On May 5, 2005, at 11:10 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
rob hall was more interesting since he was djing therefore able to
read the
crowd more and make it all more enjoyable. i enjoyed him playing
early 90s
uk happy hardcore
You know, this is what bugs me about this stuff in general.
I hate that snotty 'idm' attitude, that if you don't like the music,
it's
just flying over your head, or you aren't sophisticated or intelligent
enough to like it, you don't 'get it'.
then you get their dj playing happy hardcore.
i don't know who rob hall is and didn't see the event, but i get your
observation, so i'll comment on your sentiment in the abstract:
it's a perfect compliment to shut-in IDM'ers mentality... that you
have so many layers of defensiveness build up around your music, you
have to coat the outside layer with sarcasm and irony so nobody thinks
you actually GIVE A SH*T about ANYTHING... the perception that
everything must be a piss take or an inside joke to the point of
obnoxiousness. it's also what sort of turned me off about later-era
Richard James, a career made out of more and more elaborate music
pranks, but i digress...
i like people not taking things so seriously, :) sure,, but i hate
when that's always used as a prop because god forbid, anyone be earnest
about music... playing happy hardcore to a detroit techno crowd is
about as relevant as playing Polka or Country Western... why not just
do that then, make your bad joke, and let the next DJ go on.
rowr!
(and this is coming from someone with a fairly decent 'idm' collection
in the old sense of the words... the warp/b12/skam/black dog/etc.
stuff)
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MM
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