you see it can happen, god on them and you for going to check em out.......its up to us to educate the kids so if kids aren't getting into the style then we are to blame...
-----Original Message----- From: Thomas D. Cox, Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon 10/11/2004 5:11 PM To: 313@hyperreal.org Cc: Subject: Re: (313) feelin' jaded ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Aidan O'Doherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >there has been a lot of discussion recently about how to get the younger >(american) generation to listen to techno and that the majority of this >list are over 25 (myself included). yeah, well i wouldnt say i was feeling jaded, just old. however, an interesting experience happened to me this weekend that made me feel motivated and warm inside. i was working at the record store on saturday when this kid came in the shop. he was asking about detroit house records. this is enough to arouse suspicion in my since no one does this usually, i have to force it upon them before they realise that its the bomb. so this guy is telling me about how he heard the 3 chairs play at movement last year and at the pontiac festival this year, and starts explaining to me who they were. i was like "yo, i know who they are, you dont have to tell me." and he just kept on going, telling me about his friend who makes ambient techno and who also spins detroit house and techno, blah blah blah. so he tells me that he's spinning in the suburban pittsburgh community of brentwood that night, and that he and his friend would be playing the good stuff. i was pretty doubtful, but me and jwan decided to go out. it turns out that they both have pretty great records, even some harder to find stuff like the quadrant EP on r+s. they had few really questionable selections, and good knowledge of all different kinds of stuff. they were dropping some salsoul disco records, some prince, etc. their deejaying was not bad, but not excellent either. reguardless, brentwood is a crappy white trash type community, not known for any amount of culture. no one at the club (really corny club nonetheless) was really getting into it, but they werent leaving either. they explained to me that they were only 20, but had been buying records here and there for 4 years and had been playing them at all their friends' house parties, even though their friends didnt care. and you could totally tell that they had studied all their records very well, they knew them inside and out. theyve lived essentially in isolation in the burbs and developed a really good taste in music with almost no local influence. it was wild. anyway, theyre really cool kids and we should be helping them get some recognition locally. it just made me feel really good that even in a culturally devoid place like the suburbs of pgh, kids can pick up good music and really run with it. tom ________________________________________________________________ andythepooh.com