diver
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It’s broken isn’t it, I mean more than ever.
Dance Music: Where are things at?
- Thread starter The Sun God
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The Sun God
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we appear to have gone from 2,000 people spontaneously losing their shit at parties to random fckers pleading with strangers to sit with them at a club table.
matter
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Wow. Luckily I’d never heard of him till now.
It’s like the old clubland stuff from 20 years ago. The next generation coming into clubland seem to love it for some reason.
The Sun God
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The Sun God
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thousands and thousands of identical androids just standing there, watching the most boring music on the planet. Where is the actual fun here?
156defected
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It's not about having fun, it's about looking like you're having fun on instagram.
The Sun God
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At least in the old eastend minimal ravepits you would see wasted people crawling out of k-holes. The ‘tech bros’ with their manbags don’t even do that
Buckley
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We're not comparing apples with apples anymore though, are we? This stuff isn't anything to do with what we were into. Stock, Aitken and Waterman vs The Smiths or New Order. There's a vague relationship, but even on a tiny island, how much as Hi got to do with any of the smaller credible venues.
matter
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Nobody is gurning.
What the f*** is up with Topping nowadays. An absolute joke (5th video along, that Bruce Hornsby bootleg from the early 00s)
The Sun God
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I get that we're old and not supposed to get it and I totally get that. But then again I saw more life in my great aunt dancing to 'country roads' at an Irish wedding than anyone in that video
Buckley
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I just watched some it again and the crowd are literally kids. I was wearing flares to Camden Palace a year after everyone else stopped at that age...let them get on with it - half of them will grow into liking what we'd think is better.
Can't really understand how this blokes sells in Ibiza though?
The Sun God
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So many people around Europe playing slow, dark techno now. Hard kickdrums and dark wailing, garbled lyrics, heavy basslines. Ok in moderation but after 8 hours it actually does your head in.
156defected
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Circle of life/techno. I remember all the fast hard stuff from 90s being replaced with the down tempo very boring minimal sound of the 00s. Then came back with some reimagined harder stuff again.
Would assume techno will go back underground again and disappear for a few years but unlike trance, it will return again.
The Sun God
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There's so many different 'techno' scenes now which don't overlap that much. I just spent about 72 hours in France basically immersed in one continuous dark loop and thought I might go mad. The crowd were so nice though I just let it go