Club Music in 2019
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firefinga
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My birthdate is 3rd of November 1979 - Meaning I am 40 years old later this year. If I went to a club these days I might be considered as drug squad or whatever - I tend to avoid such potentially emberassing situations. In reality I was out clubbing the last time in 2008.
It's not that I am not interested in club music per se, it's just I am too old for the actual environment club music is being produced for. Disgraceful Ageing is one of the features of these Spenglerian times we live in. I am refusing to be part of that for sure.
It's not that I am not interested in club music per se, it's just I am too old for the actual environment club music is being produced for. Disgraceful Ageing is one of the features of these Spenglerian times we live in. I am refusing to be part of that for sure.
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Corpsey
bandz ahoy
You bring up an interesting point, which is the increased age of many of the leading figures in club music now. The old guard, who will be on lineups forever, and whoever they sanction.
Whether or not they're more *politically* conservative, they're by and large going to be more *musically* conservative.
To generalise, the older you get the less rebellious energy and naive optimism you have.
(Also brings up the issue of professionalisation. DJing as a stable career. Stability something to be sought out.)
Whether or not they're more *politically* conservative, they're by and large going to be more *musically* conservative.
To generalise, the older you get the less rebellious energy and naive optimism you have.
(Also brings up the issue of professionalisation. DJing as a stable career. Stability something to be sought out.)
yeh, it's your kind that ruined clubbing for me, selfish twats (not you obviously corpse, you're a gentleman and take the shit i throw at you remorselessly) rather than he smart phone which is just an appendage. if people were really into the music they would put their smart phones away because the music as its own phenomenological experience would just over power that. but even myself when a lukewarm 'bass music' dj was on I'd always be glancing at my watch thinking oh god, please can something more ecstatic or harder or punishing come on, not this again.
firefinga
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BTW, the thing that astonished me a lot regarding the EDM hype (from a few years back, mostly 2012) also was that many if not most of the main figures there were actually relatively old, Skrillex being the exception. David Guetta, Steve Aoki, that Dutch guy whos name I can't remember right now were well into their 40s in 2012 already.
luka
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I thought the camera point was good. The extension of surveillance into the club. The impossibility of letting go within the panopticon.
pattycakes_
Can turn naughty
Yeah fuck that. Fight for your right to party, fogeys!
firefinga
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Enjoying themselves doesn't mean making fools of themselves. Youth can get away with certain behavious bc people say -well, they'r young - but when some 40something acts like it, it's a bit sad and off-putting tbh.
pattycakes_
Can turn naughty
Dancing and enjoying music is making a fool of yourself? You're doing it all wrong man
sure sure. but like i said upthread this is an interchangeable consumer. It's a crowd that has been ultimately domesticated to the needs of the panopticon. It isn't a threat. Corpse, if he wouldn't mind me being so crude, is not a threat to the panopticon per se, it's just that he remembers times gone by.
firefinga
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Well, the Berlin techno scene has made themselves that, in a way. Berghain, Hardwax record store. (Minimal)Techno. Has built a "Berlin Techno" Scene that is like a time capsule for the 30 or rather 40+ year olds. They will go on like this, relatively unchanged, for anpother two decades I suppose. Their last musical influence somewhat from outside was minimal Dubstep in the late 2000s. That scene has become their own reenactment-act.
luka
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It's a bizarre attitude. As if anyone over the age of 30 has to lock themselves in a dark room for fear their withered form would terrify and appall the young. Like when Buddha exited his secluded compound to see an elderly man for the first time. The horror!
luka
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why not stop having sex now as well? It looks disgusting when old people are at it. Horrible thought. Totally undignified. All sweaty and gross with hair sprouting out their ears.
Corpsey
bandz ahoy
Certainly don't do it in public.