A quality like 'forward thinking' surely doesn't exist in the music itself? After all music doesn't think...but its creator does...and in my book any truly creative imaginative and talented producer of any sort of music is probably going to be 'forward thinking' by default

So I dont think that techno is automatically forward thinking , theres loads of crap techno records which are anything but. It is however nice to have a genre of music I love so much associated with the concept of forward thinking...however accurate it is!!

I think its up to everyone to keep on coming up with truly original new ideas, try things which havent been done and "shouldnt", by the popular collective yardstick of the moment, work...then more and more techno can be honestly spoken of as truly forward thinking


On a side point it is interesting that people are talking about techno going minimal again...it reminds me of a few years ago when everything went a bit loopy...eventually punters got turned off and a whole new wave of techno came through which kicked ass