i've got to agree here. this list seems to concentrate a lot on a sound thats almost 20 years old. your tastes have to grow with the music and if you want to listen to, and pursue production along the lines of something that was released 20 years ago, have at it. but no one on this list is qualified to say that the new stuff is better or vice versa. if you dont like it, dont listen to it, and dont buy it. but a lot of people like the old stuff and a lot of people like the new stuff and the same things you may hate about new techno could be the exact thing that people enjoy in the same music.
techno is not only a music, its a medium through which you deliver energy to the audience, be it one person reading a book, or 1000 hardcore techno heads in a warehouse in detroit. I for one am glad that the new stuff is different. that sound is nearly 20 years old. if I want to hear it, there is plenty available, no need for me to waste my time recreating it. techno is like michigans weather. if you don't like it now, just wait 5 minutes. :D -Joe 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. | | |
