It’s a craft. But there’s an art to doing it well. (apparently, not that I’d know!)
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or maybe it’s a craft first, then the ability/luck/serendipity to create the intangible into something tangible makes into an art?
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i’m gonna say that it starts as an craft, and if you’re lucky it becomes a vocation. once in a while, it becomes an art.
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It’s defintely a performance art for many DJs…
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I kinda like the fact she pisses off so many salty old fucks (I count myself among that group!). It’s definitely not for me, but Aphex Twin paraded around in stupid masks no?
Instagram post by Electronic Beats is absolutely chock full of people decrying her in the comments, including one Mr C, which I found ironic AF 
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MF Doom, DJ Stingray, hell - Daft Punk all made it big and were taken seriously with decidedly ridiculous masks.
None of this music and ridiculousness is for me, but that just means I’m missing it. If people are digging it and dancing their arses off then they must be doing something right.
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Yeah, I can’t in good faith be down on people who wanna party to that sort of thing if they’re enjoying it. I don’t want to be there with them but then they don’t want to be with me
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For some it’s all about the nosebag
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Think she prefers ketamine
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I was asked to do a couple of old school ravey type events and so i followed some facebook groups of the ravers that were kicking about in the era and going to the events. I find them so fascinating.
My favourite thing is that they both make an almost endless stream of comments about how young people ruin raves by just endlessly filming on their phones and are all obsessed with facebook.
Then… when their yearly big rave event happens, will all be obsessively posting about and begging on facebook for footage of the event, or just posting their grainy videos.
Young people don’t even use Facebook…
A bit of that performative boomerism does creep in here sometimes, but thankfully nowhere near as much as with the rave groups or world of echos.
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Album title sorted 
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New DJ name sorted too.
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Against better judgement I once attended one of those Back to '95 things they did at the Scala (would always see them advertised at traffic lights along the North Circular). I never saw a more bored looking crowd or misnamed evening (shapeshifters seemingly every half hour).
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Coachella sounds atrociously bad on every level
https://twitter.com/nnimrodd/status/1779770830706155805
https://twitter.com/grhamcoxn/status/1779502237036978252
https://twitter.com/ClashMagazine/status/1779785150647173361
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Grimes 
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The ones i did were quite jumping (they were in Scotland…) but they were a bit one-note because the way you have to play at an event like that to please people means you are ruining the spirit of what made the era “good” at the time.
I wasn’t going to raves in 1992, but i am presuming djs weren’t all doing perfectly in key blends of all the songs based on data analysis on the listening habits of the vague demographic of the audience in attendance.
I watched some of the streams and just couldn’t get a grip on who it was aimed at.
I don’t know how lucrative the retro market is but seems the likes of Clockwork Orange are still going strong. I don’t really get it. I think people confuse musical nostalgia with the associated memories and it’s never the same. I guess if you’re still musically curious and easily bored you have a different viewpoint to someone having a laugh to Rozalla. I just know that a large chunk of the 90s for me is now off-limits, unless it is someone doing it cleverly. I remember Terry Childs I think playing Klatsch ‘god save the queer’ out of nowhere one NYE and the place going off!
Saw that clip of Grimes earlier (but had zero clue who it was) was she headlining? Think I’d have melted into the floor and moved to outer Mongolia afterwards. After Elon how is she even a thing? Hope they got their money back.
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The Clash. Believe me, I’ve really tried. Often see them cited as a major social force, and changers of music and political culture. I can only see a few blokes thrashing away and an angry man spitting bollocks into a microphone.
“This Is Radio Clash” and “Magnificent Dance” are the only tracks they’ve made that I find listenable, mainly because they don’t sound like The Clash.
Anything post “The River” Bruce Springsteen as well. Too many instruments, way over produced and Springsteen seems to stand at the microphone with the facial expression of a man suffering from kidney stones. Somebody needs to tell him that less is more.
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Somebody I work with went to one of those “Back To The 90’s” type things at Chelmsford race course last summer. The usual suspects DJ ing (Tall Paul, Brandon Block, Alex P etc), and a lot of people old enough to know better (usually groups of couples) who were out of it by late afternoon. He reckoned there would be some seriously aching jaws the next day…
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