I hear you on this kent. Lansing, mi. be it not the biggest techno scene in the state, but we used to have competing parties on saturday nights here in '99. promoters started having a hard time getting venues, the police started cracking down, and some kids graduated. now the scene is pretty small and most of the people who do like the music feel they are either to old or they have already been there and done that.
lansing now has a couple of clubs temple and spiral but it is hard to get even 150 people on a regular bases to either of these places. which makes the bar owners want to try something different. record stores are closing, vinyl addict is gone, spin cycle is being sold to a hip hop dj, she says she will stock techno, but scottie really did not stock it anymore anyways, thank god FBC is still here john is my savior. i have been trying to figure it out, maybe its the loss of the feeling of the time? maybe it's the loss of the venues? maybe it's people stopped doing certian drugs? i really thought it was just techno but it's all electronic genres (jungle and trance). so is the electronic hype leaving? i have not really noticed an increase in rock groups coming up here. we have even lost some rock venues too. scotto lansing, mi. plaztikjezuz.com > I would just like to see techno to have enough awareness and support among > the general populace that it's a) taken seriously as a musical form b) gains > a large enough audience to support events in places other than major cities. > > Not only has techno never really entered the pop music scene in the US, > techno and dance music seems to be dying on the vine out here in the > hinterlands. A couple of years ago we could bring out prominent Detroit > and Chicago artists and not lose our shirts. No more. I don't think Iowa > is unique, either. Factors like the putrid state of the US Economy, > Anti-rave laws, changing tastes, have made it harder to find an audience > for the music. > > On Mon, 5 May 2003, Darren Longton (Marketing) wrote: > > ooooo....don't think that'll go over well with the heads in detroit. > > Don't want to get into the whole elitism thing again, but....guess heads > > will have to except that our "underground scene" will eventually be a > > POP-MTV-CEO controlled genre....if it becomes the next hip hop. I > > mean...I LOVE hiphop...but it's getting a little too...well...MTV!! >
