From Michael Upton Sent Tue, Jun 30th 1998, 00:22
From Michael Upton Sent Tue, Jun 30th 1998, 00:22
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..." http://www.vuw.ac.nz/~michael/jj.html Site last updated 15/4/98