Quote Originally Posted by davethedrummer View Post
I totally DISAGREE !
Techno has tons of identity and it's though provoking abstract nature
makes it work really well with a well thought out video.

personally I can't stand VJ stuff either unless it's good original art by the VJ himself
put together in a cool way ie: VJ Lupin the guy we had at the last Hydraulix party
he films himself running about in a rubber suit covered in paint, that kind of stuff...
y'know, the usual.


all that old fashioned fractal stuff and cut out pieces of Bladerunner/Alien/The Discovery channel mixed together YUK!
I mean OK, in a club, I'm not going to get bothered about it, there is beer to be drunk after all.

But watching the recent vids from Dirty bass and Oscar Mulero really got me thinking.

and hey, Aphex Twin's Windowlicker !
I think that in itself is enough to close the argument , that's a piece of genius right there that is.
And you have to ask yourself , would that track been so big if it weren't for the vid ?
it's a pretty abstract Aphex style mash up really.
I think the video complements it perfectly.

I just wish I had time to put into making vids myself
maybe I bloody well will!!!!


(I haven't read the whole thread and I bet someone has already mentioned windowlicker
bollocks if they have, and hooray for me if they haven't.)
I think you might have missed my point a little.

can`t really compare window licker to yer run of the mill 6 loops running for 6 mins techno tune though can ya? Window licker had plenty of interesting cuts and edits for the video editor to work with. It helps if the music is original and creative to begin with.
I mean sure there is great creative techno out there that would benefit from visuals.
But your average tool tune just doesn`t warrant a video.
I`d rather see more creative techno being made first, but of course image is important, we are very visually led creatures, more so now than ever.