. . . that sentence fair groans at the seams, hah. "New Zealand never had the megatropolis sprawl and industrial-steel chic to completely embrace influences like Detroit Techno or Kraftwerk, music from cutlures zooming down the autobahn bathed in neon light reflected from skyscrapers and billboards." Etc.

i agree fully. i dont think theres much more to add, but theres so much less metallic trance (if you get what i mean) here. much more groove-laden, earthy feel to our electronic music. see now im just stealing your phrases.

hmm interesting whee conversation piece. I seem to not dig much NZ electronic music for that reason (prefer kraftwerk / add n to x / BoC / et al over Pitch Black & such) (not looking for an argument btw) .. if you look on the net there is a lot of bedroom NZers making trance / etc / etc / etc (not that I'm a trance fan heh) .. might be a by-product of not-so-numerous amounts of labels with a given style & whatnot leading to a "trend" if you will ?

by the way I just put up a new track ;) check it out if you would be so inclined

[ http://track.720.dolooprecords.com/ ]

I would say, that NZ drum and bass is on the same scale of filth as foreign drum and bass, except NZers are cooler.
As for electronic music in general, I havent heard much NZ stuff, but Strawpeople is awesome, and all the dub/reggae-influenced stuff is pretty good.
Can't say I'm a fan of all of Salmonella Dub's stuff, but they are a great live band.

i would say there are 2 types of electronic music fans,
1. they like what they know/ and they know what they like.
2. they want to fit in with the trends. eg. house music.