I still think there`s not really a melting pot going on.
Things have become more fenced and divided.
I think it`s about accessability and lazyness inherant in culture.

everything we want is at our fingertips.
people just want their vanilla milkshake and they can get it, so why even try another flavour?
So it means that people focus more and more on just the very narrow field of what they like at the time, because they can get it easily.

So what I mean is that, people into one type of techno, just shut down in some cases, and will only listen to that techno, not looking over the wall to see what else is going on.

It does put pressure on labels and artists to a certain extent, because I think most producers would like to access as many people as possible, so therefor there is a kind of pressure to move with trends in a way. Especially those that have been in the game for longer and have more to lose.
I`ve looked long at hard at things myself, and thought about moving my output to more glitchy minimal, but I then changed my mind as the motivation bothered me.
This isn`t pointed at pat, but more about how things have happened in general.
But in the same breath it happens in all forms of music, like the grunge explosion in the 90`s and the recent crunk thing in hip hop.

I`m not sure what point I`m making now.

Maybe it`s that it seems people are less willing to take risks musically.