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    "title": "Techno Is Special",
    "content": "# Techno Is Special\n\nIf you know me at all, you are probably aware that i love dancing & dance music. I like many genres - i am out dancing to house & disco most weeks, i go wild for jungle, i bliss out to trance. They're all great, but techno parties remain my absolute favorite, the ones i look forward to the most, that make me feel deep inside my body why i love to rave.\n\n## dark rooms\n\na good techno dancefloor is dark. ideally to the point that it's kind of hard to see, but you can still see your neighbors well enough to dance. \n\nBerlin clubgoers are likely familiar with large, multi-stage clubs, and parties at them where there are 3-5 dancefloors with varying genres. If the party has a techno floor, it's in the darkest room for sure. If the party has multiple techno floors, then the hardest music is going in the darkest room. i'm imagining the rooms at some of my favorite large clubs [Æden](https://aedenberlin.com/) & [Sisyphos](https://sisyphos-berlin.net/) as i write this.\n\nwhy is this, why do we love the darkness so much?\n\na dark floor encourages your mind to fall inwards. we're not here to chat: we're here to rave. \n\ncompare this to the floor at a house club - you're gonna have a lot more lighting in a place like that, and for good reason. it's brighter, more sociable music. you're probably gonna chat with some people while you're at that club, you're not there to get your brain warped probably.\n\nthis is all in service of what i view as the main goal of any techno party\n\n## brain rinsing machine\n\n```\nrave is a church but it's also a sort of industrial process, like being thrown in a washing machine\n``` \n— stellz ([@piss.beauty](https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:7mnpet2pvof2llhpcwattscf)) [May 18, 2024 at 4:25 AM](https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:7mnpet2pvof2llhpcwattscf/post/3ksqwb5e6ro24)\n\n\nA common way of describing the feeling you get after a really good dance session is being \"**rinsed**\", and i think it's my favorite way of phrasing it. \"Rinsed\" is sometimes used more generally as a way of saying physically exhausted, but there's more to it here.\n\nWhen i'm out on that dark floor, i'm rinsing it all out, i'm hosing my brain down. each movement of my body pumps the water and in turn rinses me.\n\nThis is a big part of what really makes techno special to me. being locked in at a techno party feels like the boundaries between you, the music, and other people start to blur, and you can feel your mind twist around the sound while your body moves without your input. \n\nIt can literally feel like you are caught in some sort of mechnical clockwork gyre with everyone on the floor. The grinding of a techno beat is the operation of a combination blender/washer that you are inside of.\n\nTechno is a mind obliterator and renewer, but to experience this, you must give your body over to it.\n\n## let your body go\n\nto dance to a DJ without reserve is to sync your body to another's mind in a largely unconscious way. if you have fellow dancers, you are all linked in this way, spokes to a hub.\n\nin that moment, you're probably not making any decisions about what you're doing with your body. it's automatic: the body does what it is called to do by the music and the moment. While you can experience this with other genres, the mechanical nature of techno has, in my opinion, perfected the recipe.\n\ni've heard people newer to dancing liken this feeling to a BDSM subspace, and while i totally get why they would make the association, i don't think that's an ideal anology. The dynamics are just so different. I think they make this association because that's the only example they can think of where letting go of control is a necessity to experience something intensely pleasurable.\n\nthey're both genuinely divine experiences which i love, but to analogize them would pave over their depth.\n\n## closing time\n\nD.Dan's sets are a good example of no-nonsense techno i love. Here's a set from [Mala Junta](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTFp6pG8Nnw), who throw great parties.\n\nHappy easter or 4/20, whichever you like. Please consider attending more parties, and thanks for reading. ",
    "createdAt": "2025-04-20T22:15:58.552Z"
  }
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