Quote Originally Posted by alsynthe
i think the free techno scene is still very much political, i.e. reclaim the streets, the g4 protest alot of techno soundsystems went up there, all the protests in europe have loadsa techno.
Agreed. Though, to a large extent, I think that scene has become a parody of itself. I got no shortage of talks about "selling out to the man" by some people involved in that scene when I started going to law school. Seems more like activism for entertainment than true work for change a lot of times, if not blatantly manipulating a movement in order to get heard as a musician. Certainly not saying it's all this way. But, it seems to be much more of a norm now. I see just as much disinformation coming out of the free techno camp at times as I do from the G8 nations. Both now seem perfectly content with manipulating the people for their own personal gain, whether through music popularity or beneficial trade/development agreements. :p