The 'anti-papist rapist', they call him.
Feels like a waste they didn't do something like this with their own cities. Same goes for Dubai. Instead of abstracted simulacra of western modernism we could have had a proper Islamic futurism.But what about that Qatari plan to terraform Mars to create a planetary scale mosque complex? Ambitious!
i think dubai is the next new york, it's going to be a major cultural force in the about twenty years, such a unique and uber-diverse place. as did america 100 yars ago it also is an insult to european taste at the moment. i think a country where 90% of the populaton are migrants, and particularly one with migrants from all corners of the planet, plus there's an absolute shitload of money around, is at a minimum going to do something interesting
Thanks, will take a look
but why would you go there if you are interested in "culture"? there isn't a single person living there now who wants part of that plus if you have fun they shoot you against a wall
there are a load of people interested in that. i think in the west you get the idea that the westerner new money luxury dream is the only game in town. but there are also a load of like ethiopians doing their thing, migrant workers serving flat whites. neighborhoods full of filipinos. some of these guys who came 20 years ago are starting to have teenage children in the melting pot. i mean i wouldn't exactly say that it's a good place to go to for art and music etc right now. but i think all of that stuff is going to develop. it's speculation. right now there's a bit of art but the gallery thing isn't well developed, i can see that coming to something though given all the money that's around. there is a club scene but it looks repulsive. the food scene kicks nyc's arse in my opinion, if you count that as culture.
This is something I've mentioned before, but you weren't around Shak so.... a few years back got asked to dj at a house party for this guy I sorta knew. He had two guests from Kuwaiti royal family (well, turned out one was a princess and the other, her "cousin", was actually not related). They liked to go to Lisbon and also London (one had a flat on Bond Street) and when the doors were closed they told everyone to turn off their phones, pulled off their headscarves and got seriously stuck into mountains of gak.
this is what i keep trying to tell people, there aren't any similar places. i can't think of anywhere which has such an outrageously huge migrant population, it's almost everyone in the city, without exaggaration, emiritis are a minority. possibly other gulf cities are like that, doha, bahrain, abu dhabi, but dubai is also comparatively chill, open, less repressive. there are bars in certain places, you can go clubbing on the beach, you can wear bikinis at the beach etc
I get that and I think you might we'll be on to something, but I think that mentioning New York actually distorts and even restricts what could be a more interesting point. If you say something is the new New York (Nu-York? Neo York maybe) then you're automatically looking backwards, which seems like a pity or even a mistake when you're trying to tell us about the city of the future.
Even New York itself is only a pale imitation of York, let's face it.
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i love this kind of thing. it's partly a load of associations i have with it, but the singing itself is often beautiful, and (i'm pretty sure) the different system of intonation / note spacing / whatever means that it goes in unfamilar directions. i love the full blast reverb effects as well, it's amazing how comprehensively that's become the standard way of doing it, presumably these kind of effects haven't been easily accessible in most of these countries for much longer than a decade or so (i'm guessing). probably it's not room reverb on that video, and all the stuff like this on the radio is saturated in reverb
