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- mikotondria30
Yeh, I liked what he was saying about putting in the time and the energy and pushing yourself and being energetic, and particularly the thoughts about rocking 100 people in a basement who are really into your shit - small venues, smoky basements, not famous, demanding clued up crowds who are there to show off or be seen - that's where music movements are made, that's the white heat of the music industry - everything else is crap, crap, crap. PR, labels, press releases, music videos, interviews, talking about music, photo shoots and rising profiles, fame and infamy, sex drugs and rock and roll, the show on the road, the girls, the reputations, the dissing, the money, success - all of it bullshit, and secondary. 1 dj pushing a room of people and them feeding back that energy and acting like one crazy whooping screaming thing when the right beat, bass or sound comes in at just the right time - that's what real in (dance) music, and if you're a dj or involved in electronic music to any extent and you don't realise this, get tuned in, cause there's no point otherwise.
I would cite the actual footage that's going alongside what he's saying as an example of what a good gig is NOT. Girls stood around with their bags on their shoulders laughing, endless lines of people stood in the middle of what should be the sweet spot of the dance floor peering through cameras, or holding up phones, taking pictures of people looking at people taking pictures, endless fucking phones and talking and posing and bullshit. Shut the fuck up, put your fucking phone away, turn the lights off and listen. Fuck. You wonder why the fucking dance music scene died. People with fucking phones in clubs, that's why. Websites full of people having their photo taken and looking like cool twats in clubs, instead of losing their minds.- wall of text, people still make these?CygnusZero4
- agree with every word you say miko._me_
- Long form journalism lives. As does long form forum posting. Not like the old days, but still.
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