Aaargh... I feel OLD!
Jason
On 18 Oct 2005, at 20:58, Benoît Pueyo wrote:
About european djs :
1) The older the producers are, the less they had to produce to
proove their dj skills and improve them in gigs. Example : Cox,
Garnier or Vath... Though they produced more or less good tracks
aftert having started to DJ its not what makes them famous and/or
good.
2) After that you have the producers that started (very) young at
the moment there were quite few people on the scene (Adam Beyer
etc.) they are still under 30 and really famous / good (matter of
taste).
3) Talking about the under 25 people, well these ones had to
produce to be heard as DJs. The techno industry burst with new
labels consisting of fruity loops / reason techno (more or less
good, once more). This had the result to create very ephemere "stars".
After a few years and now the techno records / events do not sell
anymore, only the oldies and the "bankables" ones for the labels,
distributors and promoters.
Conclusion : young and good talents don't emerge becasue nobody
wants to risk money on them.
--
Benoît.
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It is true...but you can generally tell, signs of old age...
1. balding, note shaved heads are very 2001 2. glasses or
hearing aids 3. complaining when events end later than 2am.
But seriously, I think that most of the Grime genre artists from
the UK are under 25, like I said we were pressed to come up with
names of younger folks into the techy stuff. B. Calloway from
Submerge is early 20s. Not that I think that youth = innovation
or hipness but when I look at artists that I have cared about for
a long time, their younger work really stands the test of time.
Unfortunately, the young or lack there of is really noticable at
clubs in the bay area, all you smell on the dance floor is ben
gay. Tom
wow - good question, problem is I don't really ever pay attention
to how
old any particular artist is (how many of them advertise thier
age anyway?)
MEK
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Subject (313) Who do
you like that is under 25?
My friend and I were talking about producers and djs within the
techno/detroit/electronic big genre who we liked that were under
25 y/o.
We were pressed to come up with names, not that we are ageist,
but is
techno the new adult contemporary?
You folks know your music, who is worth watching or hearing that
isn't just
another jaded generation x er.
tom
