the answers in the title. Novelty. Different strokes for different folks. Its valid if you like listening to, on the whole, cheap, uneccesary wastes of vinyl/mp3 space that do nothing but take a track someone else has already done and slaps a kick and ride or something over the top. That to me is not novelty, its lazy, pointless, cheesy, thoughtless, cheap ad nauseum.... Novelty techno to me is say, and il probably get a raised brow or 2 at this, "Erase Techno" by McCormack. This to me is a track thats supposed to be banged out at 7am as last track on about +8 and not really anywhere else. A time when everyones head is falling to bits anyway, and thats novelty to me. I would probably only listen to this record when out and its 7am and its on about +8, hence to me its novelty when i hear it.

The likes of the schranz bootlegs, thats just an idea that has seemingly took off whilst also seemingly annoying everyone at the same time simply due to, again, the cheapness, the lazyness, the disregard for other people's past musical contributions to techno or their respective scene etc etc

interesting topic, makes a change round here at the moment must say