"warm, funky, exultant records that were just right for nightclubs and high-tech launch parties packed with gamines in $300 shoes sloshing day-glo cocktails"
Really, if that isn't taking the piss (as the UK contingent says) I don't know what is. Well, it's pretty clear that Michelle Goldberg has the tenuous grasp on techno that you would expect from the average clever music journo. So it's not a bad article overall but clanks with the clotted phrases that pass for insight in the high reaches of music journalism these days. (I'm an *owner* of Salon, dammit, and with my $0.14 a share stock I can say whatever I want!) Let me say, though, that there really were "office parties" at the crest of the dotcom wave in San Francisco. If you've seen the movie "Groove" -- that's us. (Aside from the speaking-part actors, although that's my man Dmitri-from-the-Lower-Haight who snagged some on-screen time and that classic promo shot with the disco ball on the Muni Metro.) A lot of the extras and small parts, and much of the equipment seen in the movie were also in the "Expansion" parties that we threw from time to time when various dotcom firms in South of Market San Francisco were moving in and out of their spaces. That was the only way to get 1000 people to a good party in SF in the late 1990s without getting busted (and one of the Expansion parties did get busted, ostensibly for a faulty fire exit sign in a building used 365 days a year as office and workshop space :). And you wouldn't see any woo-woo cocktails or $300 shoes at those parties, and if there were any Chems tracks played at all they would have been from the Dust Brothers days anyway. And then at 7 am we'd clean up, leave nothing but footprints, and the next week the place would be an Ethernet forest demarcated by a terrain of Aeron chairs and big 19-inch monitors with inscrutable code scrolling by :) phred --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
