the kings of techno

NOTE: PROMO YOU HAVE [see tracklist above] IS NOT THE FINISHED CD

FINISHED CD will be a double mix CD featuring

PROMO features a selection of tracks featured on those mixes many of which are out of print and hard to get.

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It is cool that Detroit In Effect gets some love on this comp.

Chicago is four hours west down I-94 and the Wax Trax influence on Detroit techno is the huge elephant in the living room that nobody wants to talk about.

The other thing often not pointed out is detroit techno artists didn't have nearly as much success in detroit as they did by travelling to chicago on weekends.

There is the obvious stuff like the early m500 singles, but my picks would be Alleys Of Your Mind, Starlight, Infoworld, Jazz Is The Teacher, I Wanna Be There(The short edit from Deep Space not the 18 minute version from Sonic Sunset), Milky Way, and the the A side to that first New Religion record he did a few years back. If you dig through his back catalogue it is stuffed with gems. Derrick May used to be my favorite 1st wave guy, but Juan totally out produced him.

I lived on I-94 Michigan until late 83/early 84. The biggest influence on the stretch was Zapp and early early Prince, honestly. But yeah, it was one hell of a stew back then.

I will not argue with that at all, you are OTM. But there is/was a huge industrial influence in Detroit dance music by the _late_ 1980's. Look at Final Cut, what Blake Baxter used to play at Majestic, Hawtin cutting his teeth on industrial, Alan Oldham's Fast Forward radio show on WDET ect...The genre lines were a hell of a lot more blurry back then.

deej, I'm so confused here...

Derrick May used to be my favorite 1st wave guy, but Juan totally out produced him.

think so too, but would you say May is the better DJ?

i just fucking love Drexciya's 'Running Out Of Space' at the mo (along with most of 'Neptune's Lair')

thanks for the clarification though.

may is by far the better dj.

I didn't know if it was only going to be those few initial 12"s or not.

I'm not denying the role of other influences or whatever but doesn't this remind you of reading rappers saying how their music is shit and Coldplay is amazing or something. Stop hating yourselves dance producers!

to be closer to me as I invent the next zeitgeist.

or answer b:

he left the Zeitgeist to be close to Morgan Geist

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*Area 10-Love Take Me Over
*Reel By Real-AFtermath
KGB-Stark
MK-Mirror, Mirror
*Octave One-I Believe
Infiniti-Techno Por Favor
Psyche-Elements
Vice-Ritual

The ones with stars are in my Techno top 20, hell, the latter two are in my top 5!

Juan es el rey de music techno!

i resent the implication!

Oh yeah?

hey stir aren't you sort of involved w/ the people from network records?? why are they sitting on all that old good stuff (like biorhythms) and not reissuing it??

xp

i was just being obnoxious.

hey stir aren't you sort of involved w/ the people from network records?? why are they sitting on all that old good stuff (like biorhythms) and not reissuing it??

i don't think anyone in detroit has a good word to say about neil rushton these days and i have a feeling all the rights have reverted back.

Where is the techno on "THE KINGS OF TECHNO". It's like those rappers who say "yeah my music is ok but Coldplay, that's the real thing!!"

allow these songs

x-post otm dig up some classics CC and Laurent....these comps are ultra crossover, it should be the quintessential Detroit techno mix by two uber-canonical legends, not this modest comp of nods....

where is KONTAKTE

where is DELIA D

My guess is that those Retroactive records are bootlegs because you never see any of those records coming through submerge. I wasn't even aware that those records were getting the bootleg treatment.

Also, this is another one of those old Detroit comps that doesn't get enough love:

http://www.discogs.com/release/44984

I love how Discogs.com is like the new allmusic.com for dance dorks.

agree about incognito - some great records including two of my favourite ever reese releases.

"club scam ii", "iconoclastic diaries" and "mood music for the moody" were incredible, though.

(is "russell" arthur russell??)

There's a simpler solution: MPTrim works entirely in the MP3 data realm so there isn't additional sound degradation from encoding/decoding. Its useful for trimming down silent or excessive intros/outros for tidy CDRs.

That said, you'll need Audacity or the likes to do proper crossfades.

From an email:
NOTE: PROMO YOU HAVE [see tracklist above] IS NOT THE FINISHED CD

FINISHED CD will be a double mix CD featuring

PROMO features a selection of tracks featured on those mixes many of which are out of print and hard to get.

Not from email:

NOT ideal for people who know everything

― Andy_K (Andy_K)

LOL

i've warmed to this comp quite a bit ... "track selection and mission of a comp called kings of techno?" questions aside, they do a real nice job with the mixing and the track selection is tight

like i would not consider selling it

This comp introduced me to D.I.E - "Get Up" which is amazing. I used to spin it regularly (slowed down a bit).