Techno DJs

I Love Techno

Main entrance of the Flanders Expo Park

I Love Techno is an annual major event of the electronic music scene. It is held annually at Flanders Expo in Ghent Park, Belgium. The event is divided into six different areas, different bars and a cinema on 50,000 sqm. In addition to the main floor and a chill-out lounge, there are five other areas which are named after colors and is maintained according to the light installation and decoration. The individual buildings are named Blue Floor, Green Floor, Floor Orange, Yellow and Red Floor Floor. Each of these floors is offering space for around 5,000 people. In addition to Belgian DJ’s and live act’s annual world-renowned sizes of the electronic music scene occur (see sections DJ’s and live acts / bands).

Dub Techno

Dub techno is a special brand of techno in the early 2000s, became popular. The style is mostly based on the typical techno 4/4-time, with an emphasis of each quarter by an electronic bass drum in combination with other instruments and riffs, which are often enriched with repetitive effects like reverb, echo, phaser, a warm to achieve atmospheric sound, he is particularly used in Dub. Some productions use but also a more technical, often described as a cold sound. The style makes use of highly technical means of production and influences of dub and can not be called directly as a sub-genre, because it usually has no similarities or parallels with reggae. A commonly used element is also a repeated, short and progressive sound with reverb and space echo (delay effect).

Detroit Techno and Artists

Detroit Techno is a flow of electronic music that developed in about the mid-1980s in Detroit. She draws on elements of funk, the electro-funk and house music, but also focuses heavily on European styles such as Electro Pop, EBM or industrial. Detroit Techno counts among the pioneers of techno-1990s.
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The concept

Detroit techno is very modern in its outlook. It is a mesmerizing background of new music that looks to the future, breaking with the past and mixes European pop with black-Industrial U.S. Garage Funk. Derrick May said that “goes beyond his music on the beat”. It is not just dance music, but a series of sound experiments, the defy the logic of simple and uncomplicated dance sounds like Chicago house. Derrick May: “The philosophy that stands behind since the beginning of the term techno from Detroit said, individuality, innovation, and to be first on top, and is declared in contrast to what we have always been skilled at civic conformity, under Industriedienlichkeit and commercialization. techno should be the people an alternative. ” May turned back to the commodification and always against the ignorance of the history and origin of the techno.