>I think the original comment was made by someone that if you
drop in a great track with a great mix and nobody dances you might be a
upset.
If you put it into a historical perspective - this happens to the best of
them. Larry Levan playing the same track three or more times throughout a
night - first time clears the floor, second time some people remain, last
time it packs it! It comes down to your audience's familiarity with the
track, how influenced they are by substances in their system (alcohol,
coke, weed, etc), and generally how open a particular audience is with that
sound (ie. dropping a drum&bass track on a house audience).
As for what is dance music - you can dance to anything, just find your own
way.
MEK
Michael Lees
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11/05/02 10:51 AM
I think this whole argument has gone on too long and is now completely
undirected. I think the original comment was made by someone that if you
drop in a great track with a great mix and nobody dances you might be a
upset. Then it descended into a long debate about if you should dance to
dance music. "Dance music" is a phrase that can refer to *a lot* of
different types of music. Personally what some people would consider
their dance music I would consider [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I certainly wouldn't
dance
to it.
I think the original comment was a fair one, after all if nobody danced
in a night club and instead stood watching the DJ it wouldn't be much
fun (you may as well watch a live feed on groovetech). However, people
are completely entitled to react in whatever way they feel appropriate,
as long as it doesn't involve their elbows digging in my ribs ;)
I think the result of this long debate will eventually be something
particularly insightful like, everyone must accept people like different
things. Some people like dancing and some don't.
--Mike
jurren baars wrote:
> From: Anya Stang:
>
>> I realise there is a term "dance music", used by general consensus
>> for music played in clubs/bars/... for people to dance to. Fine.
>> I don't have any problems with that. The argument was rather about
>> *having* to dance to dance music whether you actually like to dance
>> or not. And my point is that call it what you like, you don't *have*
>> to dance to it - in which case for *you* it's *not* dance music.
>
>
> i think this whole argument, that you have to dance to dancemusic is
> crap, why?
>
> just because you listen to jimi hendrix, doesn't mean you're made of
> stone... or, do you have to smell funky, when you're into
> parliament/funkadelic?
>
> jurren
>
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