Somewhere I read a long time ago that this is the rule in almost evry kind
of music: the people who buy the records and the people who go out and
listen to the music are two very separate groups. Since I have been record
collecting this stuff, it has become rarer and rarer for me to go out and
listen to music, since I have become pickier about the stuff I want to
listen so I hardly check a DJ if I do not know for sure that I am going to
like what she or he plays. On the other hand, when I was more into the
club scene I bought much less records.
xl
>
> > As far as the Chicago scene goes, most of the people
> > who go to listen
> > to DnB in clubs don't listen to it at home. They're
> > in it to be
> > assaulted once weekly and generally not to be played
> > something they
> > don't recognize as DnB. Going to hear DnB in a club
> > isn't a listening
> > experience, it's a matter of lifestyle.
>
> That's what I think about ravers. How many of them
> really go out and buy records? Not many of them.
>
> > If you consider how many of the bygone great DnB
> > producers have gone
> > broken beat, it's hard to ignore the history, but
> > nonetheless, the
> > crowd doesn't remember DnB before '96-'97.
>
> True
>
> > Dego + Marc of 4Hero, Dom(u) of Sonar Circle, Colin
> > of Alpha Omega,
> > Hidden Agenda, Paul Seiji (Opaque), Mark G-Force,
> > London Elektricty
> > posse, Total Science even! Hell, Gilb'r of Chateau
> > Flight used to
> > mess around with DnB.
> > I know I'm forgetting several peeps :)
>
> Even Alex Attias made some dnb under the name Bel Air
> Project.
>
> > Anyhow, most of the people who still remember the
> > good ole days of
> > DnB are gone, and those who are still around either
> > regard the past
> > with suspicion or are doing something else
> > musically. Broken Beat
> > *definitely* has the old spirit, but no followers :)
>
> I think that some of the older dnb heads will probably
> eventually catch on. With such great releases from
> Domu, Seiji, 4 Hero, and others, it's bound to catch
> on sooner or later.
>
> Cheers,
>
> - Will
>
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