Good post Tony, I totally agree, but at the same time, I know the solution is more than trying to tell people to buy more vinyl.
It`s something I`ve gone over again and again.
There is far too much self preservation and selfishness and not enough unity, for a start.
Vinyl sales are dropping, shops are closing, distributers are collapsing, we are on the cusp of a new era in terms of how music is used and distributed as a product.
Club attendance is down in the uk, I`m not sure how it is abroad, but essentially, my generation have stopped going out clubbing and have moved into the wine bar and pub culture of middle age.
We Need the Kids.
But there is no bridge between good time youth movement music (rock n stuff) that they are listening to their clubs n bars, and dance music.
Their is no prodigy, no underworld, no leftfield there to get the lager drinking kids into the complexities of dance music.
Techno is very sophisticated (in terms of presenting abstract sounds to the listener), and takes time to "get".
The problem is also that the media has had enough of dance music, so it`s not being pushed in any major way, and like it or not, the commercial success of dance music in the 90`s (ie prodigy etc) helped the underground to no end.