1994 was 30 years ago
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luka
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do it. i would like an excuse to listen to them.
oh, man - you're going to probably hate what ableton has concocted - i decided to test their audio to midi with a full track where ableton is supposedly able to encode the drums into midi information, and also melody and harmony
so after the midi notes were filled in, i threw in a few random sounds/instruments/whatever corresponding to each midi part (obviously stuff with a timbre similar to what you might use for the separate parts - i'm not purposely trying to make it sound horrible)
it, uh, well, best i can say is that maybe i can try to sell it to boomkat as some new avant garde take on early jungle
Corpsey
bandz ahoy
chava
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'94 was when Detroit and Chicago styles came in vogue again and techno became "phunkey" (as the journalists called it back then). But rather than nostalgia, techno became a hundred times better than the mindless hardtrance and hardcore that rules the immediate years before and so revered by the hardcore continuum. Now you would enter warehouse raves without hearing a Sven Vath or PCP track, but 8 hours of this.
A typical '94 funky techno track from otherwise pedestrian producer Ian Pooley,
another one from Dave Angel, always master in doing feel-good tunes without cheese:
and stuff like this got (almost) in the charts:
Girls were back on the floor instead of the hooligan gabber ravers, everything became sexier almost overnight, a bit more refined though still edgy. Happy times
A typical '94 funky techno track from otherwise pedestrian producer Ian Pooley,
another one from Dave Angel, always master in doing feel-good tunes without cheese:
and stuff like this got (almost) in the charts:
Girls were back on the floor instead of the hooligan gabber ravers, everything became sexier almost overnight, a bit more refined though still edgy. Happy times
and then by 97 it had devolved into something even worse than the shlocky dutch gabber, overcompressed loop tedium and tech house. But yes.
good things cannot last, as every dialectician knows.
still quite a bit of sonic warfare techno in 94 though that you could hear in UK warehouses, because unlike the germans and danes we aren't hypermoralists.
Analogique
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Manuel and Clive - Warp 2 (big advent tune)
Steve Bicknell - untitled (lords of afford remix)
Waveforms - Vexation
Inevetech - Test Subject
and of course this bone dry braineater
Analogique
Increased Outline
Manuel and Clive - Warp 2 (big advent tune)
Steve Bicknell - untitled (lords of afford remix)
Waveforms - Vexation
Inevetech - Test Subject
and of course this bone dry braineater
chava
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That steve bicknell was one of the first records I bought for the dave angel/slater mixes. Remember drawing on the record on that track you posted as I hated it so much
chava
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3-4 years was probably the max timespan for a new genre to exist at a peak
Maybe, bvut there was still a lot of great techno being made, Surgeon, paul birken, subhead, tobias schmidt, landstrumm, vogel...
chava
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yes, but apart from surgeon those were more of an acquired taste