>I personally am less troubled by the presence of turntables in a barbie >playset than by their presence in the band limp bizkit where they are used >almost solely for the pop appeal of the "urban" image to market to mall >children and to add a few needless and poorly placed scratches over a >distorted guitar (btw that motherfucker hooks his rig up through a marshall >stack which is just wrong...ugh). This is the commoditization of DJ >culture.
Had to get my $.02 in... If DJ Ken is not the commodification of DJ Culture, I don't know what is - and _that_ is what troubles me. The BK DJs and other "DJs for effect" are also very troubling, but DJ Ken takes the cake. I think I had a nightmare about this last night after going to an afterhours with all sorts of young DJs I'd never seen before. Some were actually quite good, and none personified the DJ Ken look, nor were any of them particularly rave-y. The things that pissed me off the most were the drunken raver/frat boy (an oxymoron???) with a glow stick in his mouth, obviously oblivious to anything happening around him, and the guy who picked his friend up and slammed down on the ground two feet from the turntables (they seemed surprised the music skipped). I've been kind of out of the party scene for a while and this really surprised me. Iowa City has developed a very educated scene over the last few years (@ clubs anyway) and most of the kids turning up week in, week out are younger. What I witnessed last night is an even younger group of kids coming up now that have the same ignorance our now-educated "older kids" once had. Anyone notice a trend? It seems to me what's new about kids getting into the scene now versus two-three years ago (or nine years ago when I was a kid getting into the scene) is the number of people there for the wrong reasons. As others have said, there have always been idiots in the scene, but the number of idiots gravitating towards the scene is increasing - probably because of the commodification. I got into the scene for the right reasons, ie, the music, but listened mostly to the "Rave" music @ first because it was all I could find/all I knew. I think this was common back then unless you were in Chicago/Detroit. I think it's important to make a distinction between people who don't have access or haven't been exposed to enough different styles of electronic music, or whose tastes are engraned in what they hear the most, and those who gravitate towards the scene because it's cool, and really don't have a clue about what's going on. Tristan ========================================== PHONOPSIA<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Lounge/5102/index.htm "FrogboyMCI" on AOL Instant Messenger New mix, "Propper Techno" and new Album, "Québécois", online now. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
