this is a new low

[dirty_bass]

In a new light I actually see the value in this tune, rather ironically for me.

It`s a bit of humour. Which techno really really needs sometimes.
No worse than One night in hackney for it`s sillyness, and nothing to be taken seriously.

It won`t destroy the scene, it won`t give techno a bad reputation, it`ll make a few people laugh, especially if timed just right, it will probably get a whole bunch of people jumping around, and maybe, just maybe this will drag some people into a techno room, who wouldn`t normally be there, and then they might stay once it has been mixed out.

I`m not really a fan of this tune, but I don`t see the point of talking about musical merits any more, because where do you set the line?

[machina]

It`s a bit of humour. Which techno really really needs sometimes.
No worse than One night in hackney for it`s sillyness, and nothing to be taken seriously.

It won`t destroy the scene, it won`t give techno a bad reputation, it`ll make a few people laugh, especially if timed just right, it will probably get a whole bunch of people jumping around, and maybe, just maybe this will drag some people into a techno room, who wouldn`t normally be there, and then they might stay once it has been mixed out.

I`m not really a fan of this tune, but I don`t see the point of talking about musical merits any more, because where do you set the line?

I agree with most of this except one key bit - "it won`t give techno a bad reputation" - bullshit... it will definately give techno bad reputation, "One night in hackney" did also - it's a joke tune sure, but it makes the everything seem like a joke... the only people that laugh are those that know it's meant to be a joke and this is surprisingly a small proportion... For everyone else, stuff like "One night in hackney" and this shite aren't thought of as jokes because nrg/hard house/cheesyball producers do it without the slightest bit of irony all the time - it only does harm to techno itself and especially the producers themselves... Due to "one night in hackney" and all this schranz remake/remix like that born slippy bullshit a huge amount of people think that is what techno is about, and the people that know what techno is won't go near it - try convincing people (at least over here) that people like Henry, Chris Lib etc make techno... it's an uphill battle when they mention cheeseball tracks and don't get the joke.... people have to remember that people really, seriously produce that shite. **** knows why, but idiots somehow see some artistic merit in it... do a novelty/joke track at your peril...

machina

[dirty_bass]

If people form their entire opinion about a genre by one or two comedy tracks, then they are the type of person that follows trends, and needs to be told what is cool more than likely.
If they don`t look too depply into things then they are unlikely to ever be more than a fleeting fan of techno anyway.

so who cares.

As far as I can tell with what I know with this biz, no distributer has experienced any negative side effects of cheesy comedy tracks, no club and no producer.
People that know techno, know techno, people that are inquisitive will look further, but as for techno having a bad rep cos of some cheesy schranze? I think we are long beyond that. the average joe still thinks that techno is 2unlimited.
It really isn`t that much to worry about.
And for me to say that takes a lot, as I am a totally pretencious artist.