man-o-man, it seems like every mailing list i am on now is all talking about this scenes dead, that scene is better. blah blah. and what i really wanna know why everybody gotta rag on tha f00-foo?? :)
How about a show of hands: How many of you jumped up out of your crib (back when we were all 9 1/2 yrs old and already hard c0re ravers - when the scene was "real" and stuff...) and busted out the OD-404 rekkids and started mixing in the newest BK/Nick Sentience track on top of some crazy ass White Label that everyone loves and nobody has? (or vinyl of whatever sub-sub-sub-genre blows your hair back). i'll make a stab that most of you (even the 'leet hoodie wearin kidz) started off listening to some foo-foo too, or some cheezy-housey, or some meenie-industrially, and if not (for you older peeps) you prolly got some tapes/lps/cds hidden under your bed that your friends would laugh at you for if they found out. Well. You know what i say to that? take out those old ass worn down pieces of your Own Personal Musical Transition/Childhood and remix that mofo on top of the newest vinyl you just bought! cuz i'll be damned if i stop listening to my old skool and foo just cause someone else doesn't like it. long live foo!! *puts pvd rekkid on and turns it up* personally, i'm so glad Denise gets grouped with the foo. she's been the highlight of the night for many of the raves i've been to, and some of her best shows i've seen were at raves. not everyone has time to find where all the quality underground stuff is (specially if you gotta work and go to school full time) not to mention that nine times out of ten, you find someone who's been going to raves a few times (not a first or second timer - that's too early) never even heard nrg/hh before (or dnb or happy hardcore or whatever else for that matter), you take them to the other room to hear Denise or Kemical Kidd or one of a dozen other of our dope locals, and the first thing out of their mouth is "goddamn! this song is tha bomb!". and then they dance their asses off for the next 3 1/2 hours. what other way will these poor kids graduate from the foo to something else if Ambassador Denise is not there to guide them to NRG/HH Heaven? the *only* thing that comes close to the cheezy peanut-buttery filled happiness i get dancing to some dope ass music thrown down by one of my favorite local djs is helping someone else to find that happiness, too. that's why it's all big smiles and cheers and hugs at these pawties - finding new music and new friends while yer at it! i love undergrounds - so casual, so tiny, and people are just there to fucking *dance*. But - if all us bitter, jaded, elitists stop raving and only go to the undergrounds, who's gonna show the kids what good music is if we aren't there takin em out of the 50,000-capacity main room where you can't dance anyways (full of dj-groupies, trainspotters, glowstick battlers, bboys, and e-puddles - all of which, i have to say, are beautiful in their own way and i have been/am still most of them at some point) and showin them where the *real* music is?? it takes at least 5 raves before you even realize there are other rooms! hell, i'd *still* be in that main room at Homebase, or 2nd and Crackson if it wasn't for dj's like D and people kind enough to show me where she was playin!! .oOo. ps. i have to say that i will *defiantely* be in the main room when Gianni is playing, tho. i saw PvD at 1015 a while back (i know - everyone hates it cause it's so packed) and his set was really really good, and i swear that Gianni and Taj both just blew me away! i'd never seen either of them before, and i was amazed. i've seen Gianni a few times after that, and each time he just plays the best tracks!! "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of it's victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busy-bodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." -- C.S. Lewis.
