The Hardcore Backlash

techno in the beginning was dirty. fucked up. dark. a thousand messed out ravers getting wild in the basements, bunkers, warehouses, fields.
it was a big "fuck you" to the dance music of the 80s and 70s. to the luxurious disco of the 70s, or chic "dance" pop tunes of the 80s. where those with the most expensive suits and fashion dominated. where you would not go mental on the dancefloor, but repeat the dancesteps john travolta showed you on TV. where the was a "well behavedness" to the dance activity - not go all out insane and twirl your body around.
the techno crowds largely fit to this. to the anarchy and mayhem, and uprising from below. freaks, anarchists, squatters, working class people, lower classes. the outsiders, the jobless, those who were different, but still hopeful.
there was a huge backlash against this techno and hardcore momentum by the mid 90s. it was decided, techno had to become "chic". be respectable, well-behaved too. "intelligent" techno was pushed in forefront, "elegant" house and dance beats.
the working class and nihilistic roots were forgotten too. now the "luxurious" dorks discovered techno for themselves too, fine, chic, party people, intensively boring, and the middle class, mediocre men and women, intensively boring too. all those who sneered at the dirt and mayhem of techno - and especially at the ravers, the crowds, the hardcore possee - before.
was techno at the beginning a form of class warfare? it is hard to say. but by the mid 90s it had become one, waged by people from the upper and middle classes, to take techno away from the working and outcast classes they despised. and this war was waged quite directly; for example, now they were bouncers who often guarded the clubs and didn't let you in if you not looked like money or at least pretended too.
it is now history, so we have to recall the debates, the emotions, and motions of all these people who despised the former "childishness", "ridiculous" of anarchist techno, of rave, of hardcore - and now demanded chic and conformistic - and utterly boring - "electronic" music. this can still be seen of how many of these, or other people, still think in the same patterns when it cames to early techno and hardcore music. 'how dumb that music was', 'how silly those people looked and danced who loved this music'. as if you wouldn't look ten times as silly with your chic outfit at the minimal techno night, you asshole.
yes, this is history. so, it's time to turn the tide. blast them away. blow the lid off. bring the dirt back to techno music, to hardcore. make it the music of the lower classes - and the freaks - again. we need a different form of techno and hardcore again - full of rebellion, uprising, anarchism. full of nihilism and energy and activity.