Re: Techno
yeah...hell yeah. but you might have to stretch your definition of "techno."
my favorite bit big beat producers are The Crystal Method. Both Vegas and Tweekend have big chunky beats with nice bass lines, and both albums are influenced heavily by rock...
On a more trancey side, you might want to check out Infected Mushroom, Astrix, 1200 Micrograms, and Shpongle
Shpongle is effin' awesome....they're kind of like Juno Reactor only much much much better.
I recommend:
Infected Mushroom - I'm The Supervisor
Infected Mushroom - Converting Vegetarians (2 Discs, totally awesome)
Astrix - Eye To Eye
1200 Micrograms - Heroes Of The Imagination
Shpongle - Tales of the Inexpressible
And of course, if you like any of those bands you can dig deeper into their catalogs. I really really recommend Infected Mushroom, when they do trance right it is some of the most transcending stuff you can listen to. Shpongle is also top-notch stuff too, it has all sorts of Latin and Spanish vibes, and it sounds like some primitive tribal stuff.
If you're still not satisfied, I recommend Leftfield. Check out:
Leftfield - Leftism
Leftfield - Rhythm and Stealth
If you want to get out of the techno/trance spectrum and more into melodic music that I guess you could call "techno"...check out Bonobo.
Bonobo - Dial "M" for Monkey (really good album)
There's also this group called Quantic and the Quantic Soul Orchestra. They're in a similar vein to Bonobo and they have a couple really awesome albums.
Quantic Soul Orchestra - Tropidelico
Quantic - Apricot Morning
Both really groovey albums with all sorts of different styles and vibes.
Anyway...you can also go into the DJ stuff and the club mixes, but I find a lot of it to be repetitive and kind of boring after a while. All the above stuff makes rotations in my car, while I'm working out, while I'm doing homework, and just for pure listening sake.
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