Hah. You know once I was no less ignorant, although I have to say I didn't
jump to conclusions like that. I didn't know and I knew I didn't know. It's
only since I've been online that I've become a total trainspotter techno
geek.
But I say you don't have to know what something is called to know that it is
good!
What annoys me is the amount of people that think trance is techno. Aargh!
The trouble is that techno is as underground as it ever was. Maybe more so
now other forms of dance music have gone so mainstream. I wouldn't even
bother trying to explain what IDM is to those people.
A few people played me some trance tapes over the last month. It was so long
since I had heard any (by deliberately staying out-of-touch!) that I
actually enjoyed the first couple of tracks. Of course by the end of an hour
I was begging for mercy, it's like they play the same track over and over. I
couldn't begin to contemplate putting myself through six to eight hours of
that in a club. And IMO it's practically undanceable because the rhythm
hardly changes and never goes anywhere. Hate hate hate!
Actually I *am* still a bit partial to some of the classic mid nineties
stuff like some of the old Eye-Q and Harthouse tunes. But don't tell anyone!
Ross.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Irene McC" <substar@iafrica.com>
To: <idm@hyperreal.org>
Sent: Monday, October 23, 2000 1:18 PM
Subject: [idm] sadly this is true
quoted 16 lines So I was playing a set on Saturday night and in the middle of> So I was playing a set on Saturday night and in the middle of
> Tarwater's "Early Risers" a keen member of the audience comes up
> to me and says "is this Massive Attack?"
>
> WHAT ????!?!?
>
> Anybody with similar incidents - -? Time to educate the masses, eh!
>
> I
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