techno vs psy
showing that its better
isnt a competition its just music but.. everything was inspired by it
Just because something came first, it doesn't show that it's better. It just echoes the circumstances of the time; which were quite simply that that the technology and ideas were more simple.
There is a lot of good techno about these days, but I've watched an entire scene ditch itself over the matter of a few months in the early-mid 2000's i.e tribal, hard techno in favour of minimal. Harder techno was mostly entirely shunned until people eventually got bored of the tech house craze a few years back. I love techno but it's part of a wider, more fickle scene which leaves a sour taste in my mouth. It's completely lost the alternative vibe in favour of being trendy. It lost the hippies in place of house kids.
I think that there was this tribal vibe that was created when psychedelics, MDMA, techno and house took over the world, but unfortunately techno and house dropped the psychedelics, and lost a special kind of hedonism. IMO techno is a shadow of what it was meant to be, or was, and therefore loses points. It's lost that sense of tribe and letting go.
I don't think there is any doubt that psy trance is the genre that is keeping that vibe & spirit alive, and providing an opportunity to experience a type of psychedelic hedonism that seems to have been completely lost within and
isn't even really known about in other forms of electronic music.
"isn't a competition but...."