music i love
(techno)

artists

Of course, one must acquire all the usual suspects: Aphex Twin, Autechre, Orbital, Global Communication, and so on.  Let me recommend some less obvious yet wonderful albums:

Delerium is the two guys from Frontline Assembly creating techno with lots of chant/bell/ethnic samples. The first two are worth getting: Semantic Spaces and Karma; the third, Poem, may be a bit too new-age for some.

Loop Guru are a ambient-worldbeat-techno band, very trippy on their recordings and very intensely kinetic live.  All releases are good.

William Ørbit has produced many brilliant albums of "instrumental" music on the uneasy border of techno, ambient, new age and easy listening. I recommend starting with strange cargo III.

Salt Tank - Science and Nature has been described by others as "aural vibes and inspiring trips into a morphological dough of suffocating, inter-city, transient techno-motive psychobeats."  I just think it's damn pretty music.

Sacred Spirits - Yeha-Noha is new-ageish music with native-american vocals over soft synth-wash textures, very pretty though questionably appropriative.

Grid - Evolver is a fantastic dancey techno album - don't bother with their other albums, this is the one to get.

rave families

Epiphany: on the beach, in a park in SF, and a goth rave

Koinonea: had a wonderful oakland space in 1996-98

Stargaze: great online archives, went to Stargaze V

The SFRaves Calendar is where to look for most bay area raves, but the nicest gathering are typically known only within the community...

Now that i'm in New York City, i can't tell whether there is a friendly rave community or not.  Almost everything here is House, and the Trance scene seems darker and cliquey..

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