This sample set focuses on the essentials of vintage house and techno: beats and basslines. These two instruments are subdivided into tempo (120, 125 & 128bpm) and, in the case of the beats, ...

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Man the bongos! In what's turning out to be more than just a passing fad, techno remains in thrall to what we clumsily call "world music". After a year in which a middle-aged Syrian singer Omar ...

Djax-Up-Beats is techno royalty. Founded in 1988 by Miss Djax, the Dutch label helped shape the sound of techno up until the early ’00s, thanks to the funky and rough approach it championed. Simply ...

Expanded reissues of marginal, long out of print albums seldom get more ambiguous than this oddity initially released in 1994. The theory behind it is enticing. Alan Douglas, who was at the time in ...

When Detroit techno made its way from the Motor City in the late ‘80s to overseas locales like London and Berlin, it launched a worldwide phenomenon that quickly grew into a longstanding international ...

If you like your techno to have some feel, then you’ll have instinctively sought out the funkier end of the genre and no ...