Hi Thorin,

I totally agree. There is way too much robotic noise out there for my liking. I mean I do like the hard hard stuff but not all the time. Like Chrissi says it depends what mood you are in.

From my understanding of current Techno, Techno is, it seems, the embrace of Man and Machine. The primary part of it is robotic, futurist and also brutalist. But that is just the Machine. The Man should be able to demonstrate what moods, emotions, atmospheres etc. can be created from the depths of our heads and I believe this really needs to come across but is sadly lacking in many tracks nowadays. There are definately too many drumtracks with just percussion and maybe a few freaky sounds thrown in.

We should be able to take people on a magic journey to a far far away land that doesn't exist (except in our heads?) - to do this properly and successfully I believe we need to add a human element to it. Surely that is the core of music in general. Some people may disagree with me here but these are my beliefs and I am standing by them, unless of course someone else has a very valid counter argument.

There is also the aspect that there are NO promoters that I know of (in the UK) who are promoting this type of Techno. It seems that the Techno room is always totally banging, hard as nails stuff. I believe we need to promote the other styles within Techno. I love the more emotive/melodic stuff and know that other people will as well if only they were exposed to it.

Some of my fave records are by Robert Hood, Sender Berlin, Planetary Assualt Systems, Laurent Garnier, Carl Craig, Justin Berkovi, Juan Atkins, Heiko Laux and loads more that I can't think of off the top of my head. This may give you an insight into the sort of stuff that I like. Also check out some of my previous posts, I think they indicate what sort of stuff I like and where I'm coming from.

Regards the scenes direction at the moment I suppose it will inevitably continue to go the hard route which is a shame, I also believe that the smaller more independant clubs will have a major part to play in how the scene develops. I hope that one day the other forms of Techno will be promoted. I also hope one day to be promoting the other forms of Techno. At the moment its just not practical but I'm damn determined!

Lets hope it changes.

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