Well yes then there's "hardcore techno" which is another thing entirely, that a few Europeans have pointed out. Any music style that thinks it's bad-ass likes to tack the word "hardcore" in front of it. We had that stuff in Australia for all of two years around the mid 1990s before it got coined "doof doof music" and people got ridiculed out of listening to it. You don't hear it in clubs at all anymore, because anything with that over-emphasised electronic kick sounds very "mid-90s retro" and there's not too many people who actually want to go back to the mid-90s musically at the moment.Assassinator said:
I actually found that piece quite melodic, at an almost nursey-rhyme type of level, with the twee melody and all. It's the sort of tune I'd expect to hear coming out of a children's toy, and the beat is as comforting as my nother's heartbeat when I was an infant. The "harshest" techno is always compromsied heavily by the fact that the music (and the club setting) is basically recreating a coddling womb-like environment and there's nothing "edgy" about that. Being in a dark room listening to repetitive thumping occasionally punctuated by strange screechy noises is what everyone reading this thread did for about 9 months before they saw their first vagina. I wrote a thesis on this when I was in Uni. Techno takes people back to being children, which is why people like it so much. It's about as "harsh" as your Mum. Your "foetal position" comment is spot-on, because metaphorically, when you listen to this music, that's exactly what is happening.
Oh and just to drive home the point, if you look at the picture of the dog really closely, you can see a pregnant woman's torso.
