well i really haven't got a problem with darkness cause i like that in techno, but i dunno how you can say that's the only techno out there cause there really is s so much more. alot of the more house based techno gives me a massive 'sunday afternoon in the sun' type smile - even though i find it hard to play it when you're doing a fri/sat night set. then there's the detroit sound - not as healthy as it used to be to still so NOT dark most of the time. i think perhaps cause this is a forum that focuses on hard and dark techno it can seem like that alot of the time but ther really is so much more techno out there.