Ok, well, going back to the first post in this thread.

The whole delinear, not doing it for D`s etc thing.
Yeah, ok, fine.
If you`r not doing it for DJ`s, then why are you doing a vinyl label. If it`s music for listening, then vinyl is just cutting your audience to a niche.
If you are intending it to get played at a club, which I know you are, then you have to consider the DJ in some way.
Other wise, it won`t get played.
Then it just becomes stubborn stupidity, and not art.

As for the whole art/techno question. I`ve really dug into myself over this now.
Basically, there is very little originality left in techno now. 90% of it is regurgitation. But there is only so much you can do with the old Boom Tish.
I`ve actually been tearing myself apart over this for a while now. Because musically I want to spread out, but I also still love the power of dance music.

And therein lies the thing of the thing.
Dance music needs some kind of predictability, otherwise it just doesn`t work. If the beats were just random, then no-one would dance.
The dancer needs to know there is some consistency, so they can get into the flow, and lose themselves to the dance. It`s an ancient and primal thing.

So you can innovate within dance floor techno, but it becomes increasing difficult, as everything has been done before, and you have to retain some element of predictability and consistancy, and slowly, the real innovative stuff, gets closer to the line where techno crosses over from a dance music, into an art.

I think the natural evolutotion of this edge of techno, is to move out of the dancefloor/night club, where people just wanna dance, and into the "Gig" area, into band venues (such as the Astoria in london for example) where people are there for music, and also, maybe to dance to some of it.
Personally, I`m going to do both. I`m going to carry on making dance music for the tribal dances that go on in clubs and free parties. But I am also going to move into the more musical and experimental side of techno, but I`m certainly not doing it and expecting it to get played in a dance club.



I apologise for any repatition. I`ve had beer.