Quote Originally Posted by COL ECSTATIC
holland does seem a bit quiet on the techno front.

anyway you should be telling us, your the one from amsterdam!
That's true :)

Ok here's my own opinion:

- In Holland we have a very bad dance media!! Why? They really don't pay attention for what's going on over here. And even worse, they don't reach out to the people globally. But over here in Holland we are very well informed about what's going on abroad. So they pay more attention to the international artists.

They only have dutch language magazines. So its only for the Dutchies...

If you take all this in account, Dutch artists in the technoscene totally have no feedback.

Are the big Dutch techno organisations really supporting real Dutch talent?
I think the answer to this one is, no they realy don't.
Specialy for the bigger organisations who don't realy want to take much risk, unknown names don't attrack many people as they would like to visit.

Do Dutch techno artists really have a meaning in the rest of the world?
That's of course a nother story.. there are a lot Dutch artists who gathered respect worldwide. Most whell know like Speedy J, Orlando Voorn, Joris Voorn, Steve Rachmad just to name some. Specialy the detroiters always knew how to find ower scene.. and they are still the orginators to me. For example this was one of the reasons Derrick May and Stacey Pullen took NL as their homebase during the beginning of the 90's i think. But to be hounest, you can count them with one hand. Its to poor.

How many technolabels do we have who support the Dutch technoscene in the world? Sure there are some good labels in NL.. Clone is doing some damn good business if you ask me, the guys from Rushhour do a fine job.
And when you like harder stuff.. Jan Liefhebber / Highlandbeats is selling more records abroad than he does here in NL Which can also be seen if you take a closer look at this bookings..

I also started an own label. The first release is finished. And even without all the attention from the media and other people, i'm fighting myself through the barriers to reach something!! Besides me there are many DJ / producers like me doing their stuff and trying to release. Some of you mentioned some names. Vincent, Carlos, Vin-ill.... But also Jerome is doing a lot. Some new names are Greg Martini & Xano Gallois who are trying to set up a new label.

- Promoters....
Are they blindfolded for what's really happening nowadays?
I gues that depents of the size of a organisation/promoter.
The smaller once still do a very fine up if you ask me. There are some exceptions though.. for example i am still supriced everytime by what they people from Mojo bring up. They sure show that they are not blindfolded and always know to find a very fine selection of acts that can't be heard everywhere.. and honestly it's realy a shame what the other bigger once bring forward.. again clarke, again cox, again liebing.... that's for example what i call beeing blindfolded.



So there's enough action in the technoscene in Holland, but you guys don't know this offcourse. Because there is no media who reports all this globally!!