Quote Originally Posted by MARK EG
novelty techno to me? - 99% of techno today

*OMG you say*

there's loads off ppl out there at the mo producing techno that call it techno. i'm not going to say what i think that is, cause i play so much of it at places i play, but you just can't get ppl into techno without it!!!!!

REAL techno to me looks to the originators - juan atkins, derrick may, kevin sauderson - the detroit ethos. they never had a genre to live up to at the time - they jjust 'created' their sound.

either you're creating music to change music or you're creating novelty techno.

techno is about new. techno is about music you've never heard before.

anything you have heard before, isnt REAL techno. techno maybe, but not true original techno. if you're creating music to sound like 'techno' it isnt techno. full stop.

MHO ;)
just out of interest (and i do agree with you to a certain extent) if all techno was new to us, how would we distinguish what techno was? would we all be listening aimless to somebodies jazz style techno noodling? i think sometimes genres serve a purpose. without us "knowing" what techno was, we probably wouldn't be talking on a techno forum or any forum for that matter. just an idea.

on the another hand there needs to be innovation for the music to survive.