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no use for a witticism
the missing link between oompah and techno
I remember Larry Heard playing the Skyy Club! I didn't go though 😭Oh man it's so long ago, those names ring a distant bell but that's it really.
i went to see fjaak and bergheiner (i think) ben klock do their thing a couple of weeks ago and it was quite boring
Europeans killed techno
Of course, because you went to see the shittest techno.
This Is A Man With No Clue.
i mean you're not wrong. i don't know much about techno other than listening to it and getting a lot out of it when i'm out. that night part of the problem was the music which was as you say boring. it felt like everyone was standing around trying to get into the tunes and there was a level of frustration i think because there wasn't anything there to get into. except lights and the massive pounding bass. all the energy in the room with nothing to latch on to. night never achieved liftoff.sorry. that sounded nastier than initially intended — i was laughing!
i mean you're not wrong. i don't know much about techno other than listening to it and getting a lot out of it when i'm out. that night part of the problem was the music which was as you say boring. it felt like everyone was standing around trying to get into the tunes and there was a level of frustration i think because there wasn't anything there to get into. except lights and the massive pounding bass. all the energy in the room with nothing to latch on to. night never achieved liftoff.
It's almost impressive how they managed to take techno, a music that once revolved around invigorating the dancer, and took everything out of it that did that, and replaced it with something so dissociative, dematerialized, and vacuous that it now does the exact opposite.
An energy vacuum. That's what happens when you let shit get run and gentrified by middle-class whites. There I said it.
It's almost impressive how they managed to take techno, a music that once revolved around invigorating the dancer, and took everything out of it that did that, and replaced it with something so dissociative, dematerialized, and vacuous that it now does the exact opposite.
An energy vacuum.
That's what happens when you let shit get run and gentrified by middle-class whites. There I said it.
Sever the roots of where you came from at your peril.
i mean you're not wrong. but I'd say that todays techno has more to do with progressive house and trance than anything chicago, detroit, nyc or London.
to add to my point above, i was quickly scanning through this, and it sounds exactly like one of those global underground hmv prog house comps from the early 00s.
This aussie label seems to be big in hipster techno circles. Not good really.
think you're unfair on Surgeon though. guy always knew the score!