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how it started
i started listening to techno very casually, after seeing a video of a girl dancing in such a fucking cool way! it was Schranz and precisely Untergang by Klangkuenstler! (i started hardcore)
little did i know that it would've escalated to me listening to every fucking possible genre of music generally, but techno precisely :)
actually, one year before i listened to sewerslvt in loop, (devil's cvnt) but i didnt know anything about breakcore, d&b and so on
BPM!
here follows a so-so curated list (not ordered) of my fav genres and a lil explanation. This is dedicated to twin <3
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Schranz
very hard progressions, many layers, very industrial. It's an hardcore techno subgenre. Starts at the beginning of the '90s, after the union of soviet germany and west germany.
it's hard and continuous (a few drops but overall the songs flow seamlessy between one another). This kind of techno focuses a HEAVILY on the percussions and drum base, to the point that some people may say it's repetitive and "boring": it may be repetitive but not boring
for a bpm overview: from 150 to 180!
berlin scene! it's totally different from other genres, you hear it right away
important note!
techno music, as it is known right now, it's always very hardcore. Even hardcore is not similar to the original hardcore t-t. So if you want to see how a subgenre has started look at its roots, not latest trends
some of my fav songs:
untergang! and the video that changed my life forever
kein vorbei this got popular on tiktok/ig
litelly any Klangkuenstler song t-t
chris liebingof course, pioneer and the person who named schranz. big legacy
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Tekno
because commercial techno is a thing, soundsystem tekno is another. This kind of tekno is made less from remixing (not dj sets) but from creating the sound itself, by manipulating soundwaves
soundsystems have a deep cultural connection in every possible context you could put them: union ,free union, free party, sometimes protesting and now illegal
pure electronic sounds, loopy, groovy, lots of bass, does NOT care about the trends, sometimes acid, trance, psychedelic aesthetic and total freedom. Italy has done a lot too!
and about cultural roots: soundsystems are made of collectives, amazing people that pursue an aesthetic/vision and play a specific genre. Tekno is not made to profit off the music as much as you see in clubs or parties, and that's the beauty of it: pure music, true meaning of rave.
in countries where it's not illegal (t-t) they also do parades: big trucks carry the soundsystems around (i carri!) and the whole rave just moves
some of my fav songs:
la medicina fucking amazing
basso in piena maestrotek <3
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psytrance/goa
right after tekno because a lot of soundsystems at raves play this genre, which is less mainstream/popular because it's not played in clubs (even tho there are mega gigantic paid events that just play GOA and blabla)
psytrance is born in places like india...
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hardstyle, jumpstyle (shuffle, jumpstyle)
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gabber
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drum and bass
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jungle
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breakcore
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italo dance (franchino! prezioso! gigi d'agostino!)
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eurodance (better off alone! blue! mr. vain!)
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house/electro house
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industrial (pong! cybergoths!)
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scene (romanceplanet! dotA!)
