On the spot or not (about techno music)

[dirty_bass]

I agree with ritzi, there is very little art left, and certainly hardly anyone seeming to even try to do something new.
It`s almost looked down on if you mention these concepts, now days the most respected or sought after thing is the base part of the music. To make people dance, which when you strip it down, you can do with a kick and a hat.
There are a few labels pushing for new things, and few artists taking the music somewhere new, or at least away from the general stream.

Innigo Kennedy, Makaton, and the Dust Science off the top of my head seem to be some of the few really pushing in the mid tempo side of things.

There are lots of new up and comings who are making new sounds or reinterpretting things in new ways. But wether or not they will find an outlet I`m not sure.

There are still a lot (more than in techno IMO) of producers doing some really exciting minimal, but with everyone jumping on the bandwagon it`s hard to pick it out, and really I just lump minimal into the house category. It`s techno for techno people who don`t like to admit that they are making house now.

I`ve had this theory, or feeling for a while now.
If you look at music history, when any scene starts to stagnate, or deviate from it`s origins, something new springs out of it, a new scene and sound.

And I see this happening with techno now, more and more I encounter people or talk to people who are fed up with the stagnation and homogenous-ness of techno. Those that don`t completely jump to something else already created (minimal, dubstep), seem to be really pushing their music looking for something new.
Out of all this new energy of searching, experimentation and rediscovery, I think (hope) that something new will emerge.
Techno will give birth to it`s new baby for the newly settled millenium.

[DannyBlack]

I agree with ritzi, there is very little art left, and certainly hardly anyone seeming to even try to do something new.
It`s almost looked down on if you mention these concepts, now days the most respected or sought after thing is the base part of the music. To make people dance, which when you strip it down, you can do with a kick and a hat.
There are a few labels pushing for new things, and few artists taking the music somewhere new, or at least away from the general stream.

Innigo Kennedy, Makaton, and the Dust Science off the top of my head seem to be some of the few really pushing in the mid tempo side of things.

There are lots of new up and comings who are making new sounds or reinterpretting things in new ways. But wether or not they will find an outlet I`m not sure.

There are still a lot (more than in techno IMO) of producers doing some really exciting minimal, but with everyone jumping on the bandwagon it`s hard to pick it out, and really I just lump minimal into the house category. It`s techno for techno people who don`t like to admit that they are making house now.

I`ve had this theory, or feeling for a while now.
If you look at music history, when any scene starts to stagnate, or deviate from it`s origins, something new springs out of it, a new scene and sound.

And I see this happening with techno now, more and more I encounter people or talk to people who are fed up with the stagnation and homogenous-ness of techno. Those that don`t completely jump to something else already created (minimal, dubstep), seem to be really pushing their music looking for something new.
Out of all this new energy of searching, experimentation and rediscovery, I think (hope) that something new will emerge.
Techno will give birth to it`s new baby for the newly settled millenium.

in some respects i would have to agree with you, but in my opinion, now is a very exciting time to be a techno fan. but that is like i said, just my opinion.