Doomed. We're all doomed.

[daviec]

most people don´t care about the music anyways. They just want to go out, get drunk or get high and find someone to screw. I´ve been observing the crowds now for a few years. That´s what it really comes down to. The majority does not care out the music at all.

But to an extent hasn't it always been like that? I think a lot of people into raving/clubbing/call it what you will are in love with the ethos of rebellion and the excitement of doing something different, rather than the music itself. That's why so many fall out of dance music once they stop taking drugs. You'll always have a core of people who love the music, and especially in techno because it's not the most accessible style of music around. But for the rest it's just a period in their life - youthful exuberance probably - where they can go crazy and forget everything else in everyday life.

Yeah I'd agree with that. At first it used to piss me off as I've watched folk I used to go to clubs with gradually fall away and move to other things as we get a bit older. Now I realise they were never in it for the music, despite many discussions with them at afterparties about the ins/outs of the tunes we'd heard that night I realise now I was probably the only one bringing it up in conversation. It's meant my circle of friends has gradually shifted. At the same time there have been surprises for me. Some of the people I would never have had down as techno lovers are still here with me and get just as excited as I do when we head out to a club.

So fuck all the dafties that were in the clubs coz it was fashionable. For me the music scene where I am has been getting stronger and stronger, and it's because we're losing all the watered down commercial dance shit, and the "super" clubs.

The best clubs have always been the ones with an extreme music policy in one sense or another. The ones for the true music lovers. Small, dark dingy clubs with people from all over who've travelled to hear the music they love.

I always think back to Nosebleed/North at Rosyth. A mixture of hardcore/techno/hard trance and one of the best clubs I ever went to.

Now though I'm finding great clubs just like it all over. Techno blasting over the speakers, a passionate promoter just out to spread the sound for like minded people, and a great crowd. Club 69 in Paisley. It's just a basement under an Indian Restaurant, converted to have some speakers and a dancefloor. You've even got to go round the back of the building and enter through the fire exit. I went to a "Foresight" night and it was tremendous. Ade Fenton playing to about 50 folk and it was superb.

"Drummed", "Re-Fresh", "Twisted vs Brainfire" at the Vault in Glasgow all have at least a techno room, and I know having played Drummed that people are right up for a good dose of real hard techno.

I think rather than the death of dance music we're heading into a new dawn. The darkness of corporate, mainstream, bullshit in our scene has been lifted, and as the media shifts it's attention we can get back down with the underground.

Here we go