I can understand that, totally. I myself moved here 2 years ago, and felt
the same way to a certain extent. I think the main thing, and maybe this is
a SF thing, is that here there are lots of splintered scenes here and it
makes it much more difficult to jump into (from a community stand point)
when there's kind of a 'divide and conquer' mentality. I think the key
factor is the artist's themselves, as individuals, and not in the context of
a larger 'scene'.
As someone who had never been to an IDM-ish thing in the city before, (and
after seeing the posts that were up yesterday I was a bit apprehensive) I
went out to see what this whole thing was all about.
I have to say that my experience with the individual artists was great! I
meet Kevin and Bevin of blectum from blechdom, and Martin of matmos, and all
3 were exceptionaly nice people. Bear in mind that I'd never seen them
before, and had any contact with them whatsoever.
I think the people here, at least in this group, would be open and willing
to do anything they could to make the experience a better one for everyone
who's interested. I'm sure it's not the easiest thing in the world to
organize,promote, and perform at this type of event. That in and of itself
speaks volumes about these people.
I can't speak for anyone else but the above-mentioned artists, but I have to
say that it was a positive experience for me.
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>From: jimg <skoop@slackers.net>
>To: intelligent dancing meatloaf <idm@hyperreal.org>
>Subject: [idm] RE: scene, community, etc.
>Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 15:31:15 -0700 (PDT)
>
>jesusfuckingchrist. I rant a bit and everyone gets their panties in a
>crunch. alls I meant is that I moved to SF three years ago, hoping that
>there'd be electronic musicians and some sort of "scene" oozing from every
>damn crack in the sidewalk. I love playing live and I love seeing people
>play live! instead, SF is rife with unoriginal house, trance, or
>drum'n'bass djs, and that's it (mostly)! there's TONS of people around
>here ranting about "this" DJ or "that" DJ is his/her favorite, there's
>shitloads of websites with DJ BADDASS's mix-netcast-du-jour. There's well
>known crews: Phunkatech, Friends-n-Family,
>JusticeLeagueSoundSystem...etc.
>
>I -know- that there are LOTS of people around here making bedroom
>music---but there's no interconnectivity...nobody ever talks about it on
>the street. SF is so entirely based around local DJ culture, and that's
>it as far as electronic music goes. I want that to change.
>
>I wasn't preaching any candy-raver PLUR community peace-and-love
>bullshit...c'mon.
>
>-JimG <skoop@slackers.net>
>
>
>
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