# Recommend Me Some Techno/Dance/Electronica/Trance/Rave Songs or Artists Please! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 6, 2009, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-techno-dance-electronica-trance-rave-songs-or-artists-please/520210 "2009-12-06T17:39:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3

**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-techno-dance-electronica-trance-rave-songs-or-artists-please/520210/41 "2009-12-09T15:49:31Z")

[Paul Oakenfold](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7uwNZAPKKU), good song - kickass video ---

**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-techno-dance-electronica-trance-rave-songs-or-artists-please/520210/42 "2009-12-09T19:13:37Z")

> [@Negative\_Lite](#): > > I love [Roisin Murphy](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dBi_aYXjuE&feature=related) and [Dan Deacon](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFlBJ1xZK10&feature=fvw). > [@Negative\_Lite](#): > > Also check out [Truckasauras](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TffNGp1Udgw&feature=related). These were decent listening material. I didn’t throw my speakers in the trash halfway through or anything like that. > [@Nanoda](#): > > Hmm. Even after your admonishment, I’ll still recommend [Gareth Emery](http://www.garethemery.com/)’s [podcast](http://www.garethemerypodcast.com/), which is released fortnightly and has recently contained at least two of your sample picks. > > Some of your stuff is lighter, for which you might try the Listen in the Dark [podcast feed](http://feeds.feedburner.com/listeninthedark), or _perhaps_ even the Vocal Trance [podcast](http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheVocalSession), which I don’t like as much but you might. But here is where some good stuff got suggested. I honestly cannot remember the stuff I listened to from Gareth, but the other two podcasts I do remember well. I listened to the first playlist on each podcast and I think I’ll have to go back to all three of them for second helpings. Won’t be for another week or so until I get to everything else that’s been suggested. Do keep the suggestions coming still please. As long as I have access to the internet and this thread, I _will_ get to everyone’s suggestions. The more specific you make them, down to specific songs will help me get to them faster. A link obviously only makes it a million times easier still. Keep up the good work. 🙂 ---

**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2009, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-techno-dance-electronica-trance-rave-songs-or-artists-please/520210/43 "2009-12-10T18:45:58Z")

**Day Three Summary:** Okay, after listening to a ton of suggested music today (the 9th), I am starting to believe that I’m just being too picky now. Towards the end of the day I just started perusing the other songs from artists listed in the OP and still didn’t find any additional songs that rocked my socks off. Sure, they were all listenable while I went about my normal internet and chatting business, but nothing that made me really wanna jam or play the song over and over. So here I am, still fully socked and about to embark on Day Four of my journey, still have a lot of stuff to check out from this thread, time to get to it. ---

**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2009, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-techno-dance-electronica-trance-rave-songs-or-artists-please/520210/44 "2009-12-10T19:04:56Z")

Here’s another one for ya - [Teddybears Stockholm “Hey Boy”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23C34wt8Qi8). ---

**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2009, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-techno-dance-electronica-trance-rave-songs-or-artists-please/520210/45 "2009-12-10T19:10:43Z")

> [@mswas](#): > > [electronica geek]Crystal Method is not techno, it’s big beat.[/electronica geek] > > Any album by Crystal Method is highly recommended. Prodigy is good if you like the old school electro sound. I’m not a huge fan of it but Fat of the Land is their best album. What is the essential difference? When I listen to something by Crystal Method, I hear extremely similar elements in their music that I also hear in other techno acts. Heavy bass lines, lots of lectronic/computer loops, effects, music, etc, kicking beats, some repetition, little to no lyrics…??? ---

**Author:** ![The\_Man\_Who\_Wasn\_t\_There](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7ba0ec/32.png) [@The\_Man\_Who\_Wasn\_t\_There](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Man_Who_Wasn_t_There)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2009, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-techno-dance-electronica-trance-rave-songs-or-artists-please/520210/46 "2009-12-10T20:24:40Z")

> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > What is the essential difference? Big beat mixes other artists’ tracks over a strong bass line. * * * My tastes aren’t exactly paired with the examples in the OP, but you might find something of interest in the following (no particular order), [ul] [li] **DJ Shadow** : urban electronica rather than dance, but well worth a listen. [_Endtroducing…_](http://www.last.fm/music/DJ+Shadow/Endtroducing.....) is a fairly exceptional record. Start with _[Midnight In A Perfect World](http://www.last.fm/music/DJ+Shadow/_/Midnight+In+A+Perfect+World?autostart)_.[/li][li] **Basement Jaxx** : house/electronica. [_Red Alert_](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXXw1hAsIbo) from the consistently good album _Remedy_.[/li][li] **Dani Siciliano** : more electronica. [_Be My Producer_](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QllGBxfJoYo).[/li][li] **Hot Hot Heat** : dance/electronica. Try the infectiously upbeat [_Ready for the Floor_](http://www.last.fm/music/Hot+Chip/_/Ready+For+The+Floor).[/li][li] **Justice** : dance/electronica. [_D.A.N.C.E._](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49esza4eiK4)[/li][li] **Saint Etienne** : Indie dance. [_Only Love Can Break Your Heart_](http://www.last.fm/music/Saint+Etienne/_/Only+Love+Can+Break+Your+Heart) from the wonderful _Foxbase Alpha_.[/li][li] **New Young Pony Club** : technically nu rave, but perhaps dancey enough to interest you. [_The Get Go_](http://www.last.fm/music/New+Young+Pony+Club/_/The+Get+Go) from _Fantastic Playroom_.[/li][li] **Memory Cassette** : electronica, too slow to fit the OP but still worth hearing, [_Asleep At A Party_](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fC8UY2jRJI).[/li][li] **Invisible Strokes** : closer to the OP, though annoyingly just removed their MySpace page. Samples of tracks [here](http://www.djdownload.com/artist/Invisible+Stroke/412382), try \*DiscoFunkSlut \*[Love Beats Remix].[/li][/ul] ---

**Author:** ![Mahna\_Mahna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47c2d/32.png) [@Mahna\_Mahna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahna_Mahna)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2009, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-techno-dance-electronica-trance-rave-songs-or-artists-please/520210/47 "2009-12-10T21:18:46Z")

> [@Yookeroo](#): > > Hard techno? Not really. Perhaps his DJ sets are somewhat different than his recordings, but the last time I saw Tiesto doing a set about 2 yrs ago, his entire set consisted of heavy, pounding techno. Perhaps not “hard techno” if you’re playing by strict music geek definitions of specific BPM rates, but probably what your average clubgoer might using those words. Totally different than what he was spinning the first time I saw him in 2001, FWIW, when his sets were pretty much nothing but trance. YMMV. I tend to classify most electronic music in simple, arbitrary categories, much to the dismay of my music geek friends who could easily spend hours whinging about how the Windsor/Detroit soulful micro dub house scene just isn’t what it used to be. ---

**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2009, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-techno-dance-electronica-trance-rave-songs-or-artists-please/520210/48 "2009-12-10T21:27:45Z")

**Mahna** , would you be able to provide links to Black Dog and TILT samples? I am only doing quick YouTube searches when no link is provided and YT was filled with Led Zeppelin videos when I searched for Black Dog. I \<3 Zeppelin but I’m not looking for them right. And TILT gave me a bunch of poker Full Tilt videos. ---

**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2009, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-techno-dance-electronica-trance-rave-songs-or-artists-please/520210/49 "2009-12-11T09:37:12Z")

**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2009, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-techno-dance-electronica-trance-rave-songs-or-artists-please/520210/50 "2009-12-11T12:27:21Z")

> [@The\_Man\_Who\_Wasn\_t\_There](#): > > Big beat mixes other artists’ tracks over a strong bass line. Crystal Method does this? That strikes me as strange. _Vegas_ sounds pretty original and fresh to me, even today. They didn’t “write” any of the tracks on that recording? ---

**Author:** ![Mahna\_Mahna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47c2d/32.png) [@Mahna\_Mahna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahna_Mahna)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2009, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-techno-dance-electronica-trance-rave-songs-or-artists-please/520210/51 "2009-12-11T14:49:59Z")

> [@Covered\_In\_Bees](#): > > **Mahna** , would you be able to provide links to Black Dog and TILT samples? I am only doing quick YouTube searches when no link is provided and YT was filled with Led Zeppelin videos when I searched for Black Dog. I \<3 Zeppelin but I’m not looking for them right. And TILT gave me a bunch of poker Full Tilt videos. The Black Dog - [UV Sine](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WLI7i4L5JM) & [Train by the Autobahn](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOrr7V1tQ58) It’s one of my long-shot suggestions, since the style is pretty much all over the place - a lot of minimal techno and ambient stuff, along with a few Plaid-esque IDM riffs (which is to be expected, since Plaid is an offshoot of TBD), but every so often they drift into a more mainstream trance/techno sort of style. ---

**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2009, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-techno-dance-electronica-trance-rave-songs-or-artists-please/520210/52 "2009-12-12T05:15:27Z")

Richie Hawtin, Aphex Twin. PM me on Monday or so and I’ll put a huge post together or upload otherwise a load of good stuff. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-techno-dance-electronica-trance-rave-songs-or-artists-please/520210.md?page=2)