Quote Originally Posted by teknorich
Good point, but if you are too obsessed with the past then you cannot progress into the future. It's important to know your roots, for a better understanding of it all, but then the future lies in experimentation, trying new things, and developing new sounds.
yeah, that is def. true. but i think one of the main problems techno faces is an obsession with the present masquerading as futurism. the old guys, especially juan atkins, were obsessive about making something new, but were listening very closely to music that had come out before (kraftwerk, EBM, moroder, etc.)

it seems to me a lot of producers now think they should only listen to what's current, and not even what came out 2 year ago, let alone the classics from the early 90s and late 80s.

that's limiting and self-defeating.