[deleted] Absolutely, everyone stopped making it after around 2001, and quickly jumped ship to tech house and mnml when they realised they were just making [paul van dyk without breakdowns.
Everyone stopped making disco at the start of the 80s, doesn’t mean it had “failed” either.
Tech house and minimal also both died much quicker than prog had when people realised they were just making dull music.
“Paul van Dyk without breakdowns” isn’t really a diss either, PvD had some excellent moments in the 90s. Long breakdowns also get in the way of dancing, while supposedly you are claiming to be an advocate of ‘dance’ music.
[deleted] The Dutch and German cheese merchants had more integrity in this regard than the south coast numpties.
The Dutch and German cheese merchants briefly jumped on the electroclash fad as well, before mostly abandoning any kind of dancefloor sensibility in the pursuit of pop crossovers / radio play, together with generic stadium filler. Don’t see how that has any more to do with “integrity”.
