From Kent Williams Sent Wed, Jun 10th 1998, 15:32
From Kent Williams Sent Wed, Jun 10th 1998, 15:32
On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Greg Earle wrote: > Robert Merlak writes: > > My interest is Techno as > > I said and I can listen to Techno in my nice quiet room, in a comfortable > > chair, without looking at a bunch of idiots whistling and shouting... > > So you've never been to a rave then either? 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. For me, seeing Traxx go off, or even my friend DJ Alert, who can infuse their sets with real personality and emotion, is and will be a peak experience. And Ferenc in full effect? Omigawd! It makes standing around, bored silly by the latest wack house DJ worth it. As for Kraftwerk, I've no doubt that anyone who sees one of their shows with a positive mindset is going to have the time of their lives. The Rolling Stones have been in it strictly for the money for 20 years. Their last good record was "Some Girls" and that came out late 70s. Kraftwerk may be doing the same thing 20 years on, but their music is by their own admission an industrial product, and they've gotten their manufacturing process down to sub-micron tolerances. 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.