Re: Common Techno Songs
 

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Calling these songs "techno" is kind of an insult to the genre.

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Hey, I like the songs I listed too. I just don't think of them as serious techno.

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"Serious techno"?! "An insult to the genre"?! Dude, how can you live with being a snob about techno? I wanted to end this by saying "That's like being a snob about..." something. But I couldn't come up with anything bizarre and pitiful enough.

Re: Common Techno Songs
 

For those who want to groove, here are some of the genres in house/dance music and examples:
Old School House (early house/dance music 1988-1995)
808 State - Cubic
Main X - 88 to piano
Ace the Space - 9 is a classic
Draxx Unlimited - Amphetamine
Human Resource - Dominator
? - Flatline
GTO - Battle of the Bases
Mach 4 - Techno Slam
Precious X Project - Dukkha
LA Style - James Brown is Dead (the beginning of the hype in Holland)
Royal House - Can you party
T99 - Anasthasia

Old School Hardcore (early hardcore (180 BPM+) 1990 - 1998)
Joe Inferno - Histeria
Rob Gee - XTC You got what I need
Bodylotion - Always Hardcore
Darkraver - Back to Basic
Darkraver - Cal cam Mothervucker
Darkraver - Den Haag Hakkuh
DJ Bountyhunter - Woops

New Style Hardcore (1999-now rougher then old school hakkuh)
The Masochist - Don't give a $hit

PopHouse (music for the masses)
Daft Punk - Around the World
Scoop - Drop It
Da Hool - Met her at the LoveParade

Techno (rough house with a steady bass, monotonous)
DJ Amok - LSD
Dave Clarke - Cars
Dave Clarke - Dream On
DJ Rush - Get on Up
Timo Maas - Doom's Night
Jeff Mills - Ecstacy
Green Velvet - La la Land
Westbam - Mayday (old school techno)
Dk8 - Murder was the bass

Trance (dreamy, girly house)
Cygnus X - The Orange Theme
Gouryella - Gouryella (Tiesto and ARmin van Buuren)
Jam & Spoon - How Stella Got Her Groove Back
Niels van Gogh - Pulverturm

Electro (retro house, with many 70's and 80's disco influences)
Felix The Housecat - Dot Allison
Fisherspooner - Emerge
T.Raumschmiere - El Train

If ya want to hear any of these, please respond in this tread, and I'll try and make em available to the poster.

BTW
 

I didn't want to open up a new thread for this, so I'll post it here. Today I got a DVD with all 36 Dj Mystik albums that I orderef off Ebay. If anyone is interested and have some other techno to trade, PM me and we'll set something up.