Quote Originally Posted by module View Post
personally, i always found 'wonky' as jus a descriptive word for techno that was quite shuffly & had wacky bendy synths with jerky percussion.. i used it the way i use the words hard, deep, linear, stripped... not as a genre, but as a way of describing the feel..

for me, the zenith of this was artists liek Landstrumm, Vogel, Lidell, Begg, Schmidt, Berkovi, Subhead.. on labels such as Drought, Sativae, No Future, Tresor, Scandinavia, Penalty.. all back around 94 thru 98ish.. i always enjoyed it, but i found it pretty awkward to mix the way i started to go with my djing.. it jus didnt lend itself to 3 deckin or using extra drumachines or the like.. almost too individual to be used as dj tool for layering.. lots of it felt like individual tracks as opposed to components that would be used in a set to create sumthin new.. if ya follow me..

but,like anything, some clubs were jus playing it all night.. 5 hours of anything gets pretty dull when its the same vibe at the same pace..

theres a style of techno that is quite eccentric & spikey.. but to try & nail it into a box is stupid.. imo :)
Thats pretty much the crux of it .. only thing i have different views on is the need to layer stuff over stuff/3 decks/with drum machine... I guess thats a different thing again.. like wanting to create a slab of sound from different elements, as opposed to wanting to create a set/journey full of tracks that don't need to be layered cos they're already there.. Different philosophies... int techno great!