hmm.. moving from northern/central new jersey to San Francisco hasn't changed my taste in music, really. although i did discover that what i love is from detroit after i moved out here. your theory on geography could explain a bit, though, why techno isn't so popular in SF (but why would it be popular in ibiza, then, which is not exacltly industrialized? because folks from industrialized countries party there?)
i did have a hell of a lot of frustration going from banging brooklyn techno parties (sonic groove stuff) to "SF House" when i moved out here, though. i worked w/ a women's collective that threw weeklies, and someone once wrote up a little thing about how we stayed away from "aggressive" music like techno. ugh. (we did actually have techno at the parties, though.) actually, if i hear any more SF house i think i'll puke. maybe you can just take the girl out of new jersey, but you can't take new jersey out of the girl. monikat p.s. i've rocked rolando driving down route 101 up in the redwoods, and it was amazing. but it's true - sometimes i do mellow out driving through the woods and mountains w/ some dark ambient. >On Tue, 25 May 2004, sasha wrote: > >> All this talk about where one is from has me thinking of something that >> has been nipping at me since I made the trek from East to West about 5 >> or 6 years ago; how the landscape has such an important effect on the >> impact of music. >> >> For those of you not familiar with the US, the Northeast, on the coast, >> in cities like Boston and NY (and Detroit) is very industrialized. Here >> on the West Coast, especially in the Bay Area (San Francisco - or should >> I say Pacifica, cause technically, I'm 5 miles south of the city?), the >> land is more open and people are generally more in touch with the >> environment around them. Some places, like LA, don't have a city center >> and seem like one endless suburb. So, the point is that the West Coast >> does not generally feel like an East Coast city. >> >> Anyways, upon moving from Boston to SF, I noticed that all the music I >> had previously been into, like UR, the more hard-hitting techno, etc, >> did not feel or sound the same to me. The impact was no longer there. >> Driving down the Pacific Coast Highway, and seeing the towering rocks >> and blue ocean and blasting UR's X101 makes no sense to me any longer. >> Hard to feel like a techno rebel with all this sunshine and blue skies >> around. Although I still can get into the jazzier UR stuff, I avoid the >> hard techno bin at the local shop now. House, funk, disco, environ, it >> all sounds better out here somehow. >> >> Not to imply that techno, especially Detroit techno, does not have a >> universal appeal on some level, but it's taken moving around to help me >> understand that music's appeal lies more than in just the art. The >> cultural milieu, and the environmental surroundings have an important >> impact as well. >> >> Anyone else experience this? >> >> - Sasha >>
