Quote Originally Posted by Paul Nisbet
in scotland its pretty poo tbh,

Edinburgh is very strong for techno, but not the hard stuff, hope it changes soon. Although there are free parties where a lot of the djs play mad french/euro techno which is like at a hardcore pace.
That's a real shame - back in 99/2000 Edinburgh's hard techno scene was brilliant. Studio 24 would have something on every week (Apex, Subtle Logic, E-ruptor (which is still going) and Pillbox which was possibly the best clubnight ever until it got all political and went tits up), and then there were the wee nights like Loop. Pure used to have some quality guests tho less hard techno orientated, and Sublime down at Wilkie used to get Billy Nasty and Adam Beyer now and again.
Then there were the free parties!
Then Dogma started (as Lost) and while their parties have been excellent with guests ranging from Surgeon to Subhead to Chris Liberator, they also seemed to attract a lot of the purists. Subsequently for me the techno scene in Edinburgh became incredibly closed-minded and political. A real shame.