That could well be true. But I have spoken to people from Detroit who have said similiar things. I am not sure about the word "entertainment", that is kinda reductive and dismissive, to me anyway. It's artistry but a different manifestation of it.
>getting off topic, and i honestly don't say this in some kind of bullsh*t >i'm-from-detroit kinda way, but until you've seen rich at a Small Detroit >Event, 5:00am, sweat pouring down the walls, no lights on, the whole room >erupting, you haven't seen him. what he does at events around the world, >that i've seen, is certainly great, but it's not the same. rightly so. > >true enough about the physicality of stacey (totally fun), and i know rich >also has a more clinical side/reputation, so maybe what you say about the >laptop is true. but having seen several plastikman live shows, i kinda >doubt it. from what i can gather however, this is not a >sit-behind-the-laptop proposition. and considering that rich has referred >to this as "the death of vinyl", i'll be really interested to see what happens. > >btw - none of this degrades the 'entertainment' (for lack of a better word) >value of djs like stacey. i love to see stacey, derrick carter, claude.. >people who really get physically into it. and it's always cracked me up >how acquaviva can have the room going OFF and he looks like he's reading >the newspaper... ;)
