Computer Music | Verdict: 7 out of 10
As the liner notes point out, making good techno is not the easiest thing in the world to do, and these days many people would have trouble defining exactly what it actually is. However, an aural browse through this bundle of samples would certainly point them in the...
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Electronic Musician Magazine | Overall EM Rating (1 through 5): 4 out of 5
It's 1:30 a.m., and the party is just getting started. A subsonic, four-on-the-floor beat pounds straight through your chest, synth riffs pulse in hypnotic repetition, and glossy, treble-hyped percussion keeps things moving with impossible steady 16th notes. It's time...
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Future Music Magazine | FM Rating: 90%
Here’s something you don’t seem to see very often: a pure, underground techno sample CD. Obviously purists will have tutting fits at the thought of an all-in-one techno solution, but with careful use this CD could provide an invaluable source of fresh sounds for many...
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Mix Magazine
The sleeve notes of this CD suggest that we realise the difference between techno from the likes of Derrick May and Juan Atkins before lumping it in with Eurotrash beats. In fact, they're veering towards being a tad anal about it all. But hey, you didn't come here to...
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Remix Magazine | OVERALL RATING (OUT OF 5) 4
Because techno music relies so heavily on pre-or early-MIDI instruments like the Roland TB-303, TR-808, The Korg MS-20, and the Arp 2600 - as well as on the inherent quirks and limitations of hooking these instruments together through primitive sync technologies - the...
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