help adding tracks to my collection
hey whats some good techno and trance tracks to buy.
I spin hip hop but I want to add more electronic music to my setup.
I have a little bit like paul oakenfold, armin van buren, and paul van dyke but not alot.
oh and whats some artist like the warp brothers.
I dont know what you like Buuuut..
you definately should look into Boys Noize - techno/electro GOD.
Use beatport.com (it pwns for buying / previewing tracks n finding new artists).
I mostly play electro & can give you a list of more artists if you want.
For mixing with hip-hop edIT and ratatat are awesome hip-hop influenced electronic music.
A few other artists i like are:
DatA
SebastiAn
Burial (the track archangel fk’n rocks)
Skream
8-Bit Boy
LA Riots
Villains
I will say go with the usual and then develop a more dynamic taste. Heres a list of some popular Techno artist’s.
MSTRKRFT
VITALIC
JUSTICE
SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO
CARL CRAIG
I would say the best way is to jump on a site like http://www.beatport.com
wander around there to see what sets into your taste.
google: Essential Mix
The new “Does it Offend You, Yeah?” is nuts. Also, since you already spin hip-hop, give Drum and Bass a try as it is pretty much hip-hop breaks at double speed. Notable artist’s include DJ Fresh, High Contrast, Pendulum, Sub-Focus, and Commix.
audiojelly > beatport 
Yes its a good one as well. I tend to not stick to one site.
I thought www.pandora.com was mega cool, it plays music based on what other music you listen to. Though now they don’t allow allow in Australian IP’s until new legislation is passed 
Its really worth checking out if you can get it working in your country
I am sorry to get all genre like but
MSTRKRFT
VITALIC
JUSTICE
SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO
are all electro, no where near techno in my opinion, I recommend finding a DJ you like on beatport under the charts section and lookup the time of music they have on their list… its a good place to start…
otherwise www.residentavisor.net is also a good place…
when you talk about techno there a few types out there…
techno
tech house
minimal techno
progressive techno
etc…
for the sake of good behaviour I will not comment on trance.. I dont think it has evolved beyond the year 2003/4 but hey thats just me.
Good techo - anything from germany
Look up labels - Poker Flat, Kompakt, Bpitch to get you started…
Have fun
Techno … hmmm anything by carl falk is pretty coo…then just go from there…techno is such a vague term …
A lot of people say techno but they mean anything from electro (ie afrika bambaataa) to house to trance to electronica. I’d say dont even bother with trace. Like stated imo its a deadend genre (not saying it cant go further, just that it isn’t).
Sander Van Doorn is a sweet techno/house DJ/producer imo
Maybe a new thread is in order. List your top 5 dj/producers or something..
yes, ive succumbed to the dark side.
The Kompakt label is freaking awesome stuff. Alot of minimal and electro tunes.
You can hear samples of their music on their websites.
http://www.kompakt-net.com/
http://www.kompakt-mp3.net/
Some people to check out from Kompakt:
Michael Mayer
Superpitcher
Tobias Thomas
Koze
Wighnomy Brothers
Nowadays, the internet makes it easy to find, listen, and buy music. But I think the best way to find music is the old way. Hit a good vinyl shop with some listening stations(take your own set of cans), and dumpster dive all day. Check out stacks of records from all genres. Some times you will find some treasure hidden away that no one will know about, and you will say to yourself “damm, I was in grade school when this came out!”. IMO, good music is good music, no matter how old or new it is.
also check out richie hawtins label M_nus (Minus), Sven Vath’s lable Cocoon…
im a producer/DJ what many dj and producer are doing now is mixing the trance with some elcrtro or progressive to give the tracks those build on keynotes and melodies but also the throwing hard stuff to it to make them easy and kool to DANCE AND LISTEN and u can call that progressive trance AVB,Tijs,Paul webter,Joop,RVG,FC style so trance have been continuing evolutioning but is not the same
so you are making trance sound better by playing less trance?
its ok even armin van buuren is doing this so its perfectly acceptable..
Bwahaha, let’s not go there. There’s a fun thread on TranceAddict about the greatness of van booring’s new ASOT compilation 
I would agree with the bearport comment, just go and explore. Imagine a record shop in your mind and use it to explore a virtual one. I have found great music there by just spending hours in that shop.