i think for techno to seriously move forward, it has to become something else. what i have learnt over the last 1-2 years is that techno doesnt really have much of a leg to stand on musically. that is a just a generalisation of course, i mean im not going to sit here and say all techno is absolute tripe, far from it. i guess the genre serves a purpose, and their are artists within the genre that try not to come up with same old shit, but right now their happen to be a lot of artists within other genre's making large advances musically.

i used to believe innovation was a large part of what techno is about...i couldnt have been more wrong. their are far more genres out there that blow techno away in an artistic sense.

perhaps techno does need to go back to its roots. its obviously not any good at pushing musical boundries. infact your right, techno needs to turn round and run.