Oh my god! No DJ Spooky!
Does this mean that the Soundlab scene has weathered the hype tsunami
that is illbient? I mean, ever since the Spookynaught exploded in the NY
media, the Soundlab scene has attracted great performers and insanely
big crowds of dilettantes, media slaves, producer-types. It's like
DJpolooza. Crowds so big so as to make the scene look like a rave where
instead of baggy pants everyone had buddy holly glasses and instead of
tripping X for the first time, everyone is sipping Anchor Steam beer at
$5 a cup from a 20 minute line.
It's a shame that so many great performers have to work in such
unpleasant environments. Soundlab should rethink and stop throwing
end-of-the-world megaparties, as if all the DJ's were retiring. Stage
multiple events at multiple venues on the same night. Throw smaller
parties more often, like a series. Schedule the performers to go on a
certain times, not just randomly. Ditch the crappy DJ's and embarassing
performance artists and only book the good ones. Treat the artists and
the scene as if the audience actually cared about who is doing what.
Stop treating the parties as if nobody was a real fan of the music.
Become a forum for good music, not just a pile of DJ's. Why is it that
it seems like the only place I ever hear about half of these DJ's
performing live is at Soundlab megaevents, and if I want to see WE I
have to spend 10 hours hoping that at some point I happen to be in the
room in which WE is playing? It does the DJ's and the audience and the
scene a disservice.
-Chris Fahey
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>One:
>The Baker
>Denard (Phuture Haus, Inc.)
>Silver
>Khan (Temple)
>Aldo (Throb)
>Audio Damage Labs
>Hallucifer (strange?)
>Selway
>Antfactor
>Gretchen/Honeychild
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>Two:
>Ben
>Shaolin Fist
>Lady TKO
>Dara (Breakbeat Science)
>Swingsett/DJ Wally (Samz Joint)
>Soulslinger (Liquid Sky)
>Entity (Ultraworld)
>Circuit Redux
>Jamisan
>Dr. Decent
>Lovegrove (Sonic Soul)
>WE (DJ Olive and Lloop)
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>Three:
>Imej
>Ambassador Jr.
>The Bedouin
>Byzar
>Peanut Butter Wolf
>Singe/Verb
>Toshio MK
>Under The SUn
>Daniel
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>Four:
>Masa
>Blank Slate
>Gen Ken/Lary 7
>Hahn Rowe
>Christina Wheeler
>Firehorse
>Satamile
>Sheldon Drake
>Darryl Hell
>Tom Stir
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