It's dance music NOT anally-retentive shoe-gazing analytical introspection music.
yeah... try telling some ppl that though... if i want to listen to anally-retentive shoe-gazing analytical introspection music i will. i do most weekends in the car. but this board, this whole club culture, the music that blackout audio releases, jeff mills - it's all dance music. sometimes i wish some people would realise that before calling saying it's not 'techno' or calling it mindless four to the floor fodder. it happens occasionally on this techno forum and i wish it would stop. not that dancefloor techno shouldn't be analysed though - but there's a time when analysis should stop and your heart should take over.

anyway back to your next point:


Ask yourselves this : How many times have you been on a dancefloor when someone has dropped a tune that made you smile, that made you laugh out loud, that made you want to scream and shout or that's brought a tear to your eye just from the raw emotion of the tune itself ? Probably a fair few times, I'd guess.
Now ask yourselves how many times a mix has made you feel any of those motions ?
every weekend. every mix i do. every dj i listen to. it's my job and as such i'm automatically like this. i'm sure most dj's on this board are. a hour of continuous music is amazing when you detach yourself from the mixing but unfortunately after 20 years of mixing myself, analysing the technique of mixing until i'm blue in the face, i just cant detach from everything unless the dj can mix well.

sad but true.