I noticed that there was a lot of interest in the Bass Music/Deep House thread, and I thought I’d start a thread based on another form of music thats been catching a lot of peoples ears recently, the dark heavy driving Berghain techno sound.
Artists and DJs like Marcel Dettman, Ben Klock, Pfirter and Chris Liebing are really helping to drive this scene at the moment and I thought we should have a thread on it!
Lovely sound - check out Marcel Fengler, Len Faki, Norman Nodge & Andre Galluzzi on the Berghain series, as well as Panorama Bar (Prosumer particularly), and of course Ostgut Ton.
Interested in this, I’ve really been getting into techno in the past several months and I can’t get enough of it but I still feel kind of lost getting familiar with the current scene and what’s happening with the genre. Definitely like the stuff from CLR and I’ve been wondering about production techniques for it to get that dark sound and that warehouse atmosphere. I would love to know what kind of FX they are using.
Not sure if it fits in here or is ‘berghain’ but here’s a video from a CLR/Chris Liebing warehouse party a few weeks ago.
God I wish they did shit like this in the US more often…
I guess I’m better off than most people in the U.S. since I can go to Space Miami to the Techno Loft every weekend and hear solid techno from 10pm to the afternoon the next day. Not many cities in the US with any sort of techno scene I know of…
I think you’ll enjoy here in The Netherlands, Xone! Every week there are plenty of techno parties to pick. I went to one last saturday . The Techno king from The Netherlands is in my opinion Speedy J, a legend, who often teams up with Chris Liebing under the moniker of Collabs. A track that’s been heard for about 3/4 years now and still is hot, is this one:
It’s amazing how Speedy J is able to achieve such a sound… Stomping, just stomping. If you want to know some decent Techno artists, labels, tracks, hook me up because my list is way too long for writing it down in the early morning (it’s 08:30 AM here).
CLR sound is very different from the typical Berghain stuff you here. It’s more polished digital techno, Bergain is very washy high reverb massive bass and dub influences.
I like both, CLR podcasts have a lot of the Berghain guys on there as well, check it out on CLR.net or iTunes
Adam Beyers Drumcode would be more similar to CLR as well if you like that sound.
Len Faki is a friggin monster, I seriously like almost all of tunes
Redshape is another favourite, like most of his stuff but he can get very housey but tough house.
yo, i’d be interested to know what people think of this. pariah and blawan, two staunch uk bass/techno heads, have been collaborating a bit, and put out one white label release. they call themselves karenn..
really brutal industrial techno, but so sick. copped this on wax a while ago, play it all the time (takes a bit of getting into..)
I mentioned CLR as some of the more recent releases by Xhin and Lucy and by Tommy Four Seven have been more of that Berghain sound, quite far from the Drumcodey sound, which i love also. Absolutely adore Len Faki, it was actually seeing him at I Love Techno
that made me fall for this sound!
YES! I’m a big fan of all kinds of techno from the minimal stuff like Marco Carola and Ida Engberg (love her mixing!), to Alan Fitzpatrick etc. Infact going to see Chris Liebing sunday! Wooh
man you should be here. you’d feel right at home. there is a festival coming up with the likes of Oliver Koletzki & Fran, Monika Kruse, Oliver Huntermann and Felix Kröcher.
Don’t know Krocher - thanks for the mention - will check him out. I saw Monika Kruse live at a Cocoon promo in South Africa - undoubtably one of the best I’ve seen.
I’ve wanted to see Oliver Huntermann for a while! I saw Xhin on Saturday there, outstanding set, so heavy at points it just caused me to scream with excitement!
. The Techno king from The Netherlands is in my opinion Speedy J, a legend, who often teams up with Chris Liebing under the moniker of Collabs. A track that’s been heard for about 3/4 years now and still is hot, is this one:
we got a club around here that is styled like this. it is an old vault sort of thing.
scrap that. somehow slipped into my writeup.