Quote Originally Posted by gunjack View Post
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.