Since I live in SF and pormote clubs here I get to put my 2 cents in. If a good Detroit or Chicago house Dj shows up at a club (Gemini and K Hand and Theo Parrish come to mind) they play the same flacid boring ass shit that all the locals do. no crescendos, no valleys sterile. As far as the events you listed below I can guarentee they are places you wouldn't want to be besides being huge and full of drugged out rave babies saying "hella" left and right, you will find out how lame Dj's can be. In an effort to please the crowd almost every Detroit Dj that's played out here (with the exception of TP and the Detroiters I've had play, Rolando, Bone, transmat etc.) plays shit they think the crowd will like and not what "heads" wanna hear. Juan won't show up-he's up to 4 no shows since I've been here. Ritch @1015 (same crowd as a candy rave older age) was playing to the cheese crowd with brief intervals of goodness (and you will lose respect for John Aquaviva if you hear one of his sets at 1015 as well). Trust me on this one I've made the mistake of going to shows like this when I first moved here and while it sounds good on an 11x17 super glossy flyer covered with pretty pictures and telling you about edible fruit alters floral arrangements what lights they have and how they will have free glowsticks you will be sorely dissapointed. If you want to see good music you have to get lucky sometimes. Techno is very hard to get although Shake is scheduled at my friend's club in 2 weeks and I'm trying to get Marco Carola for July. Stick to Maze Staple and Urban Development to avoid dissapointment in SF
On Sun, 4 Jun 2000 13:45:14 -0700 (PDT), Tim Pratt wrote: > after spending more than three days immersed in detroit techno > last week, i'm spending this weekend in the San Francisco Bay > area looking for jobs and whatnot. > The interesting thing is how so different the two scenes are. > Bay area is known for such a wide diversity of sounds, which i > can definitely appreciate, but the two big scenes of late seem > to be the turntablism/hip-hop thing and the trance stuff. > last night i was listening to this late night radio show called > "subsonic" and it was pretty cool, though a bit heavy on the > trance stuff. to me, trance hasn't evolved much since its first > heyday in the 93-95 amid the Goa and happy hardcore trends. > anyway, despite the fact that trance is more popular in the West > (John digweed is spinning tues, for example), i did notice a few > interesting detroit names on some flyers on picked up at a head > shop in Mountain View (basically, Silicon Valley): > "Quest" July 1, Santa Clara Fairgrounds, San Jose -- Richie > Hawtin with .. Terry Francis, Kevin Yost, Dieselboy, J Majik, > Fierce, Dara, Sage, Christopher Lawrence, Joshua Ryan, Taylor, > Doran, Mars, etc. www.silverpearl.com > "Metropolis" June 17, Santa Clara Fairgrounds -- Stacey Pullen > ...with Gene Farris, DJ Dan, Sandra Collins, Angel Alanis, De La > Soul, Rahzel (roots), danny tha wildchild, > www.clockworkeventz.com > "Cyberfest" July 22 -- Santa Clara -- Juan Atkins . . . with > Paul Oakenfold(! ugh!!), Carl Cox, ED Rush & Optical, Digital > Underground, Aphrodite, Mix Master Mike, Wish Fm, dave ralph, > bt. www.coolworldprod.com > > lastly, anyone into fila brazillia??? very cool stuff. any > downtempo fans? > detroit still rules > > timmmiP > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Photos -- now, 100 FREE prints! > http://photos.yahoo.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________________ Get 100% FREE Internet Access powered by Excite Visit http://freelane.excite.com/freeisp
