Maybe Rob Hall actually quite likes Happy Hardcore? I'm going to take
a wild stab in the dark and guess that you don't (don't remember
seeing any in your playlists at least), but that doesn't mean that
others don't.
I'm not a fan myself, but I can see why others might like it. It was
a step in the evolution of electronic music after all.
D.
P.S. I'm listening to the Riot EP at the moment and it's not a
million miles from some of the later UK hardcore/rave...
At 11:27 am -0500 5/5/05, Matt MacQueen wrote:
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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