The first warp cd that I bought was come to daddy by aphex twin. At that
time, I was still heavily in the industrial scene. The aphex twin video
come to daddy was so disturbing and interesting that I had to buy the
album. I was looking for the hyper aggressive stuff. To my surprise, I
discovered that the cd contained a lot of ambient music. That is when I
discovered idm. At that time, it was organic techno or intelligent
techno. The music of the songs seemed to evolve and to blossom just like
organic plants. From there on, I purchased all aphex twin releases that
I could get my hands on. I discovered autechre a while later and possess
their whole discography now. Fave album, if there can be one out of all
their excellent releases is chiastic slide.
But still, I was into mouse on mars and stereolab, I discovered them
while I was living in montreal in 98 since the 2 bands collaborated a
lot together, and have been buying their releases ever since. Stereolab
dots & loops and mouse on mars iaora Tahiti were the 1st cds of them
that I got.
When the whole industrial scene started to calm itself, I got into the
ebm scene. This did not last very long, since most of the songs & bands
are very similar. Distorted vocals, melodies, hard pounding rhythms. But
it got me into the noise scene, ant-zen, hymen, hands, malignant,
possessive blindfold and others. I then started djing noise,
particularly rhythmic noise with an eye for the dancefloor. Stuff like
ms gentur and winterkälte could easily be used on dancefloors. But our
local scene is not that evolved and I did not have a lot of gigs.
Late 90s I got heavily into the idm scene, purchasing all new warp
releases, starting to buy vinyls and mounting an idm / minimal techno dj
set. Right now, I think that the music that I enjoy the most is minimal
techno. I enjoy its emptiness, its coldness, its density. 2 years ago, I
started purchasing techno releases to practice my mixing on turntables.
At the time, hard acid off the liberator djs and the stay-up forever
collective was very strong in quebec, so I bought a lot of cluster.
I would have never thought that I would love techno. As in minimal
techno, the drum beats, its coldness are all enticing. Since then, I
have started to include other labels in my techno sets, including
drumcode, infected, cluster, stay-up forever, hydraulix, raw.
The best album I can recommend is jetone ultramarin. Its incredible,
to anyone who hasnt hear tim heckers work, I recommend it. This album
was just released on force-inc, and I have it in vinyl and cd. Thousand
oaks is my fave track.
Im still looking forward to purchasing all the autechre & aphex twin on
vinyls, since I like to include them in my sets.
Best djs ive seen so far:
Techno: Dave Clarke, d.a.v.e. the drummer
Trance: tiësto, Darren emerson [tech trance sets]
Best techno plates at the moment
Untitled - d.a.v.e. the drummer hydraulix9
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