But the thing with good techno is that it shouldn't really endeavour to sound a hell of a lot like music that was being made ten or fifteen years ago, surely? Obviously a lot of the music on Drumcode is influenced by early techno, but I personally don't like something just because it's derived from something else. The gimmick with early techno is that it just sounded so unprecedented (for want of a better word), while modern loopy techno doesn't carry that excitement.
What you want is to be able to walk into a record shop, say, once every two weeks, and each time you visit the new records have actually *advanced* in some way beyond the stuff you were listening to on your last visit. It was probably in the mid 1990s that that sense of excitement and advancement started to drop out of contemporary techno, for me. When you look at the original manifestations of loopy techno (Axis output, the Red releases, etc), they're actually *better* than a lot of the present-day loopy techno. It doesn't look to me as if today's loopy techno has the same level of vitality as loopy techno did in 1995, and it certainly doesn't seem to have the vitality that was there in the early days of tracks like Funky Funk Funk. Brendan | -----Original Message----- | From: spw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: 12 February 2003 15:46 | To: 313@hyperreal.org | Subject: Re: (313) t-1000 interview (techno rant) | | | You also hear the influence of repetitive Detroit techno | tracks like Funky Funk Funk on techno artist like Dave | Clarke who's Red series was very influential on 90's techno. | | |
