Oooh, sorry kelley- my comments werent Really directed @ you - but @
the people who constantly think there's only ONE SCENE "Scene" - what
does this mean? A word that began back in the 50's with the beat
generation, ginsberg - kerouac.
'Scene' in the uk is also a word used to express affirmation in slanguage.
You probably realise that I'm not part of any 'scene' - because I
believe it's all one (here we go again) and nothing should be soooo
compartmentalised - even though my tag line is ninja -- to me that
means individual stealth manuvas.
Music is music - people are people. I dig idm because people do go
off on tangents and get 'emotional' about things they feel strongly
about - there is a community here - so does that mean idm is a scene?
I think most of us here fight for our right - not necessarily to
party ala beastie boys - but our right to be individual and
'eclectic' (a word dropped in a dinner @ yoshis in oakland with
gilles peterson in 1988 while he was trying to get jimmy smith to
come play at his talkin loud club, before there was even a talkin
loud label-- if only you were there to see the exchange between the
two, ie one grand master of jazz strugglin bein approached by what
appeared to be a barely 21 year old dude about a gig in England - he
wasnt even remotely interested to an incredibly gobsmacked Gilles).
And it probably was Planet K in Manchester with the hip hop - I cant
tell you how much struggle went on up there in the early 90's to have
a hip hop event in the face of The Hacienda and I myself encouraged
Tim Westwood to take a gig up there & give the slammin joints
(meaning tracks not drugs) to the people - and both our
disappointments when the bouncers wouldn't let most of the young
crews from Moss Side to come into the venue....
We could all go off (and probably should) and name the most obscure
thing we're proud to own in our record collection (do we feel a new
thread coming???)
My post was directed to 'da yout' of this list - not to discourage
but to encourage people that they will find it if the go out and look
for it.
pls dont leave -altho there's life both in & out of cyberland --
your posts are as enticing/exciting as the one from David Hampson,
which by the way is definitely POST OF THE WEEK for his reportage of
all the haps @ Sonar. I was only disappointed that I missed such a
report for the Detroit ting that happened last month....hopefully
someone will reportage on all the obtuse weirdness from Glastonbury,
cause even tho big rock acts play there -- there's a whole host of
smaller areas, unknown acoustic folk, people who make music with only
the wind, pure dub head tents, etc., that never seems to make it on
to the bbc and probably wont even be touched by the netcasters out
there either.
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2000 ALBUMS NINJATUNE/NTONE/BIGDADA
*dates subject to xenification*
June 19 - Hexstatic - Vector EP - An Audio Visual release on CD & vinyl
July 10 - Up, Bustle & Out 'Rebel Radio Master Sessions Vol.1' ZEN46
July 17 - Fink 'Fresh Produce' NTONE 39
Aug 21 - Hexstatic 'Rewind' NTONE 43
Sept 18 - Var. Artist - Xen Ninja Cuts ZEN 49
Sept 25 - Xen Solid Steel Mix ZEN 50
Oct 16 - Flanger 'Midnight Sound' NTONE 40
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