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

[Aratron]

eh? how do you know which tracks have been written on ableton then? The answer is you can't, it doesn't matter what the music is written on, a badly written tune is a badly written tune, no matter if it was written on cubase, ableton, logic or pro tools.

Seems these days because alot of sales are down, even more people are jumping on the latest bandwagons to make ends meat.

I just wish every artist out there would write what comes out of their heart, that's whats lacking these days

well i obviously made a crassly narrow-minded statement there based on 0% insight into music production, i have heard stuff from Force written on Ableton and it has sounded amazing and i know the divide writes stuff on cubase and that is shit hot aswell

however you look on todays techno on Juno, each track sounds the same or imo is boring as hell, thats why i love acidt echno at its best, its creative, funny, dark , emotional or at least it was.

[Little_Fella!]

Creativity, in my mind, is all about energy, drive, motivation and excitement about what you are creating...

When this has waned then it shows in finished product... tunes can be lacklustre with no sense of direction or purpose...

Developing purpose is the most important elixir for creativity...:)

[paulcortex]

its all in the trip...i love making trippy and spaced out sounds...and for me the tb303 fits the gap nicely...its not all about acid though...most tracks these days have lost the trippy edge....not hypnotic in the musical sense...they tend to rely on drum loops to do this...monotonous 909 drum loops with a smidge of compression and no real direction...i guess the change in the drugs scene hasnt helped...acid techno was born from the free party scene where people were mashed on pills and acid and craved the trippier sounds that Henry...Guy...Lawrie et all produced...then along came ketamine...great for sofa surfing at home...but on the dance floor it turned everone into techno mongs...and the music reflected this...i guess it will be hard to get it back to how it was....if thats whats required, personally i love the more old skool sound, with the real analogue sounds and more of a live feel, unfortunately the way technology is going its all to easy to knock a track up with no real thought and unfortunatley these tracks seem to be getting released.
Its mainly the labels faults for signing this crap. i guess techno (especially acid techno)has painted itself into a corner...and unless some serious rethinking is done then our favourite genre may just have its days numbered.

[Si the Sigh]

i guess techno (especially acid techno)has painted itself into a corner...and unless some serious rethinking is done then our favourite genre may just have its days numbered.

Thats what I've been saying for ages man.

Take the sound back to its roots before it's too late.