I guess you mean like 'shitmat'. Went to see that guy live out of interest, was crazy but had no soul. All tricks and no soul like you say. But that’s not really what I was getting at. Take this as an example…

You know Luke Slater’s rmx of Joey Beltrams record 'forklift'?

When Beltram made the original he made a sound which sounded kind of unique at the time by shaping a synth patch into a certain new sound.

Right then Luke Slater came along and did the rmx but with he wasnt screwing around with the synth, he was screwing around with that crazy filter gating and alll kinds of headwreakering mangling going off.

Ok fast forwards to now, both records are quality but sound outdated. Both at the time featured somekinda trick, technique which was unique at the time. This was combined with the expression of the artist, ie they made it rock. It was a merger of man and machine. So my point?

Were already seeing a wide range of amazing things appearing in the reaktor series, synths which play themselves. I think the next direction in techno won’t be people using machines to manipulate sound but creating and changing their own machines. Rewiring these machines, implementing them into their sound.

Think like AI nightmare technology thats programmed to be evil and sounds like a demented robot ninja on a crack cocaine snuggling pirate ship but killing off the pirates one by one with its pulse weapon of doom. Capturing that machine and working with it, as a partnership, sampling it and arranging into a tune

Even take the machine out and play it live!

But anyways my point is, as long as there’s new technology afloat there’s always going to be new ways of making crazy noises.

Infact Im VERY excited about something at the mo. Checkout the seventh generation of consoles, the developers have spent millions into building the graphics and modeling environment but are now faced by a huge and new challenge. How the **** do you put sound to something that’s physically modeled eg water for example.

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3140617

Note there is no sound

This is why the budget for people doing the sounds has been increased from 2% to 5%. So what’s the relevance of this?? Well let me say this, I dont care about consoles and gaming because it’s too big a distraction anyways. But what we are going to see some pretty amazing things new new toys in the coming years. New ways of screwing with things. Techno mite even become interactive and become visual experience too.