Hmmm.

Played d&b way before I finally made the move to techno, and I still love the music, it has an energy that you just dont find with other forms of dance music.

But..

There are far too many completely f*cking useless d&b djs out there. Honestly, god awful muppets who sound like they have won a competition and somehow ended up being famous. Too many headlining djs do nothing innovative, creative or even show basic competency. Its not enought to just turn up with a box of dubs, and expect that alone to knock the crowd dead. The djs in the d&b scene are piss poor compared to some of the technical skill and artistry found in techno. Marky, Craze and others are notable for their skills but there are still too many london rudies blagging there way into headlining slots all over the country, seemingly on the basis that they were mates with all the big guns "back in the day".

I get frustrated at going raving and finding a club full of 17 year old pikey kids, burbery capped and opened shirted gurning at each other and squaring up to anyone who can be bothered to take an interest. But then maybe clubs are different outside of the south east. I know the situation is a hell of a lot better in Europe.

So d&b itself - quality, but somewhat marred by lazy djs and the inevitable idiots who bandwagon with any type of music "the face" or other pseudo style magazines deem cool.

Rant over.