I really think the 142+ schranz techno is killing it for us all. No offense intended to the people here who write or DJ this stuff. I encourage everyone to do what they love.

These days I just don't understand why you want to take one hard as nails record and mix into the next hard as nails record. For instance, if you're mixing in a heavy G.Wilson track, and then mix in another track by him or a like-minded artist...you're making it even more heavy and harder during the mix. After the mix is completed you still have a heavy as **** mix. It's boring and easy to do. Lately I've been buying up a lot of old, stripped down minimal records and throwing them on 3 decks. I find that with a little work and creativity you can still make it a hard beatin' set but it's not as monotonous.

I enjoy taking some really old P.Rhythm or Cari tracks, placing the odd Mills track over it, and working in something really weird or mental on the top. The result is three tracks creating one major head **** track that is still beatin' and somewhat thought provoking.

In my personal production lately, I've been trying to find ways to leave out more of the drums and concentrate on stripping it down and getting really crazy with the synths.

I think when techno started moving into the clubs the sound changed with it. It got more poppy and commercial with catchy hooks and easy-to-please rhythms. I remember the reason I got into techno was because of hearing these really insane, mental tracks like Spastik or some other cari lekebusch stuff. Don't get me wrong I love the clubby techno, but these days 95% of techno is either hard, fast garbage made for the sake of being hard, or poppy techno made for the sake of DJs like Cox or Fergie to play it. Sorry if I rambled.