Canadia... what is wrong with you people?

Freakaholic

not just an addiction
First of all, your cigarettes cost more than Chicago, and thats an accomplishment. Second, your alcohol costs 5 times as much. It was like $30 or something for a case of Pabst!

Anyway, this is about music. I went to the WEMF a bit ago, my first time. It stands for "World Electronic Music Festival". It should be called something more like "a bunch of drugged out kids in a warehouse in the middle of nowhere listening to trance and crappy dnb".

Ive gone to my share of campouts, and even a few festivals, and never have i had to listen to so much crappy music. I dont want to sound like im complaining, but wow... i never knew there was so much trance there. WE camped right along a strip of forest, and about 1hour after setting up camp, a soundsystem starts up. "oh great" i think, constant music. i figured i could handle though, i mean what was i there for. plus, it started out as some good electrohouse. But it quickly changed to some of the worst trance ive ever heard. and at 7am. plus, there were about 10 other side-systems all playing trance 24/7. there was one techno tent with some good music, but it was right next to the main stage.

the main room(s) were mindboggling. massive stages, amazing lighting. one stage for dnb (see the "modern dnb is rubbish" thread - pendulum, planet of the drums, etc) and one for trance (donald glaude, chris liberator, blech). i skipped out at 45 min of pendulums set, and i heard that he spun for 2 hours, and ended with dubstep. too bad i missed that. otherwise, Icey and Reid Speed were the highlights. Also, the hardcore barn. WOW. i have never seen hardcore done so properly. just an aluminum barn with a concrete floor, a massive system, and a string of LEDs. It was so loud that you could hear the building shaking from the entire campsite. stepping inside was to be overwhelmed, and it made so much sense that they used the building as a speaker. i was in awe.

Someone, preferably from Canadia, please tell me that i just went to a bigass raver fest, and i shouldve expected to hear only trance, and that in the cities (toronto, etc) its not all crap.... please?
 

swears

preppy-kei
I do imagine Canadians to be like less hip Americans, still listening to Roni Size, wearing those baggy pants with loads of pockets, smoking resin, nose piercings, tribal tatoos, etc...
 

STN

sou'wester
Oh leave off, both of you. If you want to see 'less hip Americans' you should visit my mum's hometown of Lakewood, WA.
 

Leo

Well-known member
I do imagine Canadians to be like less hip Americans, still listening to Roni Size, wearing those baggy pants with loads of pockets, smoking resin, nose piercings, tribal tatoos, etc...


ha...truth be told, there's still plenty of those types in the states (minus the roni size part, he was a brief blip on the radar screen here for the most part). i've met many cool canadians, although some of them can occasionally try a little too hard to impress.
 

zhao

there are no accidents
but the fest in montreal, moo-tech or something about cows or other, is supposed to be decent, right? like, with at least fresh dairy products...
 

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
but the fest in montreal, moo-tech or something about cows or other, is supposed to be decent, right? like, with at least fresh dairy products...

Haha, no, really? Sounds like something they'd have in Switzerland.
 

nomos

Administrator
yeah, thing is, hip canadians know not to go to the great misnomer called WEMF. we do this trick where we look at the poster first and then say 'fuck that.'

mutek is the place to go for elecronic music of the world. think of a smaller sonar. and it's in montreal which is so hip it makes new york and california look like red states.

also, why did you come to canada and buy american beer? american beer is a running joke up here. we use it for dishwater.
 

STN

sou'wester
Though there's some great American beer from the Washington State area, I'll have you know. What Canadian beers are there?

Edit: that's a genuine question, not a rhetorical device.
 

UFO over easy

online mahjong
and it's in montreal which is so hip it makes new york and california look like red states.

Everyone I spoke to in Canada regarded Montreal as so hip that it's kind of the most annoying place in the world :D

PS: pendulum doing dubstep now... fuck that. I used to speak to one of the pendulum guys quite regularly, and about a year ago he really didn't like it. I'm actually not surprised they're more taken with it now - speaks volumes for the direction the music has gone recently.
 

nomos

Administrator
you'd have been better off hitting up caribana in toronto. it's the largest caribbean music festival in the world. runs for a month.
 

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
also, why did you come to canada and buy american beer? american beer is a running joke up here. we use it for dishwater.

There's quite a lot of half-decent American beer, I've found. I can understand that most British people consider this an oxymoron because it's made by small-ish breweries and so isn't seen here other than at beer festivals and maybe in a very few specialist off-licences, as against the ubiquity of pisswater like Bud, Coors etc.
But I'd have thought some of it might get exported north of the border?
 
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nomos

Administrator
Everyone I spoke to in Canada regarded Montreal as so hip that it's kind of the most annoying place in the world :D
Maybe, but it's so laissez faire that no one really cares how you look or what you're doing. Seems more relaxed than just about any place on the continent.

Canadian beers..

1. Forget Molson and Labatts (except Export and 50 when you want to drink like grandpa).

2. St Ambroise, Creemore, KLB, Sleemans, Kokanee, Muskoka, McAuslan, Muskoka, Wellington, Brick, Big Rock. Then there are the Quebec ones like Blanche de Chambly and the ones with the weird label art and names like Fin du Monde, Maudite, etc.
 
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Slothrop

Tight but Polite
PS: pendulum doing dubstep now... fuck that. I used to speak to one of the pendulum guys quite regularly, and about a year ago he really didn't like it. I'm actually not surprised they're more taken with it now - speaks volumes for the direction the music has gone recently.
Yeah, it's way of topic for this thread (and hey, maybe I'm prejudging them and they're going to end up making deep/minimal/meditative/swingy/percussive shit, but somehow I doubt it) , but jesus fucking christ are those guys on a mission to ruin every half decent genre of music? Are they going to announce an aggro minimal techno side project and a lumpen midrangey psych-folk album next?
 

zhao

there are no accidents
akufen's kinda disspeared hasn't he? i thought that shit was so dope a few years ago and soon after can't stand listening to all those hicupping radio snippets anymore... like nails on glass really. a million nails on tiny shards of glass, syncopated to a 4/4 kick :eek:
 

Freakaholic

not just an addiction
yeah, thing is, hip canadians know
also, why did you come to canada and buy american beer? american beer is a running joke up here. we use it for dishwater.

i know i know. american beer is crap. but, have you checked the prices on beer up there? i mean the price of a microbrew 6 pack could fill up our car with gas. and i dunno the last time a 6 pack was enough beer to take camping.

yeah, i guess one of the problems was i had to buy tickets before i knew the lineup i was relying on a friends recommendation, and it was that or DEMF. i loved DEMF when i went, but you cant camp....

as far as less hip americans goes... i took it as being the urban/suburban ravers that we find in droves here in the midwest - PLUR and everything. fat pants, too much glow, too much ex, and not enough music. was really hoping the cultural meccas of montreal and toronto turned out to be better.

on the upside - the prices of dank are waaaay down there.
 

Freakaholic

not just an addiction
Canadian beers..

1. Forget Molson and Labatts (except Export and 50 when you want to drink like grandpa).

2. St Ambroise, Creemore, KLB, Sleemans, Kokanee, Muskoka, McAuslan, Muskoka, Wellington, Brick, Big Rock. Then there are the Quebec ones like Blanche de Chambly and the ones with the weird label art and names like Fin du Monde, Maudite, etc.

i actually like labatts, but not enough to buy it.

LOOOOOOVE Fin du Monde, Chambly and Maudit are good too. would you consider there to be a large Beligan influence in the finer beers up there, eh?
 
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