Recent content by Ronan

I agree with most of what you say in your second post, except re:Sweeney, haven't seen him so can't comment. However from your first post... I think the idea that "it would depend on the dj" is true of any self respecting genre of dance music. You don't seriously think people who like...

also re:eclecticism, wasn't there already a recent boom in this style of djing? what do you think of optimo/2manydjs/tim sweeney etc etc etc? probably all too retro for you?

what do you mean here by "doesn't have its head stuck up its ass"? this seems a pretty lame denouncement of non "funky house". and also quite popist, for these parts. I just wonder why funky house now and not at any point in the last 10 years? because woebot said so? the current brand of...

oh the article works now.... "Most current dance music has died a death of good taste and assumed sophistication. The Kompakt thing for instance...." anyone considering a behemoth like kompakt the epitome of "current dance music" is pretty clueless.... "Funky House, this utterly a-historical...

also what in the name of holy hell seeing a dude from !!! djing has to do with denouncing minimal house/techno is beyond me. I'm not claiming it is at the absolute vanguard but most of the "eclectic" djs out there (of whom there are many) are FAR more guilty of being locked into the past than...

"popularity is no justification for a practice the justification for "hardcore" djing, i always thought, was the development of new sounds and experiences. only by radicalizing rhythm, only by pursuing bpms, only by relentlessly running against the constraints of form, could dance music move...

Can't read Woebot's post because his server is overloading...but some thoughts on this thread: Am I the only one who is immediately distrustful when someone uses the name "microhouse" these days? It never caught on offline and I just think of Digital Disco or those really old comps when someone...

what about tom cruise guys???

best UR for me knights of the jaguar, jupiter jazz. my UR stuff is confusingly labelled, it's sort of difficult to really be definitive about UR, since so many of the tracks are just straight DJ tools. love when they do epic stuff though. also Los Hermanos-Quetzal is an old favourite of mine...

well surely dom, not that I totally disagree with the tack you're on, at its erm.....blackest and gayest point, at first, house wasn't safe at all? at least it didn't appear to be recieved that way in the UK, though you can maybe add drugs as a factor to that negative reception.

I dunno, I can't escape the sensation, re pluralism, that some of your argument is the fault of spending a night with in a club with alot of "coked up twats", percieved or otherwise.

well, I disagree obviously about both the quality of the music and the aesthetic, isn't there quite a strong gay aesthetic going through electrohouse? as regards the actual music, I think you could apply the same criticisms to detroit techno or something, except that it was widely known that it...

now it's on! I think my post replies to dave's actually, his wasn't there when I submitted though. I would just add that I think the idea that house is dying as a result of whatever changes have occurred is simply not true, like it or loathe it, it's all back on the upswing these days.

I agree with Tim, in the sense that for me house is a completly popist genre, I mean isn't the way house music is consumed (and has been for as long as I can remember) completely popist? The rise and rapid fall of big records by one off artists, the complete focus on singles, the faddish magpie...

Well to be fair dominic I thought my post would clearly show with whom I agree and disagree, and set my stall out quite well. And you could be as rigorous in questioning a dozen or so posts here as my own, not least thowed's which pretty much says what I'm saying even in more direct terms! as...