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Re:I wish tech companies knew more about me by _the_inflator on Thursday November 05, 2026 @02:25PM (#50383263)
Another one here. Vocal techno is a pain in my ears. There are few exceptions like in Bonzai Records classic tracks like “Let there be house.” or Emmanuel Top. These male voices are more aggressive and are helping to inject some additional energy into the songs, while female voices seem to drain it.

Goth industrial stuff from like the female singer from L’Âme Immortelle was a nice exception with “Bitterkeit”.

Re:I wish tech companies knew more about me by fierycatnet on Thursday November 05, 2026 @03:05PM (#50383760)
I personally love Vocal Trance, DJ Doboy mixes
Re:I wish tech companies knew more about me by mikrl on Thursday November 05, 2026 @07:32PM (#50386613)
I’ve been going through all my old happy hardcore vinyls recently, and while the tracks are mostly extremely dated now, the B-sides are usually hard/happy trance style remixes and sound fairly modern.

However, the cheesy stuff mixes well with 2020s hyperpop… especially if you push up the pitch faders into nightcore territory.

Re:I wish tech companies knew more about me by drfloyd51 on Thursday November 05, 2026 @10:38PM (#50387865)
Who is the artist for let there be house?
Re:I wish tech companies knew more about me by rubikscube09 on Friday November 06, 2026 @12:10AM (#50388461)
never thought i'd see bonzai records mentioned on hackernews!
Re:I wish tech companies knew more about me by littlecranky67 on Friday November 06, 2026 @02:43AM (#50389345)
Fellow House/Techno listener. I am astonished that you can even use Spotify/Scrobbles etc. I always feel an outsider as the only way to listen to that genre is livesets, which i meticulously collect and download from various sources (youtube rips, soundcloud, artist releases) and play offline like its 1998. Any modern streaming plattforms are not suitable for that genre at all - you don't want to listen to 1min leadin/out anyways.
Re:I wish tech companies knew more about me by technotony on Friday November 06, 2026 @03:41AM (#50389735)
Try di.fm
Re:I wish tech companies knew more about me by arcanemachiner on Friday November 06, 2026 @04:19AM (#50390052)
Digitally Imported... Now there's a throwback.
Re:I wish tech companies knew more about me by taneq on Friday November 06, 2026 @05:29AM (#50390596)
Wow, they’re still around? Good call!
Re:I wish tech companies knew more about me by turbine401 on Friday November 06, 2026 @05:41AM (#50390687)
I gave up on them for psytrance. Used to be paying subscriber for many years, but their catalog never really got updated. Got tired of hearing the same tracks over and over.
Re:I wish tech companies knew more about me by jwr on Friday November 06, 2026 @08:28AM (#50392044)
Was a subscriber for a while, but their streaming reliability on poor networks was really bad (also when transitioning from wi-fi to cellular and back) and they weren't keen on fixing it. Spotify works so much better.

I liked their playlists/radios, though and I miss them.

Re:I wish tech companies knew more about me by taneq on Friday November 06, 2026 @05:28AM (#50390591)
This is the way! I found my old folder of Tranceaddict live sets recently and I can confirm, they’re all still bangers. :)
Re:I wish tech companies knew more about me by yadaeno on Friday November 06, 2026 @10:08AM (#50393242)
If you have a few links I would greatly appreciate
Re:I wish tech companies knew more about me by exitnode on Friday November 06, 2026 @10:16AM (#50393340)
me too. I love electronic music (mainly tech house) but dislike vocals as they mostly are kinda silly.