Proper Techno 2000-2005 [21st Century Music 001]

About this episode

Pearsall kicks off a new mix series celebrating 21st-century music with a personal mix of proper techno from 2000-2005.

This year I'm kicking off a new mix series to celebrate the first 25 years of this century: 21st Century Music! Each mix will contain only music from this century. To kick things off, here's a mix of proper techno music from the beginning of the century. This is very personal for me, as this is a point at which I was really engaged with techno - listening to it, dancing to it, thinking about it, and playing it. This is the point when I was a student at Edinburgh University, and I was visiting the (sadly no longer with us) Studio 24 on Calton Road practically every weekend with friends to enjoy techno clubs like Dogma, Pillbox, Apex, Subtle Logic, and more. This was a time when techno was really fun and interesting, the time of 'hard grooves', of funky techno, of high impact, danceable music, before the walls of minimal closed in and techno got really, really boring for a while. There's been a revival of this style in recent years (see my Stranger tribute mix, for instance), which is not surprising, because this style of techno is just so much more fun than minimal. Enjoy! More techno mixes: https://soundcloud.com/sonicrampage/sets/techno-mixes Read more about this mix (including…

People in this episode

Host: Pearsall

Topics covered

• techno music
• 21st century music
• personal experiences
• Edinburgh nightlife
• vinyl mixes

Keywords

• techno
• mix series
• Edinburgh
• vinyl
• dance music
• hard grooves
• music history

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Dogma, Pillbox, Apex, Subtle Logic

Books & works: Proper Techno 2000-2005, 21st Century Music

Places: Edinburgh, Studio 24

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