my little techno beat box, no expensive samplers needed, show your skill and mix some beats!
Original tune taken from:
Fat Boy Slim's Rockafeller Skank. (click for the whole darn thing)
A friend of mine just got kicked outta his house.
A fight with his mother, words were exchanged,
glass was broken, punches were almost let loose.
So of course, he's staying with me, in my basement,
commandeering my T.V./weight room bringing all his
sci-fi novels, European design magazines, anime videos
and penthouses back issues. Along for the wild ride, coming
in a old beaten up trunk was his collection of cd's, which means
my music choices have nearly tripled, as this person collects CD's
like people collect baseball cards or rare, antique bedpans.
The only catch to this library of music, for me anyhoo,
is the hard fact that all his CD's are of techno music, which
I have a limited fascination with.
To be quite honest, all music these days seems to be sub par.
Rock sucks. Boy bands are back with avengeance, seeking their spot in
preteens hearts and purses. Rap music has gone from a fun pastime to an
outlet of aggression and anger at the current situations of everyday life,
to what it is today. A bunch of people telling me how rich and well to do they are,
how fast their ninja goes and how flashy their clothes seem.
Then there's techno. What can I say? Seems like there's just beepin and boopin coming
from my speakers, an odd, perfect repeating rhythm, that your ears instantly picks up
as being inorganic, foreign. Does it have any history? Any thing to fall on to show its
roots? I used to think not, but tuning the local airwaves and listening to the local college
station came a song of, seriously, just beeping, beeping?! It was made in the sixties, and
I dug it. It was different, something totally out of place with the likes of the Beetles and
all the Mo Town hit makers. I scan my weakling of a CD collection, what I listen to when I
work on my computer, what did I find, hmm?
Wendy Carlos's Clockwork Orange - the soundtrack of the movie, A Clockwork Orange,
Rerecordings of classical pieces and original scores, all done in a studio with a keyboard.
I thumb through the notes, last page it is written, "Nevertheless, we've come a long way baby!"
(ever read that before?)
Here's to the next generation of electronic and computer media art which can be built on a much firmer foundation than existed back in 1971. Here's to the future of our still young medium!"
The CD is actually considered one of the first techno CD's and a milestone in the genre.
Deee-Lite, Deee - Remixes
I got this on a trip to NY city, where I was in the Virgin super duper
store grabbing any CD that came into my view, this is one that didn't get away, for the sole reason of the song, "Groove is in the Heart"
Good? No techno? Definetly. I'm ashamed at having it, but its mine damnit!
Moby- Play
Yes I bought this, it's a techno CD, its good, I like, he's a vegan so he's coo.
What can we learn from this little trip up and down my CD tower?
I have some screwed up tastes in music.
In between the punk ska, hard core and jazz,
I admit to having some techno music that I listen too.
My assaults against the techno style truly miss the
point of techno, house, electronica, ambient, whatever, music. Its not supposed to deliver some earth
shattering message or tell you that times are tough, its just
to listen to, to have fun, to dance with and have a good time
I should stop sticking to the same old stuff.
I should get down to the basement, my friends room now,
and swindle as many CD's I can before he comes back from work,
as time is short and in a few, we'll be in college,
I'll be stuck with music I've heard a million times and
his collection will surely grow over and above anything
he could possibly fit into that monstrous trunk of his.
