Sound Field Optic Fibre Insight   I LOVE TECHNO! Techno is the way of every pilgrim finding their way to the Mecca of beats! Other music is good too but techno finds it's way into everything one way or another - and it has so many forms. I even find it rustling round in my cornflakes when I have time to eat breakfast. Even my hamster loves techno! My obsession began in 1983 when a mate of my Dad's gave me a bootlegged tape of Kraftwerk's Man Machine LP which he'd picked up in the Middle East. It had a Space LP thrown on there too which contained the track Magic Fly. The recording was terrible but I was only 11 & I was blown away by this crazy sound! A year later I was living in Saudi Arabia & I took big advantage of the bootlegs there grabbing most of the Kraftwerk back catalogue for the price of a beer! After that I was checking Isao Tomita & Vangelis in a big way. The next phase began when I heard Lil Louis' French Kiss, from which point nothing was the same. I was searching for that bright snare sound & those stripped down hats in every track I heard after that. Pure genius! Next I picked up Serena X by Kenny Larkin (as Yennek) & the door opened further. I'd identified a definitve Detroit sound & I knew I'd struck gold! Hearing the way that sound had travelled through Europe & the world influencing so much & having so many influences - the jigsaw started to fit together. That's how it began for me & that's why I love it all. I love techno. Jackie S   Visual Tron 1982 / Steven Lisberger Mad Max 2 1981 / G. Miller + B. Kennedy The Empire Strikes Back 1980 / Irvin Kirshner 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 / Stanley Kubrick The Osterman Weekend 1971 / Sam Peckinpah Dirty Harry 1971 / Don Siegel Point Blank 1967 / John Boorman Chopper 2000 / Andrew Dominik Get Carter 1971 / Mike Hodges The Manchurian Candidate 1962 / John Frankenheimer The Man with the Golden Arm 1955 / Otto Preminger Predator 1987 / John McTiernan A Bridge too Far 1977 / Richard Attenborough Tonal Serena X / Yennek The Man Machine / Kraftwerk Mentasm (Beltram remix) / Second Phase Blackout - Phase 3 / Lil Louis Drama EP / H & M Mecca EP, Growth / Jeff Mills Wave Form Transmissions Volume 2 / Robert Hood Nocturbulous Behavior / Suburban Knight Midnite Sunshine / Mad Mike + Suburban Knight X-102 / The Rings of Saturn Hemi-Sync / Public Energy Understanding Disinformation / Neil Landstrumm Lambda EP / Cristian Vogel Praise / Inner City Rock It / Herbie Hancock Chill Out / The KLF 19 / Paul Hardcastle Beauborg / Vangelis I Feel Love / Donna Summer & Giorgio Moroder Written Propeller Man / Matthias Schultheiss
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