what's the london techno scene really like?

[sash]

Coming from Australia, i'm currently under the illusion that England is pretty much the world capital for techno. I'm imagining dozens upon dozens of techno party's every weekend in london. I read about your squat party's (they sound fuk'n maad! :) )

My mate just came back from London. He was there for a year. He loves the squat partys. Every time he went out, people kept tryin to pick his pockets.

The main things i associate with modern England is dance music (all genres), soccer, soccer hooligans, cricket, wimbledon, all the monty python films, comedy in general, the royals (fuuk there on every fukk'n front page every fuuk'n week on every fuuk'n magazine it feels like)

Basically what i'm sayin is to me, England is where it's all happenin though people from England r talkin about the current dillema in England regarding techno party's.

[anx]

england seems cool

but id rather check out brasil :)

[Rog]

i'd rather be in OZ ;)

[MARKEG]

london is great. sure if you like techno you'll ALWAYS finnd a party in the capital. and they're very good indeed. but london is not england. in fact, coming from 'up north' i have to say that london is like no other place in the UK and really doesnt represent what's going on musically throughout the country. techno is not 'popular' at all - sure you'll find little pockets of the resistance dotted about every now - these can develop almost cult like followings too. which are very special.

i think brazil is defintely the capital of techno at the moment. mind you no, i'm wrong. nowhere is really the capital. everyone does there own thing and each scene is unique in it's own right. everyone always thinks the grass is greener on the other side dont they ;)

[networkacid]

Rog - Not if you like techno!! It is farken dead here...

[Paul Zykotik]

I dunno, if you want licensed parties London is pretty poor. If you want squat parties you're laughing.

[sambo]

belgium all the way ;) hehe, a very good scene over here

but England (good producers+Dj's) and brazil and spain are nice as well, I think...

I've read some nice things about mexico as well... (wild audience)

[Rog]

Rog - Not if you like techno!! It is farken dead here...

dude - i'd be happy liven in Bris'e - just getting up, having a surf.. work.. go home have a bbq and then surf.. ;)

I'd just start big beach partys and f*k the law!

idea.. huh??? ;)

[evanrees]

Do you know of any good techno parties in OZ. I would love to hear some techno but dont really know where it can be heard in Sydney.

[Si the Sigh]

Its probably better than the techno scene in the country side...





ha ha! :lol:

[serox]

Its probably better than the techno scene in the country side...





ha ha! :lol:

Si, nice moves :lol:

[Rog]

check the psy trance party pics in the "trance forum!" you'll be amazed what can happen outside for "free!"

but i've always felt techno is industrial as such - so belongs inside warehouses etc.. imo ;)

[dan the acid man]

lmao, did they hook up the metro's in car speaker's aswell :lol:

[DJMAYA]

the only thing i know of in sydney is SWARM.

check out www.trip2space.com

[dirty_bass]

London has a huge reputaion but it is actually pretty dull for techno right now. And really, musically I would say london is probably behind the rest of the country.
Londoners are lazy to try anything new these days.

[sash]

yeah u always hear good stories comin out of Belgium regarding techno. Germany seems to b another cool word when it comes to mentioning anything about techno.

G id love to go to Mexico for a tek party. i reckon that would go right off. Im imagining dudes in poncho's, havent had a shave for a week, right off their tits, bullet belts, guns, those mexican hats, no rules......sik!

Melbourne is definitely the place for techno (underground music in general) in Australia. Sydney is a thousand times more commercial.

Si of the Sigh - awesome photo's dude :lol:

[MARKEG]

i would like to say here that yeah i think there's actually better and more exciting techno developing out of the small scenes throughout the uk, rather than london. but as usual, ppl abroad only look at london. but it's all good. we're all doing our thing eh??????????

[Martin Dust]

Are you crazy ;) London is buzzing...Outlet Collective, Split, R_V, Werk, Radar,313, Non-Stop DJ's, Haywire, Plaything...the list goes on, loads of good stuff...

[jonnyspeed]

Dale's Techno Events at www.sorted.org/london for all the commercial stuff and www.squatjuice.com for the warehouse stuff.

At squat parties generally always keep your wits about you and just don't take anything out with you would mind losing. Get to know the difference between a dodgy pikey and a hippy. but never trust a hippy :lol:

If you are a girl - always stay with people you know=never walk home alone etc.

pretty normal stuff for a big city of nearly 10m people.

Oh and buy Es not K unless you really mean to.

[jonnyspeed]

as for london vs.the rest of the world. well london has the volume of nights and some of the quality - it can be world beating