Deep Dive Into 2nd Wave Detroit Techno using Korg Volcas (Like it was 1991)

This time we are exploring the second wave of Detroit Techno, and how artist like Jeff Mills, Blake Baxter and Richie Hawtin, took the techno sound from Detroit to Berlin.
Gear used:
Korg Volca Sample
Korg Volca Bass
Korg Volca FM
Fender Micro Compressor
Mooer Black Secret
Korg NTS-1
Behringer Eurorack MX1602
Index:
00:00 Intro
00:32 History of Second Wave
02:12 Jeff Mills
02:34 UR
03:11 Story of Tresor
03:46 X-101
04:20 Detroit-Berlin
05:00 Waveform Transmission Vol. 1
05:23 Richie Hawtin
05:53 Who have we forgotten?
07:17 Recreating the sounds
07:25 Drums on Volca Sample
10:20 Bassline on Volca Bass
11:33 Fx on Volca FM
12:40 Detroit Techno Jam
14:29 Final comments

[@noir4356]

You're real! No fancy coffee cup, no clean desk, showing the audience what techno used to be! Thank you for keeping it a 💯

[@AdamVoxMusic]

Thanks!!! :)

[@martinez9905]

By far best volca jam ive seen on youtube, props!

[@AdamVoxMusic]

Thank you! 😃

[@SuperRingoffire1]

Always and education thanks Adam and great track too 👌😎☮

[@AdamVoxMusic]

Thanks!!!

[@philippebackprotips]

Sample and Bass are the ones I own and play. Add MS-101 and Zoom CDR.
Small setups can definitely pack a punch.
Born 1969 in Belgium, all this made me nostalgic!

[@AdamVoxMusic]

I was a bit too young back then, to experiense Detroit Techno when it happened, but I have really liked learning about it when I got a bit older!

[@chriskurg8940]

Love the history lesson , Love the jam ,not long enough ,please do another jam in this style . Cant believe the sounds from these little volcas . My volca bass and drum will be here in a few days !!😅

[@AdamVoxMusic]

Thanks for the comment! Yes I think it is soon time for me to do some more longer jams!

[@djjuno106]

Brilliant ❤

[@AdamVoxMusic]

Thanks!

[@scottfarrell1906]

Very interesting, this channel is fantastic.

[@AdamVoxMusic]

Thanks! Glad you like it! :)

[@PhilanderingBastard]

Super informative and banging.

[@AdamVoxMusic]

Thanks! :)

[@user-qp4ox8le5o]

Awesome! Can't wait to see the French house and speed garage episodes!!!!.

[@AdamVoxMusic]

Script is in the making! ;)

[@philippegabathuler7121]

Nice show :) thx 🙏

[@AdamVoxMusic]

Thanks!

[@andersonmacedo6378]

Cool. Thanks for the information.

[@GordonBraicks]

Even my wife was dancing during the jam session. And she doesn’t like techno at all.

[@AdamVoxMusic]

That's Wonderful! 😊

[@dj_0xcd]

IMHO, your lecture have reached about top tier music teachers in youtuber‼️
So educational for techno junkies like me👍😁
2nd wave detroit techno seems more like modern techno and I love that🤘

[@AdamVoxMusic]

Thanks! You are too kind! 😊

[@Mr.Tubster]

Hey Adam! This was again an impressive and high quality content again 🙂 Respect! Thanks for all the shared knowledge, Tubs 🙂

[@AdamVoxMusic]

Thanks! C ya! 😊

[@iksman5237]

Классное техно в твоём исполнении. Cool techno in your performance 👍

[@AdamVoxMusic]

Thanks!

[@PFDarkside]

When I think of Techno, this is what it think of. Well done.
I know you are dance music focused, will there be any ambient focused episodes? French House seems like a great next video.

[@AdamVoxMusic]

Thanks! I can maybe later look into ambient. You have the 1990s White room ambient and the 2000 Cafe del mar ambient. Both are interesting!

[@bigkik]

As a technohead from back in the days, your jam was perfect ! Have to recreate it myself with my dawless setup ! Thank you for sharing !

[@AdamVoxMusic]

Thanks! Happy jammin' ;)

[@RaquelFoster]

I love what you're doing! Just low-key videos from a guy who loves the music!
I can't believe I'd never heard of Blake Baxter!
Techno was definitely more popular in Berlin, but it started getting some airplay in the US in the early '90s - at least on smaller Detroit/New York/Chicago radio stations. But there was a thing called the Telecommunications Act of 1996 which killed it. It was a law which allowed big companies to buy all the radio stations in the US. So it quickly turned into a few companies playing the same pop songs over and over. The law actually said they weren't allowed to buy a radio station just to shut it down - they couldn't have dead air. They had to play music. So they would buy the little stations then play awful music on a loop for months until they switched the station to pop music. One station in Ohio played nothing but Louie Louie (from the 1950s!!!) for a month! Hip hop was popular with kids and got airplay, but not house/techno. And then when Napster became a thing, it was Oakenfold and Sasha & Digweed and all those guys who started getting noticed in the US because all the Radio 1 / Global Underground sets were on Napster. The first time I even heard good electronic music was when I pirated a game called Wipeout XL for PlayStation, and the soundtrack had Chemical Brothers and FSOL and Prodigy. I was really into Aphex Twin and Autechre, but I never heard the good Detroit/Berlin stuff till maybe 2010.
The origins of techno was definitely a mix of Detroit and Berlin and a lot of other places! Nobody ever mentions New York, but Joey Beltram was one of the most popular techno DJs in the US. And there's some early '80s Nitzer Ebb tracks that are sooo techno, and they're British. It's funny how nobody even had names for the music. EBM definitely wasn't something I ever heard when I was a kid. And when Kraftwerk said "Techno.... Pop!" it just seemed like a cool lyric.
I live in Dallas now and it's cool that they actually have a little club called It'll Do that actually gets big techno DJs coming through. I've seen Carl Craig four times. He's one of my absolute favorites. Robert Hood and Kevin Saunderson come through about once a year. Here's a little unlisted clip of me seeing Carl Craig during the pandemic when it was a bit taboo to be out 😃
ua-cam.com/video/IwaxcrfFYEk/v-deo.html

[@AdamVoxMusic]

Thanks for a great comment! It'll Do club sounds really great. I'll keep that in mind if I pass by Dallas. I've touched the New York scene a bit when I deep dived the origines of House, but maybe I can include NY some more when I deep dive into Garage House. I agree that NY deservs some more attention from me. :)

[@soundvandal3570]

This was freaking dope!

[@AdamVoxMusic]

Thanks!

[@rayderrich]

I do not like this genre of music, but I really enjoyed your history lesson and demo.

[@AdamVoxMusic]

Thanks!

[@harryperkins5425]

Excellent video my man. The deep history at the beginning of these videos is great.

[@AdamVoxMusic]

Thanks!

[@waynesilverman3048]

@@AdamVoxMusic These are perfect for certain types of music (dance) can u make the kick very fat and thumping more in the volca drum if u wanted to?)

[@liamg6328]

Nice walk through and cool jam. Cheers! 🤖

[@AdamVoxMusic]

Thanks! 😊

[@jukkaniittymaa]

Being into heacy UG techno since the early 90s, I found this to be a great blast from the past and a great jam! Just would love to hear the 90s / Berlin techno made without samples. Maybe using Volca Kick for kick, but how do youo get those 909 claps and hats?

[@AdamVoxMusic]

Volca Drum can be used to create very 909 like drum sounds.

[@mike_qbik]

New sub here as well. Amazing jam. Love what you can do with Volcas. Will dust mine off ;-)

[@AdamVoxMusic]

Thanks! Dust it off and jam it! 👍

[@peterbense5650]

tech house!
(hälsningar från bromma!)

[@AdamVoxMusic]

Japp, Tech House måste göras!

[@Kung_Fu_Jesus]

If it’s not red-lining on the desk, it ain’t techno

[@AdamVoxMusic]

True, so true. 😊