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I hope you all dont mind but I thought I'd break with tradition and not make a post on either burial or the definition of tepid house.
I'm speaking particularly to the americans there and trying (probably not very successfully) not to sound condescending. I'm involved with a night with a lot of modular/mad decent etc ties and have a few american/french DJs from their rosters in, many for their first UK tours. Quite often these guys are playing that would quite literally cause UK DJs to be torn to shreds and i can't help but wonder if US djs have any real idea on UK specific hit dance records ie what is an eclectic trip to down memory lane and what is festreing turd. Case in point, we had Flosstradamus/kid sister on last night (who were actually some of the nicest, most friendly guys we've had on and good god that girl is the sexiest woman i've ever met) from chicago, a town which has produced some of the most important dance music of all time and they played some terrible dave pearce fodder. ie faithless, benni bennassi, zombie nation and (horror of horrors) Alice deejay.
I apologise if i'm not putting this forward very eloquently as im still extremely pissed/hungover from last night and i dont think i've ver had more trouble getting a point out in my life.
What I'm trying to say is, what is it like looking in on UK dance culture from the outside? And I mean outside of the london continuum that is constantly disected on in here, mass consumption dance, does this exist in the US in any sort of simililar fashion? Or iam I just missing that this is just another symptom of the new ravey/ indie disco shame free hyper eclecticism thats currently taking over clubland?
I'm speaking particularly to the americans there and trying (probably not very successfully) not to sound condescending. I'm involved with a night with a lot of modular/mad decent etc ties and have a few american/french DJs from their rosters in, many for their first UK tours. Quite often these guys are playing that would quite literally cause UK DJs to be torn to shreds and i can't help but wonder if US djs have any real idea on UK specific hit dance records ie what is an eclectic trip to down memory lane and what is festreing turd. Case in point, we had Flosstradamus/kid sister on last night (who were actually some of the nicest, most friendly guys we've had on and good god that girl is the sexiest woman i've ever met) from chicago, a town which has produced some of the most important dance music of all time and they played some terrible dave pearce fodder. ie faithless, benni bennassi, zombie nation and (horror of horrors) Alice deejay.
I apologise if i'm not putting this forward very eloquently as im still extremely pissed/hungover from last night and i dont think i've ver had more trouble getting a point out in my life.
What I'm trying to say is, what is it like looking in on UK dance culture from the outside? And I mean outside of the london continuum that is constantly disected on in here, mass consumption dance, does this exist in the US in any sort of simililar fashion? Or iam I just missing that this is just another symptom of the new ravey/ indie disco shame free hyper eclecticism thats currently taking over clubland?