Techno heroes

right...before I decide to get Underworld as best duo/trio of all times this week

starting another thread, to my pal...the french frog...richard

list yours and I may get around to doing some thread...when I can be arsed

Dave Clarke
Jeff Mills
Belleville Three (Atkins, May and Saunderson) with the 2nd generation of Blake Baxter, Carl Craig, Stacy Pullen and Kenny Larkin
Ben Sims
Dustin Zahn
Liebing

list goes on!

Andy, i could not get into techno when names like you listed above were ravaging crowds....

Although the new breed of techno kings i am starting to warm to, Umek, Beyer, Spektre, Pig & Dan are doing some really cool stuff. I know some of these guys mixes hinge on the side of house, for me this makes the straight up techno much more bearable..... Umek turned my head with a few of his live shows starting late in 2010, his live shows are da shit!

Just my two bobs worth

Hmm, will do off-the-top-off-the-head

Carl Craig
Adam Beyer
Marco Carola
Derrick May
Dave Clark
Surgeon
Jeff Mills
Thomas Schumacher
Ben Sims
DJ Rush
Monica Kruse
Chris Liebing
Mistress Barbara (when she used to spin only Techno back in the day, she was immense)
Laurent Garnier
Sven Vath
Marco Bailey

Also Check This :

https://soundcloud.com/bas-mooy/bas_mooy-3

https://soundcloud.com/drumcell/drumcell-live-berghain-2012

this is fucking immense....

audio injection is immense as well

his set with drumcell at berghain (7 hrs) is amazing, well skip the first 2 hours, too slow for my liking,

There are so many great artists at the techno scene that its sick but my pick technically and dj skills:

1: Carl Cox (don´t think ive seen him use headphones? :) )
2: Luke Slater aka Planetary Assault Systems
3: Sven Väth
4: Adam Beyer
5: Cari Lekebush
6: Mark Broom
7: Alex Bau
8: Ben Klock
9: Surgeon
10: Gary Beck

Carl just has the headphones around his neck as decoration  

Luke Slater is top notch but you forgot Dave Clarke!....mr.play with the EQs and the scratching himself.

Ben Klock is amazing...deejay wise. So was his EP...the one with Napoleon Hill on it...top class

Producer wise, you have to add Marcel Dettmann and his nasty as feck album from 2010 called DETTMANN. Just as Richie says, wish it was mixed

Surgeon and Regis aka The British Murder Boys are also just top class. They tend to play up for it, HARD TECHNO

Drumcell has to be up there, his berghain mix from earlier this year was top class. Plus he always brings it.

Ben Sims as well....

I loved the older Jeff Mills sets, where he played the usual hard techno but played the best part of the record then moved on like 2 mins later and he was playing 3-4 decks. My fave is his set from I  Love Techno 1999 with Laurent Garnier.