On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Alex Reynolds wrote:
| Why do you come back?
For me it's a bit of a double edged sword. On the one (ho ho) I love stuff
to be funky, and just "rock". Che can keep quiet here. :-) So I like this
list as a forum for discussing things that I think are all that, but which
heaps of DJs wouldn't necessarily consider dancefloor stuff.
On the flipside, there's a lot of electronic music with a bunch of
stylistic similarities to dance music that makes grooviness secondary to
other feelings being expressed. That's important to me, because, well, I
like a wide variety of emotional responses to stuff.
There's still plenty of stuff that's grabbing my attention in both camps.
Re: any perceived decrease in quality over the past few years - I wonder
if it's being jaded. I find listening to very un-IDM music (programming
free, primarily song based stuff; or gamelan, or whatever) can work like
cleaning the palette when there's _so_much_ product out there now.
Michael
OnNow: 'Not for 3s' - Plaid (anyone heard this before? ;-)
"You know what? I'll call him Jet Jaguar..."
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