i think your trying to over argue the point.. nobody is saying we shouldnt musically progress..

henry may have his own sound but then so do a lot of producers in the same genre.. doesnt mean that they're drastically differant from henry..

i personally dont think theres a glut of people trying to copy his sound at all.. i think theres a lot of people tryin to make techno that they know and a lot of people know his sound.. doesnt mean they're trying to imitate it, does it?

and to be honest control was hardly the firt acidtechno record to sound like it did.. and theres been labels b4 hydraulix that sound like hydraulix.. same as theres been labels that sound like dirty bass b4 dirtybass was around..

you seem to be forgetting that techno is reletivly young... it DOESNT need to change on such a fast scale.. i feel the opposite to you.. the music industry is too fickle.. always looking for something new.. so y not dig our heels in and keep making whatever we make instead of feeling the neccesity to change.. people will change when they progress.. but if you like something y change it just for the sake of progression? y not progress at your own rate? rock has been around 60-70 years now in some form or another... it hasnt drastically changed - can techno not be its own style without having to always be something else?