Mr. Tea
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the ubiguitous attitude of taking nothing seriously, and everything is just a joke. see my new signature.
Hahahaha!
Oh me, that's a good 'un, zhao. Haha, oh dear.
*wipes eyes*
the ubiguitous attitude of taking nothing seriously, and everything is just a joke. see my new signature.
Dominic's mates - anyone who claims to like techno who tells you that "Good Life" is not an awesome tune is a sucker.
it's not so much that they don't like the song -- it's more about not giving props to the dj playing it
there's a fine line b/w playing classics and pandering to the crowd, i suppose -- and i for one am never exactly sure where the line is
Nomadologist: "I have never been to a club where they play house music. Ever."
This is up there with Mr Tea's "I've never read xxx theorist but....."
:-/
Distortion is like the giveaway that someone making a dance record really wants to be in a rock band. I hate it.
Also, don't mean to sound condescending (as the starter of this thread said) but I sometimes feel like brits don't really have a sense of how unbelievably huge America is. This affects what pop is in terms of what gets promoted into pop culture and recycled into subcultures. Even if more people in America, numerically speaking, were into jungle than were those in England, it wouldn't be popular in the way it was there, it doesn't have the cultural critical mass here, there is simply so much other stuff that is more popular among more people.
Haven't thought beyond that, but maybe what that means is that while there are lots of local scenes that were into this or that electronic music, what "popular" means here may be a massively more industrial product, in a way. Not in terms of how it sounds, or anything, but in terms of mass production for a mass audience.
All I can say is you must know some bizarrely elitist people.
so they dislike the DJ for playing a song they like?
i really don't get it at all.
All I can say is you must know some bizarrely elitist people.
If you like Good Life or LFO then why not just enjoy hearing it?
Is DJing about proving you have the most obscure taste / rarest record, or is it about setting a party atmosphere with great music?
Don't watch the lines, just play what you think is good. There's nothing wrong with pandering to the crowd by playing classics if you really think they are classics.
(PS actually Big Fun is better than Good Life...)
French disco house has had like 15 years to *filter* through.This means you have Kanye West already making hits out of Daft Punk and Ed Banger-style "cutting edge" (whether you like it or not it's considered cutting edge from an industry POV) audio and visual aesthetic.
I have never been to a club where they play house music. Ever.
Arthur Russell? Felix Da Housecat? Carl Craig?About the distortion, I think it's quite a handy little signifier of an artist not being from a dance music background. I can't think of any disco records or any chicago house from 83 onwards or any late 80s Detroit techno with distortion on it. Silly? Not really but perhaps it shows my prejudice against "outsiders" messing up the scene I used to love. Just my problem...
Arthur Russell? Felix Da Housecat? Carl Craig?
I said I understand that. It just doesn't help to say 'distortion'. Am I being pedantic? I think it's misleading. (And all those people run shit into guitar pedals I reckon.)no i think he meant distortion like running shit into guitar petals. like that fuzzy texture some a this Nu-Rave rock-ish dance records are doing.
Anyway, I'm sure you know distortion is used in all kinds of ways - not necessarily total obliteration. What's a 'dance' background exactly? Is it not allowable to be into different things and experience of different scenes?
on the distorted tip, i can't help but think of that guy who runs B-Pitch. god i hate his music. "it's like, techno, but it has like, a punk attitude! with loads of distortion! it's perfect!" keep sharp objects away from me.
Well i've met elitist idiots too, on both sides of the atlantic! I just try not to hang out with them....
The other thing that crossed my mind was, if you think Luke Vibert's music is unbearable, why did you go to hear him DJ in the first place?
:-/
Maybe it was a speculative trip to check him out for the first time....
shame you didn't get to gear something you enjoyed either with or without the approval of your mates