Quote Originally Posted by MARK EG
I've often put it down to the fact that techno is once of the broadest genre's out there and therefore so many people have different ideas as to what techno actually should be. It has after all been with us for around twenty years.

What do you lot think?
Snobbery. As you say, techno is a broad genre. That means there's going to be a huge amount of people who think what they listen to somehow makes them better than those people who listen to something different.

It seems to me that a lot of people into techno feel that because what they listen to isn't as obvious or immediately appealing to the masses, that in some way makes them special. Hence the backlash against Prime. If someone could offer constructive criticism as to why Prime's stuff (just to use the recent example, but this could also apply to the slagging off of any style of music) is so bad, I'd give it the time it deserves. But when people dismiss it by saying it's "lame, generic, easy-access, unchallenging, boring, unimaginative drivel" and that those who listen to that sort of techno would be better off listening to hard house, as if their taste is so much more valid, that gets my back up.

I don't mean to sound overly scathing, but it's hard not to be when it comes to people thinking they are in some way superior to others.

Rant over...