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.