Just read through all the comments and have to say out of all this , I give massive credit to Dj Amok , who didn't take or appear to take any offence to the comments at all. That's the only way to do it , cause if you all wanted to produce records that were going to be accepted by most people then Techno would not be the genre. Techno enthusiasts are the most crticial ( I may be wrong here cause I only love techno don't pay attention to much else as passionately) , on every forum you get as much praise for a guy as you do slander. I personally prefer to see a bit of constructive criticism and I do believe folk should speak their mind. There is nothing worse to me than folk always sucking up to folk just cause they are a big name , surely none of you want that. Some people criticise nothing so they can conform or be accepted easier , there is no point in that whatsoever , just as there is no point in saying " ach that's pish".

I think the reason that there is a clash is that Death on a stick appears to me to have old school beliefs and possibly isn't prepared to accept certain pieces of music because they don't seem to him to have any real musical substance or add anything NEW to the genre( in his opinion). I would hazard a guess and say that he possibly leans towards Detroit style techno ,something that he feels has more real substance to it ( this is a complete guess). I do like the way he expresses his opinion and would say that you can't really say he is being flippant because you can only take it the way you read it , if you already think he is like that then you will automatically read his posts that way. That said , I am still to see him say anything good about any records or anything on the site , who knows , maybe one day.

Anyway , I am off to downlaod Amok's tracks and give them a listen. take it easy boys