Quote Originally Posted by SummerOfSam
Hard techno?
Techno itself is shooting itself in the foot by placing the blame on artists rather than the shadyness of label owners to the artists, the shadyness of the distributors to the labels, and the flimsyness of the uneducated consumer, who isn't willing to even listen to another artist, because it isn't on their favorite label. I find there is also a certain clickyness or nepotism in the industry. Most people wont listen to your demo unless you have a certain affiliation or an inside track so to speak. I am looking at techno now in the same degree I viewed hip hop before the native tongues came in the late 80's early 90's
There needs to be some sort of unification between artists that scale the sub genres. I'm talking full range. For example from Dare I say it Shranz all the way to Tech house dub. Something of like a wu tang proportion a group of producers, dj's distributors label owners who just have desire pushing the scene's integrity and survival forward instead of being greedy and trying to be the next super star dj with a pony tail and gucci shades.

I was also about to say that I agree but to be honest re=reading I dont think i do at all.

Why? Because quality techno/music/hedonism lives on despite all of those things you have just mentioned. I feed off the bullshit and actually grow stronger from it. So do lots of other people. We only talk about it in this way on messages boards because we're too impatient and are looking for a quick way out. There is none. I'm not worried personaly. I know that I will always find new music I love till the day I die. I wish people would dig deeper though and realise that they should be buying at least one or two other types of record along with their normal staple everytime they visit the record store. Become a 'little bit of a nerd' but dont convert 'fully' if you dont want to ( you know what i mean). You like what you like but you never give people they opportunity to portray you as a sheep who just eats grass all day.Just have a quick taste of the leaves, stones, flowers, tree bark, the other sheeps hole too or whatever... what the ****?

I'll get me tree.