>hey JT, I meant no personal offense to you, I'm sorry if I upset you. i am gonna stomp a mudhole.....wait till i see you....we'll settle this...psyche! i'll buy you a beer or vice versa or hey both
>but, I disagree that about techno being futuristic, I think juan atkins, the >self proclaimed inventor of techno, said it is exactly that. well it was at the time, to him, it used to be to me, sometimes it still is, maybe not to others, etc -- my point is that it has a lot more to do with where your head is at than with the music itself. in the 80's and 90's the future looked really exciting and bold, digital media, computers, new technologies, wow honda is building walking robots etc etc -- i remember nasa was seriously planning on going to mars by 2010!! and it translated into techno for me as well. the future doesnt seem so romantic anymore (robots still kinda suck, mars is pushed back to 2040 or something now), it seems more a slow evolution of existing technologies, and in many ways it looks increasingly grim but i digress. music is never really inherently futuristic, at best it's how you extend your notion of the present into the future, but its necessarily tied to the current somehow. futurism was part of techno then, but not so much now, and there's nothing wrong with that, things are different, things evolve...so it really winds me up when people qualify techno as dead because its not futuristic anymore, or that that makes it nostalgic. hiphop hasnt changed much in the last 15 years and no one's calling it nostalgia music. anyways dont take me too serious, glad you've been making music so long and will continue, but your take on the state of techno and it's fans leaves a bitter taste. visit glasgow or tokyo sometime, you'd be amazed how young and enthusiastic some of the crowd is, and i doubt they think the music is nostalgic....it's still the most "futuristic" sh:t around, if you can manage to fantasize about the future anymore...:P
