Belgium,

Sorry for my bad English but I will do my best. :lol:
I’m a technohead for 8 years now and I saw it change from a new sound to a borring commercial scene. If people are spoilt than it sure is the Belgium clubbers.
With events like I Love Techno peeps had the chance to see the biggest names of the world in one evening a year. If you did a night with only one international name on it then it isn’t good enough for them. The big mass that you see on evnts like ILT are kids who want to **** themself up with xtc (cheaper than drinking a beer here) and go crazy on the “hype”. :roll:
A good thing is that this event is loosing people so the big hype is getting smaller again. After Clear channel took over they had bad comments of people who were into the music with their heart. Other events had to cancell dates an names because CC had exclusive contracts with them. That time 2 generations of techno grow in Belgium. Die hard small party nutheads and the big mass wanna be boom boom heads (who came from trance clubs because that scene is almost dead)
The smaller party’s are bringing the good sound now this days but the problem is that there are to many small party’s in one evening. We are killing each other wile the big once stay alive beacuses we can’t fight them with names. In one weekend there sometimes are 10 gigs in a small country like Belgium. But even here you have the problem that some concepts only started of to jump on the money techno train without interest in the music. But the old small concepts stay alive and the good fresh no money concepts survive.
You can get every kind of techno here in Belgium only the dark, broken beat stuff stays in dj’s there sleeping room. But I think this is changing these days when I see dj’s there charts lately. Let’s hope! So the music goes form hard tek parties to techhouse back to bleepy, minimal wicked tech sounds.
Then ther is the event kozzmozz. This one is going on for several years now. Started small, got big but changedagain. Lately this concept has changed his approach on the scene by putting up line ups with Surgeon, Ruskin, etc .... and keep it in a small old theater. In this case people who stayed away from mass events are united again and this results in one of the best bigger parties of Belgium also spending much time in the search for new young talents.
So don’t go to ILT because they **** up whole our scene and every support they get they longer stay alive and commercialise techno in a way it shouldn’t be done.

Greetz unity and respect!!