I like the idea of the club, of techno music, all that. But mostly only in theory. In practice most of it falls too cheap on me. I like the creative thinking behind it, and the ideas and visions it gives me, but how it’s executed today in this über-commercial and very homogenous way totally kills me. I don’t find myself there happy or inspired, on the contrary I find myself unhappy and just stunned by the lack of ideas and freedom.
There were moments in the late 90s, beginning of 2000s when there was really nice stuff coming out for a moment, before the Resident Advisor kind of electronic music dominance started, before electronic music became fashionable in the US. Labels like Chain Reaction, Richie Hawtin’s Concept series, Mike Ink/Studio1, Brinkmann, all this stuff I thought were really showing some light there which I though was very interesting. Besides Ableton live and everyone wanting to make music that sounds the same as the next guy’s, I don’t know what happened and why it all died and became this homogenous pool of marketable music but I find it very depressing. It’s depressing because I seem to not understand the process while most of the planet seems to enjoy the current “club” developments. And I don’t particularly enjoy this position. That’s why i feel so much disconnected from that scene and the music in general.
Really interesting interview, a lot of sense being spoken. Read the rest of it here.