Basically, we used to stick to improving a song on and on, instead of simply going out and trying to rock the hell out of the audience: Back in 2001, me and my bros in a Death-Metal-Band actually rehearsed an epic hymn for about a year, until somebody suddenly had the idea to simply drop the whole thing and go back to square one. The reason for my failure seems obvious to me nowadays: Perfection. In other cases, me and my mates didn’t even make it out of the rehearsal room. But somehow, we never really seemed to take off, get amazingly good record deals and fill stadiums with our songs – in fact, playing at „Hermann’s Strandbar“ last summer was the preliminary peak of my career as a musician. To celebrate techno for doing what it does best – bangers – we have compiled a 20-strong list of some of the standout techno slammers that have been released this decade.I claim to be quite a respectable guitarist, and I’ve played in several different bands during the past years. Points have been made, but techno’s flag is still flying high and the genre is delivering goods. The techno heavyweight hypothesised that areas of the genre are being driven by vast amounts of money and the maximisation of profits and no longer by an innate love for the tunes. In a recent interview, DVS1 drew attention to this issue, claiming that techno essentially now has a commercial value, which has caused it to lose some of its character. Over the last decade however, purists of the scene have become increasingly worried with how said scene has become an industry. What the pioneering trio didn’t expect was the global recognition that the genre gained across the entire world and that more than three decades later, techno would still be regarded as one of the driving forces of electronic music. Let’s take a quick step back in time to early 80s Michigan, where Juan Atkins, Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson (otherwise known as The Belleville Three) create the very first songs to fall under the new music genre known as techno.The Belleville Three aimed to create a sound that represented the Industrial character of Detroit, as well as taking some inspiration from Kraftwerk.
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