yall be makin me front and shi', man. kidding.
"house music gets people laid". true, house music is nothing more than
Dionysian glutiny. kind of like pop music. problem is, lots of house and
trance and club scene people in general turn def ears to other music
because they want the same old thing, what "keeps people going off". this
may be a generalization. but i am talking about the mid-west here. i live in
the mid-west, in a large city, but still, the only music that kids are told
is out there in electronics is the dance stuff. so, since i listen to other
types of electronics, i am assumedly a listener of house music. so i am
assumedly a member of the drug culture. this may sound like another sad
assumption, but here, thats what these kids who are getting the club culture
"second hand" think you have to do;drugs. the record industry arnt helping
much at all either (drugs, see other posts); if an artist tours, look were
they go: west coast, chicago, east coast. we have examples from the recent
posts from matador. so, the "heartland of america" only gets the "outside
view" of electronic music. sucks, in turn making my life suck. answer would
be to move, but that doesnt solve any problems or effect a change, does it?
recently (last summer?) orbital came here with crystal method. i showed up
to see orbital because they are god damned essential artists to everything
new i listen to. out side, all these kids who show up to see crystal method
are openly acting like dipshits; dealing and doing drugs right out on the
side walk, "water dancing" or what ever its called to music that hasent
started yet and harrasing the police who were just there to bust morons who
do drugs in public. the show started with that group that did that vocal
song that was on all the radio stations last summer, cant remeber their
name....oh well. then came crystal method (gag, what a poiniant name for a
band, real eye catcher, eh?) and they play just strait crap. they stop. 85%
of the audience leaves. orbital is left to play for about 75 fans. i'm not
saying that all dance music culture people are ignorant to other music, but
in outside markets like mine, this is what happens. there is no awareness or
respect made for anything that does more than "make the crowd go off".this
is a cultural issue here. people get generalized and judged, happens, sucks.
FACE IT. i dont want to be lumped into that group of people, do you? but i
am! cant do much about it. yet.....
here is an idea, why doesnt Public Radio play electronic or experimental or
artistic music? the arts are supported by the government because they are
seen as "culturally advancing", so why doesnt a Freight Elevator Quartet or
a Richard Devine get some type of public recognition? because the mass
public sees the over powering bad in all things rather than the good. and
electronic music is lumped together with drug slash rave culture being the
over powering bad. its perception, man. all about perception. i cant say
what type of music i like to fellow workers. i say "electronic" they say "
like dance stuff?". i say "just a odd type of music" they say "well, what
type of instruments?" and i say "electronics" and they say "like dance
stuff?". you see what i am getting at. we are inandated from day one with
the vision of disco's when it comes to electronic music, for the most part.
((((another side note, k-rad are awsome. they make some house music, but
really smart, almost humorious house music. so, there is the house music i
find worth-while))))
f-dood, i like to dance and laugh at me making an ass of myself, and god
knows that once you get the beer goggles on and you stare out a chick
infested dance floor, house music sounds real good. but, that isnt what i
want my public community to judge me as. yeahyeahyeah, "dont care about what
people judge you as". bullshit. you havent worked in the realworld long
enough. one day i will move north, seize Montana and open it as a Euptopian
society free of bias, but for now, i got to make this popular society thing
work. i want some god damned, un-associated respect for truely
heady music, not a fucking pity look for liking "computer music". strait up.
benine
"my escalator stops for oktobeerfest"(yahhoooooo)
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