>Shake said to me last week that the only people interested in history are >historians, I disagree :)
I agree with Shake but then again, I love history too >The amount of times we've played out at clubs and people have asked me "what >kind of dance music is this?" or "is this classed as techno?". >I do know what you mean about putting things in a box but this is how the >kids of today understand things and they are the ones who are going to be >buying the tunes, the least we could do is give them a clue and keep it >interesting. "Kids of today"??? F*ck man - this is how 99.9% of the people I know and talk to on a daily basis understand things. It ain't just the "kids of today" - LOL I get asked that question **almost every day** - if I had a dollar for each time someone asked me "is this classed as techno" or "what kind of dance music is this"... well, you know, I'd have enough money that I'd never have to cook at home. It isn't just "kids of today" that ask me this - unless you want to lump people in the age range of 23 to 50 into the category of "kids of today". Personally, I don't care anymore for genres except in the very basic of descriptions. If people ask me those kinds of questions I tell them it's "good dance music" or tell them to call it whatever the hell they want. If they like it or not is all the matters. Actually, if I like it or not is all that matters first. >Lets give them a box of cool stuff to download/read and if >breaking it into waves or years makes it easier then I'm all for it.? hmmm, I'm pretty confident that if I did a search for something like this I'd come up with a few websites already, and some books, and a few magazine articles, and maybe even some very general/generic CDs as well that have done this. >How cool would it be to have a disk like the one Greg Wilson sent you with >all the mixes and interviews on about electro-funk :) Man, you'd be tooled >up to win any argument with that kind of info.... My objective in listening and buying music isn't to win an argument. I think a historical/chronological order of music - while interesting from a anal trainspotting/educational point of view - would ultimately be counterproductive. People want to go out and have a good time, not be preached to. And sh*t, if they don't know what you're playing anyway do you think they'd suddenly have an epiphany and go "Oh, he's playing classic techno from era 1985 to 1997 in order of artist's height from tallest to shortest. Wow what a genius!" MEK
