Quote Originally Posted by dirty_bass
you can be so much more disturbing and hard, when you slow it down a bit, and put a lot of thought into sound design, rather than the old "oh just get any old synth and distort the barsteward" attitude.
Yeah, Dirty_Bass, gotta say you nailed it right out of the ballpark there. Hard techno is at its best when intelligently programmed, precise and cutting.

I feel the precision in a lot of the latest super-aggressive stuff from Germany has been lacking—it just seems to go for an almost “wall-of-sound” mentality that is super-untight and therefore loses the precise/funk sound that I have always associated with techno. It’s this kind of stuff that makes me understand why people bitch about the state of hard techno (though I feel it is the exception rather than the rule).