Quote Originally Posted by MARK EG
sure this was an amazing period. i really miss this energy in the music from these years. well produced music that seemed to have a real quality control. i think we need to get that back in techno. call me an old fuddy but these were really great times. there's still some great stuff out there right now but too much that has to fit into a certain style... sort of p'es me off how genre'fied everything has become. arrrghhhhhhhhh.. i'm having a bad day hehehe
I think this is where harder techno is headed next. The whole compression and dark loop shit kinda ran itself thin. I still love that stuff but I admit it was getting a little tired. Hard techno is slowly on the rebound but I think it will come back in more of an old school form.

Quote Originally Posted by el salvador
would be cool if techno was more diverse for sure. lots of different kinds would be more entertaining this days
Are you guys looking in the same bins and websites that I am? There's plenty of diverse techno about at the moment. People just need to start looking beyond the obvious go-to names. I think techno is currently more diverse than it's ever been. The key to finding the good stuff is to look into other genres. Some of the B sides (or A sides for that matter) on house, progressive, or minimal labels have some really ****ing crazy tracks that may not really go under the umbrella it's attached to.