i agree on the 5 cycles, 2000 was a great year for techno in NY, techno trance and acid was being played all over. then its dyed off into breaks and dnb garbage.

i know personally that there are alot of works being done in techno, i know for a fact my label will be putting out a bunch of banging techno trance tracks this year.

also if you look at the flow of things you can see how trance we knew in 1999 dyed off, now alot of techno is being heavily influenced with the driving synth lines that hard trance carriers.

i see the cycles as more like generations, like the new generation builds off from the previous generation. I like my techno driving and hard but also ambient and trypted out. Schranze really is taking over techno i see it, and tribal techno is really forming its own sounding genre.

well first gen would really be the old skool acid and chicago house from the mid 80's, then shyt kinda got into house in the early 90's, techno kinda disappeared then started to reemerge in 1999/2000 when trance was at its peak. now trance is at the end of its generation and techno is building back up. hardcore and dnb/breaks, alternate when one is big the other insn't and techno trance alternates too

then the outta these two families one is usually bigger then the other, hardcore is starting to lose popularity, and breaks is gaining more recognition. I see hard techno/ house growing again for its 2nd generation prolly around 2007 we will see it explode into the most poluar genre.