I put this in my house folder, but here goes:
Bass line on this:
I dig some of the more recent Semantica releases.
yeah semanticaās usually on point imo
thereās a lot of rubbish too. ābig room dj toolā-records that get more attention and airplay simply because somebody once declared Semantica to be more intelligent than everything else. A bit like a lot of average medi records get more praise than they realistically deserve.
possibly b8
just needed excuse to subscribe to the thread tbh
hypnotize
We need more women in techno like Dasha, Paula Temple and Helena Hauff.
you missed the most important one 
No I didnāt 
Helena Hauffās full length:
Has kind of an electro / early techno vibe to it. Very different from what Iāve heard
her play out, but great nonetheless.
She was playing some electro sort of stuff when i saw her on sunday. I could be chatting shit tho Iām not too sure what electro is tbh
Nah that is quite possible. I only saw her do a peak time set at a techno night.
Nothing but hard hitting acid tracks. Probably one of my favourite DJ sets this year.
Canāt listen to the clips because soundcloud is now banned at work (and dubstepforum.com aswell, wtf), but judging by the artists involved, Iām sure thereāll be a couple of gems on there.
Sechs and sieben maybe. Looking forward to that massive box set
coming out on Mord later in the year though. Thatās going to be a 7x12"
I heard.
Iām pretty new to techno. Does anyone have any artists that I should immediately check out?
true that. if weāre talking about techno thatās not part of the like ex-dubstep bass techno UK-centric scene, can anyone outline the essential DMZ/tempa/medi type techno labels, Haunted/Anti-War Dub/Midnight Request Line type classic tracks, or dmz/loe/skream/benga artists?
Iām definitely the wrong guy to write a guide to techno, but Iāll give you some anthems so you can start digging from there. Consider these lists anything but incompleteā¦
Seminal US techno labels:
Underground Resistance (Jeff Mills x Robert Hood x Mike Banks, with more artists introduced over time)
Axis (Jeff Mills)
M-Plant (Robert Hood alias Floorplant)
Transmat (Derrick Mayās label, released some high grade gems, such as Joey Beltramās underground smash āEnergy Flashā)
Metroplex (mainly of note for the futuristic electro beats employed by Model 500 alias Juan Atkins; also check out Cybotron, Atkinsā and Rick Davisā electro project from the mid-eighties)
Planet E Communications (Carl Craigās contribution to the second wave of detroit techno; watch out for Craigās alias 69 aswell)
KMS (Kevin Saundersonās contribution to the early US techno scene; some re-releases of Metroplex records alongside decent to very good original material. Iām not very familiar with them yet, but I thought I should include them eitherway)
Seminal EU techno labels:
Basic Channel (Moritz von Oswaldās imprint revolutionising techno by introducing dub production techniques)
Tresor (with many contributions by stateside artists)
Downwards (Birmingham techno OGs)
Drumcode (swedish loopy techno stuff from the mid-nineties)
Please note Iām completely disregarding the Frankfurt & Netherlands scenes since Iāve not bothered looking into them yetā¦
some techno anthems:
and an acid banger to wrap it up.
what @jrkhnds said plus
r&s (and sublabel apollo) - former belgian, now uk label that put out loads of techno and rave back in the 90s. with apollo on a ambient techno tip;
blueprint - seminal uk label for the sort of hard loopy 90s techno. re-emerged in 2009 and have since released records from sigha, lakker, kerridge etc;
perlon - the minimal label;
and since iām guessing you donāt want to be stuck in the 90s:
sandwell district - probably the most talked about/hyped w/e techno outfit of the 2000s. itās dead now but the dudes involved started a new label, jealous god;
modern love - manchester label releasing stuff from andy stott, demdike stare, claro intelecto etc. not techno in the strictest sense nowadays;
delsin - dutch label started in the 90s. released tons of great shit across different styles;
dial - hamburg-based label specialising in the sort of ārainy dayā tech-house (or techno/house or w/e you wanna call it) like john roberts, efdemin, lawrence, pantha du prince etc;
smallville - another hamburg label, again focusing on more deeper, house-leaning sounds. cool artwork too;
ostgut ton - label associated with berghain;
loads of darker techno labels out there like prologue, perc trax, stroboscopic artefacts, time to express, sonic groove, horizontal ground / frozen border, semantica, our circula sound, avian, token, repitch etc which are all kinda hit and miss and hard to pick one thatās really essential.
and stuff thatās not techno in the strictest sense or has a broader scope like raster-noton, mille plateaux, pan sonic, ~scape, spectrum spools (offshoot of editions mego), liberation technologies, diagonal, maybe werkdisks etc.
hardwax universe is probably essential tho:
basic channel / maurizio / rhythm & sound / main street
chain reaction
DIN (run by t++/dynamo)
monolake
scion versions (substance & vainqueur)
fiedel / mmm / errorsmith / smith n hack / soundhack / sound stream
workshop
I thought downwards was from Birmingham