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Slam, Adam Beyer (Drumcode) and Chris Liebling (CLR) are all good places to start. They all have weekly radio stations.

From there on you can follow an guest DJs who you like the style off.

Also when did “techno” become an umbrella term again? I was possessed off enough when “EDM” was redefined as a specific genre (and such a lousy one at that).

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If you like Slam then Reclaim Your City (https://soundcloud.com/reclaim-your-city) is a good one to go with it.

Reclaim Your City is fantastic! I've been listening to it for years. Endless totally techno sets from a wide range of DJs and a wider range of tracks, and they're all really expertly put together. Seamless is the rule, not the exception. It generally feels like it's one mad synthesizer boffin performing on a giant machine, rather than picking individual tracks to play in sequence. Rarely can you tell when they switch from one track to another.

> Also when did “techno” become an umbrella term again?

I would guess in the '90s, when there was a lot more crossover between electronic music and other genres. Rock and hiphop oriented stuff like the Prodigy and Chemical Brothers were topping the dance charts, and other more conventional techno like Aphex Twin and Underworld were getting decent media coverage as well.

Plus movie soundtracks at the time tended to include a lot of techno. Trainspotting, Pi, Hackers, The Jackal, The Saint....discovered a lot of artists thanks to these.

Yeah, I was around then; buying those records, going to those clubs and in many cases partying with those DJs. But that was the end of “Techno” as a synonym for “electronic music. By then there was already numerous sub genres and many of them because music styles in their own right (like rock, metal, blues are all guitar music) with people identifying themselves as trance, house, hardcore et al clubbers rather than techno.

My comment was in regard to how the GP suggested that techno has since become another umbrella term again now. Or maybe I misunderstood their post?

Swedish techno... That brings me back. If you like Adam Beyer, check out Cari Lekebusch and Jasper Dahlback too.

His style is a bit less minimal, but Boris Brejcha is absolutely sick.

+1 for Boris Brejcha

Already got a stack of records from Cari and Jasper. Particularly love Cari’s Agent Orange stuff.

I’ve not knowingly come across Boris before though. Pretty sure I’d have heard some of his records play but looking at his discography I think he might have started making a name for himself around the same time I hung up my own DJ headphones so he’s not a name that’s immediately recognisable for me.

I did recently hook my decks up again but not yet had a chance to play anything.

+1 adam beyer

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