8) Hello, everyone and thanks for replying to my other questions, to S.Zillinga and the others who help me out thanks again for pointing me in the right direction.

This is a question that just came out of nowhere, lol.

My question is this, I dont know how long Christian Techno has been around I am more familiar with the Secualr scene because thats what I grew upon on.

I was wondering if anyone has any old school Christian Techno mixe's or if any are underway. I really like the sound of the old Techno from the 90's. Recentyl I stumbled on Paul Coopers mix sets and I thought they were really good but after awhile I felt God was telling me to get rid of them so I did. Prodigal sons are pretty good, I have thier live CD its a double one its ok I guess, but I like I stated before I prefer intrumental , the live set has too much speaking for me and thats not really my thing. If songs are gloryfying God thats awesome, but too much vocals can be over the top  unless its a Hillsong performance than I understand. Ok, thats enough of my ramblings for now. Thank you for reading my post.  :P  :laugh:  8)

www.dj404.com (http://www.dj404.com)

Good sir, I would venture to say that Christian "techno"-ish music begain with either Adam Again or early industrial like Circle of Dust/Brainchild.  Most people will cite Scott Blackwell, AJ Mora, and Brian Scroggins as major players in the early scene.  Dance House Children was a candyflip style of the early rave scene about 91 or so and Joy Electric hit about 94 but there were many startups prior to that soon after 2 Bad Mice "Bombscare" in 92 or so methinks.

Steve Taylor was most likely sequencing synths in the studio in the mid eighties, and anything on Blonde Vinyl was basically a response to 4ad (This Mortal Coil (heavy use of samplers, ensoniq workstations) etc) in the late 80's. 

The first 4x4 kick drum pattern in Christian music?  I would venture to guess it happened near Miami or Puerto Rico, perhaps D-Boy's "God's House" - circa 1985-1987 or so.

andy, why'd you put my link there? Kinda odd?

For me, Christian Dance music may have it's "roots" in some of those groups, but for legit DJ spinning stuff you need to look at 1990-1992. Scott Blackwell has often been credited as the Godfather of Christian Dance Music. Sure there were some people who were doing "danceyish" sounds prior, but it was (mostly cheesy and aweful sounding and) not legitimized until Scott Blackwell teamed up with Michael Sean Black and helped launched MYX Records, which was a sublabel of Frontline Records.

Scott released the first Christian mix CD in 1992, a 20 minute sampler of the music from MYX Records. He also released two albums at the same time, "Walk On The Wildside" and "Myx'd Trip To A Gospel House". The first Christian TECHNO album was also released in 1992 by "Jyradelix", compliled by members of the industrial act Mortal. It was very groundbreaking and easily went up against anything that rave dj's were spinning at the time.

Sadly enough, all that I am mentioning is no longer available. I, from time to time, bust out the oldschool stuff and play it on my show. I might just do it again soon.

Yeah, man!    I have been into the techno and dance stuff since almost the beginning. 

My first cassette I bought was the Zero: Ravenous record. You can find it on Amazon now for like a hundred bucks. But maybe some other site has it cheaper.  It is a classic jaunt into amazing beats and techno tunes.   I still listen to it occasionally.  It still holds some great tunes and manages to not sound as dated as it actually is.

Another one that got me hooked was World Wide Message Tribe: Take a long hike. 

But I think fondly on all those first amazing records. The Prodigal Sons: Texno Theology and the Prophecy of P.A.N.I.C.: Manic Panic were among my favorites.  Then bring in some early Scott Blackwell stuff and some of the MotionFactory tracks and that classic classic piece of work, Jyradelix, and you are in a good place.

But unfortunately, like 404 said, most of that stuff you can't get anymore.  And if you can get it you only find it for high prices or by looking through the entire internet. (it is buried there somewhere).

As far as mixes go, I would first hit up http://www.dj404.com/main/mixes.htm and scroll down to his earlier mixes.   Still not as oldskool as you are looking for but definately worth checking out. There are some mixes floating around if you look.   

Hope that helps.

z.

ugh...Scott. those are all dead links, remember? You're working on my site where the new links are supposed to be posted! LOL

Oops.   404 is right.    Those links are dead until real soon.
We are waiting on someone (not mentioning any names but his initials are sz) to get the artist sections on the site done.

I will get them fixed this week.

z.

 8) Awesome, I look forward to the fixed link's. I listen to DJ 404 often, good mixes. Hopefully I will be ablie to find some more Old School stuff, if not then oh well. Thanks again.  :laugh:  8)