People acting like they like dance music but they don't really.
Eh? Are we just posting garage producers we like?
Anyway, on the original subject, sounds like Straight just booked some rubbish DJs and where they are from is irrelevant. They just don't know their stuff, or else they just have wack taste (only going on his review of them, I haven't heard them.)
Slightly relevant story, a few months ago I played in south London to a crowd of nu-rave (ie into indie last month but at art school now) crowd. it was weird for me cos they were very young and all dressed the same, I am used to playing to traditional non-ironic ravers and non-ironic geeks.
anyway, something happened that never happened before which was that I played LFO by LFO and the dancefloor emptied.
the DJ after me played We Built This City On Rock & Roll by Starship and everyone went mental.
Which goes to show that for some crowds, there is no interest in dance music, just in being ironic/cool etc. maybe i'm overdoing the mortification but it was LFO for god's sake. i guess the event was on the level of a school disco really but presented as being super-hip. or maybe the more hip the people look, the closer they will be to appreciating school-disco sounds rather than actually loving music.
Nomadologist: "I have never been to a club where they play house music. Ever."
This is up there with Mr Tea's "I've never read xxx theorist but....."
:-/
Continuum-talk - means nothing to almost everybody in the world apart from a few people with blogs. I am a bit embarrassed to even mention it. But ask anybody who made a great garage or hardcore or house tune and they won't know what you're talking about. I see it as a big red herring.
Dominic's mates - anyone who claims to like techno who tells you that "Good Life" is not an awesome tune is a sucker. Trying to be cool or something. If you like any record with a 909 in it, "Good Life" is one of the top 10 club bangers.
French Ed Banger type music - i can't stand the overcompressed, distorted and clipped sound apart from anything else. Electroclash had distortion often too. Distortion is like the giveaway that someone making a dance record really wants to be in a rock band. I hate it.