20 minutes techno session

I recorded some long loops into Ableton and arranged it like a dj session. I wish I could do it all from the modular instead of using the computer, but I think I would need a few more voices and mixers to do it all in just one take.

Hi Exposure,

Wow, 20+ minutes :-) As you might know I am not too much of a Techno person, however I do feel your track is pretty good here because for a Techno track, you have tons of variations and interesting sounds used here and that's not always very common with (classic) Techno. With the 20+ minutes you fulfil a "very important new requirement" here on this forum (drones should be at least 17 minutes long), only turning it into a drone/ambient kind of thing and then it's perfect ;-)

Thanks a lot for sharing this and kind regards, Garfield.

Nice! I've been working on some long form acid jams myself, if only I could remember to record them...

Hahaha yes, 20 minutes is not a short one. I must say this one started out as a drone but clearly something went wrong along the line, I'll try hiding the drumbox next time so I'm not tempted to add a kick on it.

I enjoyed it a lot! Although for "proper" techno I think you need a stronger kick, maybe this is the influence of the drone origin?

Ah the kick, yes, you're right. I probably went with a softer kick because of the drone origin.

Also, I'm still having a bit of trouble mixing the kick drums, it usually gets lost in the lower frequencies and I have a hard time making it cut through the bass, so using a softer kick with shorter decay time made the mixing a bit easier. Then I also added some EQ in the DAW to remove some frequencies and make it fit better with the rest of the sounds.

Overall I think it sounds better than in my other mixes, though it doesn't sound strong enough for a proper techno track. Yeah, that's something I'm still working on and needs some improvements.

Oh don't get me wrong -- it's a great mix, and everything comes through very well. In a sense, it's quite old school, like before the "rules" of techno were quite so ossified. I mean, compare any modern techno record to this :

Juan FTW! Quite a thing to compare ones own work to, though...it's almost like being a beginning modern-day poet, but having to 1:1 compare your work with Shakespeare's sonnets!

Listened to this again the other day @Exposure, really good work, hopefully we hear more soon.

Juan FTW! Quite a thing to compare ones own work to, though...it's almost like being a beginning modern-day poet, but having to 1:1 compare your work with Shakespeare's sonnets!
-- Lugia

Well I really only intended to compare to Shakespeare's kick drum, as it were...

Yeah. Some things happened here. All came together rather nicely. Really nice session!

Would love to see a live video of you jamming on your setups.

Thanks @mowse, much appreciated.

@sacguy71 I haven't recorded any video yet but it's something I would like to try out.