My favorite all-time music magazine quote was some years ago in DJ Magazine (you know, the big slick one with all the stories about how to be a wedding DJ -- but they actually have decent interviews with people such as Carl Craig). Anyway, they interviewed Lenny Dee and asked him about "intelligent techno", a term some people were using at the time.
"I don't make intelligent techno," Lenny said. "I make stupid techno." At least he was willing to cop to it :) But Lenny's work at least has had some serious intent all along, and reflects the urban reality of New York the way that Detroit techno does for the D. This is much more than can be said for those who compress their drums, distort the kick, set the BPMs to 190 and press a record, hoping that sheer physical pounding will set aside the need for entertainment or musical insight. OK, I've had my say on that now. One last thing: we get trolls and chain-yankers on 313 all the time. But we're still here and they, by and large, are not. phred
