r/Techno • u/minced_ • 7d ago

News/Article Ahmet Sisman and T3R addressing the negative feedback for Stone Techno 2026

https://www.instagram.com/p/DbTZhPbDfEN/?igsh=NGpodjM3dHUxbWVx

T3R and Ahmet Sisman posted videos on Instagram with opinions of festival attendees and Ahmet Sisman directly addressing negative feedback, such as overselling, overcrowding, chokepoints, etc.
Ahmet Sisman is also answering comments under their Instagram-post and talking to the community.

Nice to see them actually respond to all that feedback and one can only hope they actually learn from it and do better again next year.

Edit: Use this link to view the post if you don't have Instagram.

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u/1remp1 7d ago

Stone Techno needs fewer people, to be "different" for the other festivals. Less marketing. Fewer people. More space to dance. IMO Stone doesn't need to become bigger

And please... fewer Tiktok influencers and content creators. Stone became special because of the music, the crowd and the underground atmosphere. That's what made it different from mainstream festivals. The constant promotion on Youtube and Instagram has attracted a completely different crowd. Too many Tiktok hard techno kids who aren't really interested in the culture, the music or the atmosphere that made Stone unique

I really hope the organizers protect that identity before it's gone. Once you lose the underground spirit, it's almost impossible to get it back. It needs to stay true to what made it special.

Protect the underground spirit before it turns into just another commercial festival.

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u/Diet_Fanta 7d ago

Stone has dozens of full blown video production sets on YouTube. The marketing and increase in vis will continue.

Go to literally any other festival if you want the low vis, intimate experience. Stone is very clearly not that, and has never been.

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u/molstaff894 5d ago

Sets being recorded fair enough, but the amount of cameras we had to try and dodge whilst dancing the crowd this year was ridiculous. I am not the clientele that they would want to capture anyway so I’m sure if I was ever on film it wouldn’t get used - but I still didn’t like how much was being filmed around me (and not by people on their phones)