talk about going round in circles.
The sooner alot of people detach their own personal outlook on the scene and what they want out of the scene from whats ACTUALLY happening in the scene, the better. This is essential, in my opinion of course, in order to gain the full wider picture.
I see and accept both arguements here, i agree that techno drastically needs to move on in alot of areas, but i also do agree that a person has the right to make whatever they like, of course, that's a basic human right, but when there are so many people evidently doing this, then that's where the problem arises. It happened with the big Primate inspired loop thing off the late 90's, schranz, minimal etc etc and eventually it does back to bite people on the ass, and after a while, at some point, you wake up and it's like an epiphany, a frigging realisation that infact, alot of the music that i do love and have spent the past ten years of my life dedicated to, does in fact sound very similiar!
This is usually a turning point, it certainly was for me. It was the day i realised the word techno is probably the most overused, most misunderstood and most widely unappreciated feeling, yes that's right feeling, that i have felt. That's when i started to appreciate the actual ethos of techno and not the practical meaning associated with it i.e just because its on Primate or bangs like a shit house door doesnt make it techno. Just because a record is shelved under the techno section of a record store doesnt make it techno.
I went off alot of artists when i started thinking like this, and in turn discovered a ton of new, interesting, fresh, to me, artists that the term techno was, again to me, practically invented for. Music that can be appreciated at the front of Voodoo at 3am or infront of my tv set at 5pm.
Techno is to each person whatever they want it to be, thats something no one can deny or say is wrong to say basically. But with elements such as sales, promotion, running labels etc getting harder and tighter with everyday, i personally believe everyone has to raise the bar that little higher if they want out of the scene what they expect. If you just keep rolling the same record out month after month, with the same sounds, the same structure, the same patterns etc etc then you will eventually end up in a bigger loop than the records one is putting out