Detroit Techno ohhhh yesss i remember the staccato hits and funky baselines and that house like but electro sound, will a new gen carry on the legacy or will it turn into ghetto tech and be forgotten.

honestly, I think most of it has been forgotten, but I could be wrong

They couldn`t really go further, could they? I guess they will have a hard time reinventing a genre that is as strict with musical rules. I don`t really have that much knowledge of it, but this is what I gather from it.

The sound had no rules Haakon it was not stuctured it was very experimental and funky and yes i think it could have gone futher. but i think the commercialism of techno killed the detroit sound.

i don't think it's so much commercialism that killed it. i think it's just that the buying audience for it is now white, at least 25, suburban and has to go out and find a decent job. and the kids that claim to be about it for the most part now are e-heads. i think there's definitely a pretty low threshold for the music appreciation level of someone who takes e every day.

the music is still out there in full force. it is evolving. but the audience is dying. most of the people who are into detroit tracks are in it for nostalgia.

as far as there being no rules... i'm not too sure about that. i think there are some pretty serious guidelines. there is an established aesthetic that does allow permutations but at the same time is very much about "paying your dues".

in southeast michigan, the operative critical phrase is "this sucks and i'll tell you why."

yeah it seems that the generation that listened to that sound which HELL!!! is not that old because it was at it's higest peak in 92-97..... are listening to the music out of respect for it and it's creators, they are older now 25 early to late 30's and it seems the creators of this music are the one's that i feel sorry for, if you really think about it they are spinning for us who listened to them and maybe a few New Gens who have a good ear for the sound but it is evolving into what i dont know, sometimes i wonder myself should i continue to compose techno tracks with that detroit and house flavor or just do trance lol.