--- Cyclone Wehner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <SLICE>
> The techno scene in Melbourne is splintering along > the neo-rave (younger, > more European-influenced) and neo-Detroit > (US-influenced, > cross-generational, more club-based) crowd. I wonder > if this has happened > elsewhere? I think this is happening everywhere in the US and has been for probably the last five years at least. The younger crowd get their start at raves, if nothing else b/c they're too young to get into clubs. The people that first expose them to electronic music play them stuff you hear at raves. Of course this is a generalization, but you get the idea. I'd say from what I know, Detroit is like this too. The Detroit rave seen is not that much different from the rave scene in the rest of the midwest. The clubs are a different story... In more important larger cities in the US you see more of the flavor of the prominent producers in that scene reflected in the clubs. In smaller cities and less prominent larger cities (Seattle for instance), the underground clubs tend to be pretty similar to the rave scene in that area. Just my observation mostly from a midwest perspective with some time in Seattle and Baltimore/DC. Of course, there's exceptions and undergrounds in every scene, and *at least* 90% of dance clubs everywhere in the US still play top-40 toilet paper cheeze. One peculiar American city is San Francisco, which is a hotbed for techno production, but the majority of dance clubs focus on hip hop and house (big IDM scene on the west coast in general from what I can tell - mostly cyber hippies). Don't crucify me if I'm wrong, this is just what I've seen of it. Tristan __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one Place. http://shopping.yahoo.com/
