Freetekno was a movement in Canada where people exploited crown land laws and went to the middle of nowhere to rave in peace. They used early satellite maps and reconnaissance. It’s dead. Wish I had participated.
The Strange Devirtualization of Techno
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Re: The Strange Devirtualization of Techno
#22I really can't tell what this piece is trying to say. > The earliest producers of this music dreamt of “arranging energy”, of being conduits for the anti-social/inhuman, to “combat the mediocre audio and visual programming being fed to the inhabitants of Earth”. Gone are all the elements with clever blocks of alien dissonance, driving paranoia or ecstatic release. None of the tracks is pulled forward by second order…
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#23Meta question: Why is this flagged?
Re: The Strange Devirtualization of Techno
#24I really can't tell what this piece is trying to say. > The earliest producers of this music dreamt of “arranging energy”, of being conduits for the anti-social/inhuman, to “combat the mediocre audio and visual programming being fed to the inhabitants of Earth”. Gone are all the elements with clever blocks of alien dissonance, driving paranoia or ecstatic release. None of the tracks is pulled forward by second order…
It's about how Berlin techno culture (not techno music as a genre) and particularly Tresor have become more popular with a different crowd and lost part of its soul during the pandemic/rise of tiktok.