Postmodernism and techno

[electoad]

Has techno finished being totally new? And if so – is it a case now of using what has been created in the past to create variations OR is it possible to add something totally new to it???
Any opinions or ideas?

[rhythmtech]

some say its past it.. others still get excited by it..

i think its what you make it in your own head.

[massplanck]

some say its past it.. others still get excited by it..

i think its what you make it in your own head.

take a good look at crowd/gig attendences and youll get your answer.

Techno attendence is shit due to the music being shit and boring (Most of it). people who say '**** you' for dissing what i play should take a good long hard look at themselves if they are playing to small empty venues. There was a time when any sort of techno night pulled a decent crowd from a broad spectrum of people (not just techno nerds). Thats because the er 'scene' was alot less pidgeon-holed than it is today.. and that nobodies fault except the people who put on gigs. People WILL come if the music is TIMELESS. Not GENERIC.

RANT OVER. :)

[rhythmtech]

well over the past 2 months i've played 4 packed gigs and one quiet one.. thats not a bad ratio for music thats dying... but i do agree, theres too many boring generic gigs on...

although hardfloor in tbmc 15th december... ROLL ON :)

[massplanck]

although hardfloor in tbmc 15th december... ROLL ON :)

You seriuos? only one half of hardfloor though.

[rhythmtech]

ELEC CITY ARE PUTTIN IT ON.. HARDFLOOR ARE ADVERTISING IT ALREADY ON THEIR SITE.

[massplanck]

woohoo. **** postmodernism so!

[fac]

hardfloor is gaytrance

[dubs]

techno is as post-modern as it comes. It exemplfies a reaction to modern music and utilises elements from a broad range of genres.

[eyeswithoutaface]

well one mans packed is another mans empty. Just depends where you are in the scene. If its a 100 capacity club and theres 90 people there, great, nice little rave going on. If its a 1000 capacity club, and there are 90 people there, disasterous. And believe me, over here, and the gigs in europe ive been too, ive seen it happen to even the biggest of names in techno

techno as a whole definately isnt as popular as it was 8, 9, 10 years ago, there's no denying that. But that's where the need to evolve and change comes into play

[Little_Fella!]

Very interesting this...

I went up north to visit the folks just recently, n went with some of mi old rave mates to a House night called Dusted, which a semi-friend of mine Carl n crew run and play at as residents in Middlesborough.... Sound event was had...

Place was packed... They are doin very well for themselves n good on 'em...!

We all piled back to mi mates flat for the afterparty bit n Carl n that joined us later... (the point is coming honest!)

[Little_Fella!]

I had been asked to take some sounds up with me, so I took up a couple of 'Live' sets from the L.T.C. plus some extra tunes in there n also edited down one of the BOA radio shows on to 2 CD's to give a cross section of the techno I like that is around just lately...

Mi mate asked me to put the CD's on n without any intention, cause I like Carl, I seemed,(well, not me, the music), to steal all of the limelight from him which aint my style...

The reaction of a room full of people spoke for itself...

So why is it that techno is shunned n yet expose people to it at the 'right' time and it becomes the tops....

I am, at this moment in time, confused...

[Clit Commander]

BORING.

P.S. Having to activate the quick reply is stupid.

[tonyc2002]

I had been asked to take some sounds up with me, so I took up a couple of 'Live' sets from the L.T.C. plus some extra tunes in there n also edited down one of the BOA radio shows on to 2 CD's to give a cross section of the techno I like that is around just lately...

Mi mate asked me to put the CD's on n without any intention, cause I like Carl, I seemed,(well, not me, the music), to steal all of the limelight from him which aint my style...

The reaction of a room full of people spoke for itself...

So why is it that techno is shunned n yet expose people to it at the 'right' time and it becomes the tops....

I am, at this moment in time, confused...

guess techno is a very broard term :whoops: lots of different styles of one genre but all under the same banner....

i mean i listened to the boa radio show and some of the stuff played on there made me think "no way would that get people moving" but then i thought maybe its not meant to>>? other times some of the stuff played on there made me think "that would blow the roof off"

suppose its just finding the right music for the right situation..

[kai]

I had been asked to take some sounds up with me, so I took up a couple of 'Live' sets from the L.T.C. plus some extra tunes in there n also edited down one of the BOA radio shows on to 2 CD's to give a cross section of the techno I like that is around just lately...

Mi mate asked me to put the CD's on n without any intention, cause I like Carl, I seemed,(well, not me, the music), to steal all of the limelight from him which aint my style...

The reaction of a room full of people spoke for itself...

So why is it that techno is shunned n yet expose people to it at the 'right' time and it becomes the tops....

I am, at this moment in time, confused...

Think thats down to techno being an acquired taste that people come too as they grow bored with the genres that broke them into dance music and are more accessible such as hardcore (in all its forms) or house and trance. As people grow older and listen to more music it seems to me that they often develop an interest in techno quite late on in that process, but until they do they see it, for one reason or another depending which scene they are from, as not being what their into.


The problem for techno as a scene within that is that dance music in general is becoming less and less popular with the next generations coming through as rock and rnb/speed garage are the current dominating forces, unlike when I was young when we all wanted to go to a rave and listen to rave music, having seen them on the news and attacked in the tabloids.

Therefore less and less people are going through the process of developing an interest in dance music that eventually leads them into discovering techno - and those that do hang in the scene long enough these days seem to plump for electro and dirty house rather than techno as they grow older (or breaks - but we'll leave that alone as its good shit ;) ). This is compounded by the crowd their is already listening to techno is getting older all the time and life has a way of catching up and making us all stop going out to quite so many parties.


The solution to this is more problematic, as by its nature techno isn't lyrically based and for it to get a foothold on the young market that the likes of house, trance and hardcore have it would need to be as the cheese element within these genres attracts the young girls, and thus the young boys.


End of the day though do we treally want a big techno scene full of clueless idiots, or would we rather have it as now where at least when we do go to a techno night its the right kind of people there and not just the lowest common denominator!

[ERROR404]

some young victims however musically inept would be a nice addition though :)

[massplanck]

well one mans packed is another mans empty. Just depends where you are in the scene. If its a 100 capacity club and theres 90 people there, great, nice little rave going on. If its a 1000 capacity club, and there are 90 people there, disasterous.

you have learnt this from years and years of being around the techno scene right? ;)

[eyeswithoutaface]

it's learnt from about 8 years of playing and being in techno clubs, from the emptiest little dives, sea forts (i kid you not) to the fullest 1000 capacity venues my friend :)

[massplanck]

i was being sarcastic :) we all know that.

[massplanck]

happy sarcastic. :)