On Friday, September 12, 2003, at 05:22 PM, chthonic wrote:
quoted 18 lines "N. Graham Worthington" <nworth1@gl.umbc.edu> said:> "N. Graham Worthington" <nworth1@gl.umbc.edu> said:
>
>
>> the part about music being
>> so drastically affected by it is total bunk. I suppose Mr. Simon
>> Reynolds' appearance in "Modulations" is partly to blame, since
>> he reiterated (fabricated?) it there.
>
> i had already read that in a few articles, in particular one about the
> rave scene in england in the early 90's. i could see it happening, it
> doesn't seem totally out of the realm of possibility. of course,
> that's
> assuming the musicians are actually going to the clubs and a)
> seeing things get nastier and that people were going for harder,
> faster tracks, and/or b) the musicians were taking this crappier
> version of e (or x) themselves. it's just as possible that neither of
> those things ever happened, hence my disclaimer (although i do
> own a copy of 'modulations' the book).
I think it's more likely that everyone killed their serotonin reserves
by chomping ecstasy in the early 90s, and by the mid-90s the drugs
didn't work anymore and they had a nice mental imbalance to make them
irritable and depressed all the time. That's my theory anyway. It seems
to happen to every new generation of ravers/clubbers in a nice,
predictable cycle. So happy hardcore gave way to jungle, epic trance to
"progressive", hard house to hard techno. Funny that.
--
Tim Moore
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