To be fair, I guess if you're financially connected to the club scene in some way (regular DJing, promotion, whatever), then what's "trendy" will be more important since you won't want to turn off your audience by playing something too out of step with whatever their current infatuation happens to be. Maybe not keeping up with "what's currently in vogue" is a luxury of people who aren't trying to eke out a living from this music or at least draw a regular audience.

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Originally posted by Lebezniatnikov I agree with this. It's interesting to me how electronic music is so obsessed with the future - the next big thing, etc. When a track has been released for a few months, it fades away quickly and most dj's won't touch it. I understand that dj's are constantly looking for tracks that nobody else has their hands on, but what's wrong with enjoying music that is more than a few months old?

Some tracks do last longer than the typical 3-month turnover. Unfortunately, it's usually stuff like Put Your Hands Up For Detroit that does.

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Originally posted by paulandrews Personally, where I see the biggest potential, is in merging sounds of dubstep and techno - see Martyn, 2562, Appleblim (watch out for the brilliant remix he made with Ramadanman of a new tune featuring Paul St. Hillaire, forthcoming on Aus/Simple) or even Mathew Jonson. I can see this sound spreading more in the following months/next year.

That's something I'd be interested in hearing at times although I just like music that does something good no matter if it's in a style that's been "done before" (not to be confused with remaking a song with your sounds and calling it a remix like trance does mostly) If it's good, it's good. If it works it works, I think sometimes people need to just be able to judge something on if they like it, not if it's being raved about.

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Originally posted by Clovis I love these people who act like every tune has to be the most forward thinking, innovative, weirdly structured, musical masterpiece they ever heard. It shows they don't go out much if at all.

They just need to feel like they're doing something that others aren't, their sense of superiority rises with such thoughts.

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Originally posted by elFreak just saying. techno is a pretty broad term

yeah, obviously. There's loads of subgenres, without even going ishkur-ish on it all.

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Originally posted by Sykonee Some tracks do last longer than the typical 3-month turnover. Unfortunately, it's usually stuff like Put Your Hands Up For Detroit that does.

I'd like to say that happens in many genres. The awesome thing is, and this is just using trance as an example, that the good stuff is usually so much head & shoulders above the rest that it's being played (by me anyway) for months & months, even years, because it's just that much better. That is about the only advantage of finding good music amongst a pit of shitness!