how much can techno "progress?"

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If you look at techno in the confines of the nightlub environment, then I would say it is fairly limited.

Nah it's more down to promoters geting in the same old tired acts because they are safe rather than anyrthing else. I've seen a good ew nights go off the **** hook when a DJ cmoes in who is prepeared to break with the regular style. You are one lucky bastard if you can catch Jerome Hill DJing in a club without ever eharing any of his sets as it jsut twists your head into a penguin shaped biscuit and forces your mind into broken paths of evil. I've seen Subhead play live at a club completely unprepared for their onslaught and seen the masses with big frowns on their faces wondering what the **** is going on as the normal service of 4/4 beats has not been played. Ignition Technition playing MC hammer? Forget it.

I do think strongly it's more something to do with club nights, people running nights tend to a particualr sound so they get that sound into their clubs because that is what they like. I've given up all hope of hearing smoeone like Marcin Czubala in a club, his shit is just not jakcing and kicking enough to keep crowd going who want pounders. It's down to the club, it comes back to the eternal money questions, regardless of how much club promoter A wants to not make monrey and keep it real, they actally have to make money to keep their dream alive and keep things turning over.

So yeah you do get the big name clubs withe the finalcial grounding to keep getting in the same old tired shit that you really don't want to go and see but you know you are going anyway just for the name, then you get clubs that are willing to push the curve a bit and are happy in the knowldge that they are doing their own shizzle and enjoying it and **** anyone who thinks it should be done a certain way.

At times like this I always point my way at a certain Edinburgh club called JakN who have done a remarkably good job of giving a shit load of people a good chance to get heard because the people runnuing are well into their music rather than getting someone who's going to get people through the door.

You`ve missed my point
I`m talking about approaching techno as form of dance music only, has limitations.
Techno can go beyond the dancefloor.