Quote Originally Posted by dirty_bass
Techno as whole has a pretty low production standard in comparison with other music.
I think I see what you're saying, but I kind of disagree.

I'm sure this has been gone over before, but I think that in Techno the lines between composition and production / engineering blur.

I've had a few Breaks tracks released over the last year or so, and Breaks production is a piece of piss comparitively. You get your drums, you get your bassline, you get your other bits and bobs, you compress everything to make it sound phat. Past that, it's all just melody etc. Edits and effects add interest, but if your bassline has enough of a hook it'll get people dancing.

You can even pretty much get away with just using presents. Have a listen to "Invincible Bass" by the Drummatic Twins, then listen to the drum'n'bass preset on FM7 and you'll see what I mean... and that tune was pretty much the biggest Breaks tune around the time it came out...

Techno on the other hand relies on you to get seriously inventive with the sounds you make, and the processing you apply. Otherwise it genuinely is "just a load of bleeps and bangs, repeated over & over", and you may as well not bother or else get lost in a sea of rather boring sub-par loop Techno.