So, as the title suggests, I have a confession. I think I might be a techno producer. A few years ago I would have probably vomited into my own mouth if those words ever came out of my mouth.
Ugh. Let me explain. I have, throughout the majority of my life, made primarily hip-hop beats. If you know me really well, you know that I am a student of hip-hop music and I am very committed to this craft. I have always hated four to the floor techno. Like, why? Gabber? GTFOH! But really, anything with that driving kick drum just punching you in the face over and over again. It just always reminded me of an alarm clock or something.
I love Squarepusher and Autechre and Aphex and BOC and Skinny Puppy and some NIN and tons of other electro/electro-hop type stuff but never really dug disco. I was even loosely affiliated with a hip-hop crew called Neva Dug Disco in Dallas in the early aughts. I study hip-hop religiously, and I love it religiously as well. In fact, I would even go so far as to say that hip-hop IS my religion and I will one day make pilgrimage to boogie down to pay tribute to Kool Herc and Bambaata and the other Gods in my lifetime. That’s correct, I plan to walk there, from Texas, but that’s another post for another day.
If you know me really well though, you know that I don’t JUST listen to hip-hop. My favorite band of all time is the Legendary Pink Dots. Number two is Coil. Number three is Skinny Puppy. Radiohead and Yasiin Bey round out my current top five, but Bjork and Yasiin have some issues to work out before that fifth spot can be confirmed if that helps any. Still though, I don’t listen to techno, like ever.
Now, and this is not a joke or anything, I promise. However, it may seem kinda cliche or whatever but it’s true, so, okay, here it is… after coming to this forum and hearing all of the variety of flavors presented here for over a year now, I gotta say, I may not hate four to the floor beats anymore. In fact, since I’m already confessing here, I might as well admit that I’ve begun to occasionally use a repetitive kick in my own tunes.
Now I’m making chiptune industrial techno-hop bangers and I don’t hate them at all. What have you guys done to me?
I mean, don’t get it twisted, I will always be putting the bap on the end of whatever genre I flirt with but techno? I would have never believed it possible. Industrial? Yeah, sure, in fact, it’s always been a favorite but techno? Hell nah! Now I’m all like, I think I need to confess something, lol.
K. That’s all.
. You’re so right. That should be the TL:DR of this entire thread.
not with snares! No!!! 
even though i make house, the snare is never on any of my downbeats. That shit is almost forbidden around here 
and once there are acid lines – it can pass for „acid techno“ when i’m asked about genre.