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Date: 14-Oct-10 @ 02:17 PM -
RE: 1980s
Throughout the 80s I was full into playing the sitar. Classical Indian music was pretty much all I listened to but every now and then I wound up in a club with friends. There was a club in Manhattan called Visage where people got dressed to the hilt to go to and I suppose the bouncers outside decided who got in. I was given a VIP pass to get in whenever I wanted. There was a club in midtown called Danceteria. Danceteria consisted of 3 floors. On one floor, I think it was the 2nd, there was rock music. One floor up war disco I think, and one floor up from that was techno. I didn't even know what techno was but I liked it and I remember not wanting to go back to the other floors after I got there with my friends. There was something about the beats and the sounds that I really dug.
Those clubs were far and few between for my attendance though. I wasn't accustomed to getting home at 5 AM. One Sunday morning I decide to go to the big Tower Records in the village to look for the kind of music I remember hearing in Danceteria. I tried to describe it to a couple of floor employees. They didn't seem to know what I was talking about and I couldn't really describe the music in any intelligible way. One finally said he thought he knew what I meant. I went home with a CD called "Disco" by Pet Shop Boys. It wasn't really what I was looking for but it had beats. It was too disco-y though. I remember 2 songs from that CD, "In the Night" and "West Side Girls".
Soon I found a small vinyl shop. I left there with a vinyl by George Kranz called "Din Da Da". It also wasn't what I was looking for but I liked it.
I gave up looking. About a year before the 21st century a Brit friend turned me onto some music....Orbital, Underworld, the Chemical Brothers and others. I had forgotten about Din Da Da and my search for something I could only vaguely describe until a couple of nights ago when I made a post in the tracks forum and mentioned the song. Now I'm having fun writing tracks. Took me long enough hehe.