i've certanly gotten more of a hip-hop and downtempo vibe going since moving from Detroit to LA.
slower beats for slower days? On Tue, 25 May 2004, sasha wrote: > All this talk about where one is from has me thinking of something that > has been nipping at me since I made the trek from East to West about 5 > or 6 years ago; how the landscape has such an important effect on the > impact of music. > > For those of you not familiar with the US, the Northeast, on the coast, > in cities like Boston and NY (and Detroit) is very industrialized. Here > on the West Coast, especially in the Bay Area (San Francisco - or should > I say Pacifica, cause technically, I'm 5 miles south of the city?), the > land is more open and people are generally more in touch with the > environment around them. Some places, like LA, don't have a city center > and seem like one endless suburb. So, the point is that the West Coast > does not generally feel like an East Coast city. > > Anyways, upon moving from Boston to SF, I noticed that all the music I > had previously been into, like UR, the more hard-hitting techno, etc, > did not feel or sound the same to me. The impact was no longer there. > Driving down the Pacific Coast Highway, and seeing the towering rocks > and blue ocean and blasting UR's X101 makes no sense to me any longer. > Hard to feel like a techno rebel with all this sunshine and blue skies > around. Although I still can get into the jazzier UR stuff, I avoid the > hard techno bin at the local shop now. House, funk, disco, environ, it > all sounds better out here somehow. > > Not to imply that techno, especially Detroit techno, does not have a > universal appeal on some level, but it's taken moving around to help me > understand that music's appeal lies more than in just the art. The > cultural milieu, and the environmental surroundings have an important > impact as well. > > Anyone else experience this? > > - Sasha > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Ronny Pries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 12:02 AM > > Cc: 313@hyperreal.org > > Subject: Re: (313) why lie on your bio (Tim Baker) > > > > aw, > > > > i was looking forward to a discussion regarding the digital > > distribution topic and you keep ranting about districts :) > > > > on a sidenote, not everybody knows that jackson, mason, ann > > arbor or whatever are even close to detroit. the important > > thing is giving people who aren't firm with detroit and its > > surrounding (be my guest :) a rough idea where you're from. > > > > i'd understand if you rant about me writing i'd come from detroit > > (*cough*) but hey, those few miles more or less you guys deal > > with aren't really worth getting upset, right? > > > > ronny > > > > >
