wow!!!! i missed this thread. but it just goes to show that all of you guys on this page are PROPER down with techno and well aware of what pop cheese and underground filth is. and also aware of all the finer shades inbetween. big up yo selves!!
mr mark eg deserves knighting for starting threads like this, becease we need to be aware of the potential drudgery we could be swamped with, and to make you aware that 1your purchases count!! 2you need to make the people around you aware OF THE REAL KILLER SHEEEET MAN!!!
my little suggestion is this: alas techno is quite functional so some muppets will pick up on it to make weak shit sound stomping. but i think the common thing that brings us together here runs deeper than even the records. techno to me encapsulated all the sickness and fuct upness my head was already telling me, but pressed onto vinyl. that WILL NEVER be commercialised because the results would be armageddon, but it is certainly prevalent in more things than techno.
i think techno will maybe eventually enter the charts (look at my sarcastic signature about technotronic, that is STILL what some people say when i mention techno...!?!?!?) but the thing that enters the charts will be the super cheesey,funky,accessable stuff imaginable. but the scale of sick records and amazing distributorsa surviving on 500copies per release of pure twisted robot noize.
we need to ignore the masses, let them stop distracting us fromDA REAL SHIT and take a look at the wealth of other, UTTER majestic carnage out there on vinyl that could NEVER make it into commerciality. they can have techno, but they'll never take MY music away.

this forum is ace by the way!!