I still love techno, I'm just not that excited by much new stuff, however I still find enough to keep me going... hell, I even managed to muster a chart last week! In general though, most techno is going over old ground, as it has done for years... the thing now is that I don't need to have all the new records, as I already have mountains of them at home, that were released in better times. Again though, I'll re-iterate... I still find new techno records I like, just not as many.

Re: Dave The Drummer - I don't think he's ever been in the bracket of "forward thinking" except for maybe the early days of the London acid stuff, when they were genuinely onto something new - but he has certainly been at the forepront and pushing the London style sound more than most over the years. I wouldn't worry too much about the labels put on his music, and perhaps he doesn't either... at least he isn't being totally pigeon holed, which is a bigger problem for some producers.