Couple of techno CD recommendations

Firstly Misstress Barbera's 2nd Trust The DJ comp (MB02)is a safe bet if your into your chunky funky techno from the likes of Danilo Vigorito, Gaetano Parisio and Rino Cerrone. The Misstress herself also gets in on the act most notably in the shape of a good remix of an already great track Nico Awtseventin's "Aurelon".

Also worth a listen is Kowlaski, Diego & DeSantis collaboration "Reasons" on my favourite label at the moment Kanzleramt. Writing the album purely using Reason 2 is an interesting concept but this isn't just a gimmick, the music is strong throughout and sticks too a deep melodic techno style thats great for home listening.

my fav cd for quite a while has been richie hawtin's DE9/closer to the edit. its a mix jammed out on final scratch with a whole heap of loops. not exactly a party mix but i do rate it as the best concept cd of 2002.
ben sims last mix cd was also wicked!

is that "reasons" collaboration a cd track compilation or a mix?
i take it its already in store.. (crucial rec??)
ill be quite keen to here a comercial techno release produced with reason 2. its quite a cool program but i havent heard any profesionaly mastered music made from it yet.
it sounds like it would be quite an insperation for those low budget producers if its half good..

Cheers for the recommendations free. I'm interested in hearing the reasons thing too for inspirational purposes like sander says..

My favourite at the moment has to be Carl Craigs 'workout' mix cds. If you like his stuff you'll like the cds.

umek-tortured room part 2
Adam Beyer -Essential Mix 15-12-2002

ps. all techno fanz happy new year from holland

onionz has used it exclusively on a coupla tunes

ordered Misstress Barbara yesterday - can't wait!

anyone heard the latest mix CD from Cocoon by Mssrs Hawtin & Vath? very good listening!

Yer sander closer to the edit gets my vote - a recommendation from me is Swayzaks Groovetechnology mix album. Sublime.

Tho i will credit Bn1 for lending me his copy all those months ago

'Reasons' is done by some of the leading Europenan techno talent - Heiko Laux, Alaxander Kowalski, and Johannes Hiel, and sounds like it. These guys are already big fans of digital, so it doesn't sound out of place. It's really amazing that no matter what tools you have, you can get something amazing if you try hard enough. Good on them to do a project that doesn't cheapen their creativity (not like that awefull MC303 debacle a few years back!!).

i gotta check that.. duno how techno producers could stand reason 2.. the effects r utter shit and when ur makin superproduced stonkin techno effects are everything

Mainly as a front end for ideas, export everything and mix+process it in another platform.

cool okies

Then again, you gotta realise some of the best techno tracks ever were produced with sweet fuck all gear, crap efx and dodgy processing. Gotta work the gear no matter what you use.

X-Mix 9 - Kevin Saunderson
Never get sick of it no matter how many times I hear it.

Slug - That swayzak groovetech LP has some
great tracks on it (including son.sine's tasty
run-out-groover upekha) but don't you think the
mixing and even the programming eats
donkeynut. Just goes to show that great
producers do not necessarily equal great DJs.

My pick: DJ Bone, subjectDetroitvolume2

Seattle - yeah maybe, but ive got it on unmixed vinyl now, only has 8 of the tracks, but they are probably the best 8 from the cd.

Think the swazak was done on protools, they're more of a live act from what I've heard, but you never know, Ben Sims is way better than his Theory comp, but he said that it was done as a compilation not a mix, so maybe that what was Swazak was trying to do...
The only track everyone is after that's pretty hard to track down is the Studio 1 track, damn my eyes for selling it!!!! (ps If anyone was the person I sold my copy to, please sell it back!!)

DJ Bone is the SHNITZ!!!! Caught him live in Detroit, and if you like his skills on Subject Detroit, he really tears it live. He dropped the where it namechecks all the big detroit legends, the part that it said "DJ Bone" he started to beat bouncing and the crowd started going mad, really fucking great - as most know bouncing a bar can be next to impossible at techno bpms (a hell of a lot easier with hiphop)... but not only that, he then did the same when Mike Grant walked on stage!!! So you know that wasn't planned.

(er. the part where they give props to Mike that is../.)

the Scan 7 track from the first DEMF track that is... my mind is a mess today for some reason