Kamal, you have put your finger exactly on my two favourite two bits
of going out:
1. The bit late on when all the tossers/lifestyle choice clubbers
have buggered off, the djs stop trying ot show off and everyone
achieves a state of exalted calm/melancholic euphoria
2. The post club dissection/mellow out
Sadly these don't occur very often, but the aforementioned backroom
at LOST looms large in the memory - Alex, definitely hear you on the
Alex Night remarks. I don't think it occurs rarely because I'm
getting old, I think it's because I'm too damn busy.
At 11:15 am -0500 24/3/05, Stoddard, Kamal wrote:
I don't really remember when faster tempo's took over or became as
much of a deal. I remember older electro (we called it bootyshake
music down here). Like hip hop be bop is hecka slow. Most older
house used to be pretty slow. Secret tapes of dr eich I remember
being pretty slow( at least my neigborhood, parking garage politics,
and slam dance). Optic nerve quasar is about there. Those old
legowelt trax that JT posted awhile back, pretty slow. I don't think
tempo was as big of a deal back then. Thing were still very wide
open. This brings me to a conversation that took place between
myself and a friend over the weekend. We were on typical Sunday
morning after status (treats still in the bloodstream, wine in a
glass, 7:30 am, shades on, in a lawn chair on the patio) when he
started playing a bunch of older orbital, and slower breakyer rave
stuff. Mostly the dubby bassy deep bidness. We had a long talk about
the raves we used to go to (not sure if it was the same overseas)
and!
there was almost always a point (usually 6-7AM) when the party
would go underwater and everyone would be locked into a kind of
psychedelic midtempo, bodyrock. It's what we looked forward to
everytime. No more madness and chaos, just a beat and a vibe
controlling like 2000 people at once. Are there any dj's playing
that futuristic bodyrock anymore (it wasn't like electro, but drew
from it and freestyle just the same)? Do you even know what I'm
talking about? Maybe I'll get Jim to do a mix.
