Where's techno going in 2011?

[-LETHAL-ONE-]

Techno in California is going back underground again, check out this article on "TheLosAngelesTimes" newspaper.....

Raves would be outlawed at publicly owned venues in California under a proposal made Wednesday by a lawmaker after the death of a teenager and scores of injuries at rave events in Los Angeles and the Bay Area.

Legislation introduced Wednesday by Assemblywoman Fiona Ma (D- San Francisco) would prohibit the dance concerts on public property, including the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, where a June rave sent dozens to hospitals, including a 15-year old girl, who died.

Ma's bill would also ban raves on private property unless a business owner had a license to host such an event.


"Raves foster an environment that threatens the health and safety of our youth," Ma said. She called her bill, AB 74, "the first step toward eliminating these dangerous events."

Ma cited the case of high school student Sasha Rodriguez, who died days after falling into a coma after attending the Electric Daisy Carnival at the Coliseum. Dozens of others required medical treatment, and Ma blamed many of the problems on drugs used by those in attendance.

In May, two people died after overdosing at a rave at the state-owned Cow Palace in Daly City, south of San Francisco, and an additional five people were hospitalized, Ma said.

She cited a study by the National Institute on Drug Abuse that found that many teenagers attending raves use so-called club drugs, including Ecstasy, GHB, methamphetamine and LSD.

Rave promoter Jason Sperling of Skills DJ Workshop Inc. denounced the Ma bill as heavy-handed and urged legislators instead to try to deal with the broader issue of drug abuse in society.

"If electronic music is criminalized, our government will succeed in alienating a generation of Californians and simply drive dance parties underground — a less regulated, less safe, less sane situation than we have today," Sperling said in a statement.

Coliseum General Manager Pat Lynch did not return calls seeking comment Wednesday.

Raves are a big money-maker for the Coliseum, which recently lifted a moratorium on the events that was put in place after Sasha's death.

Pasquale Rotella, the promoter of the Electric Daisy Carnival, noted that the Coliseum Commission voted earlier this month to adopt safeguards that include requiring promoters to go before the panel for approval at least 60 days before an event. The Ma bill, he said, "ignores our 1st Amendment rights."

The raves can draw tens of thousands of dancers to enjoy high-volume electronic music, flashy light shows and interactive theatrical performances. The legislation would make it a misdemeanor to hold an event on public property "at night that includes prerecorded music and lasts more than 3 1/2 hours." It would provide for a fine of $10,000 or twice the gross receipts for the event, whichever is greater.

Ma said her proposed regulation is narrowly focused.

"The bill is not intended to impact traditional music concerts and sporting events," she said. "AB 74 is about cracking down on raves that harbor drug use and lead to teenage deaths."

[djfilthmonger]

hopefully better than it has been in the last 5 years tbh

[gunjack]

hopefully techno pop it's head out of the sand for long enough to incorporate other influences and change and grow. it's 2011 FFS and people still think bpm is what makes music "techno"

i have heard techno at 70bpm, 100bpm, 190 bpm, 130 bpm, and yes even the dreaded 140 bpm.... i hope that ppl wake up to the fact that ANYTHING can be techno if it has that "techno vibe" you know what the **** i mean...

YouTube - Coil - The Snow
YouTube - Bandulu - Revelation
YouTube - The Higher Intelligence Agency - Ketamine Entity
YouTube - surgeon & james ruskin - sound pressure
YouTube - Martyn - Broken
YouTube - Martyn - Vancouver
YouTube - Gunjack - El Soplo Del Diablo (Noiz Remix)
YouTube - Dubstep

[MITA]

**** yeah, i tot agree.

[markandrew]

hopefully techno pop it's head out of the sand for long enough to incorporate other influences and change and grow. it's 2011 FFS and people still think bpm is what makes music "techno"

i have heard techno at 70bpm, 100bpm, 190 bpm, 130 bpm, and yes even the dreaded 140 bpm.... i hope that ppl wake up to the fact that ANYTHING can be techno if it has that "techno vibe" you know what the **** i mean...

YouTube - Coil - The Snow
YouTube - Bandulu - Revelation
YouTube - The Higher Intelligence Agency - Ketamine Entity
YouTube - surgeon & james ruskin - sound pressure
YouTube - Martyn - Broken
YouTube - Martyn - Vancouver
YouTube - Gunjack - El Soplo Del Diablo (Noiz Remix)
YouTube - Dubstep

techno was never about speed anyway just because there has been good techno in the past don t mean that techno in the future is shite good call by the way mate people need to embrace instead of hate in as av said it was a great year for techno

[The Overfiend]

140 Bpm techno is dope ;)

[SlavikSvensk]

hopefully techno pop it's head out of the sand for long enough to incorporate other influences and change and grow. it's 2011 FFS and people still think bpm is what makes music "techno"

i have heard techno at 70bpm, 100bpm, 190 bpm, 130 bpm, and yes even the dreaded 140 bpm.... i hope that ppl wake up to the fact that ANYTHING can be techno if it has that "techno vibe" you know what the **** i mean...

completely agree, though i think this is already happening, at least on a small scale. recent albums by mapstation, monolake, etc. are techno, but stretch the boundaries of what's considered "acceptably techno."

2010, to me, was the year we started moving past the mentality of "i've got my little corner and i don't want to know what's going on in anyone else's corner," as well as the retro-obsessive mentality of "now that i've discovered this one bit of old electronic music that hasn't been trendy for a while, i'm just going to revive it." i hope 2011 is the year of recombination, reinterpretation and redirection.

[Elvio Neto]

YouTube - Yello - Oh Yeah

listen this at minute 2:28 and tell me what track reminds you :)

techno is everywhere

[clubsynthetic]

In 2011, techno is going to the same place it has been to for ever - my ears!

[Numeric]

Truth. Seems 2011 will continue in this fashion, hopefully.
For me personally I got lots of new stuff coming out next year down the dirty, crunchy path. Sometimes dubby, sometimes sterile and clinic funk, as well as all of my upcoming spacey sci-fi tunes. Not a single track above 130, maybe with the exception of some tracks still looking for release dates.

just listened to the clips of 'numenism' and 'biotope'

very nice

[qUE]

140 Bpm techno is dope ;)

I think gunjack was just getting at the electronic instrument manufacturers (and maybe scientific) idea of ideal dance bpm which according to Yamaha is 142bpm. TBH, when you're mixing stuff the bpm is changed anyway and I think it's probably best if your pressing vinyl that you keep it in a bpm range which will at least give the DJ a chance to mix it into other tracks :)

Although checking the numbers now, my tracks will only drop speed to 138bpm :/
4AM rinse it is then!

[BranLanen]

As we all sit here at the beginning of a new year (1/2011), I can't help but to ...think about how Techno Music got to where it is. Yes, its had plenty of ups and downs, the support of benefactors and demise of detractors. With all the trends that flew by, the principle elements that emerged it from being the "sound of few" to a "sound of the many" kept its structure intact. Techno Music displayed adversity, perhaps some stubbornness at times when most of its foundation gave way to the blinding lights of the entertainment business and the empowerment of Technology. For all these years, the low voltage lamp that lights the path forward maintains its faint, but steady glow.


Confucius, the Chinese Prophet once said "Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it".


Many would dispute the fact that Techno had/has no substantial purpose - that it still remains a audio backdrop for having a good time. An artful excuse to congregate with like-minded people, led by notion that through a "togetherness", everybody is well served and nothing more should or could be sought out. Some claim that Techno Music never had the necessary components needed to be considered anything else other than organized static and is expendable. Something similar to a shrink wrap to life.

I am far from being convinced of this view. In fact, I believe that Music, as suggestive as it might seem, becomes one of the few mediums of education adults have longer after we complete our general education and serves people long into their older lives. After 30 or so years of watching you all as a DJ and Producer, I can confirm that certain messages and insinuations in earlier works of Electronic Music have been transcended and handed down through the generations to one another. Something of a audio scrape book that retrieves memories. Does the "Strings Of Life" of today become the "Hey Jude" of tomorrow?. Music not only indicates to us what's happening in terms of human feelings, but also it shows what and who we're ready to leave behind.

Looking forward, Music (Techno) seems to be as wide open as it ever was. No one can solidly confirm its intention, purpose or direction.... The truth is that we can only be witnesses to something that has taken its own form, its own nature. As we all sit here at the beginning of a new decade (2011), I can't help but to think about how many more possibilities, more chances we have to communicate to each other. Many more ideas we're going to explore -- one way or the other!.

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[qUE]

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Jeff can't help but...

:D

[qUE]

The year is 2011 and I still haven't got my analog synth with at least 4 oscillators.

Techno isn't going anywhere until I get my synth dammit!!

[basslinejunkie]

hopefully better than it has been in the last 5 years tbh

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[Mattias_Fridell]

just listened to the clips of 'numenism' and 'biotope'

very nice

Ah thank you very much sir.

[Darkmode]

I think 2011 is going to be when people snap out of trends and just start being themselves behind the boards.

I agree I'm going to do my own thing & ignore what everyone else is doing as I have noticed there is too many keeping up with the Joneses in the Techno scene

2010 was a good year for Techno the quality of releases coming out were amazing & they were real Techno as well lets just hope 2011 is the year Minimal dies for good

[MITA]

LET IT FLOW in 2011.

[Numeric]

CLR show it's a techno oracle for me at the moment and i'm really exciting where we all going with.
i can see lot's of potential for my fav genre and i'm sure 2011 will be definitely great year for techno at all.

there has been some really good shows but also some really bad ones

dubfire for example

[JamieBall]

"Looking forward, Music (Techno) seems to be as wide open as it ever was. No one can solidly confirm its intention, purpose or direction.... The truth is that we can only be witnesses to something that has taken its own form, its own nature. As we all sit here at the beginning of a new decade (2011), I can't help but to think about how many more possibilities, more chances we have to communicate to each other. Many more ideas we're going to explore -- one way or the other!."

I wonder, does exploring these ideas involve recessing your instruments into the floor and crawling around like some kind of bored ant miming like you're actually doing something ?