What makes those old classics tick?

[oldbugger]

is it just nostalgia, or do they have something missing from today's crop? i reckon it's a certain naive exhuberance...a sense of freedom and exploration missing now that techno has become so fragmented and compartmentalized...

...any thoughts?

i think it is mostly nostalgia. back in the day it was all so new, exciting and fresh. it was a completely new experience going out and hearing house/techno/rave back then.

when i hear the old stuff it brings back so many happy memories and that excitment of the new scence comes floding back.

the music wasnt amazing back that then,far from it, some was pretty poor musicly but we will all still love it for what it gave us..

new. fresh energy. like no other scene before.

i think you are right, but i also think today's tracks lack that freshness. probably some of it is nostalgia, but there sometimes seems to be very little excitement in techno now. i saw derrick may a few months ago and he just seemed bored sh*tless.

in some ways i think that because a lot of newcomers to techno only listen to the new stuff, and not the old records, they don't have that freshness as a point of reference...

absolutely. the whole techno scene is boring me shitless if i'm totally honest with myself for the reasons you state. it is dull as **** at the moment (although it seems nobody wants to admit it) its what i love though, even if it is boring hahaha.

the whole club scene needs a serious kick up the arse somehow. a new fresh genre maybe, a seriously good batch of pills maybe (its revived a dead once before so dont knock the idea) maybe new drugs, be better if it was actually music related though or maybe just some form of techno that isnt quite so boring. (and thats coming from someone who loves the most monotenous loops imaginable)

i dont believe for one minute its just a few if us old moaners who think like this either.