Message 63/68
Date: 13-Apr-02 @ 08:02 PM -
RE: What makes Goa, Goa
my buddy and i were playing at a club/bar the other night abd this girl came up and asked if all we played was techno. My freind said, "first this isn't techno, we play house, and second, what do you want to hear?" she said . "i like the music up front" he laughed and said"then just go back up front then!" she stormed off. it was funny. they play pop and rock up in the front bar and he does progressive in the back. People who haven't have come up on this stuff don't understand it and mmost likely won't unless they have freinds to break it down for them and take the to teach them about it. I could fill an entire semester with the history of modern dance music going back to disco and moving into the origins of house that came from that, and the "techno" that emerged from Kraftwerkian stuff. From there it splinters into a million directions. From hip hopers sampling kraftwerk, to belgian new beat sampling the hiphopers and putting it to acid grooves in the late 80's. even the industrial stuff had scratching in it. So everything funky influenced everything else. Trance can be traced back to tangerine dreams's rubicon albumn. There is a cool documentary from the BBC called the history of rock and roll, vol 10 "the perfect beat" talks about the shift from disco and punk to funky drum machine driven beats. Kraftwerk, new order, africa bambata etc. interesting.
but think about daed styles that have come and gone.
remember new beat, hard floor, grind, acid house
but reailize the sounds of those are still prevelent in todays stuff.
it's funny, because after my buddy sent that chick off mad, i said "well, ya know she is right, this is tech house, some of it" and it sounds an aful like the stuff i called techno 12 years ago. I have crates full of this old 80's techno that only a few cities in the states ever even listend to. San Fran, NY, Chigago, and thanks to bruce at record rack, Houston. I talked with Art at Razormaid(the ultimate remix dj service in the 80's) and he said that a large majority of their sales came from houston and cities in Texas. It really doesn't matter, but I would be much happier if the kids spinning knew more about the roots of the music they play and listen too. I guess I just feel like this underground stuff has no begining and no end to them and that real history is being lost and forgoten.