early 90's techno

I found Future Sound of London's tracks they did before Future Sound of London Existed... stuff they made under various pseudonyms like Mental Cube ("Q" is a fucking great track), Yage, Intelligent Communication (no relation to Global Communication, although I do love me some Global Communication too), and Stakker/Humanoid.  Some of it is great, some of it is god-awful.  The great stuff is... great, and I want more.

So yeah I notice there's two types of early 90's techno ... the cheesy gay-bar diva-nigger "pump it up jam jam pump up da volume" pop-techno, and then the still-cheesy, but more listenable, acid-house, semi-ambient techno music that evokes imagery of Babelistic architecture from the future on another planet.  I think Orbital's green album (ugh) falls into the former, but their brown album ("ugh" at first but it grew on me and now it's a favorite) falls into the latter.

Recommend me some stuff you think I'd like pertaining to this topic.

techno sux lolololol

Amorphous Androgynous The Orb Autechre Aphex Twin Underworld Leftfield Amon Tobin Plaid Massive Attack Squarepusher Photek The Chemical Brothers Banco de Gaia DJ Shadow µ-Ziq Shpongle

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I listen to most of those artists.  I wouldn't say most of those are what I'm talking about, though (maybe Ultraworld-era Orb, but even that, only slightly).

I found early Ken Ishii mp3s on one of my CD-Rs that matches this -- stuff he did as "Rising Sun".  While alright, it's not making me enjoyably bob my head and tap my feet the way FSOL's aforementioned cheese-techno aliases do :3

Also, some tracks on KMFDM's Money album I think also are close to what I have in mind.

The word pirahna, is all I can think of that rhymes with marijuana

Marijuana MUST be legalized.