Quote Originally Posted by dirty_bass
[And not fearing a response.
Taking risks and just making music for the sake of it, forget the marketing, that can come later.
yes, yes, YES!

making music is, ultimately, about expressing yourself as best you can. how can you express yourself if you've already figured out what it's gonna sound like? or if the tracks you are making have nothing else to them but a sense that you want to rock a very, very specific dancefloor?

straight up party tracks are fine and dandy, and there are just too f***ing many of them now. it was said on another thread that techno people bitch too much about how sorry the state of techno is, and that might be true, but this is my opinion, and mine only. i don't look down on people who think differently, but i don't agree with them either. i got into this music a decade ago because of its amazing potential. a decade later, i don't see that potential fulfilled. maybe others do, but i don't.

what i want is to see more smart, emotional, and challenging tracks out there. besides, a song that stirs people's souls will always make people dance harder than one that just has a good beat...