Best Techno Songs

Whenever I goto Europe all they listen to is techno... some of the stuff i like, but i dont know any names or anything. I dont even know what all the different types are, like House... Is that what you play at a house party? lol

You guys gotta school me on this techno stuff... What are the different kinds? The stuff that i've heard an liked is usually without any words, it just hits hard with crazy beats.



Anyways, list the best techno songs of all time :D So i can burn a couple good techno CDs

Read http://www.ishkur.com/music/

Bidibodi Bodibu

Or however thats spelled. That song is awesome!

simple really


trance(progressive, goa, etc)
house(tribal, hard,etc)
drum'n'bass(jungle, tech,etc)
hardcore(happy)

but drum'nbass is the best

Pretty much anything by Dieselboy.

http://www.djdieselboy.com/

List some songs guys! I wanna see like top 10s :D

I agree with AMG - Deiselboy is the shit, especially the East Coast Mix from like 97'.

Other than that, I really like Underworld, and I saw Paul Van Dyke live, and he's pretty cool, so that's great.

Basement Jaxx and Crystal Method don't count, do they? Didn't think so.

Nobody wants to post their Top 10s?? I thought there was alotta techno fans in here?

I would - but it kind of defeats the purpose of a set. Techno, along with most kinds of dance, is meant to be listened to in the order it was mixed by the DJ. Each song should flow into the next one and should be a series of breakdowns, build ups and thumping bass. A cobbled together top 10 will probably end up sounding horrible - and is the reason a lot of people dislike dance music.

My two cents.

lol why are you guys makin this so hard... i dont care about any of that :lol: i'll start checkin out some albums too

You gotta have favorite songs?! Just list the songs you like best...your all time favorite Top 10 songs!!

I gotta have somewhere to start, i'll like a song.. check out the album.

I've dabbled a little bit with techno, mainly in the late '90s.I liked The Chemical Brothers-" Block Rockin' Beats", I think Prodigy is considered techno, I liked their songs "Firestarter", and "Breathe"(not sure if that is the correct title of that song. I also like Fat Boy Slim, I've heard his music refered to as techno.

First of all, your use of the word "techno" is a little bit misplaced as you're basically asking about electronic dance music as a whole, and techno is only a small sub-genre thereof just like house, trance, & dnb are. But lots of people do this so I won't give you a hard time about it. :smile:

I'm guessing that most of what you've heard (and pretty much every artist that's been mentioned so far) isn't techno at all, but is properly known as trance, progressive trance, prog house, as have been named before. These styles are a little bit more commonly heard since they seem to be a little bit more widely liked than a lot of techno, which can be a little bit simple and cold to the average listener. I'm not a big tech fan myself, but I do like a little Richie Hawtin every once in a while.

I agree with what OZ said about random mismatched songs sounding bad when played back to back, which is why I'm such a sucker for a good dj mix cd. A few of my old favorites are Paul Van Dyke who really is great live, Sasha, Quivver, Max Graham, Timo Maas, Steve Lawler, Mark Farina...

Then there are the producers, some of which have been mentioned already...
The Chemical Brothers are great, but they kind of lost me around the Block Rockin Beats time. I think Exit Planet Dust (which is way old) remains thier best music, but I'm still looking forward to hearing their new album. Other old stuff I still really like is Future Sound of London, Underworld, Funki Porcini (old & new), Orbital, and others I just can't think of right now. Fatboy Slim has a huge following as a producer and a dj and I guess he's okay but I don't really listen to much of his stuff. Never did like Prodigy. I'm a big Junkie XL fan, he's just flat brilliant. Check out the 3am/3pm discs.

It's really hard to recommend individual songs to people as everyone's tastes are a little bit different, and lots of times it's tough for an individual track to stand out of the bunch and really get to be as widely known as something like Darude's "Sandstorm" which is so played out it's scary... There are just so many nearly anonymous people who make the tracks that dj's play that it's hard to know what/who you like and don't like without spending a few hours in a shop listening to records. And of course all the best stuff is on on vinyl, which is how I buy 90% of my music nowadays. I've gotten to a point where I don't really know the names of the tracks or producers on most of my records, I just know what they look like or what the label is and associate that with the sound. And that's why I couldn't come up with a better list than this for favorite tracks you might like...

LSG- Infectious
Insignia- Revelation
Breeder- The Chain
Junkie XL- Bon Voyage

I'll try to think of more...

DJ Zinc - Super Sharpshooter
John B - Up All Night
Total Science - Taxman
Total Science - Whats My Code
Kenny Ken - Icecold
Q Project - Champion Sound
Hive - Surreal Killer

This is all drum'n'bass, others to watch out for are DJ Rap, High Contrast, Concord Dawn, Ed Rush & Optical.

and d'n'b mc's RhymeTime, MC Det, Stevie Hyper D, MC GQ, etc

also!..

Crazy Penis, weird name, but its a hell chilled electric act.

You asked for it! Not all techno, some trance and hard house too. I have tried to approximately flow with the BPM of each song so it won't sound TOO bad. :)

1. Alex Bartlett - Amnesia
2. Deepack - 100%
3. 4 Clubbers - Children [future breeze vs junkfood junkies mix]
4. Cosmic Gate - Exploration Of Space
5. Tuneboy - Dirty [DJ Stardust Remix]
6. Alex Fakey - Painted Black
7. Dave Joy - Third Pleasure
8. Kernkraft 400 - Zombie Nation
9. Cygnus X - The Orange Theme
10. Walt & Feliz - Expandsion

great! thanks alot

The stuff i like best is the crazy shit without words most of the time, an the songs build up to something an go crazy lol Is that drum an bass?

Trance/hard trance.

Trance/hard trance.

Like that song The Launch (remix)... is that trance?

The Launch is horrible basketball half time trance. Like Scooter. Yuck.

BTW, Gotti - do you know how to use FTP? Might let you FTP into my server and grab some music.

Smart FTP is an easy enough program to use.




I like some techno/trance/laser music that isn't rap or hiphop. But they have to have a really really really good beat. I have heard many of them in the past but didnt care to much to write names down. I also will look into getting some songs.

Oz, whats your IP?

BTW, Gotti - do you know how to use FTP? Might let you FTP into my server and grab some music.

Sounds great man! PM me the details

I'll hook you up with any hip hop album you want, i got like 200 full albums

Alberto Balsam by Aphex Twin is my favorite.

Check this out dudes.

http://www.djmorgan.com/mp3.html

http://www.djmorgan.com/mp3.html


Whew... I listened to as much of "Sentinel" as I could, but that wasn't very much. I've definitely heard much worse as far as the UK Hardhouse & Nu-NRG is concerned, but for the most part stuff that hard just isn't my cup of tea anymore. More power to you if that's what you dig though, is that what's big in the Aussie clubs?

Here's a link to a nice little house mix for the slightly less hyperactive among us. :p

I wish I had an acappella of the first track...

clicky... (http://www.jamessound.com/mixes/james_sound-october_octopus-promo_mix.mp3)

Nah, can't stand that crap for too long. That is really techno, I like trancier stuff with break downs and synths and lyrics.

That is really techno.

Not really... Techno sounds a little bit more like this (http://ordio.net/audio/hi/HStyle.mp3) .

the numa numna song is teh BESTZ0RS!!!1

The only real dance song I like is Fable by Robert Miles, I dunno, 7 years and counting and I still like that song. I even bought the album when it came out so many years ago.

Not really... Techno sounds a little bit more like this (http://ordio.net/audio/hi/HStyle.mp3) .

*edit* - Just listened to that track. Not even CLOSE to techno. Refer to Ishkur's guide posted earlier.

If you're going to get picky, it's actually 'Nu-NRG', but they're so similar, you can't really have one without the other. But as I said, not really my cup of tea.

That link you posted wasn't bad for house. I can only listen to house and enjoy it in bars. Everyone looks like they're in slow motion at clubs that play house. Just can't get up to it.

I've been through that site, but I still don't see much of a connection between the first link and techno. There may be a few recent variations of techno that have similarities, but the foundations of techno are in that simple Detroit sound, and that's what comes to mind when I think of the genre. I really think things like Nu-NRG can trace their lineage more closely along the lines of trance and house.

I think Richie Hawtin's music most closely embodies what true techno has become as time has gone by. Check out www.plastikman.com if you want...

And yeah, kinda laid back house music like that isn't really too good for a big club setting, but I think it's great just to listen to.

Kublah - you are thinking of techno as it was emerging in the 80s. I am talking about it's current form.

http://www.gridface.com/features/a_brief_history_of_techno.html

Kublah - you are thinking of techno as it was emerging in the 80s. I am talking about it's current form.

http://www.gridface.com/features/a_brief_history_of_techno.html

But there is so much of it being produced today that still maintains its original form, structure and spirit, just with modern twists. If you listen to music from the people mentioned in that article, Hawtin, Squarepusher, Autechre, they sound absolutely nothing like the stuff from the guy in the first link.

these are some that i like

cynic project - eurodance megamix
kate ryan - desenschante
N trance - set you free remix
4 strings - let it rain
dance club 2001 - dj mellow - at night
dj encore - walking in the sky
final fantasy - i close my eyes
ian van dahl - will i
robert miles - children 2000
trance nation 2001

i dont know what kate ryan is saying in desenchante, but it sounds good. i dont usually listen to this type of music around my friends, cause they re not into it at all. i usually listen to it when im on the computer.