The recent dancefloor reaction to techno.

[MARKEG]

I remember when I used to play LFO to some small f'ed up club in Manchester and ppl used to come up and tell me to turn it the f off or they would kill me. Sure it was obviously going off at other clubs in UK but still techno was quite unknown and generally hated in the grand scheme of things.

I'm really noticing a change right now. Especially in the UK. Techno is being accepted in alot of different types of clubs. And on the dancefloor it's really going off.

Let me know your thoughts and experiences, cause I think we might be onto something here. Hawtin's sound is being accepting in the house clubs, Leibing is on Radio One. It's really showing on the floor.

[machina]

I agree. but i think techno is becoming a lot more digestible - much better production values and more accessible than it used to be - makes it easier for the general population to deal with. the schranz crap will never be accepted, but quality stuff is slowly becoming more accepted - techno's an accepted genre these days - people no longer associate techno with the ****ing crazy frog, so they give it more of a chance.

machina

[Jay Pace]

After the rise and fall of prog house, club trance and the big dance bands the indie kids crossed over to, Techno is about the one form of dance music left with any credibility. Techno rode out the "death of dance music" all the pseudo style journalists proclaimed a few years back, and now they are bandwaggoning back on it. When Jeff Mills played at Lost last year it got a "knowing" reference in a 'whats hot whats not' syle barometer in the fashion section of the guardian.

When we went to see him my missus spotted two really uncomfortable looking peeps in the crowd, and accused them of being guardian journalists, to which they sheepishly responded that they were.

Whilst I personally dig the 'minimal' scene (for me represented by M_NUS, Hawtin, Villalobos, Magda etc) you can argue that it is a little faddy. People like hawtin turn in an excepetional performance and have mass appeal. There are a lot of people listening to techno now who probably will drop out again in a year or two...

I don't think you can understate the importance of techno surviving the fall in popularity of ecstasy. Drugs have and always will be important, but I don't think people appreciated that people listened to techno for more reasons than just having beat to get fuked up to. In the words of Derrick May:

"I don't take a pill to feel the funk"

[dirty_bass]

Techno is my drug, I don`t need anything else to **** up the buzz.

[MARKEG]

yup derrick has said alot of good shit in his life ;)

[rowland the bastard]

i think techno is more widley accepted cause most of it is shit! more and more people are steeling a few loops off already wicked tracks and calling it there own, the clubby techno these days is more and more like house than ever. for me techno always was a term used for new up to date music, now it seems to be the cool thing to be into by chavy ****s wanting to belong to something.

keep techno new... and hard please :lol:

[rowland the bastard]

keep techno boa014!!!!!! thats the stuff meg

[S/E]

keep techno new... and hard please :lol:

That is our job.

We are here to push the music forward. ;)

[davethedrummer]

techno.........great music ..........nuff said

those who don't get it...............fools

[Technobitch]

techno.........great music ..........nuff said

those who don't get it...............fools

:clap:

[Stodgy]

You arse licker Dawn.... Just cos you fancy Henry

[rowland the bastard]

That is our job.

We are here to push the music forward. ;)

who are you?

[rowland the bastard]

techno.........great music ..........nuff said

those who don't get it...............fools

:clap:

hey technobitch, your so ****ing fit man!!!!!!!!! you da bomb baby!!!! you can bitch my techno any day.

[rowland the bastard]

techno.........great music ..........nuff said

those who don't get it...............fools

:clap:

hey technobitch, your so ****ing fit man!!!!!!!!! you da bomb baby!!!! you can bitch my techno any day.

[alsynthe]

haha dawn uve got an admirer

[rowland the bastard]

haha dawn uve got an admirer

to ****ing right mate!

[Stodgy]

haha dawn uve got an admirer

to **** right mate!

Yeah!!!

Shame he's a fvckin weirdo

[Technobitch]

haha dawn uve got an admirer

to **** right mate!

Yeah!!!

Shame he's a fvckin weirdo

ha ha ha i can take care of myself!

[Technobitch]

You arse licker Dawn.... Just cos you fancy Henry

no its coz i ****ing love me techno!

[DJMAYA]

maybe its cos of the crazy frog and his matez...

they sound soo bad that finally we're all sounding much better haha.