I spent about three or four months harassing this English techno band, Autechre, to let me do a video for them.
While the public might view Underworld as a "stadium techno" band – one usually experienced as spine-cracking bass blasts out over festival fields – the reality has always been different.
It was kept from attaining the top position by Canadian singer Avril Lavigne's song "Complicated" and later by German techno band Scooter's "The Logical Song".
Brooklyn's favorite genre-traipsing live techno band DUST is the high-energy, dogma-free group everyone wishes they could be in.
He had been a DJ and part of a techno band at Exeter University, and following OK Computer had begun to listen almost exclusively to the electronic music of Warp artists such as Aphex Twin and Autechre, saying: "It was refreshing because the music was all structures and had no human voices in it.
In addition, Daryl will appear with Canadian techno band Chromeo for a special midnight set at Bonnaroo that brings an episode of Hall's award-winning Live From Daryl's House web show, where the group first appeared, to the stage of the renowned Tennessee festival on June 11.
This week, we've got everything from the deepest house to a techno band to a clusterfuck of acid house, bmore club, and trap (all in one song), and you can check them all out at this one-stop shop.
Lords of Acid [iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad] Lords of Acid are a techno band who have had a 12 year hiatus and have now released an album in app form that they're calling "part game, part interactive comic book, part concept album," with art work that takes its aesthetic from the underground comic scene and music that's industrial and dark.
They're percussive, but not in a club/R&B way – more in an indie/tribal way that bears out her fondness for Crystal Fighters, London's premier Basque folk-techno band.
My dad always played lots of the techno German band Kraftwerk at home and in the car and especially Autobahn, which is like 20 minutes long or something.
