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Dave Clarke (click on the picture for more)

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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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Alisson Gothz & Jonty Skrufff (live @ Vegas, Rua Augusta) Click on the picture

Click HERE for a Youtube clip from my gig at Vegas in Sao Paulo on Saturday. The clip’s quite dark but it captures the flavour of the night pretty well.

Rod (photographer), Alisson, Jonty

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Live @ D-Edge (Sao Paulo) 2008

Upcoming electro-tech DJ and pioneering blogger Jonty Skrufff has delivered a turbo-charged remix of British techno newcomer Dare & Haste’s new single Ghost Machine, which comes out on Advanced Records in March (listen to the remix on Soundcloud here)

His high octane crunchy electro-tech version (dubbed the Gothic Horror Remix) has gained the immediate and enthusiastic support of DJs including Judge Jules, acid house pioneer DJ Pierre and French techno hero Laurent Garnier following an ultra-limited initial mail-out to a wildly eclectic bunch of just 25 DJs and tastemakers.

While Bedrock guru Nick Muir praised its ‘spacey and haunting rock solid sounds and unexpected twists and turns’ and alternative legends Tom Tom Club gave props (I’d love to hear it in a club on a proper PA’), Judge Jules tore up his radio playlist.

“Thanks for the tune, I think the music is excellent,” said Jules, “I’m going to play it on tonight’s Radio 1 show.”

Spinning Ghost Machine last Friday (January 29th) Jules played it at the beginning of his show as his second track, just five minutes into his broadcast (click here to listen)

Live in Prague (Roxy) 2008

Jules’ enthusiastic support matched that of media tipsters including Billboard’s Gary Smith (‘relentlessly and unapologetically inventive’) and Neale Lytollis from Germany’s Electronic Beats Magazine who hailed its ‘fat and heavy beats and ‘howling electro hell hound sounds’.
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