Quote Originally Posted by davethedrummer
oh no
not a marco bailey hijack !!
christ on a bike!


it was never really his ( marco baileys) stuff that crossed over with hardhouse anyway.
it was more like acid techno really and that kind of stuff ,
but even acid techno lacks cheese factor and bounciness for the hard housers and after a brief fling with techno , hard house went back to being hard house again , and thats about it really.
basically techno people don't really want to go to hard house clubs and hard housers don't really bother with techno clubs
so booking techno djs in hard house clubs just didn't really get the numbers up to justify trying something new , that to be honest the hard house clubbers didn't really get into that much anyway i.m.o.
theres the odd tidy weekender and riot and andy farleys blue club at turnmills one or 2 otheres but thats about the size of it now as far as crossover clubs go.

yeah so theres a few hard "dance" labels about and they're producing more techno styled hard house , but at the end of the day , no one is trying to preach to any one and say what techno is or isn't.

they're just making music for their scene in the way that they want it.
it's a kind of bastard love child of techno if you will.

personally i think it's a shame , 'cos there is so much great techno around.

but i have to admit there isn't much techno that you can play with hard house at 155bpm in the world , so these guys are making it themselves

fair enough
but you don't have to like it.
and if you don't , then just ignore it ,there's plenty more fish in the sea.
not technically accurate though. There are several labels springing up that are dedicated 'techno' labels yet they are nothing more than percussive hardhouse. some of the producers on these labels ARE preaching to the hardhouse massive that they are the embodiment of techno. because of these producers i am finding it hard to hold conversations with any of my mates in the hardhouse scene as they have been totally mislead into believing that techno is what it is in fact not (if that makes sense)

one saving grace is that contrary to your other point) there are techno DJs booked at hardhouse events (billy nasty, picotto, chris liebling and marco bailey). granted they are the more mainstream techno DJs but its far more than i would ever have expected. however this trend is already reversing as hardhouse DJs are picking up on this new percussive sound and playing their very own 'techno' nights.