I quit techno in 1996. Although the experimental sound remained, the music itself has changed completely. It became clear that the language of this style no longer suits me. I needed electronic music without repetitive rhythm to concentrate on the sound. I wanted to focus on all the subtleties of the sound, the play of timbres and “hidden” sounds.
The language of techno has become uncomfortable for me. What needed to be said could not be conveyed through its repetitive rhythm. But electroacoustics, live electronics, and installation art had the very concentration that I needed. And, of course, the drugs that were popular in the techno culture at the time were fed up. I was tired of seeing people extinguish themselves as if they were candles in the wind. It was time for me to quit, and since then I have never regretted that I chose a different path. Despite all of said above, still loveing to experiment with house music, trance music, sometimes even electro.