in my experience you have 2 kinds of audiences:
*people that appreciate good music
*people that appreciate music they already know
unfortunately the second group seems much bigger than the first...
Olaf
----- Original Message -----
From: leterel <leterel@yahoo.com>
To: <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 11:26 AM
Subject: Red Devil "Substance" @ Knitting Factory
> I've wondered how receptive the drum n bass audience
> would be to some of this broken beat material.
> Obviously, a lot of drum n bass producers (especially
> in the Reinforced camp) have gone on to make broken
> beat.
>
> Tuesday night I went to Substance @ The Knitting
> Factory, LA to see Red Devil spin. Most of the night
> the djs were spinning drum n bass, and Red Devil ended
> the night with a really nice broken beat set. I was a
> little surprised that one of the guest djs started to
> get an attitude in the first 5 seconds of Red Devil's
> set, simply because he wasn't playing dnb. They
> didn't even wait for the beats to kick in before they
> went to their friends complaining it was house. That
> first tune was by Domu and when the beats dropped that
> very same dj proclaimed "oh my god I love these
> beats". She probably felt like an idiot, because even
> her friends seemed to loved what RD was playing. The
> crowd gave a pretty mixed reaction. Obviously some of
> the kiddies left because they wanted hard dark dnb,
> but a lot of people stuck around and really dug it.
> It was good to see all the positive reactions from the
> crowd, and the applauds.
>
> Well sorry to bore you all...
>
> Cheers,
>
> -Will
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