Quote Originally Posted by SummerOfSam
Quote Originally Posted by darklight
Quote Originally Posted by SummerOfSam
Sims, Deetron, and Tobias? I would be a crackhead not to leave Jersey for this one.
I just hope they don't play too housy. I hate housy techno.
I still don't understand how people could hate house and love techno, when most hard techno contains elements of old ass house songs.
I don't. It all depends on your attitude towards techno and what parts of it appeal to you. I remember reading or hearing about all these 'techno' classic tracks that I should like, and when it came to me actually hearing them i realised i really didn't like them, many of them were house records that just didn't contain the particular rawness or feelings that got me into techno in the first place. "Strings of life" for instance or much of the original techno that has come from Detroit I'm not mad for. I appreciate their place in history and their importance in the development of techno but as tracks in their own right to my own ears I just can't feel them, in fact there's quite a lot of characteristics in tracks such as these that remind me of many of the things I don't like about dance music. Anyway, what I'm saying is probably a contradiction on paper but to me it feels right :)

Techno has mutated in many which ways so the house records of old even if they are sampled into new techno still aren't always visible or apparant enough to force themselves into people's psyche, thus making them like house. Someone could be extremely into the deep, dubby sound of Germany but that doesn't mean reggae mightn't get on their nerves.