Golden eras of techno...

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everyone has their own 'golden period' in techno... ESPECIALLY if ya liked the jack n jills innit ;)

imo, techno has moved up n down n left n right n forwards n back in the time i spent with it.. from around 92/3 when i was listening to the music, but not going to the clubs, it was jus music that i needed.. having been on NIN & PWEI & such, i found techno thru remixes & a store in belfast called Dr Roberts (rip.. best store in the world it was) where i shopped from i was 12 (into metal & rock) thru to i was about 22 (techno, techno and.. techno)


its jus phases.. everyone hated tribal.. then it was all about mnml.. ten schranz bashing.. now mnml bashing.. wonk has been invented by some tool & the media (and consumers) have caused more boxing of genre & sub-genre than is healthy...

either way.. techno will NEVER die no matter what grime, house, dnb or hip hop djs say... its the only genre that hasnt went Top 10... yet.. careful Hawtin ;)




as for snobbery... ever seen 2 jazz fans argue about who was the best free styler lol

[Patrick]

wonk has been invented by some tool

lol
That's well funny in view of the original posters (alleged) connection to the term. :)

[Numeric]

goin to Voodoo in Liverpool back in the days i guess, late nineties early naughties

seein the likes of Surgeon, Dave Clarke, Ben Sims, Green Velvet etc.

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lol
That's well funny in view of the original posters (alleged) connection to the term. :)

Disclaimer:

nobody 'invented' 'wonk' as its not a genre, just an adjective.. and yes, i did make a section in the record shop where i worked called 'wonky' purely as a pointer at the time when the 'loopy' techno seemed to be churning em out every month so the no-skool techno had a place to reside and be discovered by those who couldn't be arsed searching through hundreds of generic washing machine titles ;) And i'm really not a 'tool'.... well, maybe just a little one, like an alan key...

... where's crime?

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Disclaimer:

nobody 'invented' 'wonk' as its not a genre, just an adjective.. and yes, i did make a section in the record shop where i worked called 'wonky' purely as a pointer at the time when the 'loopy' techno seemed to be churning em out every month so the no-skool techno had a place to reside and be discovered by those who couldn't be arsed searching through hundreds of generic washing machine titles ;) And i'm really not a 'tool'.... well, maybe just a little one, like an alan key...

... where's crime?

Lurking, ironically listening to a dave clarke mix from '95 thinking that you kids have no idea how exciting 92-97 really was...

I guess the real tools were the people who took wonky to be a genre and went out to make identikit trax in the same way that all the 2nd rate loop techno people went and did bad copies of Purposemaker records..

I really look back fondly at the times of hearing mitch dropping bombs on the Virus rig (circa 1993, brewery road, caledonian road, Evesham) and having no idea of what this music was apart from knoing that it was some kind of techno that sounded different to my ears compared to what the majority of DJs were playing at that time.. And I might add hearing similar sounds coming from Jiba around the same time, most probably with jerome at the helm, we hadn't met at this point, I hadn't even started playing but it was a magic time..

[Aratron]

i dunno, things change people get older. techno was good for me in the early 90s, and i rediscovered acid techno, in about 2001.

all i know is that these days im buying a lot of good techno from the 90s mostly, from ebay at good prices. got some great early tunes by steve stoll, derrick may, ken ishii - which im really enjoying and is much better than the dross released recently.

i only wish i can wirte and produce my own music, as i'm sure i could do a lot better. thats the problem too many techno djs doing too much coke, or woteva and losing the plot.

i've only bought 4 records that were released this year.

i think schranz and all that crap saturated the market, there's very little worth buying being released.

i mean even relatively prolific writers like dave the drummer/geezer/ant have hardly released anyhting this year, but the situation was similar last year.