From Kent Williams Sent Wed, Jun 10th 1998, 22:06
On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, siliconvortex wrote: > > > > My interest is Techno as > > > > I said and I can listen to Techno in my nice quiet room > > > To not see techno, in the hands of a gifted DJ, with a crowd who is up for > > it, is to entirely miss the point. > > come on kent, you know this is ultra narrow-minded. Moi? Narrow minded? Nah. Strong opinions? Sure! > let's face it, most club pa systems are shit, most djs are up their own > arse, and most of the people around you are annoying. I guess I'm lucky enough to go to better clubs than you do. I thought Iowa City was a backwater, but apparently not. Or perhaps BECAUSE it's a backwater, the people DJ'ing and clubbing are up for it and appreciate it. It is different than Chicago -- not enough going on here to get jaded about it. > > That perhaps deserves a different sort of attention and appreciation > > than someone trying to push the state of the art, but it still deserves > > massive respect. > > well, this is a difficult one. problem is, their industrial products are > beginning to look a little dated. the things they say are becoming > irrelevant. > Whatever. Is Bach irrelevant? He hasn't done anything new for over 200 years! I think he's lost his touch. Feel free to have your own opinions but don't get on my jock for disagreeing.