Before Techno Consumed Your Life

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i was trying to think of how i first heard the term but it's very hard. possibly not until 1990 in the end (by contrast House was a familiar term to me from '87 onwards because of all the chart hits, media 'frenzy' over acid house parties etc.).

― sede vacante (blueski), Thursday, 28 December 2006 12:41 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm not sure if it was the same in Britain, but at least in Finland in the early nineties "techno" was used as an umbrella term for all electronic dance music, until it was replaced by a better term ("konemusiikki", "machine music" in English). Of course those of us in the know tried to tell people it's just one genre, but I think there are some folks who still use the word in the wider sense.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 28 December 2006 12:51 (seventeen years ago) link

In fact, the first (or so it claims) non-fiction book on the new electronic dance music was released in Finland in 1994, and it was titled "Tekno".

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 28 December 2006 12:54 (seventeen years ago) link

there was a 'when did techno become the catch-all term for dance/electronic music?' thread on old-ILM. i think it involved lots of HEATED ARGUING.

― sede vacante (blueski), Thursday, 28 December 2006 12:55 (seventeen years ago) link

I think that book would be a wonderfully nostalgic read today... If I remember correctly, alongside the more academic texts it had, for example, a poem written in praise of KLF.

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― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 28 December 2006 12:59 (seventeen years ago) link

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The worst part is that house then became the catch-all term for techno.

― blunt (blunt), Thursday, 28 December 2006 13:30 (seventeen years ago) link

but house is so soulful and grown up, the best of all dance music genres really. how could anyone lump it in with manufactured trash like techno?

― bold (bold), Thursday, 28 December 2006 13:47 (seventeen years ago) link

there was a thread on olde-ILM on "what non-techno music do techno dudes listen to" or something but i cant find it now.

― grady (grady), Thursday, 28 December 2006 17:24 (seventeen years ago) link

but house is so soulful and grown up, the best of all dance music genres really. how could anyone lump it in with manufactured trash like techno?

roffles

― the table is the table (trees), Thursday, 28 December 2006 19:12 (seventeen years ago) link

i think that once i realized that more that 90% of my itunes was dance music (i include disco and funk) was when i realized there was no turning back and that i love this shit.

after techno consumed my life? i bought a set of decks and started spending my money on records instead of druks.

― the table is the table (trees), Thursday, 28 December 2006 19:15 (seventeen years ago) link

"Well, this wasn't what I meant.
- Tuomas

Yeah, I know.

― adam beales (pye poudre), Thursday, 28 December 2006 19:26 (seventeen years ago) link

do any of you guys who buy vinyl keep a discogs profile?

― grady (grady), Thursday, 28 December 2006 22:54 (seventeen years ago) link

grady, one thing to try is looking through the ilx group on last.fm. i've found ilxors whose taste i know i like, and have gotten lots of tips that way

― jergins (jergins), Thursday, 28 December 2006 23:10 (seventeen years ago) link

grady, teh lfam keeps a discogs profile. 'auxroot.'

― the table is the table (trees), Thursday, 28 December 2006 23:50 (seventeen years ago) link

mine is 'goodnessgreatness' but it needs updating.

― grady (grady), Friday, 29 December 2006 00:14 (seventeen years ago) link

i also have a few records for sale on discogs... buy them!! please!

― friday on the porch (lfam), Friday, 29 December 2006 01:22 (seventeen years ago) link

mint copies of basic channel! give your life to techno and your cash to me! '_`

― friday on the porch (lfam), Friday, 29 December 2006 01:33 (seventeen years ago) link

even though you could get it cheaper from forced exposure...

― friday on the porch (lfam), Friday, 29 December 2006 01:36 (seventeen years ago) link

YOU DO NOT SAY THAT LEO

― the table is the table (trees), Friday, 29 December 2006 04:16 (seventeen years ago) link

listening to underground resistance right now. i like it!

― grady (grady), Friday, 29 December 2006 04:34 (seventeen years ago) link

played it last night at a DJ gig, worked like a charm. I had three people walk up to me and ask me about Jupiter Jazz. That record will never date.

― Burl Ervins (mjt), Friday, 29 December 2006 06:59 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, i played 'Octagon' at the last DJing i did at school and people were all bout-it bout-it. it kind of freaked me out.

ALSO, a story: it's about three in the morning (cue jeezy....uh no), and the party needs to end cuz the hostesses need to sleep. i've been playing shit for three hours. all the people left on the dance floor are gettin nasty with each other's tongues and whatnot. so i play 'Ride' as the last song. and people are LOVING IT AND CAN NEVER GET ENOUGH. some girl even came up to me on the street two weeks later and asked me what the fuck that song was, and told me she had wanted to take me home. i be like damn.

― the table is the table (trees), Friday, 29 December 2006 20:43 (seventeen years ago) link

WHERE I FIND THIS MAGIC SONG?

― grady (grady), Friday, 29 December 2006 23:46 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.discogs.com/release/47457

― friday on the porch (lfam), Saturday, 30 December 2006 09:23 (seventeen years ago) link

that whole record is pretty sexy

― friday on the porch (lfam), Saturday, 30 December 2006 09:23 (seventeen years ago) link

simply the sexiest. hypnotic.

― the table is the table (trees), Saturday, 30 December 2006 17:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Hip-Hip(80s), i actually got into shoegazing after techno

― X-101 (X-101), Monday, 1 January 2007 01:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Stevie Wonder, the Boredoms, Stereolab, Spacemen 3, the Rolling Stones, Slayer, D.R.I., Voice of the Beehive

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Monday, 1 January 2007 14:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Hazel Dickens, Guy and Candie Carawan, Kich Kirby, Tommy Bledsoe, Si Kahn, De La Soul, Minutemen, Jean-Paul Sartre Experience, Galaxie 500, Iron Maiden, Michael Jackson, Pat Benatar, The Runaways, Pete Seeger, Smokin Dave and the Premo Dopes

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 11:22 (seventeen years ago) link

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