Hard Techno

[The Overfiend]

I'll have to search it out.
I did listen to your set Mark, it seemed to really kick up at approx 17 mins.
Most of the material before that point I would have considered minimal to my untrained minimal ear.
Even artists that I looked to before have slowed it down quite a bit.
To the point where I don't consider it Hard, just more moody so to speak.
Now mind you, the speed doesn't make it hard, but some bpm's like 134 don't exactly get me feeling aggressive, or make me want to get the headnodding.

[Mattias_Fridell]

I'll have to search it out.
I did listen to your set Mark, it seemed to really kick up at approx 17 mins.
Most of the material before that point I would have considered minimal to my untrained minimal ear.
Even artists that I looked to before have slowed it down quite a bit.
To the point where I don't consider it Hard, just more moody so to speak.
Now mind you, the speed doesn't make it hard, but some bpm's like 134 don't exactly get me feeling aggressive, or make me want to get the headnodding.

Sure is more "harder" stuff now then how it's been for some years. But yea the tempo is slowed down. I slowed down a lot personally but have released many banging tunes since last year again, and more to come, even if I do lots more then just Techno these days. Just think we gotta accept the slower tempo :D I know some really neat stuff is going on in the biz, Heroes & Punish return will be a killer.

[justin schumacher]

what advent and industrialyzer are doing is whats getting me excited about hard techno again. I personally abandoned it when they stopped caring about sound quality....anyone can make a devastating kick drum with a bunch of mud around it...which seemed to be the main part of most tracks coming out for a while.

and anything above 135 is just too much for me nowadays (my younger self would be dissapointed) and even thats pushing it.....i also like to see girls on the dancefloor. girls are cool. i might get flamed for this but whatever....145bpm hard techno = cockfest...in nyc at least. maybe in a european fest its different.