Paul Oakenfold, good song - kickass video
These were decent listening material. I didn’t throw my speakers in the trash halfway through or anything like that.
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. 
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.
Here’s another one for ya - Teddybears Stockholm “Hey Boy”.
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…???
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),
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[li]DJ Shadow: urban electronica rather than dance, but well worth a listen. Endtroducing… is a fairly exceptional record. Start with Midnight In A Perfect World.[/li][li]Basement Jaxx: house/electronica. Red Alert from the consistently good album Remedy.[/li][li]Dani Siciliano: more electronica. Be My Producer.[/li][li]Hot Hot Heat: dance/electronica. Try the infectiously upbeat Ready for the Floor.[/li][li]Justice: dance/electronica. D.A.N.C.E.[/li][li]Saint Etienne: Indie dance. 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 from Fantastic Playroom.[/li][li]Memory Cassette: electronica, too slow to fit the OP but still worth hearing, Asleep At A Party.[/li][li]Invisible Strokes: closer to the OP, though annoyingly just removed their MySpace page. Samples of tracks here, try *DiscoFunkSlut *[Love Beats Remix].[/li][/ul]
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.
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.
Tilt: 12 & The World Doesn’t Know
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?
The Black Dog - UV Sine & Train by the Autobahn
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.
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.