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Tuesday, October 13, 2009

History "20 Tracks Every Techno Fan Should Know"

Posted by Dave Segal on Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 10:37 AM

Beatportal.com recently posted a primer on techno's 20 key tracks. Many important works are included, but some major omissions come to mind: Underground Resistance (though the group's Rob Hood and Jeff Mills are rightly represented), Pan_sonic/Ø, Hardfloor, Aphex Twin, Farben, Villalobos, Underworld's "Rez," Jaydee's "Plastic Dreams." I would also go with something off Sheet One or Musik by Plastikman over pieces by plain ol' Richie Hawtin or his F.U.S.E. alias.

Eh, we could nitpick this list till all the little fluffy clouds disperse, but overall the writer Terry Church chooses a lot of crucial cuts that, yes, you should know. That being said, which tracks would you include in this list?

ht: Ario

Glaring omission?

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Flux Trax is the best 2CD Techno retrospective i've seen.

http://www.discogs.com/Various-Flux-Trax…

Volume 2 is great too but not as essential as vol. 1.

http://www.discogs.com/Various-Flux-Trax…

Posted by Brian Geoghagan on October 13, 2009 at 11:20 AM

Errr... no tracks by the Belleville Three (only a mention in the preface) and two non-essential tracks by Richie Hawtin ('Minus/Orange'... really? A thinly veiled remix of Yello instead of one of many of his amazing original tracks?).

Any top 20 list would be incomplete, but that list crashes and burns.

Posted by cosby

on October 13, 2009 at 11:32 AM

gee, 'no ufos' and 'nude photo' both seem like no-brainers to me. and no orlando voorn? 'flash' (fix) seems like another almost-too-obvious choice. regardless it's kind of lame to not include any tracks that pre-date 1990.

this list really sucks. it reads more like a list of the author's personal favorites than a consensus of essential tracks.

Posted by blip on October 13, 2009 at 5:53 PM

Digeridoo is not techno. It's acid/breakbeat. It felt to me like it was pretty anti-techno at that time.

Posted by genres on October 14, 2009 at 1:04 PM