Quote Originally Posted by MARK EG
but i really would like to see this develop into something harder. ;)
Think you've hit the nail on the head there, sir.

There's always room for more bump and grind. You can apply this rule to anything in life, really, unless you're making flat frictionless surfaces that is (read into this what you will ;) )

Also, how come a schranz record can do NOTHING for 6 minutes and not be classed as 'minimal' ? If you got a recording of someone screaming down a mic for six minutes I'd call it minimal, even if they were screaming REAL loud.

'Minimal' stuff nowadays seems to have a lot more smarts, production wise, when compared to a lot of the churned out 'hard' techno I'm currently hearing. Seems like the description 'hard' is chucked at anything that's fast and 4/4 with distortion on it. That's not the recipe for hard in my book. There are other ingredients. You can even use different ones entirely. Strange that things should become less innovative when the ability to become more so has been handed to us on a plate, at least technologically...

Maybe this is what you're driving at, Mark ? In that music excels when it is both for (and by?) the brain AND the body. A lot of techno these days is very predictable. In my book, this means it's not techno. No matter how 'hard' it is.

Let's look FORWARD !