My Favorite Techno Artists

We were supposed to blog on some artists that use synthesizers in their work. I'd like to mention my two favorite techno artists: Tiesto and Moby.

Moby's style (if you discount Moby's actual singing) often involves repetition of short, unvaried vocal samples. Consider the following examples:

Moby - Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad


Moby - Flower


This style that Moby uses reminds me a lot of "Its gonna rain" - id say Moby seems to represent a coming of age with regard to the sample repetition started by "Its gonna rain".

Tiesto's style is what I consider to be more of a mainstream, commercial techno sound. Tiesto features longer and more complex vocal tracks than Moby as well as a faster paced tempo, and use of (what sounds to me to be) some sound effects based on granular synthesis.

Tiesto - I Will Be Here


Tiesto - In My Memory

Zdravstvujte.

I enjoyed last class with a brief history of digital and analog audio design. But I think that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Michele_Jarre should have been noticed too :-)
His work has influenced me very much. A long time ago I was spending hours listening to his music that is 99% made using synthesizers. And while "listening to the music" for hours does not sound extreme nowadays, but that means that I was listening to the music and was not doing anything else. Today people usually listen to the music while doing something else like riding the bus or listening a lecture.. I prefer to completely dedicate myself to the process.
For the project I would like to extend my digital synthesizer written in Java by adding support for the communication with Pure Data and some external devices like keyboards.