If you showed toady's techno to someone in the mid 90's it would sound more advanced, they might not like what they hear though. I think this was T1000's point about not enough quality techno being released although there are other good forms of electronic music.
on 2/12/03 10:36 AM, Brendan Nelson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > But the thing with good techno is that it shouldn't really endeavour to > sound a hell of a lot like music that was being made ten or fifteen > years ago, surely? Obviously a lot of the music on Drumcode is > influenced by early techno, but I personally don't like something just > because it's derived from something else. The gimmick with early techno > is that it just sounded so unprecedented (for want of a better word), > while modern loopy techno doesn't carry that excitement. > > What you want is to be able to walk into a record shop, say, once every > two weeks, and each time you visit the new records have actually > *advanced* in some way beyond the stuff you were listening to on your > last visit. It was probably in the mid 1990s that that sense of > excitement and advancement started to drop out of contemporary techno, > for me. When you look at the original manifestations of loopy techno > (Axis output, the Red releases, etc), they're actually *better* than a > lot of the present-day loopy techno. It doesn't look to me as if today's > loopy techno has the same level of vitality as loopy techno did in 1995, > and it certainly doesn't seem to have the vitality that was there in the > early days of tracks like Funky Funk Funk. > > Brendan
