TECHNO - i'm giving it up..

[messyfuture]

sorry to hear this man :cry:

good luck with your course

[eyes without a face]

good luck with whatever u intend to do but an announcment is a bit dramatic without giving the reasons why, but obviously if its personal then no hassles, just odd i find... of course as i said good luck in the course man and its a shame uve decided to knock things on the head, as it is when anyone makes a move like this really.... well unless its someone like Fergie haha

[slavestudios]

good luck with whatever u intend to do but an announcment is a bit dramatic without giving the reasons why, but obviously if its personal then no hassles, just odd i find... of course as i said good luck in the course man and its a shame uve decided to knock things on the head, as it is when anyone makes a move like this really.... well unless its someone like Fergie haha

cheers for that..

jus wanted to say bye & thanx to a few peeps

[dirty_bass]

Well good luck man.
What course are you doing?

[miss bass]

Good luck, i dont know you personally but its a shame to hear of that but if you are moving on to things that appeal to more so now then go for it and good luck.

I guess you must be upset with selling your kit

[Daire]

This will be a very positive thing in the long run. We can sometimes get so engulfed with certain things we loose perspective. Good look with whatever you choose to do in the future, your contribution was valued.

:clap:


Dáire

[Fordy]

Good luck in whatever u do, dont know who you are tbh but im pissed as fcuk anyways so heres to your future in whatver you choose to do :)

[Fordy]

fairy fu*king knob goggles i wish it wouldnt change it to that it sounds as anal as a julian clary underwear party

[Sunil]

There's one thing that really stinks about Belfast...
The main place for techno (Shine) don't have their finger on the pulse, and rarely reward their local talent properly.

The first night night I played at in Belfast was run by a guy called Colin Shields, who at the time was an outstanding DJ. The second person I played for was Pete, and again.. absolutely wicked DJ. Neither of these guys have been asked to play at Shine to the best of my knowledge, despite being in my opinion, the two strongest techno DJs in their field in Belfast. It's a joke.

Anyway, good luck Pete... do remember, you have a following here and there's always gigs for you down south if you want 'em.

[dirty_bass]

hmm, sounds like typical city party politics.

[killarava2day]

Party politics suck. In fact I find it even worse when it's techno nights / crews competing against each other. Instead of working together to get more nights out there / exposure for music, you end up bagging each others organisation, djs, type of music played, your crew not attending anothers crew night, etc. and then it falls in a big heap and nothins happens.

Certainly though, all this negetive talk bout techno and technology has gotten me slightly disillusioned to say the least. I mean, I'm so passionate about the music, everything about techno really, but I hate reading that I'm backing the wrong horse, and I hate questioning myself as to whether I'm doing the right thing i.e wasteing money on records, not buying a house and paying back a mortgage sort of thing.

Although I can't see myself changing overnight, I've been into this for too long to give it the arse.

[Internal Error Records]

I mean, I'm so passionate about the music, everything about techno really, but I hate reading that I'm backing the wrong horse, and I hate questioning myself as to whether I'm doing the right thing i.e wasteing money on records, not buying a house and paying back a mortgage sort of thing.

there is alot of brainiacs on this forum no doubt. but rest easy. this place is more flamable than napalm poured down a poofta's pants.

no one here can predict the future. even those who obcess the future are no more acurate. (the only true knowldege is knowing you know nothing)

stick to your guns, stick to what YOU love, and thats all that matters.

the level of 'group think' this forum displays is often heartening. the fact is, even 'free thinking' techno heads can become human cattle when they fight the same verbal battles over and over and over again.

if there was a 72 hour ceasefire declaired on the moronic digital vs 1200 debate. than this forum would have a breather and hopefully move on to an actual techno topic.

but alas, peoples obcession with free speech will probably prevent a ceasefire.

[andy james]

are you also giving up listening to techno ???

sad to see anyone so involved in the music give it up......personally i don't know what i would do if techno wasn't in my life!

good luck on your journey mate :clap:

[borisXHL]

i think that guy finally realized that techno stinks and hiphop rules the universe :P

[dirty_bass]

Party politics suck. In fact I find it even worse when it's techno nights / crews competing against each other. Instead of working together to get more nights out there / exposure for music, you end up bagging each others organisation, djs, type of music played, your crew not attending anothers crew night, etc. and then it falls in a big heap and nothins happens.

Certainly though, all this negetive talk bout techno and technology has gotten me slightly disillusioned to say the least. I mean, I'm so passionate about the music, everything about techno really, but I hate reading that I'm backing the wrong horse, and I hate questioning myself as to whether I'm doing the right thing i.e wasteing money on records, not buying a house and paying back a mortgage sort of thing.

Although I can't see myself changing overnight, I've been into this for too long to give it the arse.

I don`t think the talk is negative. It`s just kind of talking about how things are at the moment.
The idea of discussing the nagtive things about techno, is to work out how we can improve them, and defeat them.
Burying our collective heads in the sand is not the solution.
The good thing is that techno is full of inventive and intelligent people, so I`m sure that things can be dealt with.

[Mirsha]

I hope you're not distancing yourself from techno completely, fair enough you must have good reasons for wanting to sell off your kit and stuff but I hope you'll stilll be listening to it, shambling about clubs in a drunken torpor and still posting your opinions here and having a good rant when you feel the need to get something off your chest.

Makes me feel really bitter that I didn't make it out to the JakN you played at last year now as I'll never get a chance to hear your music where it sould be heard, thumping out the speakers are a hundred miles an hour.

When one warrior falls another will rise and take his place.

[Craig McW]

Same story the world over. Where I'm from the best DJs don't get gigs at the big shows... only those who sell enough industry tickets and do flyer drops.

When you run your own thing, it's smaller due to cash flow.... and invariably less successful cos there's no money for promo.

It's hard. Really hard.

So I can understand giving it up. It's a shame, but good luck in your future endeavours.

There's one thing that really stinks about Belfast...
The main place for techno (Shine) don't have their finger on the pulse, and rarely reward their local talent properly.

The first night night I played at in Belfast was run by a guy called Colin Shields, who at the time was an outstanding DJ. The second person I played for was Pete, and again.. absolutely wicked DJ. Neither of these guys have been asked to play at Shine to the best of my knowledge, despite being in my opinion, the two strongest techno DJs in their field in Belfast. It's a joke.

Anyway, good luck Pete... do remember, you have a following here and there's always gigs for you down south if you want 'em.

[jon connor]

no sunil. its over. dex are going this afternoon.. and the vinyl will be gettin listed & sold over the next month..

i'm out man. ive had a good run, met a lot of solid ppl, had some killer gigs & got to do things a lot of ppl only dream off..

so i'm gonna do the decent thing & bow out now before i turn into a really sad bitter old tosser who jus sits bitchin about DC & how it used to be 'back in the day when all we had was turntables... bloody laptops' :lol:

man wots the score dude ive been in the situation b4 dont give it up man its easy to see you speak from the heart ,and we need people like you in the techno scene today, f.u.c.k the tumble weeds and people who are small minded ive learnt to rise above them + mabey you can do the same ,get out there and smoke some ass on the old turntables, it`s quite clear in this post you have a lot of support and concerned people, i hope you can mabey get through this , but if not respect man and good luck with your future plans :clap: :clap: :clap: easy dude! :cry:

[audioinjection]

for many years, ive loved it..

but now i quit..

i'll not bore ya with reasons, suffice to say a huge thank you to all the punters, players, djs, promoters, dealers, riggers, doormen, printers..


cheers everyone. for everything.. :clap:

pete (doanldson)

peace out!

[Apex Beat]

Techno scenes one thing, the 'club scene' is something completely different. No one seems to get booked on talent, more how many promotors you are prepared to do some bitching for. Ah well!

Anyway mate, good luck. One more techno DJ hanging their headphones up is another chance for me lol. Take it easy and best of luck with your course.