Money is the problem. Mr Money is the guy nobody really needs at their party. Nobody wants the “cool kids” at their parties. Keep money out of the scene and cool kids for that matter. Destroy the image of the scene I say and then we’ll see who’s there for the right reasons.
Massive music fan, had never been to a festival before, had always stuck to clubs. Festivals just don’t do it for me, there’s just no sense of intimacy there.
Recently went to some festivals that had club after-parties, and for the artists that I heard twice, they played a MILLION TIMES better and had more individuality in the club setting. Very fun experience to go to festivals but the music is almost always better at clubs/intimate venues.
Underground scene is about the experience of hearing music youve never heard. Dancing to things that pierces your soul. Being there to dance. Nothing else. Escaping the stereotypes and social conditioning.
I'm writing my thesis right now, it's about how to start and maintain a community around underground techno in a city where this is not really present yet. This community is surrounding the events I organise in this city. And my teacher literally told me that this would not work as a subject because he could not see how I was supposed to make money out of it. I told him I was not doing it for money but out a of passion for underground techno, he said that the subject would not suffice because there was no future/career in it.
Just look at the DJ mag top 100 djs and you can see the state the "industry" is in. This man speaks so much sense, but money does money unfortunately. The underground will always underground thankfully
What an awesome interview and pretty much explains what i have thought about current music scene. Also the bit about dancing next to speakers is spot on. I used to go straight to the massive speaker and dance all night feeling the bass and hearing rhe crystal clear sounds coming out of it. It was an awesome experience. Would be good to know how his club night with no visual of dj, is doing and how sucessful it has been. I have been thiunking of doing a similar night here in sydney.
The people who were lucky enough to experience the illegal rave scene in the late 80s (not me), would argue that it all started to go wrong when it was forced into the clubs. Those guys really lost something special…but what came out of it was still pretty incredible.
