Remember our yesterday post about the free creative commons techo netlabel Offaudio? Well, today we present another netlabel that releases techno music into the CC community.
Meet thinner. thinner is a German label offering electronic music since 1998 and has accumulated over two million mp3 downloads.
The techno genre, found at thinner, can be described as “dub-inspired” i.e. some permutation of a fusion of dub with house, techno, or even ambient music. Some is defined as “dubby techhouse” or “ntelligent dub”. You’ll find “minimalism” as well, although dub-influences are clearly the predominant inspiration behind the general flavor of the thinner sound.
www.thinner.cc
Brandon Plank’s blog features many of his excellent minimal techno sets. Download may dj sets at once using the free download application Flashget on this page.
Known for staying in mix transitions for 2 to 3 minutes or longer, Brandon’s mixes stretch the very limit of how long two or more tracks can be played. Listeners often comment that they have a hard time telling when he starts or finishes a mix between two records/CDs and it’s these long transitions, along with blending of genres, that has given him name recognition across the map. A constant perfectionist, if you ask Brandon what he thinks of his sets, it’s usually “eh, it was OK”, but the crowd full of people dancing usually tells a different tale.
To give you an idea, this is his latest tracklist:
01. Wang Inc. - Lake Michigan - [Persistencebit]
02. Mark Broom - Deal Or No Deal - [D1]
03. Koljah & Oliver Deutschmann - Eaten Back To Life (Ed Davenport Strip Remix) - [Konsequenz]
04. Redshape - Cashmere - [Delsin]
05. Maetrik - Envy - [Dumb-Unit]
06. Brandon Plank vs. Depeche Mode & Miss Kitten - People On The Wrong Side - [CDr]
07. Cari Lekebusch - Utopia - [H. Productions 27]
08. Grovskopa - Balamber - [Labrynth]
09. Alic - Proralone - [Nachtstrom Schallplatten]
10. Maxime Miville - Dopamine (Rico Casazza Remix) - [Archipel 61]
11. Daniel Sanchez & E-Contact - Bodyshaker (Christian Burkhardt Remix) - [Bla Bla 02]
12. Camea - Computer Says Love (Insideout Remix) - [Clink 14]
13. Literon - Permutation One - [Frantic Flowers]
14. Paddo - Balkon - [Sugar Records]
15. Monoloc - Black Pot - [Smallroom Music]
16. Re-UP - We Lost The Flight - [Micro-Fibres]
17. Dino Sabatini - My Second Life - [Prologue 001]
listen to it:
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Beatfreax is een platform voor fans van techno tot electro tot dance, met party info, foto’s en wat nog. Een jaar geleden is de site ook gestart met een wekelijkse podcast waarin bekende en beginnende Dj’s hun eigen mixen aanbieden.
Deze week is de stage voor de Switserse DJ David Keno, ook wel Daniel Wittwer, David Staeger, Stu of Vernis genaamd. Zijn stijl varieert van minimal techno naar electro en house.
Ook alle vorige podscasts zijn nog te downloaden.
Director/Animator/Characterdesign: Kristofer Ström
AE/Filmmaestro/Cutting: Erik Buchholtz
Producers: Bart Yates, Nicholas Wakeham
Studio: varelsen.com / ljudbilden.com
Music: Minilogue.com
Track: Animals
Date: September 2008
Label: cocoon.net
