History
Tekno evolved in tandem with the teknival movement in the early 1990s since many of the teknival organisers and DJs were also making music. The music drew on influences such as hardcore, rave, jungle, gabber and techno, with the producers taking the sound in a darker, more organic direction. An emphasis is placed on samples from TV shows, films and popular culture which are placed at strategic moments in the tracks. The music was produced with whatever was available: drum machines, synthesisers and keyboards as well as computer programs such as Cubase, Cakewalk, Ableton Live midi Trackers. Strating from year 2000 there has been a trend using laptops for live performances, because the capabilities of both the hardware and software were improving very fast.
With the evolution of the genre it has come to be known by a number of names, including spiral tekno, hardtek, tribetek, tribe and lately evolved in many other subgenres like pumping tek, hardfloor and french core which is a sort of mixture between mainstream Hardcore and Hardtekno, with funny and pumping samples taken from different media supports.
Tekno producers come from different places including the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Italy, France, and the Czech Republic. Here a list of some of the most active artist who from the early 90's till today were and are still creating music for played in free parties: Crystal Distortion, 69db, Ixy, Kaos, Jack Acid, Curley, Unit Moebius, Les Boucles Etranges, Yale, FKY, Babyon Joke, Arobass, Gotek, Floxytek, Suburbass, Zone-33, Mat Weasel Buster, Nout, Infrabass, Vinka, Banditos, Diablo (LSDF), Teknambul, Spiralheadz, Aya, Puissance K, Guigoo, Billx, Maissouille, Key Gen, Psychospores.
Many record labels contributed spreading the sound mostly via underground distribution opereted mostly by record shops / labels such as Hokus Pokus (Paris) and Toolbox Records (Paris), and record labels such as Tek No Logique (TNL), Narkotek and Astrofonik. Here a list of some of the m ost active record labels Network 23 record label Spiral Tribe sound system, Hokus Pokus, Passe Muraille, Perce Oreille, Infrabass, Tek No Logique, Narkotek, Astrofonik, Le Diable Au Corps.
Artists within this genre usually follow a very different ideology when compared to more modern and mainstream producers:
- Artists often use many pseudonyms, as they are not interested in mainstream success or recognition
- Most are not interested in profit
- They also support the free distribution of their works, as they do not see it as their own material, but as something that belongs to the fans and the community
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