Is techno too divided?

[conor256]

i think people shouldnt get so attached to labels, theyre only words

dont see the point in getting arsey about catogorising it :)

100% diddo here.......

at the end of the day a lot of the terms are just adjectives which help describe the sounds that you are looking for/talking about......

and there are lots of tunes which get put into different genres which tbh is great too.... e.g some tunes off ddr's Hazchem label, in one shop ye might find it under techno, another acid techno, another hard house, another in trance....

but music like this has crossover appeal so if some trance head comes accross the hazchem tune and seeks out more on this label or by those artists then that can open up a whole new scene to them...

and 'back in the day' when i used to physically walk into the old record shops i used to trudge through all the other 'genres' or 'boxes' or 'sections' and often come across the odd gem which has been wrongly 'labelled' or 'genrified' (sp)....

which for me was good.....

[FILTERZ]

I think the whole electronic music scene is too divided these days ,
it never used to be like this back in the day when i were a lad etc etc etc , blah blah blah .

[clodhoppa]

and here was me thinking it wa just the breaks peeps that thought their scene was too divided!

it's al labout the purists, cos they believe that, as purists, only they have the genres interests at heart, and anyone that strays from the true doctrine is weakening the scene.

personally i think that's bollocks, but you need them there to keep the party line.

[loopdon]

I think the whole electronic music scene is too divided these days ,
it never used to be like this back in the day when i were a lad etc etc etc , blah blah blah .

Hehe, agreed!

[Little_Fella!]

@ Dirty Bass and Manga Fish:

I must admit my view point is somewhat limited in relation to actual knowledge of the other scenes,:ohdear: , so thank you for correcting my idea of it all with some very good points...

Plus I tend to go around with mi rose tinted glasses on half the time!:;

Shame tho isn't it, that such division is so common place when music is supposed to be the ultimate unifier amongst folk...

[jk_scowling]

yeah, not sure about the gin though, i'll grab some red wine

I hate the way people are so narrow minded about booze and only stick to one type, can we not just get pissed! :cheese:

[DORYL_ROY]

Everything should go back underground. Techno being readily available within a few seconds due to the Internet has done the scene nothing but harm. Some of you may jump on my back and say its made the scene better and that the scene has grown so much due to more people listening to the music and having access to it but I don’t think so.
I believe the reason there are now so many genres even in techno is because of the widespread availability and this in turn has created so many people who consider themselves techno artists but instead of forward thinking and progression people just simply take the best bits of the music they like throw a techno beat behind it and call it techno.

The tunes that used to come out you could listen to them for hours on end imo and not get bored because there was so much going and even more so in the background than at the forefront and if u ask me that’s what made it techno.

Now there seems to b a lot of so called techno being made and all it has is what I was referring to as the forefront sounds and it lacks everything that really took you away when listening. This is just my opinion but I really think there are a lot of people who listen to techno but there are not as many who really hear techno.

To me this is the problem. I used to like it when techno was a dirty word.
You have got to ask yourselves how many people would do this if there wasn’t money to b made along the line or some status gained.

Take everything back underground and get rid of the sheep the leeches the fakes then sometime in the future techno would pop its ugly head back up as fresh as the day it first arrived. United we stand divided we fall well I guess we are falling.

[SlavikSvensk]

The tunes that used to come out you could listen to them for hours on end imo and not get bored because there was so much going and even more so in the background than at the forefront and if u ask me that’s what made it techno.

totally agree with this bit. not sure i blame the internet for this change (i think it was happening already before electronic delivery was widespread)

[fils_here]

techno is techno and should be techno.. play whatever you want in whatever way excites you.. just make sure you play good music.

Right on brother...AMEN :rockin:

[loopdon]

Can't we just enjoy ourselves? Enough good stuff out there for sure and simply tons of old stuff to (re-)discover.

I read articles about the death of techno in magazines dating back to 95/96.

Lame.

[fils_here]

Can't we just enjoy ourselves? Enough good stuff out there for sure and simply tons of old stuff to (re-)discover.

I read articles about the death of techno in magazines dating back to 95/96.

Lame.

well said mate, couldn't agree more, techno is a voyage of discovery, enjoy it :rockin:

[Little_Fella!]

I say we screw it all.
Let`s get Ginned up and Riot.

Er... not just any Gin old chap- Bombay Sapphire I say!:briggin:

And then Riot!!:cheese:

[dirty_bass]

Er... not just any Gin old chap- Bombay Sapphire I say!:briggin:

And then Riot!!:cheese:

As if I`d let anything else pass my lips.
Only the best Gadgey!!
Only the best.

[djfilthmonger]

100% diddo here.......

at the end of the day a lot of the terms are just adjectives which help describe the sounds that you are looking for/talking about......

and there are lots of tunes which get put into different genres which tbh is great too.... e.g some tunes off ddr's Hazchem label, in one shop ye might find it under techno, another acid techno, another hard house, another in trance....

but music like this has crossover appeal so if some trance head comes accross the hazchem tune and seeks out more on this label or by those artists then that can open up a whole new scene to them...

and 'back in the day' when i used to physically walk into the old record shops i used to trudge through all the other 'genres' or 'boxes' or 'sections' and often come across the odd gem which has been wrongly 'labelled' or 'genrified' (sp)....

which for me was good.....

yeah i know what you mean , I use to buy my Acid techno in me local record shop, it was always under hard dance , which had hardhouse , trance , and acid techno also hard techno like viper xxl, but the techno section had all kinds ,

[...Dave...]

does it make any difference to the world if it is or it isn't? really?:whoops:

surely you should play what you like. if people like it..bonus.

if they dont...your shit and maybe think about doing something else as your job/ in your spare time.

simple really:cheese:

[djshiva]

Bah

Play whatever you want.

Just be a good dj. If you're interesting, you'll get your props.

Screw genres.

that's pretty much the point i have gotten to. i have been playing anything from electro to dubstep to minimal-ish to clunky off-kilter house to techno and having a BLAST doing it.

also really opens up the places you can play when you have a lot of different stuff at your disposal. :)