Quote Originally Posted by The_Laughing_Man View Post
I think your wrong really.
Look at aphex twin bangin things to bits at Bloc
The times I've seen AFX djing he's played what could only really be described as techno. Mental across the board techno, but still techno. Plus masses of his productions could happily be described as techno. Thats the term he uses anyway...

Other times I've seen him live its been amazing to listen to, but apart from mad little bursts it was more of a concert than a rave. Different vibe, different intent.

in fact your assumption that all IDM is broken super staggered beat stuff like autechre shows your own pidgeon holing of a genre that is VAST in scope, in comparison to techno.
Hang on, what assumption? Like you said all this is subjective. IDM evidently means something different to me than it does to you. I get a different attitude and vibe from music generally considered IDM. It serves a different purpose.

Care to name a good majority of techno that is vaguely experimental and deviates from the techno norm that has been made in the last 4 years?
Why the four year limit? Since the term techno has been bandied about, we've seen everything from london acid to dub techno evolve from the same roots. Sven Wittekind makes ears bleed and Sleep Archive write lullabies. How did that happen if there's no experimentation? If nobody is pushing anything in new and different directions, how come there's so much variation?