There wasn't much like it at the time and it felt quite fresh and exciting. They were also positioned pretty well what with being in London and having all those acts to pick from.
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There wasn't much like it at the time and it felt quite fresh and exciting. They were also positioned pretty well what with being in London and having all those acts to pick from.
Mr. Naga Pickle
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it's super common in the US right now. mostly younger folks and more ravers than djs/producers, but still loads of djs/producers. as an old queer, i find it annoying as fuck and very much look forward to the day this ceases to be considered a cool thing to do.
shakahislop
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the (us) underground looks alive and well to me. funny that you say that about classic rock.
there's an outdoor venue here that i've never been to which is nestled among all the cool clubs in warehouse-brooklyn that costs about $100 to get in face value, i'm not exaggerating, that's the price of the tickets most of the time. apparently they have a massive wraparound screen. i've been the smaller indoor room they have in the same venue and it's like pseudo-airline style security to get in, and the whole place feels like they are maximising profit extraction from you at every opportunity. people go to see specific acts rather than for the general vibe etc. as i said i've never been but there's a lot about that which is totally reminiscent of classic rock. the edm culture combining with the rock commercial know-how.
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shakahislop
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yeah i thought it might be that, just that they were the first people to do the idea
william_kent
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I was never that off my face in a rave that I could not avoid a camera
at Stonehenge festival pre battle of the beanfield, or indeed any UK free festival of that era, if you brandished a video recording device then you would be confronted with an angry mob demanding your head on a platter
how times have changed
at Stonehenge festival pre battle of the beanfield, or indeed any UK free festival of that era, if you brandished a video recording device then you would be confronted with an angry mob demanding your head on a platter
how times have changed
They felt like the only people doing it for years. You had people doing ustream from their flat or wherever, but that was much more casual and a different vibe.
maxi
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no no that wasn't directed at you at all. was responding to the ideas I've seen out there for ages about this kind of thing. I don't disagree with a lot of what you said. admittedly that's because I don't understand all of it but still
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One of thirdform's ancestors was placed under a very specific curse by a djin with the result that if third ever writes a post that someone fully understands, he will be instantly consumed in a burst of flames and then spend eternity in hell as Shaitain's personal bum-boy, and not even in a fun way.no no that wasn't directed at you at all. was responding to the ideas I've seen out there for ages about this kind of thing. I don't disagree with a lot of what you said. admittedly that's because I don't understand all of it but still
Maybe but even that sort of thing is on life support. Apropos of nothing ive started converting all my .wav electronic mixtapes to vbr opus 256/320 as it encodes better than mp3, need to save disc space for high rez jazz albums and the like.
shakahislop
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it's really hard for me to know anything outside of my own experience, so maybe all this stuff used to be better in the past, I don't know, but at least here it all seems to be flourishing. on the beats side of things there's more stuff to go to than I could ever possibly attend. same with experimental stuff, it feels like it's thriving, there's absolutely loads of it.
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What a bombshell: Harvard's student union will be forced to select their DJs from mixtapes submitted blind.
qwerty south
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I'm sure that the fact that the females etc in question are most likely more photogenic / visually interesting which may be a small factor too in this Instagram world.
were you actually the type of nonce who went to student union clubnights?
