This clip, from the film Vibrations, explains how to make techno.
And when it comes to explaining how to make techno, this version is golden.
In case you missed Vibrations when it came out, it’s about rising rock star, TJ Cray:
TJ gets the shot of a lifetime, an audition with a A & R man.
On the way into the city, though, a carload of drunks smash into his car, severing his hands. So he drops out of the business and becomes a homeless drunk.
Cray wakes up to a pulsing beat in an abandoned warehouse, where a “rave” party is in full action. To his rescue comes Anamika, a computer artist, who takes him outside for fresh air.
They become friends and eventually reinvent TJ’s career. With the help of friends, they replace his hands with prosthetics and design a metallic cyber looking suit. TJ becomes an overnight sensation as Cyberstorm.
But he doesn’t get his hands back.
In case you miss any nuggets of techno production wisdom, here’s a written version of how to make techno:
The idea is to get the vibe going.
Then you maintain the vibe with a trance inducing bass and the right lights. We?re primal, heading for cosmic, and just when you think we?re in galactic ecstasy….we go acid. It?s hardcore nutronic mutilation.
Now we get serious. See, we?re going on a psychotically calibrated and electronically executed, digitally compressed, pus-excreting journey to sonic grooviness! The world is coming to an end – but we don?t care, because we?re moon-tan nocturnal, vinyl consuming animals drifting easy through friendly space.
An analog trance, nothing can doom this groove; we?re controlling the vibe, manipulating the madness, sucking in the energy and we?ve cosmic nerving endings, telling us how to move, what to do, where to go and then we know, that it?s time to let go!
“Do you know anything about Techno?”
The answer for everyone involved in that movie, obviously, is “No.”
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LOL! James Hurley from Twin Peaks
People who dislike this are:
either jealous of the guy explaining it
or cant come close to understanding humor/comedy and take the internet too seriously
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The writers know techno, the director/producers/music supervisors on the other hand…Or they didn’t want to pay.
Imagine if this had Underworld playing behind it. And one of the cast members of hackers reading it. 
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Why does movie soundtrack techno always sound so shitty?
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I think this was the guy laying down the sound when Brendan got high on U4EA at the rave party. I think he dated Emily Valentine.
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Why isn’t this 90201 on YouTube?! Super funny episode.
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BTW, this is on Netflix instant view for the truly, truly, truly outrageous.
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Heck, after you watch the clip, the entire movie is one of the related vids. It’s on the YouTubes even!
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Thanks. Now I know how to make techno.
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I love the fact Rick Moranis pops in wearing a bum bag
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Shit I must really know nothing about techno –
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Video/Article of the month on synthtopia. It’s almost like a Mentos commercial.
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reminds me of a techno track i just finished myself.. i sat back and said “wow this sounds like something from the 90s” im not sure if its as cool as this video, though
https://soundcloud.com/invisible-acropolis/the-spark-of-creation
“It’s hardcore nutronic mutilation.”
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That could just about be the greatest movie dialogue ever written.
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I’m ready for the revolution!
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Needs more orchestra hits to be genuinely techno!
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A Jazzy Solo is what was missing on my tracks! Thank You!
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Let’s not forget the ripping action-movie guitar solo! This must be the lost Belgian New Beat classic!
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Techno!? … not by a longshot he he… sounds like a Jan Hammer wannabe :O)
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Nicely spotted. Sounds like Jan Hammer indeed.
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The complete movie is posted on youtube.
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I learned something new from this. I though techno was made by jacking off an espresso machine, or perhaps a cardboard stand-up from some Star Trek or anime epic. For me, disco and techno are pretty much the same repugnant thing. Imagine my horror at looking up recently and discovering I was writing some. I’m so ashamed. The Beat Monster got me, help, help!
Hot debate. What do you think?
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You mean you don’t like disco? What is wrong with you?
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Jesus the music is way off! The film came out in 1996!
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Even in 1996 the music was way off…
http://youtu.be/MvB-W6SJGP4
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y’all are just hating cause the cute girl came in and sat down, obviously transfixed by the psychotically callibrated nutronic mutilation.
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Bitches dig nutronics. Everyone knows that.
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I just came across this clip recently, and it is awesome. I am going to have to watch this movie, because the synopsis makes it sound like possibly the greatest movie of all time.
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I think I spotted a young Christina Applegate….yum
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Someone earlier said it was on Netflix… Screw DS9, star trek can wait, I’m watching this right now!
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It’s on YouTube and looks pretty unwatchable:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T6qS8Jh3gE
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I MUST incorporate these quotes into my next bit of galactic ecstasy
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I briefly skim read the post and thought it was a true story until a minute ago..!
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I tried watching it on youtube to see if maybe there was something good to sample but it made me cringe so hard i couldn’t do it.
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Although if you slowed down that first song during the title credit it could make a good vaporwave track…actually i’m pretty sure that’s basically what that Macintosh Plus guy has been doing for the last couple years…lel.
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was not a bad movie actually .
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Get the Korg 01/W today and kick your own nutronic mutilations!
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You can get your Korg 01/W for the low low price of $65,000! http://austin.craigslist.org/msg/3545598259.html
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