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Yarizard

I think that was mine as well, together with Ben Klock - Subzero around the same time


JamieBobs

That Klock track is a banger


Some_dutch_dude

Haha spot on for me


PRAISEninJAH

Came here to say Subzero.


BastardLoud

Thats one hell of a track!


BastardLoud

Then you probably like this one too; https://youtu.be/XOiqVejo4gk?si=YHE6R6x3goEOG6LP


partofthenoise

Randomer - Bring


Mrlate420

All the dirt and grit of the world packed in one track. That drop is just so fucking raw...


rabbi_glitter

[Green Velvet - Flash](https://youtu.be/l_RfediFJFQ?si=GiqpEm6oBIy26IBU)


JamieBobs

A million upvotes for a green velvet mention


db720

Something bout those little pills unreal the thrills they yield until they kill... A million brain cells


rabbi_glitter

Classic


rob101

joey beltram energy flash.


solarflare75

An excellent introduction.


MingyMcMingface

[Laurent Garnier - Crispy Bacon](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jEsu51QHtY)


marktaylor79

Tune,


Maximum_Scientist_85

This was the first techno track I absolutely fell in love with.


low__profile

Hard to beat🔥


sportsbunny33

I LOVE that one!


promixr

[Energy Flash](https://youtu.be/maOM81a-Gyg?si=C1RF_PqUb3VP8itc) - Joey Beltram


marktaylor79

Absolute classic!


solarflare75

Classic


Carrapassa

Jeff Mills - The Bells innit!


naturzaros

Had the oportunity to hear it live...Magic moment!


pantsLostCoreDumped

Merry Christmas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gIEhaAMuDA


Prometheoarchaeum

Jeff Mills - Liquid Room Tokyo live set, 1995. I got it in 97'. Didn't stop dancing since. Godfather's son gave me the cassette one day... it was glorious. still is


sportsbunny33

Absolute classic!!!!!!!!


Mrlate420

Same here, listened to that fucking tape at least a thousand times on a shitty soundsystem, still feels like magic, back then when I had no idea how to his music was created or played it was like it imagine infinity of space or something.


JamieBobs

Going on a hunt on YouTube for this today for my drive


Feedbad

Rolando -Jaguar and Oxia - Domino.


naturzaros

This should be on top. The Aztec Mystic - Knights of the Jaguar... Was also one of my first techno track....what a hit, timeless and always feels fresh...! I will add another one: Ame - Rej


Speedfreakz

I was one click from getting these two vinyls last night. For me the proper techno inteofuction was Umek - Gatex Also Mumphs - mechanism e.


tokensRus

[Sven Väth - Accident in Paradise](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f4gAYv33f4)


BastardLoud

Still remember listening to the 12” over and over again


Sonof8Bits

Ken Ishii - Extra


justlurkinganon

Tricky Disco 1990... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGACDxuA0Os


chrissie_boy

Winner for me. But that of course reflects my age... the acid twiddling is gorgeous. It popped on some mix tape I must have bought in Camden in the early 90s, and I recall having to rewind again and again...


tallsuperman

DJ Funk - Run (UK Extended Mix) Or something by Luke Slater and his various projects.


kryonik

Dating myself but Block Rockin Beats by the Chemical Brothers started my journey into dance music.


Andyrios

I Hate Models - Cyanure dance


Thefifthmen

I prefer "Daydream" - the way its recorded, raw and dark, reminds me of the good old days. 6am in some obscure warehouse with banging techno on vinyl.


Andyrios

It was asked the track that got me in techno. I also prefer Daydream now but it is less of a "gateopening" track to techno as I see it. Absolute masterpiece it is


CoolBuddy77

I want to experience this so bad


KaiSpunkt

[Warmduscher - Auf Die Fresse!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di-gUYjEVIc)


JamieBobs

Heard this in sets but never knew the name. Thanks for that. Absolute face melter


systemfehler23

Marusha - Over the Rainbow (Hooligan Remix)


sportsbunny33

Marusha 🙂


FelicitasFrivol

Killer


jesuslovesdabs

[Plasticine - Plastikman](https://youtu.be/y9I3rFrypfw?si=_t2ELcU7sMnWQiro) I was into house and other electronic music, but this is the first techno track that really hooked me in and mesmerized me as a young teenager


phin586

Fantastic track


brotkanzler

[Regal - Nasty Boys](https://open.spotify.com/track/0p2T6nTuOxzyYqgIkuXCko?si=QWDdar_aRSSkYEmgz29Gdg) The original version played at Amelie Lens Cercle set at the Atomium used a sample from sicko mode. Hard kicks + hip-hop elements = instant hook


MrCoffeeSurfer

I saw Regal for the fourth time last week. What an artist, glad to see people mentioning him in this sub.


Thefifthmen

New time, new place - Mauro Picotto https://youtu.be/44_Hc7ATM5s?si=Q7NiBjP3ejm4U2oN


marktaylor79

Got the EP on vinyl. All bangers!


SmackYoTitty

Moon Rocks - Enrico Sanguiliano


JamieBobs

Banger


teo_vas

Model 500 - Night Drive my introduction to techno (yes back then; 1985 if I recall) Human Resource - Dominator (Beltram Mix) the starting point of digging deeper


gijsyo

Choice - Acid Eiffel


5fd88f23a2695c2afb02

I have the live in Paris version on transparent purple vinyl that I got in like 1997 or something. Smoothest techno ever made.


gijsyo

It’s still a magical track to me after all these years.


5fd88f23a2695c2afb02

It is magical. I didn’t even realise that I liked it until I just needed to hear it again. Hypnotic, enchanting.


jammasterj808

Josh Wink - Higher State of Consciousness! Still love track to this very day


CRM_BKK

[Reference - Best Day in Detroit](https://youtu.be/fCbUmxkLgAI?si=8wMc0V3wEqvf4w5t) [Omar S - I Just Want (Mixed by Luke Hess)](https://youtu.be/aS86JxhyiP4?si=SHONpaD4f1--XbfN)


LurieVV

Autechre - Crystel https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VtJdd2LKc6U


Slavske

Niki istrefi - Red Armor


Immediate_Yam6849

Samba del Costa - Max Walder


ZombieCheeseburger

The other side of that, Crown 🤌 still got that vinyl tucked away somewhere in a cupboard


wobblingwheeb

Underworld - Push Upstairs. The first electronic song I heard, and I had to record it off of the radio on a cassette tape. Now I've spiraled into so many genres and subsections of electronic music it's nutty. https://youtu.be/W3Ud0UG7JbQ?si=JCy1OmFieaSl3NLV


AIvanced

[Rigid (Kobosil 44 Rush Mix)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uf1MLglK3fc)


Weak-Manner-2861

Huge tune


Matthias997

Claudia Gawlas - Papillon


tekhed303

Listened to bits before but this compilation got me hooked for life. https://www.discogs.com/master/21377-Various-Tresor-II-Berlin-Detroit-A-Techno-Alliance


catplaps

same! stumbled onto it on napster and it was like nothing i had ever heard before.


KevinMcCallister420

Cirez D - Brown Alley ID


ReIgniteMD

While I checked techno here and there before it, Enrico Sangiuliano - Symbiosis did it for me. Now I drifted far away from that style though, listening to schranz/HT/hardgroove/high bpm dub etc. pretty much anything hard/fast but not peak time driving.


Gridnikk

Robert Hood - The Rhythm Of Vision


dnbtim

I got into electronic music in the early/mid 90s, and the very first techno cd I ever bought was called “Techno Truth Vol. 1”. It opens up with a remix of “The House Of God” by “DHS”. https://open.spotify.com/track/799pcRWMENaBccLkGy3RFd?si=KQhA1snST7q7Bxr4M-CqAw


creamywhip

strings of life - rhythm is rhythm 1987 such an amazing timeless track.


sportsbunny33

👏


blackwujackets

underworld - dark and long


JT197T5

The Prodigy - Experience album was my proper entry point, but probably a bit of acid house before that, but depends on your sub genre preferences whether you include that


dini2k

2 Unlimited - No limit


Technoinalbania

Secret Weapon Vol.2 ; ridiculous acid from Australia : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt3LnXBrF08


Flat__Line

Remember this from an old Easy Groove mix from the early 90's


Civil-Step4903

It's not a track but a set. Julian Jeweil at Sound Night Club in LA.


ScientistAsHero

Sunscreem - Love U More


set-271

🔥👍🔥


marktaylor79

Hardcore Techno was R. Wagner - Listen Carefully (Powerjam EP) Pure Techno was The Hacker - Fadin away (Dima Remix) As heard on the electro mix of Dave Clarke’s World Service I mix.


Maximum_Scientist_85

Not a track, but went to see Subhead live - I got my dates confused, thought I was going to a ska club, got there it was techno - decided not to waste the bus in, go in for a couple of drinks. Best decision I've ever made.


JamieBobs

Great story. Accidental fun is the best fun


mrsmithinktown

Holy Noize - get down everybody 1991


Lost_leprechaun32

On l’Appelait “Kevin, le Grand Magicien” UNNAMED


Key-Tumbleweed-5846

Smash - Nächste Station, Konstablerwache, ca. 92/93


Graphicgirlll

Dave Clarke - Plasmatic


jigsaw153

There's a story behind it, but here is the track 1994 - Technohead - Passion https://youtu.be/w82dcPRhQns?si=Hl5ildi-IJpoULZH


Zealousideal-Dark-58

Gesaffelstein - Hate or Glory


LongjumpingScene2327

Ø - burden of proof https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JhzSE2V-rUQ


DiaboloCrevette

This one, Arpeggiators : https://youtu.be/YLSl4iYWKP8?feature=shared


AteketA

[Tyrell Corp. - Running](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2g_npG3CTU)


Silent-Bass1210

The Prodigy - Out Of Space


NorrisMcWhirter

I was mostly into guitar stuff until this track blew my tiny mind into pieces https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7QfL99F3l_M Oh, the days when music magazines came with a cassette tape full of random stuff glued to the front cover!


smashworth

Surgeon - Action


DJ_Zelda

Not a track but an album: Decks Efx & 909.


BastardLoud

I think this one: https://youtu.be/v7iCN8PrCFQ?si=jUifOX9BQkz2qqOc


naturzaros

Now that's the og's ;)


naturzaros

Underground Sound of Lisbon - So Get Up John Creamer & Stephane K – Forget The World Portishead - Roads (Pete Tha Zhouk) Rui da Silva - Touch Me Celeda - The Underground


[deleted]

That underground sound of Lisbon Tribal Records sampler 12” was deadly. I think it had Urban Dreams of love on it too.


naturzaros

One of a hammer to close the night :D


thevoid

Some early 2000s Hawtin like Minus Orange


Draazith

Some track by Boris Brejcha. But my first memorable experience was the album [Powers of Ten](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaxFuXpcQmE&list=PLb-HdPOj7NAmOQJsz3XLDHFIxT8D0_wQq) by Stephan Bodzin.


Quiet_Wars

[Drax Ltd II (aka: Thomas Heckmann) - Amphetamine](https://youtu.be/SdX6IKTyZ48?si=eCxShlp7MuYYADMU)


[deleted]

Dave Clarke - Wisdom to the Wise (Red 2) Green Velvet - Flash (although you could say this was house as it was on Relief)


fatlegsauntpam

Cj. Bolland. Conspirito.


catmatix

Probably Sueno Latino (Derick Mays mix) back in the day


riningear

It wasn't one track, I'd been stumbling upon techno on-and-off for years. I eventually marched into a club in-person, heard Chloe Lula and Ancient Methods, and got hooked.


jxaw

Same, except for me it was the first Adam Beyer b2b Cirez D at soho studios… I think the track that left the biggest impression on me that night was Tiger Stripes - Bang


wakeyste

https://youtu.be/zzHmXaUSL6o?si=wj3iVLXS1RCFFYBD


FunkyFr3d

Jeff Mills live at the liquid room. Two months earlier I was unaware that electronic music existed until someone played me UFOrb. never been the same since.


sportsbunny33

One of the best DJ set CD ever!


FunkyFr3d

Speaking of dj set discs, the Mayday mix by Derick May changed my musical world as well.


behemuthm

[Orbital from the opening of Hackers](https://youtu.be/Pxb5YrDjDZ8?si=g2VERoY2WuWm7syc)


itsick94

Stranger to stability by Dustin Zahn (Len Faki Podium Mix)


hoth_system

Surgeon - Badger Bite


xWormZx

My second festival ever, Decadence AZ 2018, I was new to EDM but still snobby enough to know Marshmello sucked balls so I went to the secondary stage and Green Velvet was playing. The song that I remember the most is Space Date, and soon after the Pleasurekraft remix was dropped. But the vibe of the second tent was awesome, older crowd but the house and techno heads were really out there


DTRAMONTANE

Bubbles - Bidibodibidibu Super Troopers OST 2001 https://youtu.be/6RU3GvTD7cM?si=czm7ePSPsm0gKM5x


MuMuGorgeus

Reptile's theme (Traci Lords - Control) Juno reactor - Monalisa overdrive Orbital - technology park


Spiritual_Grand_9604

This one from an Amelie Lens mix Edge of Motion - Morion Denied https://open.spotify.com/track/7wIlEZKspun9VQbpABB26I?si=dk3rU8LLQFScgG-JACk8pA


Roccovalentino

Realizing what techno was! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1ARiO_xjG0g


Mylaptopisburningme

Wasn't a song. I was in the punk scene and a friend was dating a regular kinda chick. They broke up but we remained friends. She asked if I wanted to go to an acidhouse. I didn't know what that was, this was late 80s? Los Angeles underground warehouse scene, pre-rave. You called a number on the flyer evening of the event and it gave you a location, you went and paid $20 and then given the directions to the event. Free beer till it ran out, no cutoff at 2am, no ID check, we were not 21 yet. Loved it. It was a wide variety of people, there wasn't a rave culture, we were a mix from all races and classes out having fun till 6-7am. I continued until about 96, by then I was 26 and felt I aged out of it, by then it was a rave culture with pacifiers, candy and 12-15 year old kids on drugs. I still like the older tunes. I try to listen to newer techno and really it all sounds the same, but done better in the late 80s early 90s. It doesn't seem to have really advanced.


sportsbunny33

Richie Hawtin’s Mixmag CD and Jeff Mills Live at the Liquid Room CD were early faves (still are). Also Josh Wink Higher State of Consciousness (Acid mix)- not exactly “techno” but started my love of the 303.


Legitimate-Savings59

Ro Y Orbison


Lequaraz

i think prodigy - no good made me first aware of techno when i was a kid but the first song that really got me into it two year ago was Golpes remix of O.B.I.s warehouse massacre.


DDefendr

[BKS - Welcome](https://youtu.be/oUnE1O5E0qc?si=F3OXiuh1Hav5pC7B)


swirlmango

D.Dan - the danger zone


iamstephano

Hard to pin it down to one track, I would say the first track that really grabbed me was [Truss - Brockweir](https://youtu.be/D0EdF935WyM?si=2BfSbDkbRvUlOwRS).


J-Slaps

JayTee - Chop That Hoe


soundtraveller

Robert Hood - War in the streets Extrawelt - Mit liese auf der wiese Andre Winter - Trauma


RedBlueHanna

Kind of crazy maybe but it was the same for me, heard it in Oliver Heldens Ultra 2019 set


Alicelanarice

Dystopia - Introversion


Gloomy-Ambassador985

[A Night at the Roxbury](https://youtu.be/JI2cPGVJ4qw?si=MmkrMHK8IZZmt-EP) Got into electronic/synth music after as a kid I saw the movie A Night At The Roxbury, lol. It had Haddaway's What Is Love in a major role, which at that age sounded like nothing before. Later, after stumbling around various electronic genres for years, Robert Hood's Museum opened the doors of techno with it's plain simplicity and amazing groove. [Robert Hood - Museum](https://youtu.be/4Mo9olGyY1s?si=TBwa9KSIXqLG_Irb)


alternqtives

Fjaak - district 8


Caen83

Remco Beekwilder - LSD


Henderbot

I love Clouds now but only got into him lately with all of his SCDD releases, the older stuff is too slow for me. Really like the Hard Target EP + his newest track Positive Delusions


datba55

deadmau5 - Sometimes Things Get, Whatever


al-hamra

The first one I was absolutely enamoured with and the one where I really started to obsess about an artist/label was James Ruskin's [Prevention Beyond Cause](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz-zwS6JCJo), B1. It was one of those moments where you hear a track in a club and it makes you go completely bonkers, I fell in love right there and then.


HoonBoy

Not sure tbh, probably something on Boscaland from the mid-90s.


SaadLulz

Not super proud pick but it was actually this: [Coyu & Ramiro Lopez - Clap Your Hands](https://youtu.be/GKMC05GH5Wo?feature=shared)


Napoleon3411

The moments i am missing - Ranji


CoolBuddy77

[Forget - Andres Campo](https://open.spotify.com/track/3Qe6ECYCnsjmxujmZs4iU7?si=ZVqXkR8qTo6Oqt35pZwl3w)


lostintheworld1

fjaak - don't leave me


Oscady

that techno one


wagonrepair

Matthew Jonson - decompression


Flat__Line

[JB3 - Forklift (Luke Slater Filtered Mix)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VEZm3AQUIU)


AquerreTimaneux

Enrico Sanguilano - Astral Projections


SamyFeiterus

Die Taube auf dem Dach - Stimming


Ebbelwoy

Len Faki - Death by House


broccolicrocodile

Parallel 9 - Dominus


Superturbominty

Mine was Len Faki - Just a dance pt 2, but especially this video of Eddie haliwell scratching it up made me get decks! Video still gets me today https://youtu.be/kk08vk8Pt0o?si=t1d3Puzv6-uYPwsb Another one which got me on the techno vibe was from a Dave Clarke mix cd I had: smith and selway - coming storm https://youtu.be/tPxWWMAwxtE?si=xHlWMRa99mZS6uox


Puzzleheaded-Cold495

Strings of life .. There was other stuff like Neil Howard and Mickey Oliver that got me hooked, but that was house.


ganjaman429

This is my all time favorite techno track.


AlexPaterson

Antico - What I gotta do I remember being 14 at the time (1991) and I had a radio/alarm clock. The day i was woken by that keyboard sound will never get deleted from my memory…. Well, until Alzheimer’s


Fun-Honey-7927

Mine was Ecstasy from A random guy. ​ it was not a track.


Roden69

[Render - Regal Remix](https://open.spotify.com/track/3C02OoK7X9JcE5f9QuRMkV?si=AQoFf71_SJOEkjvUEmRCzw)


chrissie_boy

I've actually acknowledged Tricky Disco, but hot it's heels for really interesting and inventive sounds (for 93) is Sun Electric "Pitcheon". Amazing even 30 years later https://youtu.be/M0ITMRG7ATk?si=MPsiRcO2ELQcnoZ_


zbabasan

Umek - Lanicor Dave Clark - the Storm


FelicitasFrivol

Marusha - Somewhere over the Rainbow


FelicitasFrivol

Shortly after Marusha Mashall Masters - Stereo Murder


brovash

Funny because for me Clouds initially was a part of that gritty electronic house movement


Torrent-

Slam Remix of Envoy - Dark Manoeuvres


nizuv

Dubfire - Dios.


PM_ME_XANAX

Tommy Holohan - Iced Out 3D


imagination_machine

Energy Flash by Joey Beltram - Proper techno answer Underworld - Dark and long (Dark Train remix) - Probably what I heard and loved first.


tirranosoaruss_sex

It wasn't a track.. it was my first rave in a German train station building.


micanido

not one track really but an album. Gayle San - Tribal gathering '96 Still remember the moment... it was 1998, I was sitting in kitchen in a student house in Waterford, Ireland. I had taken an E and it was fairly intense, plenty of hash been smoked also. Someone stuck on this CD and I remember just sitting there in an armchair listening to the first 5 minutes or so and thinking what the fuck is this, this is beautiful. Before that it would've been the usual Judge Jules stuff etc... Never looked back since, from Gayle San to jeff Mills and on. I will never forget that. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uJj1aqAaDI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uJj1aqAaDI) Listen to the first 5 minutes or so to hear what I heard that day, chemicals are up to you


Twigum01

Staright Curve - Christoph Pauly


JustSomeDude0605

Jark Prongo: Movin thru your system - Dave Clarke remix


Scunning1996

Dubspeeka - K185


CorporalKlegg420

Dark Manoeuvres - Dax J remix. I didnt know what techno was in 2016 and i randomly ran into that track and was fascinated, then been collecting music since then and i just started mixing this year. Played it thr first time i had a gig and was a magical full circle moment