Franktronic

Then I find something like this.

It's like Christmas in August.

Couple good ones here. The second track is really doing it for me.

A treasure chest of Neil goodies.

I know I like to use the word "pummeling" a lot but holy shit. Hope these Spaniards keep it up.

It has all the elements of his usual basement-reverb stompers but in a pure techno package.

Halfway through, this track does a 180 and gets all Antony & The Johnsons. Then it goes completely nuts.

Interesting atmospheric/experimental stuff.

Some truly slick electro-bass-techno. Vinyl available from Clone.nl.

If The Bells is the greatest techno track of all time (which it is), what are some good runners up? I nominate this Robert Hood track. Umek's Cavist is right up there too.

Interesting set. Impeccable track list, disastrous mixing. At 1:18:00, it sounds like he accidentally set a loop length to a measure and a half. There are other atrocities but I won't dwell on them. I just want this guy's track list.

It always makes me chuckle to think that this is a Ben Sims track. http://djsbag.com/uploads/posts/1336862992_ben-sims-disco-trix-vol-2.jpg

The king of modern breakbeats. http://www.beatport.com/track/mr-blunt-original-mix/88458

I have absolutely no problem with the obvious aping of Inner City's Good LIfe. And check out the icy Detroit stabs on "Inversion" (around the 4:00 minute mark on the Soundcloud link). Epic.

A nice instrumental. Statist 2.0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og010w62pXQ

Beast.

After listening to this twice, I was surprised to read in the blog notes that he's using Ableton; it doesn't have near the self-indulgent atmospherics that one would typically expect from an artist using it.