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Well, it's right except for the thing about the "k"-spelling. Some of the artist indeed did spell it with a k, but "techno" was the more common name for it. Maybe you read about it in Dan Sickos "Techno Rebels" book? My guess is that Sicko didn't really know how to deal with the fact that techno...

There's tons of hard minimal acid out there. Labels like Drop Bass, Labworks and Direct Drive have a lot of it. Also some of Mike Inks early records on Force Inc. And the DJungle Fever label. And 303 Nation. And and and... As for psychedelic acid, I think the best was made with the more...

Try getting some Paul Roland-records, Roland is often a kind of gothic-folk-music-version of Alan Moore, but much better IMO. Especially "Happy Families" would be relevant, it's more or less based on victorian eccentrics.

There was a german more-or-less-experimental gabber/hardcore producer called Xol Dog 400, probably him. I only have his Demon Sukker-EP, and the track you're after is not on that. However, the british hardcore/acid group Total Output made a track called Diminished Responsibility which uses...

That we're the direct cause of it. Perhaps "unnatural" is not the right word.

I wrote started by us, not starting with us.

This remind me of an episode from my childhood. I complained that I couldn't see any reason wasps should exist, they had no use or purpose and were not good for anything. To which my mother asked me what humans were good for. Eventually, extinction is always happening, countless species have...

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I've no idea, I haven't heard it in action. Maybe it adds some trills or some tones in counterpoint. It just seems a bit too advanced for an old instrument.

Yeah, but I wasn't kidding, the baroque slider was there. "Baroque" is quantifiable too, it seems.

I've seen an old electric organ with a "baroque" slider.

Or rather the empty set. Which is a great name for something so minimal and old school science-obsessed, I think. Eventually, Ø is also a danish letter, pronounced like the german ö, as well as a danish one-letter word meaning "island".

Wow, that's actually a pretty accurate and level headed description of this track, quite a surprise. Don't know how big it was in europe outside of the UK, though, personally I've never heard it played anywhere. It might have been played before I got into techno around '91/'92, but in that case...

No way, this is much more interesting than talking about Craig. I know all this stuff you talk about, I bought it when it was originally released and still own it, and I was a big Schulze/TD-fan prior to that, and STILL it doesn't sound like there's all that much berlin school in it to me. The...

Indeed, this "humanity" is why I often think detroit techno is dull and regressive. But what about UR and their outer space journeys, they weren't all just jazz fluff - Acid Rain III or Rings of Saturn, not much humanity on those records. And Manuel Goettsching is a well known influence, the...

I've heard this claim before, and I just don't see it at all. Sure, there's some elements here and there, the use of sequencers sometimes, or the thick pads elsewhere, but that doesn't just make it TD with beats. Could you give some examples?

Yes, certainly. "Cosmic" doesn't have to be warm and happy at all, at its best it's this ice cold, dark, vast sound. I think someone like Drax was really an expert in this field. On the other hand, I think there's very much a cosmic element in a lot of detroit techno as well. Yes it had, but...

Sorry, but this is just completely wrong. Have you ever heard goa trance? Most of it is really dark, brooding and dystopic, like a lot of the early trance in general. It has to do with the fact that trance basically developed as a combination of ebm and acid (as with new beat). Which brings me...

Nah, there's something much more strange about that image, it's somehow both ridiculous and disturbingly odd I think, I quite like it. In most CGI of that era realism is intended and it's really obvious what it's supposed to look like, but here it's not quite clear, there's just a hint of...

I've introduced a couple of my friends to Burial, with great success. They haven't heard about the theory and discussion surrounding the music, they don't read Dissensus or K-punk or the interviews, haven't heard about hauntology or about the hype, and they love the music. Sometimes I would...