There's actualy been a quite a few parties in big cities that mix up everything from motown to my bloody valentine to felix. i know there's one in detroit called-Bang and one here in La that I'vebeen to once or twice (don't know the name). The crowd is mostly young 'indie'-leaning kids. And they all dance no matter what's playing.
So I hope that a lot of our 'scene' prejudice are slowly deteriorating. Indie kids dancing to techno and sly stone in one night. Hip-hop kids freaking to some serious next level music (unfortunately still behind some wack MCs, but...) One the one hand, I'm jealous that these kids have the open mind to everything musically AND the inclination to dance (when I discovered dance music, I had to make a serious choice between my new raving interest and my old indie friends- it sucked). But, at the same time I feel a bit dsorry for them that their generations music/fashion is entirely based on past movements. There's nothing for these kids that can be all encompassing and revolutionary and fresh and new, like dance music was for so many of us. It must suck to feel like everything cool in your youth is actualy a hand-me-down. Oh- and to change topic a little bit, I just listened to AMp Fiddler album for the first time this morning (yeah- I've been talking without hearing- flame away), but my assumptions were absolutely correct about the record. Its basically smooth jazz. OK- maybe that's harsh, but its absolutely 100% indebted to 70's funk and soul music. There's not even an attempt to turn these songs out into something new. Not to say I dont like it. It will definately hold a certain place in my catalog (dinner party music), but there is absolutely nothing that's going to make me go back and want to hear it again in order to explore things i might have missed (the matt dear album had me going back for weeks on end as it finally grew and bloosomed in my brain). I was going to point out that perhaps that is the deciding factor between dear getting more press than Amp- but that topic has been beat to death. So now I have a new question- when looking for music, do you seek out stuff that is comforting and familier- or do you seek out stuff that maybe takes 4-5 listens to get your head around? On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Thomas D. Cox, Jr. wrote: > ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- > From: Dave Cronin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >dunno-- probably because they'd feel like idiots standing around > with their > >arms crossed and a sullen/disaffected look on their mugs while > Amp rocked > >it? > > > >but seriously, i can't believe that the only reason someone might > not like > >Amp Fiddler is because they haven't been marketed to properly. > > theres nothing anyone can do to sell any soul music to rock people > right now. the marketing has been done to death already. it tells > you that if you like marilyn manson you dress in black and go to > goth clubs. or if you like good charlotte you dress like a "punk" > and go to the warped tour. or if you like jay z you wear baggy > pants and gold jewelry. or if you like indie rock you stand around > with your arms crossed while people play soul music. people who > really have open minds towards music get down to whatever sounds > good, whether its techno house soul hiphop rock punk country > reggae whatever. > > im the idiot who plays techno and house records while wearing a t- > shirt for the violent femmes. i have no biases: good music is good > music. if more people worked like that, there wouldnt > be "crossover" hits anymore. > > tom > > ________________________________________________________________ > andythepooh.com > > > > >
