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Wednesday, December 1, 2010

German Tech-Toch-Nic #1

This post is dedicated to German Minimal, Techno, Trance, progressive house and interesting eletronica bands. Please do feel free to delve in the infinite variations that sounds can combine to make music.
Uniqueness in the sounds are one that feature in greater infliction than the variation in the notes and scales.

Starting off with some interesting mix of tones and clicks is mild milliz's alter-namo Extrawelt with their unique choice in sounds. The are a band from 2004 started with live performances in and around hamburg and became big with a few labels.

Drehfehler:


Another German techno band - ElectroChemie features thick and thin lead synths with surreal vocal mixes. This one is called ..

Mucky Star:


The next song is a by a band obsessed with minimalism, so much so that the variability in sounds is made up with the lack in spaces in the songs and its effects that your mind might produce in sync. Their usage of the synth and variety of snippet sounds make them catchy.

PullPush:



The next DJ up is Sven Vath and features interesting sythn vocals and real vocals with great usage of delays. From OFF (organization of Fun) this DJ has a lot of variety to offer to his music.

Dein Schweiss:


The next song is one of my favorites featuring a good sense of placement, variation and tempo change to soothe into a song. Also a great band from germany (lubeck) with a flair for the new sound. This is Kollektive Turmstrasse

Tristesse(melancholy):


Sounds need to be listened to not placed by intent to listen to. This next song evinces this well.
A new listen i found called Delta Funktionen...

Nebula:

The last song i would like to end with one of my all time favourites Kraftwerk... This song was borrowed by Coldplay for their song "talk". Kraftwerk were one of the first to start off the minimal and eletronica. Hail these brillhent folks :)

Computer Love:



Will post some more up in a bit. Please do share them your top tens here. I am sure there are a lot more Electronica bands out there to discover. Eletronica is a genre of music older than rock, and many other mainstream genres, and one might find roots to it if one looked at it closer :)

Have fun

Ravi