Quote Originally Posted by tocsin
Quote Originally Posted by acidsaturation
I go out and listen to techno that I like, and like stuff as long as it
inspires me - "Acid", "Pure", "Shranz" or "what-the-feck-ever"... I don't quite understand all this anymore, but
love techno...
That's pretty much what I was getting at. Hell, when it didn't feel like there were 10,000 different genres, I had a hard enough time distinguishing between some. And now, respectively, classifications using the same name have had a shift in sound. For example, a guy I know who is very much into happy hardcore has pointed me to some stuff which sounds nothing like the happy hardcore I knew. So, whatever. Mix it up, have fun. The only thing I ever really liked about any techno was the energy, not wankery about why something is "technically" good or innovative. If I want that type of shit, I'll go listen to someone who mastered playing an instrument instead of programming a machine. And, keeping this on the subjective note, through my own experience I just found that a lot of the music I heard seemed to lose a lot of the energy I craved when people started getting really genre specific. As in, people making music to fit into a genre rather than just making what comes from the soul.

I with you there on the energy part .... if a tunes got that energy that grabs me then i'll buy it ... couldn't care less what kind of genre it is !