Techno Purists

[Tiddlypeep]

Before I start I'm not meaning to cause any offence at all just to let you all know...

What exactly is a 'Purist'?!?.

[wenna]

i'm a little unsure aswell?

i've got a feeling that it's someone who hates all music except the very hardest of techno? :roll:

[Col]

i've got a feeling that it's someone who hates all music except the very hardest of techno? :roll:

yeah id go along with that

[crime]

It's what people get accused of being when they don't like something that's blatently cheesy shite... Techno purists only exist in the heads of people who go on forums and get dismayed that people don't share the same taste in music as themselves.. Techno purists don't really exist...

[The Divide]

Interesting.

Not sure about a techno purist been someone who hates all sounds part from the hard sound.

I always thought a purist was some one who hates all kinda music apart from a certain sound/style thats what "they" think is the real and propper face of techno.

All i can say on this when i first went out and the dj's I was out to played a sound that was dubbed "the purist sound". It was very mimimal and rythmical synth driven stuff and no so much hard. uhm shame I cant come up with any names of the artists who made this sound as such, but i think it was people like Joey beltram erm planetary assualt systems and holy ghost. The sets wasnt fast n furious more textured and complex and to be honest i miss it in a way.

To be honest I dont like the purist way of thinking, ie thats tune doesnt do such and such so its shit. I do think they exist tho, I think its some one who insists they are right and are very closed minded about other forms of techno. That could be someone who instists its hard, wonky mimimal ect. I feel sorry for people who cant realy enjoy music coz they think everything else is shit apart from a certain sound.

If that was every artists way of thinking everything would sound the same

Someting like that perhaps

F

[The Divide]

Then again i cant say this 100% so i guess really its a label that someones come up with and not something that realy exists (as you said), just apears from time to time.

F

[Epps]

^^^^^^^ I love your avator Fernando...

[davethedrummer]

so do i
i love fernando's avator too

i think a techno purist is just a crashing bore no?

[anx]

to me a techno purist is someone who only likes the boring detroit minimal stuff, and if the track gets more than 4 or 5 different sounds to it, it becomes too much for them and they hate it.

"i only like my techno with a boring housey groove, a hihat, the kick can't be too hard, and maybe a bassline if im feeling dangerous. and god forbid if the track goes anywhere, i want it to be the same from beginning to end!"

suck on this!

[spiralx]

to me a techno purist is someone who only likes the boring detroit minimal stuff, and if the track gets more than 4 or 5 different sounds to it, it becomes too much for them and they hate it.

"i only like my techno with a boring housey groove, a hihat, the kick can't be too hard, and maybe a bassline if im feeling dangerous. and god forbid if the track goes anywhere, i want it to be the same from beginning to end!"

suck on this!

Yup, that's what I picture when I hear the term as well... knew a couple back at university and they were right pricks :roll:

[Esox Lucius]

to me a techno purist is someone who only likes the boring detroit minimal stuff, and if the track gets more than 4 or 5 different sounds to it, it becomes too much for them and they hate it.

"i only like my techno with a boring housey groove, a hihat, the kick can't be too hard, and maybe a bassline if im feeling dangerous. and god forbid if the track goes anywhere, i want it to be the same from beginning to end!"

suck on this!

what a load ofcrap

detroit techno, boring?

although stupidly hard loopy techno isn't?

don't make me laugh.

[Esox Lucius]

sorry that post was a bit arsey, that's your opinion so fair enough, although I do not agree with you at all.

[anx]

ok whatever

i find it boring

and i said to me a purist is someone who only likes that stuff.

i have heard good detroit, but for the most part...boooooring....

its all opinion really.

and that comment in the quotations wasnt meant to cuss out detroit, it was meant to cuss out the "purist"

sorry if i offended you

ok, not really

[anx]

woa we posted that at the same time.

its all good.

gotta love the lack of an edit feature hey!

[Patrick DSP]

I can understand what ty/anx is saying...

To me a purist is someone who only cares for the purist source of an item and does not accept variations nor new additions but only the direct source!

thus in the case for techno purists, why anx and I equate this statement to Detroit techno snobs is, they only care for the original source or what they deem to be the purist version of "their" sound and will not accept variations.

In my opinion, it's a self-confidence issue with them. they dropped an E, fell in love but care to move themselves up in social status by saying that they only listens to the purist cleanest (and thus they equate "the best") version of techno. It’s like buying Grade-AAA dirt for your little brother's sand box at $25 a pound imported straight from Italy, so you can brag to your neighbors that only the best dirt is suitable for your needs. It’s ****ing dirt you self absorbed prick.

Thus the techno purist is born along with the lable "proper" techno

I don't think their dads hugged them enough as a child.

-Patrick DSP
www.patrickdsp.com
"Techno purists suck on this!"

[anx]

patrick dsp for mayor!

gold.

[John Vella]

hahaha

great!

-jOHNNY

[Jimfish]

my dad hugged me too much

[Patrick DSP]

my dad hugged me too much

no your daddy touched you in your "no no" places

-patrick
(just kidding)

[Jimfish]

yeah ok, but at least my mum didnt breast feed me till i was 12