Hello folks.
I`ve decided to take a sabatical from these forums now.
Various things have happened culminating in the madness of the other day.
I`ve realised that my philosphy and path in music is to push forward and try to develop artistically, and also to try to inspire people to do the same.
This place doesn`t seem to be the right place for these kind of discussions. The majority here seem happy with the way things are and are content to make or listen to the music as it stands, and aren`t really concerned with the progression of it, or change. I have no problem with this at all, but I don`t want to waste my time, or anyone elses here, by discussing or trying to push forward these ideals.
I`ve been in the music industry, doing various things (I`ve not always done techno you know) for 13 years, and I`ve always tried to move forward, to develop, to not stand still or look back.
So I`m really not too sure if I should be coming back here to be shot at for being "pretentious" or overly intellectual, or for generally upsetting people for upsetting the status quo, when it isn`t really my intent (well, not entirely)
I didn`t really want to make any kind of public bowing out, that seems to happen every so often here, but I still want to help out with certian things, so I needed to say this.

The thing I enjoy the most is helping people with their productions, and although I can be very blunt in my critique, it`s done honestly generally purely from a production perspective, and I always offer help and solutions to back up my production critisism.
I never intend to be malicious with my comments, but if I hear something that needs work and improvement from a production perspective, then I will voice that opinion.
Hey, someone has to right?
All your mates will do is say "yeah, that sounds great" which is good for stroking your ego, but won`t help you develop your sound into a more professional piece.
And these days, with so much competition, and everyone making tunes on their PC`s, I think to be as good as possible is needed to separate you from the masses of anonymous run of the mill stuff.

I am still willing to offer production advice to anyone who will need it, and also my offer of open submissions to both of my labels still stands.
If you have anything you would like me to listen to, and give production advice on, or just want me to listen to something, or submit something for one of my labels, please email me through the
http://www.londontechno.co.uk site
and I would be more than willing to help.
I used to listen to everything posted, and make comment respectively, but my position as a mod slowly took away my enthusiasm for this (being a mod is a loveless and difficult task, believe me).

So good luck to all of you with your productions, those that have my messenger address, please hit me up if you see me, I may or may not be back here in the future, mark has asked me to get involved with a new BOA project, which I may do, but I doubt if I can continue participating in these forums.

Those of you I have seen develop, I hope you continue to do so, you are quite literally, part of the future of where techno music will go, and I hope you continue to go forward and develop yourself as music artists.

Big Love.

Steve.