OFF: Techno (was: What's Progressive?)

[Damon C Capehart]

On Wed, 26 Jun 1996, Jon Browne wrote:
> I get the same buzz of techno I get off the Hawks. _Exactly_ the same
> buzz. It's head music isn't it?

Not the way most people think of it (at least in the U.S.).  In general,
what we call "techno" is not head music but gonad music.  I have been to
a couple of clubs and I have seen on TV and heard plenny about what goes
on at raves (some raves, anyway), and it seems to me that most techno is
merely background noise for humping. [No, I didn't misspell "thumping",
though that's true too. :)]  Ever heard of Lords of Acid?

Then again, I listen to ambient and ambient dub, which is certainly head
music, though some of it may have sexual undertones.  So not all techno-
proper is gonad music.

At any rate, your experience with techno (as well as mine) is not in the
majority, though both you and I [aww, what the heck, the rest of BOC-L
can join in, too. :) ] certainly have the right to listen to techno in a
completely non-sexual way if we want to.

Damon Capehart        | "I think we should eliminate semicolons from the
aka Le Monsieur       |  English language; nobody uses them anymore
dcapehar at utdallas.edu |  anyway." - one of Dilbert's anonymous coworkers

P.S.:  Here we go again... :)