I think Jane Bussman captures this really well in "Once in a lifetime" (which kept me very entertained on the ferry over in the summer - great read 
)
basically you have the 3 schools
A - people who see it as an ideology, a philosophy, something spiritual
B - people who think it's a laugh and something to do on a saturday night
C - people to whom it is all $$$
and my point is I used to be A but these days am very much B
The big american jocks are still all A "house is a feeling, house is a spiritual thing" although you sometimes wonder if they are really closet Cs (when you see how much they charge)
your swedish house mafia and your cheese monkeys are all C
Weatherall was A and is still A
Judge Jules was supposedly A (many have their doubts) until about 95 and then became a C
Oakenfold was always a hard-edged C even in 87 and will always be C
I don't think there are that many people in Group A now
99% of punters are group B
100% of promoters are group C
in the old days dealers would split evenly between group A.B & C - nowadays 95% are group C
where am I going with this?
(not too sure ) (yoda ??)
but er yeah - I had a lot of fun. I'm not denigrating people who still find magic out there, but there's not much there to quicken my pulse anymore. You look back at these films "of your youth" and beyond the humour and the nostalgia you also realise just how naive you were and how betrayed everyone was, by the people your own age who did sell out and did make the quick buck and did end up turning into their parents. Where's the UNITY in that?
)basically you have the 3 schools
A - people who see it as an ideology, a philosophy, something spiritual
B - people who think it's a laugh and something to do on a saturday night
C - people to whom it is all $$$
and my point is I used to be A but these days am very much B
The big american jocks are still all A "house is a feeling, house is a spiritual thing" although you sometimes wonder if they are really closet Cs (when you see how much they charge)
your swedish house mafia and your cheese monkeys are all C
Weatherall was A and is still A
Judge Jules was supposedly A (many have their doubts) until about 95 and then became a C
Oakenfold was always a hard-edged C even in 87 and will always be C
I don't think there are that many people in Group A now
99% of punters are group B
100% of promoters are group C
in the old days dealers would split evenly between group A.B & C - nowadays 95% are group C
where am I going with this?
(not too sure
) (yoda ??)but er yeah - I had a lot of fun. I'm not denigrating people who still find magic out there, but there's not much there to quicken my pulse anymore. You look back at these films "of your youth" and beyond the humour and the nostalgia you also realise just how naive you were and how betrayed everyone was, by the people your own age who did sell out and did make the quick buck and did end up turning into their parents. Where's the UNITY in that?
