The Life Of A Techno DJ

[Adverse]

Thats what im doing right now, working full time and saving my loot, gonna go back to brazil and throw a massive party!!!!!! Buy a house there and continue to play techno full time.....
Toronto sucks ass for techno, no one wants to give it a chance, and when there are techno parties no one goes to support them.
Rather sad isnt it?

Pauze have you ever tried giving Montreal a chance? Your right when you say Toronto truly sucks for Techno.....maybe back in the day guys like Kenny Glasgow and Mario J were making good efforts in putting Toronto on the techno map but it just didnt pan out. Seriously, try MONTREAL. It is one of the most happening cities in North America in terms of partying and has LOADS of weekly techno parties. The scene is well established there too, with guys like Mateo Murphy releasing incredible tracks..

dunno, just my 2 cents. Hope it helps!

cheers

wrong lol, going to spain, see ya there. montreal.. no. frank. dead.

[Adverse]

lol i love how sour i sounded there.

[herman]

thing is with him is he did the other thing for the $$ - but he allways was into techno..
and can i just add that when i met him a couple of years ago he was an extremly nice bloke, much more polite and friendly and less up his own ass than certain tribal loop techno producers whom everybody seems to love

name names man don't beat about the bush

[eyes without a face]

Picotto again! i truely believe that no matter where u run and hide, you cant escape him. He's always there. I reckon he will replace Sex as the most searched word on the internet soon.

He may well b a nice bloke, doesnt stop him being a total and complete sell out does it. If he really liked techno from the beginning then he has sold his morals completely down the bank by releasing some of the shite he has done. If i was him id feel nothing but complete shame for my actions, regardless of the Mercedes sitting outside!

as for Ben Sims, on the few occassions ive met/emailed him ive found him to b a very down to earth and friendly bloke, he rocked Voodoo@ The Masque last time i saw him and i had a wikid discussion with him about techno via email

[Esox Lucius]

aye I spoke to sims at I.F and he was sound.

[Clarkus]

i am going to start building a studio over the next couple years, if i put this much effort into dj'ing, im sure i can put just as much if not more into producing. actually, most likely i will put more time into production because it is way more creative, and seems to be more addicting.

I quite like the idea of building myself a wee studio over time. But this will have to be from cash earned from the through the week job as any gigs i get are done for the pleasure of playing out. But it would be quite a buzz to think one day i could quit my job and live off the cash i earned through music. 8)

[John Vella]

Before I go on, let me be totaly clear: I'm not faluting anyone of you guys for your decisons to go abroad whatsoever..... I can feel the frustrattion. BELIEVE ME I CAN. :x

But I dunno....

I think it would be EXTREMLEY satisfying to help build/rebuild a techno scene here (in Canada) simply because it's a challenge and a huge reclimation project.....

I'm not the type to wanna leap off a sinking ship even tho sometimes outta frustration I swear out loud "I've fukkin had it with this goddamn city!!!!". (actually, mind u-- the good ship TORONTO TECHO is at the fukkin bottom of the ocean long ago)

But still.... All the success & luck in the world go out to u guys to peruse your dreams abroad. Hope u succeed!!!!!

However on the flipside of this issue, I just relate this entire situation to an althete in Pro Sports who leaves a lesser team he was with for years to join a powerhouse team in search of a Championship Title. (like all the free agents who go to the DETROIT REDWINGS, NEW YORK YANKEES, or MAN U)

Isn't it *MUCH* less gratifying to join something already built & established? Isn't that the easy way out? Isn't that almost too easy?

Just a thought.

Don't get your panties in a knot. ;)

-jOHNNY

[crime]

He may well b a nice bloke, doesnt stop him being a total and complete sell out does it. If he really liked techno from the beginning then he has sold his morals completely down the bank by releasing some of the shite he has done. If i was him id feel nothing but complete shame for my actions, regardless of the Mercedes sitting outside!

I'm really not that bothered to be honest... can't say I really dig the guys music, but what's so morally wrong? Got more important things to worry about than Piccoto's supposed forays into "Techno"........

[eyes without a face]

im not arsed either, was simply stating my opinion (again!) on the man. I just dont agree that he shud, and to b honest i dont think he ever will, be accepted as a techno artist

[crime]

how are people "accepted" as techno producers? Is it an elite club?

[schlongfingers]

how are people "accepted" as techno producers? Is it an elite club?

3 a year, candidates must come with 4 references from those 'in da club' already, and they must be able to guess the sex of a squirrel using only the pitch of it's call from 40 yards.


Additionally, PROPER techno lovers are only allowed to buy records from accredited techno producers, anyone breaking this rule is officially stricken from existance.

[Dustin Zahn]

Additionally, PROPER techno lovers are only allowed to buy records from accredited techno producers, anyone breaking this rule is officially stricken from existance.

Yeah, godforbid you search the bins for good stuff eh?

[karlo]

Huh..

Quite like every other person.Like i see my self on that..huh!
Finish the school, have a job in my father industry, working alot on production like someone else works on some other things, jobs..haha! ;o) just like a hoby ;o) Have a ****in good girl friend anddddd...yes, parents :P

Kind regards,
Karlo

[schlongfingers]

Additionally, PROPER techno lovers are only allowed to buy records from accredited techno producers, anyone breaking this rule is officially stricken from existance.

Yeah, godforbid you search the bins for good stuff eh?

No, you must keep to the techno section and may only purchase full price new releases - the record shop representatives are agents of the techno management, your actions will be noted by them. Anything else is sacraligious, is NOT TECHNO, and will seriously affect the possibility of future acceptance into the techno brotherhood.

[crime]

3 a year, candidates must come with 4 references from those 'in da club' already, and they must be able to guess the sex of a squirrel using only the pitch of it's call from 40 yards.

so it's like joining the lodge then... I wonder if I'm techno enough for them... Maybe I could be "Accepted"

[eyes without a face]

i think u lot know wot i mean

im speaking from my own personal experiences here, but i find that techno fans are the hardest to please of all. There is alot of so called purism in techno and yeah sometimes imo it is about being accepted with certain artists. Im talking about the likes of Picotto and Fergie who started out playing and creating hard house and trance and are known WORLD WIDE for this, and are now ditching that and suddenly turning to techno. Alot of techno fans/clubbers really dont like this. All i meant is that its these people who wont accept the likes of Picotto and Fergie as true techno artists who they can look up to and draw inspiration from.

[crime]

I don't think they really care about being accepted as "Techno" people, I mean does that really mean anything anyway? Peoples perception of what techno is and isn't is so broad and different that to your average person who listens to radio probably thinks that what techno is (Unfortunatly)... what's in a name anyway? I'm jumping ship from techno anyway, before it becomes too commercial and dies, I'm starting my own Genre with it's own rules.. it's gonna be called 3 step death skiffle....and no-one's allowed to be part of it unless I say so...

[Patrick]

.. it's gonna be called 3 step death skiffle.....

ZZzzzzzzz, THAT is sooooo last week !