when people find out that i dj, it's not uncommon that they say they don't like dance music. i then ask where they've been dancing, what clubs, what djs. they usually reply that they don't go dancing, they just listened to dance music at a friends place, on the radio etc. that's when i point out that it's called dance music, not 'sitting on your ass at home' listening music. sure you can listen to it at home, but the place it makes sense, and the place to judge it, is on a dancefloor. you can send a dance floor into convulsions with just an 808 rhythm track. put that on the home stereo and most people will think it sounds dull repetitive and boring.
and that's why i'm calling it dance music. just try shooting me. one of the major problems with comtemporary dance music is that a lot of it is actually made for listening, not dancing. there's a bigger market for record companies making listening music. i'm referring to all the crap mix cds, like the global series etc. james > From: Anya Stang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 16:09:05 +0000 > To: 313@hyperreal.org > Subject: (313) to move or not to move. > > Whoever coined the term "dance music" should be shot. ; ) > > That a certain kind of music makes _you_ want to dance Robert, doesn't > necessarily mean that _every_body feels the same, has to dance to it. > For example, All who know me know that I totally love to dance, and > appreciate it when the music gets me going and I can lose myself on > the dancefloor. > But I can just as well spend the night at a club and hardly move > a foot - just cos I don't feel like it. Or whatever the reason might be. > In whatever mood I'm in, I don't expect others to feel the same way > as I do - as long as they don't jump on my feet when I just feel like > head-nodding, and don't get in my way when I wanna dance. It goes > without saying that the same applies to myself. > And I know that Jeff was not trying to be pretentious, it was simply > his way of getting his point across innit. : ) Which he did really > well imo. No need to jump on him like that. > Ah fekk Mondays... > > Has anyone seen that there's a new Clicks'n'Cuts out on Mille Plateaux? > What's it like? And Mike Shannon's album Slight Of Hand? > Cheers, > > Anya *dancing home now* ; ) > >> From: Robert Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: Mon 04/Nov/2002 15:37 GMT >> To: "'Mxyzptlk'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >> Toby Frith >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >> Cyclone Wehner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >> 313 Detroit <313@hyperreal.org> >> Subject: RE: (313) 100 BEST DJ IN THE WORLD (Mills) >> >> F*** ART, LET'S DANCE. I didn't get to the end of that piece I almost fell >> asleep trying to get to grips with its faux-intellectual weightiness. >> Don't be so pretentious ferchrisakes it's dance music! > > _______________________________________________________________________ > Freeserve AnyTime, only £13.99 per month with one month's FREE trial! > For more information visit http://www.freeserve.com/time/ or call free on 0800 > 970 8890 > > >
