you know, i made a collection of tracks last summer...sort of techno, sort of idm, sort of whatever...loosely based on ideas from old school chicago and 8-bit video game music...it struck me that i have absolutely no idea what labels might be interested in stuff like that...it's not hard enough for had techno labels, not noodley enough for IDM labels, glitchy enough for microhaus labels, detroity eough for detroit labels, etc.

that's when it hit me that techno, this music i've loved for over a decade, has become worryingly insular, too inbred, and shattered into dozens of small and precise subgenres.

there are some great records out there, for sure, but most are refinements of what's already been establised as standard. not that my stuff is so great or anything (that's not up to me to decide), it's just that there seem to be fewer and fewer forums for trying out something new.