Popcast: Techno’s Dual Identity

Popcast

The New York Times

Music Interviews, Music Commentary, Music

3.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2016

⏱️ 35 minutes

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A discussion of techno as youth music and heritage culture.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the New York Times
0:04.8	podcast, your Cybertron of music news and criticism. I'm your host Ben
0:08.0	Ratliff. Oh, And you're listening to Riyadh from the new record called Transport.
0:36.0	Juan Atkins and Moritz von Oswald present Borderland.
0:41.0	A new record on the Treresor record label, which one of our guests Peter Orlov has written
0:47.0	about at Peter. We also have Mike Rubin with us.
0:49.8	Howdy? All three of us just recently a week and a bit ago were in Detroit at the Movement Festival and other things during Memorial Day weekend where we saw those people, Wann Atkins and Maritz von Oswold.
1:04.5	Indeed we did.
1:05.5	Peter, your piece which is running this week in the Times is about,
1:11.5	from a distance, it's about aging in techno, the idea of aging and techno.
1:16.0	Correct.
1:17.0	Specifically, about the music on this record.
1:20.0	So how can you explain the music on this record to describe it and then what does it signify?
1:25.0	I would describe this album as a unique example of classic techno which had its seeds in Detroit and Berlin, but created in a very
1:38.7	contemporary fashion. And we should say that these guys go back a long way.
1:44.2	They do.
1:44.7	Juan Atkins is old school Detroit techno.
1:47.2	Yes, I mean he is arguably one of the first two,
1:50.6	not arguably, he is one of the first two people in the lineage of Detroit techno and
1:55.0	Moritz von Oswald is one of the earliest producers to make
2:01.0	techno music internationally recognized techno music in Berlin.
2:05.0	Although he had been a musician for quite a few years before.
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