How to make Techno in 6 easy steps

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Will Frances wrote:youtu.be/K7NIxKseRus
Loved it the first time I saw it and love it just as much now. So much talent - ridiculous

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PixelKind wrote:youtu.be/rlicX-Ao7u8
Yep, techno is easy peasy - that's why everyone is doing it...

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That video... is a 10

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I actually recorded samples of baking trays, not sure if that is a bad thing or not.

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hilarious as it is, this is just about how to make typical standard big room techno.
I bet ya they can't make a video like that (as in : that simple & fast) on how to make say early Birmingham techno or the more deeper techno variations,
just to name 2 examples that pop up in my mind.

Even a done to death cliché genre like dub techno would need to have them explain more into detail on how to make the typical dub techno chord stabs.

nonetheless, someone should show Adam B. this video.
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i thought it was interesting what was written about this video at cdm: the difference between ok and good is nuance. the difference is in the details.
http://cdm.link/2017/05/watch-stupidly- ... ke-techno/
Making techno is like making pasta.

Anyone can make pasta. Anyone can enjoy making pasta. You can dump in a box of dry pasta, boil it, dump a can of tomato sauce on it and some cheese, and it’s pretty delicious. That might … cause … health problems after a while, so you can make pasta out of veggies or gluten-free pasta. You can add meat or fish or whatever. It’s still a pretty simple thing.

Even the sophisticated ways of making great pasta are not hard to understand. There are recipes. There are video tutorials. You can do it.

None of that accessibility has made pasta less desirable. (Again, if you’re anti-carbs, you can even do this veggie pasta thing – insert “experimental techno” forms here.)

Pasta is available all over the world now.

And yet even given all those things, none of this has robbed expert chefs of making truly exceptional pasta. What they’re doing is fundamentally no different from what you’re doing. You can even learn from what they’re doing and improve your dinner. But they’re still able to master truly great pasta, because that’s not about complexity, but about nuance.

And the beauty of simplicity is, it allows you to focus on nuance. When the template is this basic, then it’s obvious that variation is everything. And some of those variations can be discovered in an instant.

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winston wrote:i thought it was interesting what was written about this video at cdm: the difference between ok and good is nuance. the difference is in the details.
http://cdm.link/2017/05/watch-stupidly- ... ke-techno/
Making techno is like making pasta.

Anyone can make pasta. Anyone can enjoy making pasta. You can dump in a box of dry pasta, boil it, dump a can of tomato sauce on it and some cheese, and it’s pretty delicious. That might … cause … health problems after a while, so you can make pasta out of veggies or gluten-free pasta. You can add meat or fish or whatever. It’s still a pretty simple thing.

Even the sophisticated ways of making great pasta are not hard to understand. There are recipes. There are video tutorials. You can do it.

None of that accessibility has made pasta less desirable. (Again, if you’re anti-carbs, you can even do this veggie pasta thing – insert “experimental techno” forms here.)

Pasta is available all over the world now.

And yet even given all those things, none of this has robbed expert chefs of making truly exceptional pasta. What they’re doing is fundamentally no different from what you’re doing. You can even learn from what they’re doing and improve your dinner. But they’re still able to master truly great pasta, because that’s not about complexity, but about nuance.

And the beauty of simplicity is, it allows you to focus on nuance. When the template is this basic, then it’s obvious that variation is everything. And some of those variations can be discovered in an instant.
What I get from this is I make 50's stay-home-wife techno!

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what I understood of this article, is that the maker of that video is some guy,
whom I've never heard of before,
and when I looked him up,
first things I came across is some video of him and Amber Heard announcing a tour, :|
and some of the most horrible cliché minimal techno I have heard in years,
and hey, what a surprise : he's on ....

wow, funny video, but if this guy really made that video,
he might want to question his own artist integrity some day,
because right now his music totally sounds like an over-produced product with no soul whatsoever.
But somehow I seriously doubt this guy could give a flying fuck about making music that contains some kind of emotion whatsoever... :|
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ow, and btw, those "..."
that's when I typed the name of the label of a certain techno legend with the hitler jugend haircut.

for years on subsekt, his name got automatically changed into Clown when you typed it,
but I think someone threatened with legal charges and now we can't seem to type his name nor the name of his label without it being swapped into "..."

thank god he still gave the world beach towels though !
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Hades wrote:ow, and btw, those "..."
that's when I typed the name of the label of a certain techno legend with the hitler jugend haircut.

for years on subsekt, his name got automatically changed into Clown when you typed it,
but I think someone threatened with legal charges and now we can't seem to type his name nor the name of his label without it being swapped into "..."

thank god he still gave the world beach towels though !
And 'The Cube'! Don't forget 'The Cube' :lol:

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How to make techno in 1 easy step.

Throw brick in washing machine.

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Ha ha, Step 2 add a trampoline

youtu.be/SFxfyXfa8A0

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Will Frances wrote:Ha ha, Step 2 add a trampoline

youtu.be/SFxfyXfa8A0
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Vox Veteran wrote:
Hades wrote:ow, and btw, those "..."
that's when I typed the name of the label of a certain techno legend with the hitler jugend haircut.

for years on subsekt, his name got automatically changed into Clown when you typed it,
but I think someone threatened with legal charges and now we can't seem to type his name nor the name of his label without it being swapped into "..."

thank god he still gave the world beach towels though !
And 'The Cube'! Don't forget 'The Cube' :lol:
I had to google that !
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and also : what is that thing ?
I clicked on like 3 video's and read one stupid RA article which barely had 3 full sentences in it but some stupid pic.
I'm still totally puzzled,
another mystery I'll lose my sleep over for a few months...
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Will Frances wrote:Ha ha, Step 2 add a trampoline

youtu.be/SFxfyXfa8A0
I didn't think you could get weirder than a Tiny tim video, but that managed it.

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Hades wrote:
but I think someone threatened with legal charges and now we can't seem to type his name nor the name of his label without it being swapped into "..."
!
Surely not??

I don`t think Itchy Whoretits is even aware of this place.
He can`t be, it`s a forum where techno is talked about, why would he be here?
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