I think that in general you have to be in quite a large cosmopolitan city
before you can find any sort of specialist music scenes. It's just a shame
that a lot of people just never get exposed to a lot of the music we talk
about on the list. And even if they do hear it, they don't accpet it; either
because there's no scene to support it, or because its different from what
they've been told to listen to by the media, MTV.
I often get quite annoyed that I have to compromise what I want to play out
because I know what I want to hear is not going to be what the majority
wants to hear.
It's tough finding the balance between exposing people to new music and
playing stuff that they recognise and already like.
Does anyone else feel that they don't always play exactly what they want to
play
or does everybody just go ahead and do what they want regardless?
I think it's an interesting question...
----- Original Message -----
From: Olaf Molenveld <olaf@interactivelink.nl>
To: Mark Allerton <Mark@warmspot.cix.co.uk>; Barimore, Carl J
<cbarim@essex.ac.uk>; <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 9:05 AM
Subject: Re: Living in the UK
> and what about Glasgow with labels like Glasgow Underground and artists
like
> DJ Q and Universal PrincipleS?
>
> Olaf
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Mark Allerton <Mark@warmspot.cix.co.uk>
> To: Barimore, Carl J <cbarim@essex.ac.uk>; <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 2:16 AM
> Subject: Re: Living in the UK
>
>
> > Well, I'd be the last person to disagree that there's a lot of fantastic
> > stuff coming out of central europe now - and I've this list to thank for
> > being able to find out about a lot of it.
> >
> > But I ought to point out, for the sake of clarity, that though I'm a
Norf
> > Lundun boy originally, I spent the past four years living in *Ipswich*
> > before moving to Van.
> >
> > Now, I will be the first to admit that the Ipswich nu-jazz scene (or for
> > that matter any scene) is far from healthy when compared to London. How
> much
> > can you expect from a town of 120,000 people, right? But maybe even
> Ipswich
> > seems like a bustling metropolis if you live in Colchester :-)
> >
> > I think it's quite a stretch to base an opinion of a whole country from
a
> > few posts here and a maybe gushing write-up in SNC.
> >
> > Unless someone on the list has something to tell us about the vibrant
> scene
> > in Saskatoon, of course...
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Barimore, Carl J" <cbarim@essex.ac.uk>
> > To: <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 3:19 PM
> > Subject: RE: Living in the UK
> >
> >
> > > Dave's right.
> > >
> > > Like him I've only just stumbled across the European scene, as a
result
> of
> > > reading about it in this list. The Compost stuff is fantastic and I'll
> be
> > > trying to hear some of the Hungarian stuff too, but from Compost alone
> it
> > > seems better over there than it does here.
> > >
> > > I haven't heard stuff like this in the UK, but that's probably because
I
> > > don't know much about it. I don't know what's happening in London but
> very
> > > little happens outside of it (in the UK), and that goes for nearly
every
> > > music scene. People are always posting events listings for Canada and
> the
> > > USA with really good artists on the roster. These events never occur
in
> > the
> > > UK that regularly.
> > >
> > > One grumble I've got about the UK music scene the way it takes so long
> for
> > > dnb records to come out. After the dubplate starts getting played, it
> > takes
> > > about a year for the record to get released, and that's becoming a
very
> > > common occurrence. The dillinja L.P has been delayed for two years and
> > still
> > > isn't out. It took about two years for the Peshay L.P to come out and
> the
> > > Underwolves L.P is only finally getting a release now after first
being
> > > played in about 1999. I know that with the latter two there were label
> > > problems but in general it is common to wait about a year for a 12"
> single
> > > to get a release after it is first played.
> > >
> > > Does this happen often elsewhere and with other music scenes?
> > >
> > > Anyone who likes the jazzy dnb stuff should check out anything on
> Fabio's
> > > 'Creative Source' label. 'Class of 76' by Solid State on the 'Liquid
> Funk'
> > > compilation is excellent and has a kind of live sound (even though it
> > > isn't). Also 'Just the Way I Feel' by John B is very good and Peshay
has
> > > released his best tunes on this label.
> > >
> > > Carl
> > >
> >
>
>
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