Familiarity Breeds Contempt ? Is Techno Losing Its Edge ?

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Basslinejunkie, do you still go clubbing any more mate? Do you find the new, slower Techno as exciting on the dancefloor? I'm not criticising, but from conversations with other Techno heads here in Liverpool over the last couple of years, people just don't feel the "Nu Skool Techno" in the way they did the older stuff. It is great for home listening, even for house parties, and the production values are WAY higher than they were in the past, but at the same time it just feels less exciting and gives less of an adrenalin rush than it did when it was 10-15BPM faster. When you are on the dancefloor, you want to get lost in the adrenalin and the excitement of the music, not stand there and admire the high production quality, stroking your chin...

I think maybe we did this to the scene ourselves, with too many drugs, music going too fast and too low quality, just mindless pounders for the pill heads, but what we have nowadays feels like a shadow of Techno's former spirit and vibe on the dancefloor.


Mattias said: "Though I know that really soon some more heavy stuff with classic feel is coming, and even some old classics will return. I hope it might change the environment a bit more over time " which I totally agree with. I think the success of Minimal and the newer Techno sound was in part a result of failings in the old Techno scene, but I am hopeful for a resurgence to some extent of the old, more underground, harder Techno vibe. I don't want 150BPM mindless distorted rubbish for kids on drugs, but I also don't want 125BPM trendy techno for ibiza posers. There's a happy medium somewhere between, and I think that Techno will find it's place in there and grow again.