techno scene going quiet???

[davethedrummer]

is this true for any of you?
the u.k. esp. is really going quiet right now.
sure you've got the end every so often
and billy nasty's doing a new night at the mass (brixton) i think
perhaps the festivals to an extent
but where else?
and i mean hard techno really not tech house so much
the underground clubs have been crap here recently
discuss

[T]

The nights I go out to are few and far between in london....definitley lack of a good techno scene imo. I've been going out loads for years but have been to one techno night in london in 2003, retroverts at the rocket Ben Sims etc.....that was pretty good (and free). George 4th Brixton still has the midweek techno nights i think, the 414 brixton still has nights but they often seem more trancey from the listings I've seen, base midweek has stopped, system's midweek night has stopped, they do one off nights, lost does one off nights, my local tavern has been turned into a trendy wine bar and has no more underground techno night!!
All in all apart form one off nights that are oftn expensive there;s nothing regular to going and shake yer stuff to??? free parties can still be found but sometimes I aint got time/energy to do the whole mad find a free one very weekend, sometimes I wanna go and hear some decent techno somewhere without having the get right on it and be out for days!!
should check the beat club and Billy nasty's new night, i've neard it's good so will check that at some point.
If i'm misiing some good stuff in london town post on here and let me know!!

[Patrick]

I blame the rabbits !

[T]

I think Billy nast's new night is once a month at the egg club, some new place in Kings X??

[ampassasinbirmingham]

i think u lot only think about london. The techno scene in birmingham is plentiful. We have atomic jam, house of god at subway city. Subway city have techno on every week whether it be cohesion,insurection or another random techno night. With inukshuk now running regularly there is plenty to choose from.

Dj rolando this saturday. Spoilt for choice. Those are only the commercial places. There are also plenty of underground after hours parties.

[miromiric.]

that sounds dope man. arethere any illegals in brum?

in zagreb techno scene seems to be only one constant. techno music was very first to be played in clubs back in `91. later on came other genres likehc, which died very soon, trance, which was never popular here (i dontknow if there is trance parties in zg), stupid shitty tech house for trendy and modern people (it died after a year and a half or two, thanx to sweet lord on heaven :P), drumnbass has the freshest scene here (believeit or not first d&b parties on regular basis were held like last year).

it seems like Techno is the thing here, no matter what yukie techhousers have to say about it!

[spiralx]

It does seem that in London if you want techno then your choice are one of the (plentiful) squat parties going on every week, or one of the fewer club nights. There's Nuclear Free Zone at 414, Lost is usually every month or so and other odds and ends... can't really think of anything else really.

But I'm into the more underground/acid scene anyway, so I'm generally spoilt for choice on a weekend :)

[ampassasinbirmingham]

where u from miromonic?

[T]

It does seem that in London if you want techno then your choice are one of the (plentiful) squat parties going on every week, or one of the fewer club nights. There's Nuclear Free Zone at 414, Lost is usually every month or so and other odds and ends... can't really think of anything else really.

But I'm into the more underground/acid scene anyway, so I'm generally spoilt for choice on a weekend :)

yeah London's always good for free ones, it's just myself have trouble these days getting mates and myself to have the energy or time to go to them......the last couple of years I like to go out in the week here and there, less of a rip off and some good nights on (til recently they're now few and far between) to hear good tunes, rather than a full night out on the weekend all the time Used to play at a night in the week also so gutted that stopped.....just my personal preference at this time in my life.....I love my techno but can't handle full on nights out at the weekend all the time with working full time etc etc :cry: . so apart from the odd night playing out or going to a big night there is a serious lack of good techno nights in my life......I'm now a burnt out lightweight, sorry the missus is a burnt out light weight

[bass2rez]

Portsmouth has some bits and pieces going on.. There's Release running every couple of months roughly, and is always good.

Breakneck is roughly every couple of months, which is primarily a drum and bass night but has a techno room as well.. Seen Chris Liberator, Lawrie Immersion, DDR and Tobias Schmidt down there this year so far..

Geushky is a really good techno night, but seems to have gone from monthly to quarterly these days.. bit of a shame that is, so I guess thats a sign of it going a bit quiet down here as well, davethedrummer.

I usually jump on a train and get myself along to Lost in London when that's on..

I can't really afford to go out every weekend, so, there's enough to keep me busy.. :)

Cheers,
Steve

[spiralx]

T, I know what you mean about squat parties - they're definitely quite a heavy night out even when you don't intend it to be :) I probably end up at one every month or so, definitely couldn't do them any more often nowadays...

[miromiric.]

where u from miromonic?

zagreb, croatia.

you fancy coming down on a party?

[Patrick]

where u from miromonic?

zagreb, croatia.

you fancy coming down on a party?

Watch out Amp, this ones a wrong un ! He's after your kidneys......or worse ! :P :lol: :lol:

[matt303]

:( Down ere in de west country it's all about hardtrance and hardstyle, despite patrick's quality night once a month in weymouth i cannot think of a single techno night running within a hundred mile radius. It's a nightmare as a fan of techno, and a dj. :cry:

[miromiric.]

where u from miromonic?

zagreb, croatia.

you fancy coming down on a party?

Watch out Amp, this ones a wrong un ! He's after your kidneys......or worse ! :P :lol: :lol:

its all in the daily job for an eastern european black market organ dealer.

[Adverse]

where u from miromonic?

zagreb, croatia.

you fancy coming down on a party?

Watch out Amp, this ones a wrong un ! He's after your kidneys......or worse ! :P :lol: :lol:

its all in the daily job for an eastern european black market organ dealer.

hahahahahahahahaha

[davethedrummer]

actually mat 303 i'm glad you mentioned weymouth
i played there a while ago and had a real blast
patricks great and the club was pretty full
had a good time getting pissed after too
although i ended up on the floor in the bathroom
oops.
but yes it's true techno seems to be dying (in london)
i know certain areas are still going strong
but i don't really mean the lost's and the h.o.g.s more your trancentrals and nuclear free zones y'know the small parties where you and your mates play and it's cheap and fun not the big ones where the "stars" play
they'll always be around to an extent.

[DJ Corbzy]

you were wikked in weymouth dave....quality night :D

[The Divide]

its all in the daily job for an eastern european black market organ dealer.

I am in need cash, sell you a kidney for a fiver!!

As for the UK techno scene, in leeds theres all kindsa nights on however alot of my friends go to the orbit every two weeks and moan alot about "how its not how it used to be". Fair do's the place isnt packed like it used to be and some of the D.J's dont play hard enougth but with sugeon paul damage and regis live coming up to me its as good as its ever been if not better.

[MARKEG]

i have to say DAVEy that to me, the techno scene is exactly the same in the UK as it always was. ie totally underground, totally special and totally rockin if you know where to look when i discovered the london scene many years ago, i couldn't believe how 'big' techno was down there. somehow it just felt more 'techno' than anything up here (ahemmm apart from the orbit of course). totally mind blowing.

but that's changed in my eyes.

it seems like london has more ups and down because there's such a huge concentration of ppl. as far as i'm concerned, as long as everyone else just keeps trying to do there thing, trying to make a change - then everything is great.

but thank god eh? as long as we all know our market/goals/love and keep trying to do something new????????????

i don't believe anything has changed. those who try to take music forward are still trying to take music forward. those who aren't unfortunately have quicker access to the future. but the difference is still as blindingly obvious :)

am i just talking bollox??????????????? hahahaha :lol: :lol: