Whats your techno scene like?

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[twieq]

in addition to what Pulze said about the belgian scene:
there still is a good scene, but it moved -to use a cliché expression- underground. You have to search a bit to find the wright parties.

Clear Cannel indeed made a mess of our scene in the last few years. Killed some good initiatives and putted nothing instead.

An other annoying thing is that everybody these days wanna throw parties or play dj. Not because they love music, but just because they love mainly themselves and need some attention.
And then you get an overkill, 15 parties on one night is no occasion anymore......if they all served quality, I would have no problem with that, but unfortunaltely, that isn't the case.

But.....after 12 years, I'm still enjoying myself in the belgian scene :lol: and many times I realise myself that after all, living in Belgium is a good thing when you love electronic music. And when we are tired of the belgian scen, we just get in the car and drive to Holland :lol:

[mattboyslim]

nottingham, england

scene = student techno

i havent even bothered going to the nights here cos i know what sort they attract. people that think its cool to go to techno nights that don;t even really know what techno is.

firefly is doing well for itself, mixing it up between house breaks and techno but it is very studenty, so lacks the hard raw edge.

stealth opened recently and is being described as the fabric of the north. with a slogan like that its definately scaring the purists away. we got some nice little clubs up here, like the bomb. tiny place but quite cool, apart from the crap atmosphere due to extemely low ceilings (its built in caves)

i promote a night with some mates under the futuresound banner, called discipline. currently on hold as the club is being refurbished but when were back up and running we hope to get some nice undeerground techno on the go with breaks and electro rippin up the backroom

[anx]

here i n calgary i just threw my first party
it was a small one, about 250 people
it was all techno in the main room, and triphop, live stuff, funk and breaks in the lounge.

it really went off. people were loving the techno. i realized if i want the techno scene here to take off, i cant just sit here and wait for someone to make it happen....gotta try something myself

we also do free illegal parties outside during the summer that are all techno,dark breaks and drum and bass too. first one is next week :)

people out here love techno, its growing, hopefully in the next few years we can start to see some actual techno jocks come out!!! the only ones who ever come here are chris liberator and dave the drummer and mistress barbara a few times....not that that is a bad thing, but i would love some more diverse headliners.....

you just gotta start small right?

[Stella Boy]

Fly me out there, I've always wanted to go to Canada, Beautiful country. ;) :lol:

[anx]

it is quite beautiful i gotta say :)
i love the summers but the winters here are terrible
minus 40 degree's anyone?
snowboarding is fun tho ;)

[jake]

small.

[Stella Boy]

it is quite beautiful i gotta say :)
i love the summers but the winters here are terrible
minus 40 degree's anyone?
snowboarding is fun tho ;)

Minues 40 degrees . One of my mates has married a Canadian and has moved over there so I'm hoping I may get over there at some point.

[dan the acid man]

nottingham, england

you dont like pure filth then

[dtl]

Plymouth - UK

With marjority of students being dragged into the Drum N Bass and Hip hop sence, which I also enjoy, it leave not so much room for techno IMO. Clubs are overdosed with students flavour and most bang bang punters go to the Monopoly club Dance Academy for their trance, okay Mark Eg comes every now and then to shape up some techno beats.

Just before I left for Amsterdam we had Glenn Wilson doing a Live Pa for Oorpi, and OBI djign as well. Five Shades of techno you can catch the legenery Dougie, who is monster of a dj, he singlehandedly forced me to keep up my skills.

I played at a lot of free parties around the Moor (One of the few national park in the UK), the site is surreal and the sunrise would just shift you into third gear and the police are always there to chat looking after the crew rather than shutting parties down.

I will leave Exeter and surrounding for Si the Sigh.

Eric.

[dirty_bass]

London is pretty stale these days.
The choice is gangster ridden squats, or one or two other nights that either play acid techno, or the more pure end of techno.
Same names week in week out.

I hope we can open things up a little bit.

[Kangxi]

Come on you Brazilian nutters, we're waiting! must be bangin in SP and Rio...

anybody out there from BA or Montevideo? would love to hear about your scenes as well.

[Greg Dee]

our scene in LA sucks. Driod Behavior is the only crew that really supports techno...most people here like "happy hardcore" and trance. bleh.

[DROID]

small.

but fun :clap:

[mek]

Sacramento, California

Its really slow here, I would say the techno scene is almost non-existant... but with enough effort a scene can exist anywhere. We've hosted Chris Liberator, Julian Liberator, Ant, and DDR over several events in the past 2 years. We're planning an event with Aaron Liberator right now for August. The kids really like techno and they eat it up at our events, but they don't hear it after that and their interest fades, because we are pretty much the only ones doing these events.

i realized if i want the techno scene here to take off, i cant just sit here and wait for someone to make it happen....gotta try something myself

This is the right idea! Make your own scene...

our site: www.techno-truth.com

[technoticau]

Washington DC/Baltimore USA

As the rest of US, there is no regular techno nights. We always try to get Buzz (www.buzzlife.com) to book some techno, and they do it maybe 3 times a year (Hawtin just played a week ago). Several great techno djs and producers live in the area but they don't get booked locally. Bryan Zentz lives in Norfolk, VA (about 3 hours from DC) and they have their own little scene there. There are also couple crews in Philly who throw parties but nothing huge. But on a positive note I see more and more people learning/getting into Techno which is nice. I believe that Tronic Treatment (NYC) was the most important Techno night in the East Coast, but I've heard that Christian Smith is moving to Europe and they wont be doing that anymore either (correct me if I am wrong). So thats the news from east coast.

[mrbenn]

What scene lol, In cornwall there are loads of free parties, in the summer, but no clubs play techno.

Ive started my own low key techno nite, going once a month at the min. Which has been going well. Im hoping cornwall will wake up to the techno sound & stop listening to ****ing lisa lashes & lisa pin up

[DJMAYA]

great idea this posting, good reading.

here techno is small.
I have toured D.A.V.E the Drummer, Chris lib, Zebedee (restless natives uk) , Thermobee, Psynrg and response was strong.
I play out all the time but always beside HH,HD,HS djs or beside House or techhouse maybe if you're lucky. We have a strong Detroit following in the largest city.
HH,HD,HS is huge here....im always warned not to play techno at these events but of course i do :lol:

i think things here are ready to explode but need to be ignited in the major citites. I have no money to run events at the moment. but im sure if and when someone gives it a good push it will go.
The strong reactions i get here whenever i play indoors and outdoors gives me hope:))

the one thing that makes me laugh here is that when the night ends everyone goes home generally.....no arguments....hehehe

[mattboyslim]

nottingham, england

you dont like pure filth then

oooh shit. forgot pure filth. proper proper night. mind u it is in lenton. practically a city of its own with all those students!!

[djvartan]

here in New England there is NO scene! im like the only techno dj here. this place sucks big time.