The BOA Guide To Real Hard Techno

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thread turned into "Youtube propa techno thread" copy, irrelevant to the topic really quickly.
It ended up exactly as i was expecting, people putting the names out of the hat, put there some friends, some of their works etc. Many artists putted here are not producing anymore, some of them still producing, but not doing techno at all. many artists doing conga bonga, i don't think we can call hard techno.
now on page 7, did we move somewhere on the topic?
then yeah stupid thread if you ask me again.

ah k, that's a bit clearer. I personally thought this thead was aimed at if someone came along without a clear understanding of what hard techno is and still thinking scooter make the best hard techno evar.

The stuff being posted from Youtube is pretty much the only way we can put examples of what people here view as hard techno, it's not a competition to show who knows what hard techno is and what hard techno isn't, because as I found in many cases it's really hard to put you finger on a genre.

And also as I've come to realise from this thread, I personally like that solid chicago stuff, but like most other people I've got an eclectic record collection and there's stuff I would of thought as not hard enough to play in a hard set, but I know now that it is because it's still driving and progressive and I've got the views of others to at least go by as a guide.

As for posting our own stuff, well you've just said a very good reason for that, the artists that did make stonking hard techno tunes don't anymore, they've seen the money and have followed that (I'm not a believer of the old excuse "we're searching for a new sound"). Where it's left a hoard of clubbers who have a history of getting mashed to 10+KW PA at some local asylum rinsing out the most abstract tribalistic beats till 8am. It's still frowned apon by a huge section of modern society in the UK, yet it's so similar to what the tribes slowly being wiped out by modern society do to celebrate their existance. I get more and more baffled by what is classed as progress.

I'll keep enjoying and producing stuff in this specific genre for a very long time, whilst everyone else changes taste and moves to other things. The combination of raw analog sound and intelligent sequencing you just don't hear in many other forms of music imho.