fantastic, but maybe not one for the purists. It came out on the experimental Irdial Discs label in 1989, but this is a remix on the Italo-House label DFC. It's a wonderful mix of disco, techno and acid and I am going to listen to it a lot

Aqua Regia - N.Y.C Smile On Me (Attractive Mix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFIdzt5QyJ0&fmt=18

It's a beauty alright.

That Irdial stuff is still available here. Great label.

https://archive.org/details/irdial

[monkfromhavana]

It's a beauty alright.

That Irdial stuff is still available here. Great label.

https://archive.org/details/irdial

+1 karma for this, I've just downloaded the Conet Projects quadruple album on Shortwave Numbers Station. I had no idea what Numbers Stations were, but I'm loving it.

https://archive.org/details/ird059/tcp_d1_06_the_lincolnshire_poacher_mi5_irdial.mp3

[jobotic]

Yeah it's great. How I found Irdial.

[BlodwynPig]

Funnily I wanted to listen to this album at work and found that it has just been uploaded in its entirety to Youtube. So, for those who have not heard it...

Russ Gabriel - Voltage Control

[jobotic]

This is my kind of mix.

https://www.mixcloud.com/xlr8r/xlr8r-podcast-493-esther-duijn/

Sadly it's undownloadable. Any suggestions?

[Sebastian Cobb]

This is my kind of mix.

https://www.mixcloud.com/xlr8r/xlr8r-podcast-493-esther-duijn/

Sadly it's undownloadable. Any suggestions?

http://offliberty.com

[jobotic]

Cheers, thank you.

I've downloaded it but it's only 91mb. Haven't listened yet.