Will techno ever again be the way it was 8 years ago?

**the_psychologist** · 12-08-2008, 12:17 AM

Well, just bear in mind that for all the people who yearn for music from the early 2000s, there are just as many who yearn for stuff from the early-mid 90s. There's always some "golden era" to a given art form, and it varies wildly from one person to the next.

As much as fans of the underground love to slag minimal, some of the music in that scene (or at least not too far from it) has gotten me interested in dance music again like nothing else in the last 10 years. Plink-plonky shit can go away please, but then you have the artists in between like Extrawelt, Minilogue, Apparat, Johannes Heil, Modeselektor, and many more. Not minimal, not techno, not sure what they are.

Media as a whole has been devalued, and that is the real problem.

Look at modern summer blockbuster films. Sure, we always had some bad ones, but now people don't seem to give two ****s or a shite about the quality of "big" movies. Marketing ensures that they open big, make their costs back, and thus the equation has been solved.

People download tons of music now, and there is little of "the hunt" left. I remember searching for vinyl for weeks just to track down that B-Side remix. Now I can go to Soulseek and type in the name, boom there it is. True, the quality generally is poor compared to the real vinyl, but quality is another moot point these days. People will watch horribly pixellated video and that's become the status quo, so who's going to care that their MP3 is lacking highs?

Mediocrity is rewarded now, or at least it's given far too much of a chance when compared to excellence.

It's all part of a move towards homogenization, where we all consume our entertainment units and sit around our giant televisions.

Truthfully, the time has never been better for rebellion through music. There's so much to comment on.

**davethedrummer** · 14-08-2008, 04:29 PM

in a word "no"

**qUE** · 08-09-2008, 10:45 PM

IF and when the disco buscuits get good again 8D

**clubsynthetic** · 08-09-2008, 11:32 PM

Originally Posted by qUE

IF and when the disco buscuits get good again 8D

haha this is a very good point.

shit drugs!

**System 47** · 05-10-2008, 01:36 AM

and stop blaming MP3/P2P for the love of all that is kicking..

remember your first spliff ? prob one of the best.. familiarity breeds contempt & as you become more in tune & at ease with something, it becomes harder for it to impress upon you.

techno isnt as fun cos it isnt as new.. stop blaming everyone & anything else & make a change.

**The Overfiend** · 06-10-2008, 05:24 PM

Originally Posted by System 47

and stop blaming MP3/P2P for the love of all that is kicking..

remember your first spliff ? prob one of the best.. familiarity breeds contempt & as you become more in tune & at ease with something, it becomes harder for it to impress upon you.

techno isnt as fun cos it isnt as new.. stop blaming everyone & anything else & make a change.

Too True.

**Technologic** · 16-08-2008, 06:08 PM

I don't think it's in techno's blood to go backwards, the theme has always been futuristic and always will be (probably).

And if the techno was so good back then why not drop those tunes in ya sets, or get one of ya mates to. It'd be kinda like saying "listen to this, it's 10 years old and still sounds great with all this up-front material".

**BranLanen** · 30-08-2008, 06:22 PM

Originally Posted by Technologic

I don't think it's in techno's blood to go backwards, the theme has always been futuristic and always will be (probably).

And if the techno was so good back then why not drop those tunes in ya sets, or get one of ya mates to. It'd be kinda like saying "listen to this, it's 10 years old and still sounds great with all this up-front material".

I live in the past of techno, still playing almost a 60-70% of old tracks, some of them well know by the most of people involved in techno those days, but also some other less known.
There is also some good tracks released now in techno for me, with a similar taste to old, but maybe I need to listen thousand records to find them.
The mix sets using this material liked all people who like techno I think, and most of them are young and they never knew the music or scene in the past. I use this way of playing as distinctive, almost nobody is using music as mine around here and I think this are being well appreciated.

I think the people that is bored with actual techno don't like music/sounds very similar in all the tracks released...maybe producers are going to the easy way.
Between the mainstream actual techno represented by minimal and schranz I think there is an empty space between that extremes. Some people around here is saying this empty space will be filled with some kind of new detroit techno...

**djfilthmonger** · 30-08-2008, 09:19 PM

will rock music be the same it was in the 70's

**koma** · 30-08-2008, 09:52 PM

i've been going through bunch of 2008 tracks these days... kevin saunderson, heiko laux, smith and selway, joris voorn, lutzenkirchen, henry cullen, popof, beyer, renato cohen, jona.. and what can i tell ya.. techno is still doing great, you dont have to play minimal or hard/schranz at all...

like someone said above, if you think something old will fit your set, just play it. lot of great techno records have been made in the past 20 years...

**Microdot** · 02-09-2008, 04:55 PM

Will techno ever again be the way it was 8 years ago?

no....

but Techno's golden era is the mid 90s anyway.

**djfilthmonger** · 02-09-2008, 05:01 PM

Originally Posted by Microdot

Will techno ever again be the way it was 8 years ago?

no....

but Techno's golden era is the mid 90s anyway.

For me it was 2000 -2005 considering i wasnt listening to techno in the 90's

**The Overfiend** · 02-09-2008, 05:26 PM

Originally Posted by Microdot

Will techno ever again be the way it was 8 years ago?

no....

but Techno's golden era is the mid 90s anyway.

Agreed, I don't think the key is to jump forward without knowing what's behind you, I think it's knowing what has occured before and moving forward with more training in your arsenal.

**krimewave** · 03-09-2008, 01:21 PM

Originally Posted by The Overfiend

Agreed, I don't think the key is to jump forward without knowing what's behind you, I think it's knowing what has occured before and moving forward with more training in your arsenal.

no doubt

**S.L.U.T Promotions** · 03-10-2008, 07:30 PM

dont look back, the time is now! make the most of it man dont dwell!!!... forwards ever backwards never in the words of skelter!!!

**System 47** · 05-10-2008, 01:33 AM

NO NO NO...

we have had those tracks & sounds & vibes.. lets please move tha hell on & not dwell on yesteryear..

that is NOT what techno is about. move forward. tip your hat to those who have gone before, respect & draw inspiration, but PLEASE.. lets not get into a horrible 'loop' of repeating ourselves..

remember that horrible time of repress ? lets not get into it again..

lets.. push.. things.. FORWARD

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