you will shoot me for saying it but....

[theledge]

where's all the GOOD tunes gone?
at the moment i've got a bag full of mediocre stuff , stuff thats good to mix , tracks that have nice grooves etc
but nothing at all close to the music we had 4/5 years ago
and i don't really mean acid at all
i mean techno , all kinds , marco bailey , luke slater , maro picotto , big tracks
anthemic maybe , cheesy yes sure , but they were gems and when you played them the room went off.

i mean some of the techno i hear now is ok maybe for the uk , but elsewhere it just sucks , it's to tribal , too washing machiney with no substantial idea to lift it up and to make people think wow what was that?

to be honest there's way more in the way of real new ideas in the minimal and electro music i'm hearing now than in the kind of techno i have been playing.

and i'm thinking.....this can't be it.....can it!

we need TUNES , real jump up raving out of you head anthems , not more heads down , tribal washing machine grooves or cut up hip hop unintelligable vocal mish mashes.

a spot of melody , an acid line , but a concept , and a strong original one ,
thats what rocks the dancefloor evrywhere!

i reckon it's time to sit down and think , where is this trac going to go???.....before you even switch the studio on.

we ....i ...need it please talented people let's do this thing right !

now load that second barrel and aim at my head


booom!

well ive never been bang into keeping track of every release despite buying techno records for many years now, BUT

19/20 techno tracks have ALWAYS been shit, in my opinion. ive always had to root through tonnes of chaff to get to the wheat

i did however go shopping for an hour or two of new techno the other week

obviously listened to a lot of shit. but i ended up with what i can honestly say is possibly the best hour or two's worth of techno records i've ever owned

i played them out and they worked on the dancefloor too, dramatically

i went to a squat party in london last month and saw a live pa from jason leach aka subhead . ****ing hell it was unbelievably good, driving synth driven techno, powerful uplifting positive and generally all round havin it

so here, you must listen to 800 times more techno records than me literally. but that's my recent experience and it's pretty good