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Originally Posted by jootsiejuice
Rush has an ability to make the word "hard" seem soft. Hard doesn't describe his set a few years back at the Goods Shed. Soma may not like it, but he's a prog boy these days 
There's hard and intelligent and then there's hard without rhythm, soul, groove, finesse, structure, form, etc. I consider Rush the electronic music equivalent of heavy metal and death rock, I find it juvenile and not far off a bucket of nails and screws thrown in a spin cycle alongside a jackhammer on concrete. Hard for the sake of hard, it has more in common with death metal, happy hardcore and hard house than it does techno, which by original conception should express emotion via electronic means. The only emotion I detect in music like that is anger, and maybe that works for some, but as mentioned I personally find it juvenile and boring - little more than 'teen angst' if you will. But rock on and so forth, to each his own!
I've never enjoyed the stuff
you call hard though mate, but I do have a lot of respect for cats like Surgeon, Oscar Mulero, Oliver Ho, Johannes Heil, Jeff Mills, James Ruskin, Luke Slater, Claude Young, etc. My heart has always been for Detroit and the melodic / warm, rhythmic side of techno, and in the past 5 years, for minimal techno, minimal house / deep house, tech-house and microhouse / glitch as well. Again, to each his own.
As for the borderline or outright prog / electro stuff of recent years, I like very little of it. To be honest all the currently hyped names from Bodzin, to Ananda, to Fake, to Trentemoller, to Booka Shade and the entire Get Physical camp for that matter, to Boratto, to Martinez, to Huntemann and so on and so forth, are massively overrated in my opinion, I find very little of value in their music and if these are the types of artists you're referring to then I agree, this is not techno.
But now this is just going to ruffle even more feathers
Name another genre that elicits such purism and segregation within its own ranks...
Last edited by soma: 12-Dec-07 at 02:05pm