detroit techno compilations

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where should one start?

― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Friday, 25 February 2005 13:31 (twenty years ago)

It isn't a vintage compilation, but Transmat put out a comp called "Time: Space" a few years back that is a good listen.

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Friday, 25 February 2005 13:47 (twenty years ago)

http://www.geocities.jp/numadelic/Pic/retrotechno.jpg

― JoB (JoB), Friday, 25 February 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)

http://www.h2.dion.ne.jp/~nocat/image076.jpg

― JoB (JoB), Friday, 25 February 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

http://wwws.mmjbdata.com/graphics/www.mmguide.musicmatch.com/album_image/amg/drd200/d240/d24036vapfd.jpg

― JoB (JoB), Friday, 25 February 2005 14:02 (twenty years ago)

i should probably specify i want classic detroit techno comps...

― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Friday, 25 February 2005 14:18 (twenty years ago)

Those are all classic.

― Omar (Omar), Friday, 25 February 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

Definitely the Relics Transmat comp that JoB listed, as well as the Metroplex comp (Juan Atkins' label.)

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Friday, 25 February 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, generally your best bet is to go for label comps: Tresor Vol 3 (Berlin-Detroit alliance), any of the +8 comps, the Jeff Mills' Axis comps (although I think they all contain just his music, but they're certainly classic).

Also, New Electronica put out some amazing collections, if you can find them. In that series, "Chronological Harmonisations Vol 1" and "Unreleased 1" are very Detroit-ish.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 25 February 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)

There is another thread about these.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 25 February 2005 17:48 (twenty years ago)

Definitive Techno Compilations (old and new)

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 25 February 2005 17:48 (twenty years ago)

Again I would say that you can start with WARP Influences. I would just pick up the Model 500 Classics and the Relics comp (maybe the May and Saunderson ones too) and that should hold you in good stead.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 25 February 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

"the deepest shade of techno 1+2"
"nettwerk biorhythms 1+2"
"relics"

for my money, those are the best.

― vahid (vahid), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:16 (twenty years ago)

was thinking about this the other night myself.

I'm not sure if "True People: The Detroit Techno Album" is a search or destroy, it seems to get disparaged every time I read a mention of it... but unless you pay silly money I'd say it's well worth it and pretty varied.

Contains Drexciya, Juan Atkins, Eddie Flashin' Fowlkes, Derrick May and more (too lazy to insert discogs link here)

― itchy bits (itchy bits), Friday, 25 February 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)

True People is pretty great, what's the problem? There are a few boring tracks (it is 2 full CDs after all), but the high points are really good.

Nobody mentioned the grandaddy of them all?

http://stat.discogs.com/R/57919-1101448043.jpg

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 25 February 2005 20:54 (twenty years ago)

I can't believe there has been no mention of Juan Atkins' "Timeless," one of the best Detroit mixes I've heard.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Friday, 25 February 2005 22:37 (twenty years ago)

live at the liquid room is mid nineties stuff mainly,so maybe not quite what you're looking for,but for sheer relentless chunky banging techno the first half hour or so has to be best example possible

― robin (robin), Saturday, 26 February 2005 07:54 (twenty years ago)

stormy otm.

i like detroit 313 too.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Saturday, 26 February 2005 08:24 (twenty years ago)

"Transmat Presents Movement Volume 1" - http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=16570

Any good?

also, thread I stumbled upon before posting

my furst detroit techno albumm - my furst detroit techno albumm

― itchy bits (itchy bits), Monday, 28 February 2005 03:36 (twenty years ago)

Aztec Mystic Mix by DJ Rolando: http://www.discogs.com/release/47042

Available for purchase from http://www.submerge.com

― tylero (tylero), Monday, 28 February 2005 08:09 (twenty years ago)

moonlit freeways mix by dj vahid

carl craig as psyche - neurotic behavior
funk d'void - computer date
urban tribe - micro machines
juan atkins as infiniti - think quick
da true bboy descendant (aka 4hero) - the blue nile
gescom - two of
as one - shambala (russ gabriel remix)
naughty & tolis - lost point (claude young remix)
as one - renaissance
moodymann - amerika
carl craig as bfc - chicken noodle soup

― vahid (vahid), Monday, 28 February 2005 08:24 (twenty years ago)

ok vahid, cough it up

― Lukas (lukas), Monday, 28 February 2005 22:34 (twenty years ago)

Vahid if you have that Naughty & Tolis on wax or cd or mp3 GIVE IT TO MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. Or die.

― tylero (tylero), Monday, 28 February 2005 22:43 (twenty years ago)

S: Elements of and Experiments with Sound, Geology, Deepest Shade of Techno I+II, Faces & Phases

Detroitesque: Objets d'Art, InThere, Get Lost, Adventures in Techno Soul/Further Adventures in Techno Soul, Beyond the Sun

D: Detroit: The Third Wave, Eleven Phases (nice idea but, uh, no), Designer Music, Vol. I (Incognito rmx excepted)

― echoinggrove (echoinggrove), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 01:07 (twenty years ago)

uh, Detroit: Beyond the Third Wave, sorry. cool Shake track, but that's about all. even Alan Oldham's artwork falls short.

― echoinggrove (echoinggrove), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 01:11 (twenty years ago)

You can get that Shake track (soundblaster) on Gigolo records (#7 iirc) in 12" format. It's freakin great, and I concur, the best track on that comp (which I find to be pretty o.k.)

― tylero (tylero), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 01:47 (twenty years ago)

I love "Detroit: Beyond the Third Wave"! The Claude Young and K. Hand tracks are standouts.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 02:46 (twenty years ago)

i'll proudly rep for will web's "life on tek", and to a lesser extent for sean deason's "vortex" and ectomorph's "insert another data disk".

on the other hand "detroit: beyond the third wave" is nowhere near the quality of anything else mentioned on this thread (eleven phases + designer music excepted)

― vahid (vahid), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 03:44 (twenty years ago)

Point taken, but we're comparing gold and diamonds.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 03:48 (twenty years ago)

three months pass...

Another single artist compilation: Juan Atkins - 20 Years Metroplex 1985-2005

http://www.discogs.com/release/441574

― fandango (fandango), Thursday, 23 June 2005 21:09 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

I am djing twice this weekend in detroit.

I probably won't play much Detroit Techno, but will definitely bring I Believe by Octave One. I will play house, techno, italo, hi-nrg, freestyle, electro, new wave, post-punk, disco, pop, hip-hop etc

Saturday night at Corktown Tavern
http://www.dorkwave.com/

and sunday night at the Eagle
http://www.detroiteagle.com/Directions/directions.html

tell all your detroit friends.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 11 August 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

I love "I Believe"!!!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 11 August 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)

tell me about it...

and maybe Reel by Real-The Aftermath, one of my fave tracks on the Techno comps, it's on Techno 2 I think.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 11 August 2005 20:00 (twenty years ago)

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