Quote Originally Posted by Paul Zykotik
It highlights really that the article posted in this thread really can't be applied to techno! (No disrespect to the person who started this thread, as I found it an interesting read)
No disrespect taken. That's more or less my own feeling, which is why I said at the start of my post that I thought the death of these superclubs and "the scene" as manufactured by the media (not to be confused with the real scene that we're all very much still part of and which is still very much alive and turning out some of the most exciting sounds for years imo) is a good thing. I was just interested in what everybody else felt about it.

I know they have nothing to do with techno, you know that, and from this thread it's clear everyone using this forum knows that, but a lot of people don't i.e the Shermans who go to these big clubs and who really don't know the difference between HH and techno (see somebody elses comments about people who only care about being fu.cked and not about the music). So I won't be sad to see the back of them. And I won't be sad when the people who are genuinely into the music get back to supporting the smaller clubs. And I won't be sad when I no longer have people coming up to me at a night I've advertised as a techno night, telling me that "what you want to play, mate, is a nice bit of hard house to lift the crowd". Wrong. what you want to do, mate, is **** off back down the Ritzy.

I'm happy to stick a metaphorical shotgun in the mouth of these suffering superclubs, superstar DJs, media-whores and bandwagon jumpers and to pull the trigger to put them out of their misery.

This bit cracked me up, though :

Malik Meer was editor of Muzik when it folded and now finds himself deputy editor of New Musical Express. He says: "The dance culture as a whole got lazy. It came to be perceived as one thing: this cheesy, superclub, larging-it lifestyle, and the magazines ended up representing just the girls, the drugs and Ibiza."

To Meer this tunnel vision failed to recognise that "the history of dance music came from an underground culture and was about being edgy and anti-establishment. At the height of superclub-dom, a club would be £25 to get in and full of slightly-older people, glammed up and wearing crap labels," he says. "If you are young and want to be cool, you are not going to buy into that. The next generation thought 'That's a bit naff, I wouldn't mind skate-punk metal. That's a better means with which to menace.'"
So, it didn't cross his mind when he was the editor of one of these guilty magazines to try and do something about it then, instead of following like a sheep and running endless "Beefa" specials, fashion tips and "Ketamine ! is it the new ecstacy?" type articles ? Pots and kettles spring to mind.