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Technasia: Wake Up People, Techno Has Nearly Died!

Rainer Weichhold (Great Stuff): I Completely Disagree

Dave Clarke: Techno Needs to Leave Space Ships and Aliens Behind

Louis Osbourne: Fuck the Genres

Luis Junior: Writing Music Shouldn’t Be a Job

Mugwump: Dull DJs Play Dull Music in Every Scene

Rainer Weichhold

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Last week Kiran Sande, deputy editor of leading British music magazine Fact, published a pointed polemic slating the unoriginality of much of today’s techno (see below). This week we asked some of the techno scene’s leading lights, namely Dave Clarke, Technasia, Rainer Weichhold from Great Stuff, Louis Osbourne (Miji) Geoffroy Mugwump and Luis Junior (Bedrock), what they thought . . . .

Kiran Sande:  “Techno has for too long clung to its self-mythology: the unshakable idea that it’s a vanguard music, that it’s still some kind of future-rushing phenomenon. In the past half-decade the hollowness of that claim has become increasingly obvious. Techno today feels like a nostalgia industry, fixated on its own past, and all too eager to operate within established boundaries, not to break any rules. A once fluid and revolutionary sound has become – in the main – polite, toothless, interminably dull.”

(FACT magazine article in full)

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