Rising BPM made Nineties techno feel physically progressive

Evidence

I should have also noted that one of the main reasons a sense of linear progress was physically felt during the Nineties was that between 1990 and 1997, techno got faster: there was an exponential rise in beats-per-minute, that accompanied all the other ways in which the music got harder, more rhythmically dense, and so forth. So as a dancer you felt like you were hurtling. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1256

Categorization

• CANDY: The concrete, embodied detail that techno’s accelerating tempo between 1990-97 made dancers physically feel forward progress is a fun, quotable fact.
• XREF: connects to: Nineties rave music measured evolution by bodily intensity and punishing extremes — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1251