The thing is, as I said before, acid techno releases tend to have a bit of character about them - e.g. sick acid lines, funny little samples, and a general doesn't take itself too seriously attitude. That makes it easy to discuss, which is why the SUF and Smitten threads were popular.

With a lot of other techno there's only so many times you can say "good production" "nice loop" "percussion on this one is wicked", and it's even harder to make a conversation out of it. Maybe I'm just cynical because I'm a bit disillusioned with that kind of techno atm.