Genre: Electronic-Dance
Stockholm based techno producer Henrik Helenius aka Henry Burner has been into dance music for the last decade. It started in the early 90s with inspiration from hardcore breaks, Detroit techno and acid house. He recorded his earliest tracks with a friend in 1993 on basic equipment.
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Genre: Electronic-Dance
Genre: Electronic-Dance
Decades Active: 80s, 90s, 00s
Dancefloor experimentalist and top Detroit techno producer Carl Craig has few equals in terms of the artistry, influence, and diversity of his recordings. Few others have recorded so much quality music in such a variety of styles as has Craig, who jammed distorted beatbox samples into lo-fi electro riggings, crafted epic house tracks like his... [+] Read More
Genre: Electronic-Dance
Decades Active: 90s, 00s
Cristian Vogel is one of the foremost names in dance-based experimental techno, releasing a flood of consistently challenging and unconventional techno solo and in collaboration with such noted artists as Dave Clarke, Neil Landstrumm, and Russ Gabriel. Chilean born, Vogel fled with his family to the U.K. in the early '80s to escape the... [+] Read More
Genre: Electronic-Dance
Decades Active: 90s
One of the few techno heads in house-crazed New York City, Damon Wild first saw the light of vinyl by recording early-'90s rave hits like "Night Stalker" as Sonic Assault II, "Stormwatch" as Morph and "Rave Generator" (with Ray Love) as the Toxic Two. In 1991, he began working for distributor Northcott and set up his own Experimental label,... [+] Read More
Genre: Electronic-Dance
Decades Active: 90s
Allied with respected British techno producer/DJs like Luke Slater and Dave Angel, Darren Price recorded for Junior Boy's Own and toured the world as Underworld's offical DJ but later made waves of his own with some of the most pure, undistilled techno being made in Britain. Born in Woking, Price was turned on to electro and hip-hop during the... [+] Read More
Genre: Electronic-Dance
Decades Active: 90s, 00s
After LFO all but disintegrated in the late '90s and Mark Bell went on to produce for Björk and others, the other half of the duo, Gez Varley, began his own solo career with a 1997 album for Studio !K7. After fans of LFO's 1991 Frequencies LP (still one of the most respected electronic albums of all time) waited over five years for a follow-up,... [+] Read More
Genre: Electronic-Dance
Simply basic hard edged undiluted Techno.Most tunes are from 1999 to 2002 with the odd live set recorded & some demo trax.
Genre: Electronic-Dance
Decades Active: 90s, 00s
Often grouped with similarly influential names such as Cristian Vogel and former labelmates the Black Dog, Luke Slater is generally credited with helping to create a U.K. techno tradition with a strong Detroit foundation. Slater's work is probably the more straightahead of the three (although he's released works ranging from tough, banging... [+] Read More
Genre: Electronic-Dance
Decades Active: 90s
Mike Ink is one of Europe's leading producers of minimalist pure house and techno, released primarily under his own name and as Love Inc., M:I:5, and Gas. After kick-starting the German acid scene during 1991-92 and releasing some of the style's more popular tracks, Ink reoriented his focus on the essentials of a distinctively German brand of... [+] Read More
Genre: Electronic-Dance
Decades Active: 80s, 90s, 00s
Moby was one of the most controversial figures in techno music, alternately praised for bringing a face to the notoriously anonymous electronic genre, as well as being scorned by hordes of techno artists and fans for diluting and trivializing the form. In either case, Moby was one of the most important dance music figures of the early '90s,... [+] Read More
Genre: Electronic-Dance
Decades Active: 90s
Named for a character on the '60s TV show Flipper, Porter Ricks specializes in subaquatic dub techno, providing the closest touchstone to the static hum and fuzzy beatwork of their quasi label-mates Basic Channel. A collaboration between ambient maestro Thomas Köner and beatmeister Andy Mellwig, the duo debuted with three 12-inches on the... [+] Read More
Genre: Electronic-Dance
Decades Active: 90s, 00s
Jochem Paap, aka Speedy J, is a Rotterdam-based techno musician whose polished blend of melodious electro-pop with a harder, more Detroit-fueled edge has been among the most highly-praised of post-rave European techno. The Dutch rep in Richie "Plastikman" Hawtin's Plus 8 label, Paap was equally well-known as a club DJ (his nom de record is in... [+] Read More
Genre: Electronic-Dance
Decades Active: 90s, 00s
Birmingham techno artist Anthony Child has rapidly built a solid and, to a certain extent, innovative catalog of minimal dancefloor techno since his Surgeon releases began appearing in 1991. Compared favorably with Detroit original Jeff Mills from his earliest Downwards singles on forward, Child's tracks have been a mainstay in the popular Motor... [+] Read More