Why is it that...

[The Donger]

the same people making the biggest fuss about white people involved in Techno are the same people who never participate in the Techno and Techno record/new release record discussion posts.

hhhhhmmmmmmm....

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[imported_Gman]

Keep it under the other post...

[The Donger]

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[ngeso]

i'm not a 'techno' guy by any means. however, i'm a minority househead living in a country where techno has been the single dominant and all-engulfing force in youth culture for the past 15 years (rivalled, if at all, by hip-hop and nothing else). its impact is going to remain omnipresent for generations to come.

Germany is techno, if anything can be said about its young people. every other weekend there are huge open-air festivals in sunflower fields and on disused air bases with attendances in the tenthousands celebrating all types of electronic music. love parade is running in its 12th (or 13th - can't remember) year in four weeks time, and although the last couple of years has seen a significant drop in attendance from a record 1.5 million people on one street at the same time to about 800.000 last year, it is still the biggest single cultural happening in Berlin.

to boot, Germany is home to a number of shrines to techno, sacred and mythical places, the most renowned of which carry names like 'Tresor', 'E-werk', 'Dorian Gray' and 'Omen'. these places are easily, easily on par with places like the Garage, Zanz or the Warehouse, and it is here that people like Juan Atkins, Kenny Larkin, Blake Baxter, Stace Pullen, Derrick May, Jeff Mills, Richie Hawtin and a huge host of techno performers appeared, cut their teeth, held residencies, rose to untold fame and were (and still are) revered and held in highest regard by thousands and thousands of heads and followers of the culture, when no-one gave them the time of day back where they come from.

peace. ngeso.