Well I'm hoping he's just pissed off with losing money and won't be giving up completely. I'm sure there are a shed load of people out there that should be willing to give him some dosh to make records for them to release as his stuff is rather fiendish.

Certainly some of the stuff he points out I've seen coming for a while, the sterilisation of techno as it becomes influenced by the mainstream and the punters become less discerning about whats played. But I've always said it never matters how much generic shit is put out there, the people who spend their lives devoted to techno learn how to split the wheat from the chaff. It's less about what other people are doing, **** 'em I say, and about finding your little niche which makes you happy. It's hard for me to think about the potential shitness which is eluded to in clubs sometimes by various people as I'm stuck up in Scotland where I'm not really seeing any of these issues coming into light but we're apparantly an exception.

In the end though people have to do what makes them happy whatever it is, since this is what Chris sees as being best for himself I wish him all the best in whatever he gets into next. You know he's going to be great at it from the dedication he's plowed into the fertile fields of the techno over the years. Chris has always been one of the biggest enigma's of techno to me, someone who can knock out these tracks which give you a good beasting yet doesn't DJ or do live PA's, something which is pretty much unheard of as almost all prolific producers are out there in clubs at the weekend nudging some 1210's or tweaking some knobs.