As far as basics, check out Plus-8 (Windsor/Detroit) for Techno,
Cajual/Relief (Chicago) for House... those labels might not give
you the music you like the best but they will definitely provide
you with great long repetitive mixing tracks that are great for
starters, and even greater for later...
njoy,
dj bambi
>From: bijan@physics.att.com
>Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 22:49:55 -0400
>To: markeg@hotmail.com
>Subject: Re: techno-bijan
>Cc: acid-jazz@ucsd.edu
>
>
>> From: "mark givens" <markeg@hotmail.com>
>>
>> Dear bijan:
>> That depends on what you want to do? you wanna spin it ? youre
>> gonna have to buy a lot of 12". You wanna makeit? youll need sounds
>> and a generall sense of what the scene will bear. you wanna bone up
>> youll need comps to see what you like/dont like. The profile comps
seem
>> okay? The moonshine 140 bpm plus seem okay.
>>
>
>i thought it would be cool to mix in some different sounds - turntables
are
>just expensive toys after all and i thought i would have a little fun
with
>some good hard bangin' techno.
>
>i used to be put off techno because of the association with house, but
>i think i've grown out of that little hang-up. time to explore ...
>
>bijan
>
>ps i think it's a little early to call me techno-bijan ;)
>
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