Quote Originally Posted by crbn
Another thing regarding the quality of the music thats out there, but probably not on topic >>

I'm always impressed by how supportive DnB heads are of new producers. Check out Dogs On Acids production boards, Spinwarp or google for DnB Production:

http://www.dogsonacid.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=4
http://www.spinwarp.com/

There are discussions on arrangement, sound design and so on. Maybe it's because its a more popular style (??) but there's also more of a desire to help each other out and forward the scene as a whole. Every techno board out there has its own Production forum, but as a whole they're not up to the same standard.

So true, i have come to the same conclusion. This must be a techno-related problem, not related to countries. You could ask just about anything related to production on the german techno board I'm on and the first thing you'll hear is: There's no formula, find out yourself and so on... Obviously, if you are determined to create techno music, you will, but where's the problem in helping others? Does one have to go through such mental pain at times in order to be a tech-producer???

Sure as hell, you will never find any 'real' help on arrangement (say a techno-tool broken up into its parts etc. , on a techno board, this is somewhat strange, i find, compared to the amount of tutorials on d'n'b/trance/hip-hop and so on.

I suppose lots of tech-producers fear to give 'real' advice, because the people they're giving that advice could progress to fast, becoming some kind of 'enemy' shortly after.