"Leave your egos at the door please. Our security and stuff are
friendly. you won't have to be 'picked' to get in as long as you
are true to the scene." Some words out of a detailed and likable
info-text from the backside of the booklet that is about the history
of the club and the situation of techno in the US and the early 90s.
This cd is very rare, I searched for it on ebay for more than 7 years
and it was about the same time in my Discogs-wantlist. It is often
mixed up with a later produced relase with nearly the same title.
The sound is between techno, hard techno and hardcore and the denotation
'tekkno' fits very well because release-date in 1993.
The text says: "The music featured on this compilation will stand up to the
hardest Rotterdam sound and at the same time will even come close to Germany's
Mayday compilations. A sound that does exist anywhere else in America."
Nearly a perfect descirbtion I think.
On the track "Peace, Love and XTC (Remix)" you find components of tracks
from the famous Mayday "The Judgement Day" compilation from 1993.
I wondered that a rap can sound so well over the power bass-walls made by
Frankie Bones, because normaly this was a sign of a commercial direction
of the production. But this is the first spoken Underground statement that sounds
real underground (by Frankie Bones). The first track is a 1A track to show what
party is like in the Caffeine-club. It gives you the power of dancing in the hot
crowd of the legendary stormraves - a related event to the world of Caffeine.
On both places played X-Crash, Frankie Bones, James Christian and the other dj's
the crowed into the thunderground:
Most of the techno-heads all over the world know what the rythm of this guys is like:
Very stomping, with a groove unbelievable for this speed of each tune.
Made with those crazy analogue machines.
This cd is one of the pearls in every top techno+acid+house++trance+hardcore
- collection, so if you are the very lucky person who can buy it...