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Originally Posted by garyi Tony, please don't get me wrong, I like the music. I guess seeing them on stage brought home that I am now 40. Never the less, dance music is complex, at what point does a group dealing in dance loose its edge? I suppose the question is does it differ from say prog? Did Pink Floyd bring on any new users when they did Division Bell? I don't know.

An awful lot of dance/techno music from its golden age was made by older folk, often musos from completely different genres etc, e.g. KLF, The Grid, Orb etc. Even more so once you drill down to the one hit wonders that really drove the scene. I loved it for this reason. For a short while at least it completely removed the 'star/showbiz' from the art and became a genuinely free market where good music floated, bad music sunk and no one knew who had made any of it. It all went a bit pear-shaped with the superstar DJ thing and just turned into an egos 'n' coke fest, but at the start it was great. I've no idea where it is at now as I'm too old to want to get chemically enhanced and stay up unil 7am, I just buy the occasional Aphex, Squarepusher, Plaid, Oliver Lieb or whatever record now, that's about it.

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