Roots of Techno recommendations

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Edward

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for example:

Ryuichi Sakamoto - Riot In Lagos
Cybotron - Alleys Of Your Mind
Yazoo (Yaz) - Don't Go & Situation
Blancmange - On Our Way To?
Human League - Love & Dancing LP, Holiday 80 EP
DM - Speak & Spell
George Clinton - Atomic Dog (Instrumental)
P Crew - Nasty Rock
Night Moves - Trans Dance
Man Parrish - Techno Trax
Visage - Frequency 7
Soft Cell - Memorabilia


Z Factor - I Like To Do It In Fast Cars
plus many many other early chicago "house" tracks

Alexander Robotnick - Problems D'Amour
plus many many US and Italo disco tunes
 
Landfill Elektronikz

Landfill Elektronikz

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From the Conform To Deform boxset:

"Back when electronic music was just electronic music, Cabaret Voltaire represented a real level of prestige and excellence that definitely doesn't exist today. They crossed the board, I mean black, white, intellectual, funky, alternative, there was no real stigma for the music or the mentality of it, you know. For people like myself groups like Cabaret Voltaire really set a high mark of excellence, you know, a high mark of standards that I wish we had today from young artists coming up making music. I tip my hat to them ten times. I'm glad to have been young when they were making music, and on the dancefloor, and be able to appreciate from that aspect. As well as to be able to listen to it as a milestone, as an overall level of perception, of where it should come from, or how it should look and how it should feel, the image...The mystique of what electronic music was supposed to be and how it was supposed to be presented. Everybody from Frankie Knuckles to Ron Hardy to young black djs in Detroit, to Richie Hawtin loved Cabaret Voltaire."

Derrick May, 2001

Well, I had to get that one in, didn't I? :D

Oh yeah, don't forget Numan circa The Pleasure Principle. Took Black America by storm, by all accounts..
 
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Martin Dust

Techno Zen Master
Blackdown said:
Wot no Shari Vari?
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First techno record to some but there's loads that came before that, I like a lot of the myths in techno tho, like Juan/Rik hadn't heard or been influenced by Kraftwerk - yeah right. But it seems most fans are just bored of it these day, even UR are taking a lot of stick for their statements etc...
 
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tate

Brown Sugar
Nick Gutterbreakz said:
From the Conform To Deform boxset:
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Mmm, I really enjoyed those conform to deform discs . . .

K Mantronix did a nice comp for soul jazz, "That's the Beat" it's called. Some classics on there, riot in lagos, et al.

D.A.F. are endlessly fascinating to me. Though for some reason I've always tended to align them along a slightly different axis than most, perhaps a darker, more industrial branch that ends up in ex-yugo territory with bands like SCH, laibach, that kind of thing.
 
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skull kid

Well-known member
SEVERED HEADS!!! in particular, "dead eyes open" (think dj rolando's "jaguar" with trippy b-movie voice samples and dial-up modem blips and a clanky drawn out industro-funk outro that snakes and twists like that escher drawing of a stairwell) and "we have come to bless this house"; absolutely some of the deepest synth pop ever made.

oh yeah, and "hot on the heels of love" by tg probably.

(ps. i'd love for someone to point me in the direction of particular deephousepages.com mixes that play all the synth pop stuff alongside the italo stuff etc, there's just too many to stumble through blindly.)
 
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mistersloane

heavy heavy monster sound
skull kid said:
(ps. i'd love for someone to point me in the direction of particular deephousepages.com mixes that play all the synth pop stuff alongside the italo stuff etc, there's just too many to stumble through blindly.)
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I'd say any of Ron Hardy's mixes at the Music Box ( about page 28 of the mixes ) but I can't get them to FUCKING work, realplayer is telling me I need an update that doesn;t exist, anyone else had that problem?
 
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the undisputed truth

Banned
For the youngers who might not know.

Scattered among the classic productions of the mid-'80s Chicago house scene are those of Jamie Principle, the first to record song-based house music and the closest to a songwriter in the entire community. Principle never received his proper respect, since many of his best singles were only released years after their (usually ecstatic) introduction on the Chicago club-scene. Also, the balance of input between Principle and producer Frankie Knuckles has never been defined, resulting in singles credited to "Frankie Knuckles Presents," "A Frankie Knuckles Production" or occasionally just "Frankie Knuckles" instead of what should perhaps have been acknowledged as Principle co-productions.

http://www.mp3.com/jamie-principle/artists/10582/biography.html
 
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appleblim

Well-known member
all about B-52s - 'mesapotamia' innit?

u lot seen the tracklist for Kings Of Techno too?

nice to see Stooges on it!
 
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francesco

Minerva Estassi
Well let's not forget also the black roots of techno, Herbie Hancock "Sextant", "Thrust", "Nobu", or Late Clinton, Funkadelic, or Afrika Bambaata

Always loved this David Toop compilation of Electro, post-electro/proto techno and Techno:

Various - Ocean Of Sound 3: Booming On Pluto: Electro For Droids
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Tracklisting:
1-01 Model 500 Night Drive (Time, Space, Transmat) (5:39)
1-02 Freefall 68 I Like To Watch (Thursday Club Electro Xcursion) (4:39)
1-03 Future Sound Of London, The Dead Cities (6:06)
1-04 Cabaret Voltaire Landslide (2:01)
1-05 Iron Monkey Holy Weapon (0:28)
1-06 Afrika Bambaataa & Soulsonic Force Planet Rock (Elektric Music Mix) (3:56)
1-07 Plaid Angry Dolphin (Unreleased Mix) (2:43)
1-08 Herbie Hancock Watermelon Man (6:13)
1-09 Mantronix Bassline (Latin Rascals Edit) (5:15)
Mixed By - Latin Rascals, The
1-10 Cat Stevens Was Dog A Doughnut (4:07)
1-11 HAT Organic Mango (6:29)
1-12 Barbed Barbed (2:08)
1-13 Special Request (2) Salsa Smurph (3:14)
1-14 Iron Monkey Oil-Hell Murder (0:34)
1-15 Safri Boys Punjaba Shere (Arge Mix) (4:19)
Featuring - MC Arg-E
1-16 Planet Patrol I Didn't Know I Loved You (Till I Saw You Rock And Roll) (6:28)
Producer - Arthur Baker , John Robie
1-17 Jedi Knights Solina (5:27)
1-18 To Rococo Rot Extra (3:37)
2-01 Giorgio Moroder The Apartment (4:10)
2-02 Cybertron Vision (6:31)
2-03 Sidewinder, The Silicon Based Predator (2:30)
2-04 Nitro Deluxe Let's Get Brutal (Cutting Remixes Vol. 1 Remix) (4:27)
Remix - Aldo Marin
2-05 Black Dog, The Phil (4) (2:03)
2-06 Omar Santana Ear Candy (5:01)
2-07 Jonzun Crew, The Pack Jam (5:02)
2-08 George Clinton Computer Games (6:07)
2-09 Michael Prime Nocturnal Resort (Edit) (4:41)
2-10 Unique 3 Digicality (4:30)
2-11 Information Society Running (The Nest Mix) (5:17)
Mixed By - Latin Rascals, The
Remix - Joey Gardner , Little Louie Vega
2-12 Hashim Al-Naafiysh (The Soul) (The It's About Time Remix) (6:16)
Remix - Aldo Marin , Benji Candelario
2-13 Bleep & Booster (2) Genki (4:35)
2-14 Malkit Singh Tootak, Tootak, Tootiyan - Hey Jamalo (5:41)
2-15 A Guy Called Gerald Automanikk (5:21)
 
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blunt

shot by both sides
I watched a great documentary on the emergence of techno last week, High Tech Soul. They're all in it: the Bellevue 3, Jeff Mills, Eddie Fowlkes, Anthony Shakir, Blake Baxter, Jeff Mills, blah... even the Electrifying Mojo filmed in mysterious silhouette form. hamarplazt should know that's it's a blatant puff piece of self-mythology, but the rest of you should love it. Even if it's just for the revelation that Mrs Mills (snr) insisted they beef up the bass on UR001 :)

Not quite as good as a documentary I saw on Arte in 96/97, which took a more global perspective on the scene (and includes an interview with Mike Banks).* But it's only £9.99 from Boomkat, while stocks last, and is worth every penny.

*if anyone here knows the one I'm talking, and better still knows where to get it, please do let me know!
 
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Edward

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my favourite search in Deep House Page is
WBMX

anything before 89 or so is worth having a listen to.

they played all the old US disco mixed with euro synth stuff.
 
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