I live in Iowa, and the best local DJs have always built sets from techno AND house records. Because of eastern Iowa's proximity to Chicago, house music has been popular in the underground scene for 14 or 15 years -- there's a continual two way traffic between Chicago and Iowa, people bringing records home, people moving to Chicago, etc.
But it seems like the #1 criterion for playing a record is that it be a great track that ignites the dancefloor, and not where it was produced. The most interesting music being produced at any point defies easy categorization -- there's loads of brilliant tech house being made right now. Which is to say that it's minimal, not based on R&B, but has that little swing&skip feel of house music. Iowa City is also a place where it actually works to do a show with Hip Hop, IDM, House, and Experimental music all on the same bill. The biggest hip hop heads in town love a good set of techno & house music, and the art students out for a noise artists will even drop their ironic detachment for a minute for a good DJ. It really is all music. DEMF 2002 proved to me exhaustively that dance music monocultures are a drag. As much as I like hard banging techno, I like it a hell of a lot more when it's not all I hear for days ... On Sun, 4 Aug 2002, sean deason wrote: > funny this should come up. I friend of mine, who was born and raised in > Detroit but has been living in California for the past 10 years, came to > visit Detroit for his High School reunion recently. I took him to some of > the hot clubs and parties around town and he asked me later "so tell me > something... when did house and techno become 2 different scenes?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
