Reccomend me important techno tracks, artists & labels!!

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You could do worse than trawling through the back catalogue of releases here http://www.discogs.com/label/59-Tresor. You'd struggle to find a broader or more consistent label in my opinion. No breaks just consistent quality since the early nineties. You'll find all sorts there from detroit techno, harder looped stuff, minimalism, experimental, electro. Very strong roster. Good place to bounce off from.

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Maybe browse around a little at http://artistsandlabels.com/

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Man, there is no such thing as 'important tracks and labels'.
Everyone has its own classics.
Develop your taste, listen and judge the music.
I know you may feel lost in the ocean of sounds and artists, but no one ever swam this ocean through with a lifebelt. Learn to swim! Its the best feeling, when you discover on your own.

I started with Ben Klock.

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another classic from Garnier

youtu.be/UdeVX7UjeIk

some more 303 tracks, not sure if you DJ, but Emmanuel Top tracks always work well.
HIs build ups are always so simple yet utterly effective

youtu.be/nbBgPceAcKA

youtu.be/IceK8DrbBLU

and my personal favourite from the guy

youtu.be/oYwbcWsKGQM

an old Belgian track from CJ Bolland, who was already at R&S back in the day when Beltram first started releasing there :

youtu.be/ukbRAgXZYtU

hell, why not even throw in some old Belgian trance, back when trance was still dark and non-formulaïc and DJ's didn't just play one genre only like they all do today.
Hell, I'd still throw it into a techno-set and wouldn't give a flying fuck about the looks :

youtu.be/ZnBeTPpr98g

personally I like this one more when it's pitched just a little more up, but certainly a modern day classic for me :
(gotta love that Balearic melody building up there)

youtu.be/Zc9GCfl7U_I

and another one from him that I truely love :

youtu.be/juFMFhPSnvI

and since I could go on for ages I'll just end with a more "typical" old techno track from I record I listened endlessly to back in the 90's.
The guy died last month btw.

youtu.be/sURgkB9lHB8


have fun now, so much more to be discovered you'll soon enough leave that bumcode stuff far behind. :)
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oh man.. uh. i've come across this question before and it's like days later, i was like, shit! i totally should have told that guy to check out this stuff.

labels:
Beardman
blueprint
bunker
bush
different is different
dystopian
electric deluxe
enemy records
h-productions
harthouse
kanzleramt
klockworks
kombination research
modularz
mote evolver
music man
naked lunch
octopus records
ostgut ton
planet rhythm
polegroup
r&s records
scope recordings
soma records
synewave
trapez

man we'd be here all day...
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ross-alexander wrote:You could do worse than trawling through the back catalogue of releases here http://www.discogs.com/label/59-Tresor. You'd struggle to find a broader or more consistent label in my opinion. No breaks just consistent quality since the early nineties. You'll find all sorts there from detroit techno, harder looped stuff, minimalism, experimental, electro. Very strong roster. Good place to bounce off from.
^truth. tresor never really had much of a bad catalog.. sometimes it was questionable and challenging but eventually their choices were heralded as really forward thinking. always a leader.

also i mentioned, kanzleramt. that label really changed my whole perspective on techno. like i said, we could really be here forever if we get into every label that had a pull on the direction of techno. so i just listed a few favs. some are probably slipping my mind at the moment. <_<
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Enjoy all goodies and whatever other goodies they will lead you to down the dark rabbit hole of Techno universe :)
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