what if you could travel back in time?
Posted on: August 2, 2004I'm not asking this question. 
But it is something worth considering. I've had worse headaches lately, on a daily basis. Something like what happened to the protagonist of that "old" computer game Dark Seed, but this is my life. I remember where parts of me were manufactured and assembled. Now this may seem odd, but let me explain it this way: I don't mean, my biological self, but parts of my mental ideology and how I think about things from within. It has to do with techno music — of course. A lifelong obsession, continuing despite the fact I have a hard time with hearing right now. It worries me that I'm here, and yet, I am optimistic for the future. Why? I remember visiting Hyperreal for the first time. Do you remember Hyperreal? This archive of techno music and rave info, a great-glorious repository of knowledge from many souls, still stands. It isn't a spring chicken, but neither is it some Ancient (capitalized) artifact left behind by the Goa'uld. I visited there again today. I'll have to make a note to add it to my favorites, as it definitely was an old fave… and is again. I'm not sure how much is going on there right now (says it's still being updated in 2004). I'll have to delve deeper. Dig deeper. Get some answers.
But it is something worth considering. I've had worse headaches lately, on a daily basis. Something like what happened to the protagonist of that "old" computer game Dark Seed, but this is my life. I remember where parts of me were manufactured and assembled. Now this may seem odd, but let me explain it this way: I don't mean, my biological self, but parts of my mental ideology and how I think about things from within. It has to do with techno music — of course. A lifelong obsession, continuing despite the fact I have a hard time with hearing right now. It worries me that I'm here, and yet, I am optimistic for the future. Why? I remember visiting Hyperreal for the first time. Do you remember Hyperreal? This archive of techno music and rave info, a great-glorious repository of knowledge from many souls, still stands. It isn't a spring chicken, but neither is it some Ancient (capitalized) artifact left behind by the Goa'uld. I visited there again today. I'll have to make a note to add it to my favorites, as it definitely was an old fave… and is again. I'm not sure how much is going on there right now (says it's still being updated in 2004). I'll have to delve deeper. Dig deeper. Get some answers.?
Thanks to Paul for pointing me to ilovebees.com. No doubt you've heard of it so I don't need to explain more.?I've never played an ARG, much less (or more) Halo, but I'm an old-school Bungie fan dating back to their Mac game called Marathon. The story still impresses impressionably to this day, and the buzz (ha!) of this latest campaign just continues this on. It's nice to see some things continue. Some things can't continue, though, like MTV Amp. Ah, the great failed revolution of electronica (techno music) in the late 90s, around the period '97-'98 and the big article in TIME Magazine I used to have pasted up on my bedroom wall. It had big mugs of luminaries like Prodigy (who are surprisingly still around, like 7 years later) and the Chems and . . .? all of that excitement faded. But techno music came back in a more slinky, subtle fashion. Fashion? Yes, fashion shows, car commercials, video games aka interactive entertainment, and all that. It's nice to know what BT and?allies like?doing. YES, besides AI rampancy, more awareness of electronic music is just what we need and the tip of a warm iceberg. To deny ourselves the potential of TECHNOlogically-based music forms is to deny ourselves progress, to deny ourselves computers and the Internet and iPods and even, to a certain degree, more affordable music lessons for the tots.
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Back to Hyperreal, there was a retrospective hindsight of the "Golden Age" where the Ravers (with a capital "R", no less) ran free and a diverse variety of techno music styles conglomerated and were harmoniously mixed by the DJ-as-shaman under one roof, one night, for all to enjoy. You can observe traces of this in the?Amen breaks in?happy hardcore tunes still produced in the veinful?spirits of those neon lights… just a few years ago.?Perhaps there was too much romantization (spX) as far as drug ODs and deaths went, but that wasn't nearly as bad as the ignorance that followed in the form of the RAVE Act (named for a reason) and other uninformed, misinformed, anti-informed?quackery. Things splintered over that after that. There's?a sad lack of unity in techno music today. Sure, we have so many styles as Ishkur will keenly attest to, but infighting and divisiveness is all too common, segregating what should be a united people further.?It is a BROKEN CULTURE.?Hey, it's music. Many types of people, many types of music.
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