The UK Acid Techno Scene...

[Trip Head]

Musically, certain labels caused rods for their own backs with a "jobs for the boys" attitude. Much talent has been ignored and overlooked and consequently moved on.

Think this is unfortunately true.

Shame about the squat parties in London. Don't know how the psy trance parties in london managed to avoid the problems, tho its a completely different scene so comparisons probably not useful.

I don't think the scene is stale, there is still some stuff coming through. Last time I was in London at an acid party I saw this guy called TT play, and he was quality! Better set than DDR that night I thought!

[judas_beast]

devon and cornwall OB have serious funding this year and intend to stamp free parties out once and for all.

sorry mucked the last post up

i've heard this as well and i don't think it's just devon and cornwall either - i've heard that some forces are putting teams together especially to target parties and weren't there some rigs destroyed last year?

I guess a lot of crews will start heading to legitamate venues if this is the case but i don't think it will be the end of the scene. there's nowt wrong with partying in clubs and there will always be other places we can party - there's plenty of wide open spaces it just means travelling a bit further. my experience tends to be that the harder a party is to get to the less idiots and therefore the less trouble turns up.

Most of my partying has been done in the countryside and to be honest i haven't seen much trouble over the last eleven years, occasionally you get idiots but they're normally dealt with by the other party goers. I've always felt that parties in places like london and bristol have a darker side to them and to be honest i don't enjoy them as much as being out in the sticks... but they're not the only places parties happen and they can't stop all of us all the time can they?
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Operation Hartley has been in operation (really should've got my thesaurus out) for a few years now in the s/w. We were a victim of it in 2003 (i think). We were arressted, held with out charge for about ten hours with no access to legal representaion, had our then rig (which was admittedly a slag) impounded for a month, and generally ****ed over. Its not really worth it, considering we'd barely make enough on the door to cover costs and get some chav cunts kicking off.

Club nights innit, people will go for the music. Look at the End, Sven Vath drew a massive crowd. plus you can set your rig up at your leisure.

[AcidTrash]

the best reason I've seen in years for voting conservative. the smack dens will be cooler.

[Adey]

Acid Techno is stuck somewhere around 1998. If you want to see a passionate scene then stop banging out the same forumulaic straight hard house/trance styled commercial tracks. Stop playing spin-dryer techno and get some originality. Break some rules, make every track sound different - supprise the crowd, build something new. I've been to a wide range of parties in London from minimal tech house through to dubstep/breakstep - they all have happier punters that aren't whacked out on K slouching to the same old tracks.

Has anybody wondered why no other major techno DJ play stay up forever styled music any more? A few copycat Chris Liberator wannabees but not the serious talent?

Last year I went to a Cannibal Cooking Club party in a warehouse in Germany - if blow up bigger and harder than any old acid party I've seen in a good 5 years. Monox in Glasgow bangs out some really good talent that people can't get enough of.

People that go to acid techno parties get what they want - same old stale formula of intro, break, kick off, outro-intro, break... yawn. drop in a frew 303 lines, try a hip hop sample here and there. yawn. oooh, a yello biafra sample, yawn.

People fight at squat parties cos they are bored and there is piss poor security. A few up in archway and the Hackney with membership policies are better behaved but the likes of ToM and Malfaiteurs just isn't fresh any more. I think you need a big bag of K to last the night.