Teoman's new discovery

Techno music went underground since the 90s, and I know that a lot of people took and still take techno as a joke, but it was a great musical movement in the 90s and I remember everytime I turned to M6 (The 6th french national channel mostly about music and american sitcoms like Family Matters or the Little House on the Prairie (harharharhar)) their commercials would always be about music, and in the late 90's, especially between 1997 and 1999 I noticed a lot of techno commercials for compilations like Techno Machina, or Utra Techno, Techno Hits Vol.16, and the famous x% Makina At that time I was not fond of techno because I had snobbish musical tastes and pop bands like U2 I considered as "youngster music which is uninteresting and always about violence and stuff" (look at what I listen to know... Chimaira!). I mean U2's greatest hits CD cover didn't attract me, that little boy with a war helmet, I stereotyped popular music as being always about violence when I listened to stuff like the Spice Girls or pop music like Natalie Imbruglia.

Now when I look back on the history of music and how I didn't live the 90s correctly (being retro in my mind and praising the past) I notice techno is great music. I think it's a great concept to make music out of synths (I love synths, just not when they take over metal or rock music.) just like in New Wave, or Electro Funk. But what I like about techno or Hard Tech is that it's sometimes hardcore and some tunes and melodies that are played can be well transcribed to rock. Plus I think the best parties or night clubs are the ones that have techno all along, instead of the crappy rnb or mostly bad (although there is good) House music. I know France is well off in DJ music such as House, Disco, Techno and so on. I also love those skins that you can download for your computer that look like the modern techno-cyber punk style. You know, the modern style with green lazers, fluorescent green and yellow lights, a blacklight, and blue graphic equalizers all around. Kinda like the Deftones concert in Rio in 1998. This was close to the typical of the techno style I'm talking about. The lights and effects were typically 1998, everything was blue and all. I don't know much about techno and bands, I know this one guy called DJ Tiesto and his concerts are also typical, with lazers all around, but there is something missing which was common in the late 90s which is hard to describe. If you look at this picture, in the background there are random things written and little bars that look like equalizers and bars and shit, and I think it's close (but still not there) to the kind of late 90s techno I'm talking about, except that it was blue in the 90s instead of orange like here.

Nowadays the art of techno has evolved and you see it more on MTV in France, this new 2000s design appeared, mixing collages with photoshop paint splatters and spray paint. Just like this picture (I also recommend the artist he's one of my favourite):

So yea techno has evolved and I think I am going to look further into this kind of music since it's quite undeground now. I know one day it's gonna rise up again kinda like Rock although the way rock rose back was crappy and a million pseud0-bands came up and it sucked.

Why am I talking about techno all of a sudden? Because I just got this sick ass software for music programming and arrangements, and it's an actual professional software, the sound effects sound quite realistic although it's MIDI, but it works well, and I wrote my first song on it. I wanted to play around with the knobs and buttons so I created a techno song just for kicks. Check it out. (Don't forget to turn off the player in the column on the right otherwise everything will sound like shit if it already doesn't.)

Oh yeah the software is called Propellerhead's Reason 3.0. It's good. Real good.

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-Teoman