Techno Anyone?

"numbers" by the progenitors of techno, kraftwerk, is a great test track. i love to put it into a system on which chamber music is clearly favored, then crank it up to see whether the speaker cones give way before the patience of the tight-assed manufacture's reps. BTW, i love run lola run, too, a better version of "sliding doors." do you vant to touch my monkey?

Straight techno can be boring, but there's a lot of synth- based albums that are excellent: Paul van Dyk's "Seven Ways", Leftfield's "Leftism", Headcase's "mushi mushi", Autechre's untitled album. You can have some luck with remixes. Curve's 'Chinese Burn'(song) was released as the basis of an ep/single with fantastic techno versions of the song. Basically anything Paul van Dyk remixes ist sehr gut, so just buy it. Oh, and Praga Khan of/and Lords of Acid.

Yup, techno is very interesting stuff; lots of times, even bad techno is interesting to listen to for a while. One of the test CD's I take with me when I audition stuff is a compilation I made that includes Beethoven, Madonna, Moby, Radiohead and Kraftwerk. Always funny to see the sales people's eyes when the speakers start playing Kraftwerk...

If you want to watch the eyeballs bug out of salespeople's socket's and see just how fast that they can sprint to the volume control, try playing a few cuts of off the last disc by Master entitled "Faith is in Season". Make sure that you tell them that it needs to be played at a listening level common to "metal heads" BEFORE it starts. I have had two different sales people in different shops make comments to the effect of "this is the kind of music that breaks stuff"... While it's not techno, it does have killer kick drums going non-stop. It is the disc that i use to see just how well a speaker will hold up at high volumes with LOTS of very fast deep bass. Sean
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I've got a bunch of 12 inch vinyl from the late 80's; Cetu Javu, T99, Paul Rutherford, Section 25,Propaganda, Peter Schilling, etc... It does sound great and I still love to listen to it. I am more glad than ever that I bought it and kept it!