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As of the past month or so i have really been getting into the techno music genre, as opposed to my normally mainstream power metal ways. Due to my lack of downloading music and general knowledge about this genre im not too sure what artists are good and worth downloading.

Some artists i've taken a liking to are prodigy, fatboy slim and pendulum but thats about as far as it extends. Does anyone know any good artists that resemble that kind of style? Any recommendations would be greatly accepted ^_^

well i don't know that many names, for i mostly listen to
techno and dance while i'm at work so i usually turn on an
internet radio channel. CrimsonNuker recently sent me a
great one; http://www.di.fm

at this online radio channel there's non stop music with
just one commercial like every 30 minuts, promoting their
own site. if you click the "listen now" tab, you can choose
a music style (i normally pick the first one, electro house),
and you can load it into windows media player or some other
players and stream the music.

like i said, i don't know any names, but this online channel
shows a couple of artist names of what is playing at the time.
there's lots of styles to choose from, like electro house,
dance, lounge, drum&bass, etc. maybe you will find the name of
the style that suits you best, after which you can download
more music of the same style.

hope that helps :]

Thanks for the link cin, thats just the kind of thing im looking for in all honesty.
cheers =]

EDIT

With that website you linked me is it possible to stream whilst playing sro without any lag? Im only on a 256k connection so would the streaming of the songs slow down my connection considerably? Im slightly confused by how it works >_>

I'm mainly into guitar rock!...but some older classics are

Chemical Brothers
Underworld
Leftfield
Hardfloor
Daft Punk

or check out some DJ mixes by the likes of Paul Oakenfold , Carl Cox or Nick Warren

Underworld on spoiler!

benny benassi
daft punk
chemical brothers
prodigy
basshunter
floorfilla

and some other i forget

tedtwilliger wrote:EDIT

With that website you linked me is it possible to stream whilst playing sro without any lag? Im only on a 256k connection so would the streaming of the songs slow down my connection considerably? Im slightly confused by how it works >_>

i don't know really, i'm on a regular dsl connection and everything
runs smooth even when i'm gaming. idk about sro, i haven't played
that in ages. i think you'll just have to try it out ;]

http://www.di.fm is awesome. I'm on DSL, but all is fine. Streaming goes well, and lag-less. My favorite channels are Vocal Trance, Progressive and Trance

Kamui is a good trance Dj

try the Ministry of Sound CD's
awesome variety of all kinds of artists and tracks (electro, dance, trance, etc..)

Got this list from someone else. It has a lot of good house/electro.

-Sneaky Sound System
-Yelle
-TEPR
-Basment Jaxx
-Para One
-Boys Noize
-MSTRKRFT
-Surkin
-Digitalism
-Chromeo
-DJ Vadim
-Q-IC
-Showtek
-Donkey Rollers
-Dim Chris
-SebastiAn
-Mr. Oizo
-Erick Decks
-On Off On
-Teenage Bad Girl
-The Bloody Beetroots
-David Guetta
-Global Deejays
-Van She
-Stardust
-Electro-Tek (just for Touch Me)
-Soulwax/2 Many DJs
-Justice
-Le Knight Club
-Atrak
-Feadz
-Mondo Grosso
-DJ Mehdi
-Siriusmo
-Mister Ries
-Benassi Bros.
-Fedde le Grand
-Sam Sparro
-Jackson and His Computer Band
-Hardrox
-Bodyrox
-Malente
-Crookers
-Felix Cartel

And ofcourse DaftPunk

Chemical Brothers
Prodigy
Daft Punk
Darude
Chicane
Roger Sanchez
Eric Prydz

Can't think of anything else at this time, will add some more when I think of more.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdznz-i1IN8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMq4akUZr8c
A couple of vids that might interest you..

MrBow wrote:try the Ministry of Sound CD's
awesome variety of all kinds of artists and tracks (electro, dance, trance, etc..)

100% agree there, MoS is the CD's to get.. Also try old skool garage, the stuff from 10 years ago still sound awesome.

i like the bold ones^^

the.unseen. wrote:Got this list from someone else. It has a lot of good house/electro.

-Sneaky Sound System
-Yelle
-TEPR
-Basment Jaxx
-Para One
-Boys Noize(my favorite, album Oi Oi Oi pwns )
-MSTRKRFT
-Surkin
-Digitalism
-Chromeo
-DJ Vadim
-Q-IC
-Showtek
-Donkey Rollers
-Dim Chris
-SebastiAn
-Mr. Oizo
-Erick Decks
-On Off On
-Teenage Bad Girl
-The Bloody Beetroots
-David Guetta
-Global Deejays
-Van She
-Stardust
-Electro-Tek (just for Touch Me)
-Soulwax/2 Many DJs(woot woot, belgium)
-Justice
-Le Knight Club
-Atrak
-Feadz
-Mondo Grosso
-DJ Mehdi
-Siriusmo
-Mister Ries
-Benassi Bros.
-Fedde le Grand
-Sam Sparro
-Jackson and His Computer Band
-Hardrox
-Bodyrox
-Malente
-Crookers
-Felix Cartel

And ofcourse DaftPunk

I think you might also like the genre of Hardstyle. It's extremely popular in Europe (Belgium, Nederlands, France, Italy other European Countrys).

It's also extremely large in citys of Australia (Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne), and is the music used to 'Shuffle' to (The form of dance).

-Showtek
-DJ Tiesto
-DJ Zanny

meh, will add more when I get home.

lol pls do not put Tiesto in the same line as Showtek...
Tiesto =/= hardstyle

MrBow wrote:lol pls do not put Tiesto in the same line as Showtek...
Tiesto =/= hardstyle

whaha, i was just about to say the same thing
what a shame for tiesto to be compared with showtek
Tiesto is the greatest dj ever i think ^^

I agree with you there, DJ Tiesto is by far my favorite dj. I never get bored of any of his songs.

Try going to http://www.last.fm

You put in an artist and it will make a custom radio station for you with similar artists. You can either +love them or +hate them. Loving them will add similar sounding songs to your custom radio channel, hating will remove them.

What's nice is that it shows the artists names - you can browse their bios/profiles, check out their discography...all that good stuff.

The more you use it, the better of an idea it gets on what kind of music you like. So if some of the first songs are weird, just +hate them, eventually it'll find your groove.

justice
d.l genesis, the party, and DVNO

anything from Anjunabeats is good.

Also Armin van Buuren is kick ass.

Dimrain47 has some nice stuff, can DL most of it from Newgrounds. And yeah, Armin Van Buren is so awesome.

First post in OTL :O

Thanks for all the suggestions, i'll be sure to check them out.

For the website cin recommended im mainly listening to hardstyle, i liked every style there but hardstyle would be my favorite.

Thanks again.

KYLIE MINOGUE

KylieMinogue wrote:KYLIE MINOGUE

I use to like Kylie's stuff a few years ago, but now it just sounds to much like pop music.

MrBow wrote:lol pls do not put Tiesto in the same line as Showtek...
Tiesto =/= hardstyle

I personally hate Showtek, I got a bunch of songs, but never listen to them.

I don't MIND Tiesto, though he isn't my favorite, and this list of 3 names was off my head I was just thinking what I had on my iPod really.

@unseen

Justice aint from belgium oO

[SD]Kratos wrote:@unseen

Justice aint from belgium oO

What?