On Nov 12, 2003, at 5:25 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Must be frustrating though for some record shop people. For example, I
know
heads into electronica who will buy every theo parrish/moodymann record
going, but they wouldn't touch other 'deep house' records, or garage
records with a barge-pole. or any of the disco re-issues for that
matter..
(which I find quite funny really).
Me too, that's silly. It might have to do with them never getting
exposed to that on a party level.. that is where it makes sooo much
more sense. Like you say, there are some people who buy their records
for a "name", and others who actually shop and dig the sound and
concept behind the music, the emotions it springs from. Theo / KDJ / 3
Chairs / Elevate / etc. music and hearing their DJ mixes live in a
party atmosphere have been a real gateway for me to discover so much
older great music from late 70's to early 80's... reaching further past
house and into the roots of it... Ron Hardy and Levan and Arthur
Russell era stuff... yet somehow so uniquely detroit sounding in
production. There are so many touchpoints back then and different
directions. When you feel it in a live setting with a group of
like-minded people all dancing and getting down it really is a changing
kind of event!
SOOOO many KDJ killer cuts are based on disco and r&b samples, or
fragments of them. And it works, they're great, the stripped down dj
versions of them. Like "I can't kick this feeling" for example...
really simple loop of Chic, almost a re-edit in fact. And once you
hear where it was lifted from, there are zillions of great cuts out
there like that out there to be discovered... the essence of a dusty
deep groove, or just certain parts that are so amazing on a record I
never knew existed before. It's like another world of sound once you
get deep into the source stuff, and their peers, and THEIR influences
in turn, etc. It's like mining underground and you find another tunnel
you never knew existed as a branch, to explore and see what sounds you
like and don't like, and the tunnels just keep on branching out
forever.
But lost of people and DJs are lazy, (less so the subscribers of this
list... but) they just want music served up to them on a marketing
platter, without having to think or have their own personal taste and
preferences. Remember this is the era of the 'insta-dj' :P
peace,
matt macqueen
