It seems that minimal and electro house has kinda hit things hard everywhere then.

From the chats I had with promoters in spain, madrid is a minimal city.
Barcelona more variety but still minimal takes the big clubs.
Plenty of good underground parties in the summer though.

I agree poland has got tougher.
It seems again that proper techno has been driven into the smaller clubs, with electro house taking over there.

Montreal seems to have gone over to minimal and electro house too.

What happened to the scene in Russia?

But again, when for want of a better phrase, middle of the road techno is played in clubs with other music, it pulls people onto the floor.

So is it the promoters out there who are just trying to jump onto what they see as the current fashion (ie minimal and electro house?)

Or is it the clubs themselves, I know a lot of venues just don`t like the word techno when they hear a promoter say that`s what they want to do..

On a good note, I got a lot of family in south africa, and apparently techno is starting to spring up down there, a whole new fresh scene, again it`s small but it`s growing.

It would seem that most countries in europe have about an equal amount of the proper stuff, it`s just that it has gone back underground.

I`m not sure thats a bad thing.