![]() Many of techno’s most distinctive ‘bass’ sounds are not contrived emulations at all – but rather creatively manipulated presets and audio (organs, sound fx) from a vast sea of synthesis.īerlin’s original dub-techno luminaries ostensibly created the template for a new decade of European techno minimalism. ![]() ![]() Here are some hallmark techno bass picks from NI’s MASSIVE library snapshots from a futuristic low-end revolution which continues to evolve.Įmbracing, rather than eschewing the ‘unreal’, techno has continued to clone, destroy and counterpoint analog’s warmth, and anomaly with digital imagination – the imperfect with the genetically modified, the ‘preset’ with the unpredictable. By the mid 90s sound design was suddenly, and radically democratised, and by the 2000s a new age in bass potential was born. By the mid 80s, the dominance of expensive analog studio equipment had been challenged, as affordable digital synthesisers began to flood the domestic market, creeping into bedroom studios. A case study in experimentation and reappropriation, in which an unruly selection of noise, and drum machines came to soundtrack a futurist punk revolution. The story of techno sound-design is an unlikely one.
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