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One of the funniest techno remixes on YouTube is undoubtedly the remix of the spartan movie 300. The clever remix artist humorously cut together various pop cultural highlights including Star Wars, Saturday Night Live, and television shows like My Name is Earl.
Musically, the remix is weak and repetitive without as much creativity as the video counterpart. While the music remix isn’t the greatest or most original, the video itself is certainly funny enough.
What is this thing called techno?
No doubt most of the modern world has formed some kind of associated meaning with the word techno and the musical genre and culture associated with it. Most would imagine it to be “club music”… that beat-heavy pulsating that jingles along above the heads of sweating, swaying ravers. Others think of a mad house of synthesizers and beeps.
All accurate to a certain extent but the reality behind electronic music is that it’s not a completely futuristic genre. Techno is a specific sub-genre of electronic that has roots in Detroit, where European synthesizers mixed with afro-beats and dance music. Rarely does this form of electronic music have vocals. Usually steady beats with drum machines, turn tables, or loop-sequencing machines.
The most well-established theme in techno is the futuristic techno-spiritual flavor given by its cadenced trance-like percussion. Techno itself seems to serve a cultural purpose in embracing technology to enhance human expression rather than the dismal fear mindset brought on by the bloating of the industrial era.
Rather than fear or resent the ongoing evolution to more digital, and therefore less organic, modes of expression and creation, why not embrace the wave of freedom rolling over us with the progression of synthesized information and music! We have the power, thanks to the massive advances in audio engineering and digital photography to create and remix our media and our lives!
The Techno Remix represents the unique control of the individual in the brave new (and exciting) world of the 21st Century.
The world is a remix.
A techno remix.
This is the philosophy behind the electronic movement. Everything we experience in day to day reality is mediated by some form of electronic signal. It’s not something to rise up against necessarily. Consider that everything we experience of regular waking life is itself mediated by language. You see a car, the word car runs through your mind. You process what car means, how it connec
ts (via words and concepts) to other associated things or ideas. This internal monologue serves as a buffer between your mind and the reality that it’s processing around you.
This is the electronic paradigm.
Since we’re already used to experiencing the world thr
ough second-hand information, it isn’t a hard stretch to digitize that buffer zone. To turn the medium via which we interact with and experience t
he world into digital beats or electronic sounds. To images and video. Texts and Tweets. The world is
becoming a digital ocean of data, of information. Ideas floating around in a crossover zone between material reality and cyber reality.
The great part about this?
We can remix the whole damn thing.
Remixing technological data (music, video, images, etc) is a means of remixing your perception and experience of the world. Of Life.
Life is a remix.
Feel free to chop up ideas and re-imagine them. Alter and change them. Manipulate images and sounds. That’s the freedom you have as a unique human being in the Digital Age. Mix things up.
Mix up the world.
After all, the techno-world is a techno remix.
If you’re not doing the mixing… someone else is.