Quote Originally Posted by davethedrummer
i sort of agree and i don't
i think you guys are losing the plot sometimes when you say
techno needs to be more diverse.
it is diverse...it's just that you can't look at one producer to find the full spectrum you have to check out everyone , and think to yourself , do i like it , and can i play it?
i think you make some good points but also miss the essence of what a lot of people here are griping about. techno has a lot of subgenres which are different from each other, but few really go out and touch upon outside music and the outside world. or even other subgenres of techno!

this is what i think, boiled down...

techno needs to:

a) become less fragmented
b) incorporate a more diverse set of musical and emotional influences

hearing someone spin a lot of different types of tracks is a good start, and i'd love to hear more of that when i go out...

...but i really like hearing new tracks come out that challenge my sense of what techno is and what it can achieve musically. i love secret cinema's revenge of a nerd because it does that. ditto some of the more daring swedish records coming out around 1998...particularly adam beyer's conceiled project on svek and cari's mr. barth records.