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From:
John von Seggern
To:
svin
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Date:
Wed, 13 Aug 2003 14:21:27 -0700
Subject:
Re: [idm] who killed dancing music
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svin wrote:
quoted 8 lines you are wrong.>you are wrong. > >scene has been forced to die in the underground >by constant violent police raids for more than 10 >years. people have been arrested NOT for drug >charges but for dj-ing, promoting and other >non-drug offenses >
This is not only a US issue BTW -- I lived in Hong Kong until a couple years ago, and our scene was really starting to blow up a few years back. More and more local HK people were getting into the scene, we were getting top world DJs every weekend, lots of local people starting to produce tracks, some live electronic bands and indie releases...but then drug crackdown began, police busted countless parties, always checking IDs, searching people, etc., etc., and as far as I can tell it went a long way into dissipating the creative energy that seemed to be building up. Sad. John
quoted 32 lines and a good number of events that somehow remain> >and a good number of events that somehow remain >legal but where good music is heard- >show that puplic interes is enourmous > >take loveparade in berlin or festivals in prague, >crimea, spain or india, or even burning man with >20 thousand participants, or DEMF with 2 million >as they say > >here in NYC it is a 6th summer for the ps1 warmup >festival- >i go there every saturday. > >i would say during the course of the day they >probably get up to 8 or 10 thousand in attendance > > > > >__________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software >http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org >For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org > > > >
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