well if this helps in any way with the discussion, i dj'ed with patrik at one of the last gigs where he played hard and he was telling me how he was becoming much more turned on by the new minimal stuff. he was totally genuine about his reasons and this was at a time when hardly anyone was mentioning minimal, it wasnt in any magazines or on any message boards. so for anyone to imply anything about band wagons is just plain wrong. patrik doesn't need to come on here and justify his reasons to anybody imho but this is the problem with alot of music groups in general. 'how dare you move onto something else'. rather like a sheep mentality dont you think? why can't tastes change?

i say get on with the music making patrik. even though i don't mind the mml sound at all, i am gutted you're not making the hard stuff, trully gutted - patrik and headroom have been one of the biggest influences in my musical llife - but you gotta do what you gotta do. good luck man.

:)