Start The War On Minimal

[Dorian Hunter]

I can`t see why it is called innovative when Techno is getting more and more boring but I guess I`m just ignorant :)

[RDR]

I work in a college and get to see a lot of kids coming through who like Happy Hardcore... but they also like RnB and Drum and Bass in equal measure. Usually through the sound of tinny sony ericson speakers.

The hardcore scene is MAHOOSIVE and i get the impression its a well run, commercially viable form of entertainment. But then the people who run it obviously realised YEARS ago that it was entertainment - not really an underground scene, but a way for people to enjoy themselves. They started out doing massive events and stuck with it - pleasure island, doncaster dome, destruxion etc etc. Its the dance music equivalent of stadium rock.

@Jay - dont you think most genres of music are stuck in time, one way or another? I do - but thats why people like them i think.

Minimal? - i like it, it works, people enjoy it, there's crap tunes and great tunes. Good production is what counts, vibe and spirit and you'll always get that when a group of musicians get into a sound.

[Jay Pace]

@Jay - dont you think most genres of music are stuck in time, one way or another? I do - but thats why people like them i think.

Not explained myself well on this at all. Musically its changed loads, the old school hardcore sound mutuated into the utra fast piano rolling breakbeat sound, followed by 4beat followed by fairly hefty gabber styles. Musically it moved with the times. Quite like all of the different styles tbh, but the crowds at hardcore raves seem destined to be forever young (classic choon) and aged 14-20.

After a while you grow out that sound and that atmosphere, and want something different that hardcore can't really provide. Most people I know are the same, wanted a different atmosphere in a club, got more into the music itself etc. Might be a boring old **** but I've had loads more fun going out since music got slower and less in your face... Sometimes you want a full on stomp, but not all the time.

[davethedrummer]

I can`t see why it is called innovative when Techno is getting more and more boring but I guess I`m just ignorant :)

techno is NOT getting more and more boring
sorry but that is not true.

[S.L.U.T Promotions]

techno is NOT getting more and more boring
sorry but that is not true.

too right henry....what is that lad on about...is even on the right forum to be saying such comments?!?!?!

just got me a download of sparks to rinse @ S.L.U.T on saturday ;)

crackin track!...not boring ATALL!....inovative to sat the least