has anyone seen this?
deep tech history from the house ent crew's perspective. some great rave footage in there from when this all started. didn't realise some of the internal politics going on in there for house ent.
it's weird, years later it still feels unreal to me that this was so big and was never really recognised in the music media. when I was watching this video and thinking about how few views it has, and how house ent has a small online following compared to the size of the raves, I almost didn't believe them myself even though I'd been to some of the parties.
it feels like it'll never come to light now that the virus has happened. conversations about blackness and racism in music are happening now amongst London music types, but this whole scene is still missing from them. I watched a group chat that scratcha dva moderated last week with kode9, boiler room vampire guy, lara rix martin, emily dust etc, and at one point kode9 was talking about how hyperdub's experimental club night zero that's been running in london for the past few years books black artists but doesn't really get black crowds in attendance, and the other white club people in the chat agreed and they all started coming up with ideas for how they could attract more black people - maybe it's the door staff, or maybe tickets are too expensive, etc. - but how much light could be shed on all this if someone just mentioned that there was a huge predominantly black music scene, self-sufficient without any media spotlight, that had been going on at the same time or from a few years earlier?
deep tech history from the house ent crew's perspective. some great rave footage in there from when this all started. didn't realise some of the internal politics going on in there for house ent.
it's weird, years later it still feels unreal to me that this was so big and was never really recognised in the music media. when I was watching this video and thinking about how few views it has, and how house ent has a small online following compared to the size of the raves, I almost didn't believe them myself even though I'd been to some of the parties.
it feels like it'll never come to light now that the virus has happened. conversations about blackness and racism in music are happening now amongst London music types, but this whole scene is still missing from them. I watched a group chat that scratcha dva moderated last week with kode9, boiler room vampire guy, lara rix martin, emily dust etc, and at one point kode9 was talking about how hyperdub's experimental club night zero that's been running in london for the past few years books black artists but doesn't really get black crowds in attendance, and the other white club people in the chat agreed and they all started coming up with ideas for how they could attract more black people - maybe it's the door staff, or maybe tickets are too expensive, etc. - but how much light could be shed on all this if someone just mentioned that there was a huge predominantly black music scene, self-sufficient without any media spotlight, that had been going on at the same time or from a few years earlier?