I was on my first rave this weekend and I gotta say I'm officially converted now. I was always fascinated by techno and rave culture but for some reason could never get into the music. I never hated techno, but I didn't like it either. Was just indifferent
I guess I had to experience it live once to really get and appreciate it. And WOW. One of the best evenings of my life. And it was just like they say, the music was literally inside me and I was in sort of a trance all night long. Never had so much fun on a night out. Although I'm sure the mdma played a part in that as well :P
And the thing that I loved the most was everybody was there to have fun and dance. Nobody is judging you for how you look or how you dance, no superficial posers who just stand on the side trying to look cool, pick up chicks and update their instagram profile. Just people who are there for the music only.
Will need to do a crash course in Techno though before I start going out more. What I can already say is that I dig minimal techno and I'm not really into the "pop" side of Techno that sounds like it could've been made by Aviic or David Guetta. Not really familiar with all the Techno slang yet but I think you get what I mean.
I LOVE that Paula Temple set that was posted here. Any recommendations of similar sounds?
First of all: Welcome to the club. It's always nice reading how someone experiences his or her first rave.
What you are describing is also what I like about techno-culture. It's about the music and the get together, not just about your self.
My perfect experience is always at around 3-4 am in the morning: a small packed club, with as many as possible, raving and sweating to raw techno.
Nothing gets better than that.
So the techno spectrum is quite big: there is more darker and faster stuff, more abstract and experimental techno, slower stuff which goes more in the house direction (at leats bpm-wise).
Here are some of my favorites:
Prince of Denmark - Prypjat
My favorite artist, who has also released under the names Traumprinz and DJ Metatron. In his aliases he plays different house styles. Traumprinz is the
90s club-packed music, Metatron is more of
"cheesy" house with deep charakter behind the facade.
But as Prince of Denmark he is living out the dark side. Totally mesmerizing slowly evolving techno. I would say it is a perfect combination of dark ambient styles and slower techno. His set for Taiwanese FM-Station
Smoke Machine might be my favorite set of all time.
So much light and darkness within a drifty vibe. Check out the mix "Live at planet uterus", if you like the style of it.
The track
Daydream from I hate models might be my favorite technotrack of 2016. A good mixture of Techno and Industrial. I cannot imagine a better clubbanger.
That at 4am in the morning in a croweded club with good speakers is a dream come true (for me at least). The artist is relatively new and quite young (I think 19 years old), but he seems to already have a great career in front of him.
He also has other stuff, mostly
very dark and going with industrial
Not a Technotrack per se, but real strong and hard power house from Head High:
Rave (Dirt Mix)
Has a really strong vibe, with good raw atmosphere. Head High is also producing under the other alias named Shed. Under this name he is doing more
darker Techno stuff, mostly for the Berlin Label Ostgut Ton.
Another one comes from germany based artist Vril. It is a track I have been listening to for years and just has a great nostalgic feeling for me:
V3
Techno is not really my main genre. I listen mostly to ambient and house, maybe I do a short list for these too.
I am really interested in the recommandations from other people, so please everyone post more stuff.