'techno' is a dated term. to me it means thirty-five year old men with a shady past, using phrases like 'larging it' well into their adult life, it means the rave generation (not mine) and squat parties where the word 'acid' is sprayed around like much needed deodorant. it means most things i despise about clubland, a fabric headliner or two and warehouses, retro-futurist imagery and much drugs.
it means decadent electronic music - pre-laptop portability, pre-plug-ins and net based usergroup discussions; pre technical immersification. it means music wrestled from the studio and championed primarily by the mediator-as-disc-jockey, secondarily by the record buying public. it means clubspace, always; detroit, mainly; boredom, often; dancing, primarily; art, secondarily.