Berns said that going from raves to clubs became boring. That because you
don't have a decorator "on staff" (?) and you're not "industry", you're
independent, you can't decorate the club differently each time?
Sorry, that's bulls*t and shows how unimaginative he is.
The guys I've been working with have never done a "rave" - frankly we all
hate them and what they've done to our local dance music community (bred a
bunch of candyravers who think that "disco" is "gay music"). The majority
of our events have been in the same club space - a tiny little box. Yet we
manage to make that box look and feel different for every single event. It
doesn't cost us much either. The one guy who is most responsible for
getting the decor and theme... I'm constantly amazed at how he manages to
pull it together and for how little. It's total DIY - no lasers and
spinning lights (except for those he makes!).
All the problems he's talked about that came later - people not controlling
their drug consumption, fights, knives/guns (!), etc. I've never seen that
happen at our parties.
I think it's a result of what your model/inspiration is for your party.
Raves always seem to spiral toward chaos which eventually drags the whole
thing down.
MEK
Neil Wiernik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 10/25/2006 09:29:59 AM:
>
> why do people focus so much on the past? dont get me wrong vergel I
> respect what your doing with your podcast but its some thing I have
> noticed with a lot of people who have been around for a while (my self
> included) there is far to much focus on the past and not enough focus on
> the future... any comments? I just remember getting into this music
> befause I honestly felt like it was a musical genera that felt like it
was
> all about moving forward exploring the unknown the future but when it
> boils down to it everyone seems more focused on reexploreing the past ...
> sure there is alots to learn from reexamining the past but there is more
> to gain from moving forward...itnt that how a scene developes by
> pushing forward and not standing stagnent...
>
>
>
> On Wed, 25 Oct 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > I don't know if you guys would be interested in hearing a couple of
> > stories from one of Toronto rave personalities, but I had Don Berns
> > (Dr. Trance) in the studio for an interview. We talked about some of
> > the early raves in toronto (around 1991) and what got us into this
> > whole "rave" culture.
> >
> > while trance and rave are dirty words on the 313 list. the stories are
> > interesting... Don was a alternative rock radio personality in the
> > 90's and before and 'discovered' electronic music. I started going to
> > raves after getting into the acid house scene. It was pretty wild to
> > spend some time and review some of the reasons we both got into it.
> >
> > http://
> > www.lx7.ca/podcasts/Lx7.ca-020-06-10-18-HindsightIts20.20-
> RavesTranceAndDon.mp3
> >
> > I've been sharing it around with some of the locals here in Toronto
> > and everyone has nothing but positive things to say about those early
> > days. So I thought I'd share it out.
> >
> > Verg.
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