I tell you another question. Are you true or
not?
Vinyl = underground = techno/house = indepedant labels
= scratching, art of
mixing = turntable music instruments...
I'd say there are 3 things keeping vinyl alive today in
terms of being
the majority of DJ's number one medium...
1. Vinyl will continue to see widespread use until
another format comes
along that "truly" is as useable and versatile as the
vinyl/1200
combination... (it will have to be affordable as
well).
2. No matter what anyone says there are too many vinyl
releases that are
just not available on CD (in unmixed form of
course).
3. Some people may disagree with this one but I believe
that on a LARGE
club/rave type system vinyl does sound better. CD's
tend to sound very
clinical at high volume. You may not notice the
difference on an
average home stereo but on a large system I think there
is a noticeable
difference.
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"I think that people don't like to talk about
that. I get asked about where
I'm from and how it all started, but no one wants to
talk about what it's going
to be like in three or four years, or next year or next
month. They don't like
to talk about
where this music is going, what it could be, because I think it's
very hard for
people to predict because the music is so... see, I grew up
thinking
that techno music is actually something that you can't
imagine. That is techno
at its best. If you hear something that kind of sounds
like you've heard it
before, then it's not techno. It's something that
you've never heard--it
catches you
completely by surprise. Like when we were young and we heard
Kraftwerk,
it was something that we had never heard before. That's
techno at its best. I
always thought
that a techno party is when you walk through the door and see and
you
hear something
that you've never seen or heard before. I've been spinning for
years
and I've never
walked into a party and ever seen that.
So the whole idea of techno is to make something that
is unimaginable. It's
not implying that
it's something that's very easy to do and that's probably why most people don't
approach it. Because it's not. It's not very hard to do in techno. It
takes a
very long time,
sometimes... and a wild imagination. You have to be able to dream,
I
suppose. You have to be able to leave everything that
you know and everything
that you have
learned. You have to leave that behind and create something completely
new."
--Jeff Mills,
Vol. 2 Issue 1, February 1995 Generator magazine (article: Tim
Barr)
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6. troop movements::
june16(van) DUB GNOSTIC, TYLER
STADIUS--TECHNOWEST @ Sonar
~june20(van) LOWBROW '99
@ Brickyard. 685-3922. artist
gallery.
june24(van) SOURCE DIRECT~ Metalheadz, Science,
Good Looking @ Wett Bar
june21(van) LEE SCRATCH PERRY @Sonar.
$30 @ Bassix, Zulu, Sonar, Scratch.
june25(van)
n e w . m o o n (o3) dj BRAHMAN
604.444.8024 <ST>
june25(kalamazoo, MI) BLACK NATIONb feat.
CLAUDE YOUNG, JAY DENHAM
STEVE BICKNELL,
ELLERY COWLES 616.343.8357
june27(van) MIXMASTER MIKE @
Sonar
july01(sea) ED RUSH, OPTICAL, RYME TYME
@ aro.space
july02(pdx) RICHIE HAWTIN
503.727.3368 $15@ Platinum,
Starbass
july02(Spanish Pyranees)
X.72- Free Party At the End of the
World
july4(van) CDN.
DMC FINAL @Richards. 15$, Bassix, FF, FWUH.
604.878.4003
july6(van) TERRY
FRANCIS @ Sonar. 7$
july18(sea)
SWAYZAK LIVE @Flammable, The Rebar, about
$8.
july19(van)
SWAYZAK LIVE @ Sonar. 7$
july22(van)
MUSHROOM JAZZ TOUR @ Sonar
july29(sea)
DERRICK CARTER
july31(van)
ASADI RIZVI @ Sonar. $9
august07(van) <STCo2> 604.444.8024 <ST>
aug16-23(eug) AUTONOMOUS MUTANT
FESTIVAL
aug20-23(midwest) EVEN FURTHER
aug27(sea) SHPONGLE
LAND Twisted Records UK Crew~
Simon Posford, Hallucinogen.
Approved location in the
Cascade Mountains.
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7. addendum
Individuals, thus 'down converted,' usually die within seconds, though not before experiencing
excruciating pain as internal organs are
literally churned by tsunamis of air. i'm
sort of wondering if it's too abstract or if it can be decrypted and hit
its mark... comments?
the doll you had hanging from the ceiling reminded me and my travel-companions of a doll we saw earlier
that day at some sort of clothing-type
store downtown. the doll was strapped into a chair, and had IV's in her head, and her arms. there was an IV
drip hooked to it, filled with something
resembling blood. her umbilical cord was still attached and sort of wrapped around her binding her to the
chair and seemingly suffocating her. her
eyes were replaced by some sort of machine looking things, but i'm failing to recall exactly what.
thomas beck, "more than meets
the eye":
one of the most important aspects of techno as a medium divinely
inspired
to deliver this message is that it does not detract from the message
it
communicates.
in purist techno, the musical patterns change little. however,
prolonged
listening creates the perception that the sounds are continually
changing.
why does this occur? because we can only process one sound at a time.
as
we get disinterested with one sound, our ears quickly pick up another
sound, and the mind sets to examining it in detail. yet even while the
ear
and mind are intent on unraveling the riddle of one layer of sound,
they
are both made aware that to examine one part forces us not to be able
to
analyze the other parts which are simultaneously interesting. this
forces
the decision: either try with futility to examine the sounds one by one
or
submit to the driving steady beat and experience the song in its
entirety. this decision is teh perfect analogy to that of the one we
must
make in our lives. we must choose to either futily pick apart
experience,
or experience joy through opening ourselves up to it in its entirety.
when you open yousrelf up to techno @ a party you can feel like the
party
is its own separate entity in space -- since the vibe inside is so
much
more positive than all the bullshit going on in the everyday world.
hence,
techno and the party experience allow us to feel what it is to exist
in
another dimension, as opposed to just reading about one. how many
times
have you been dancing so hard you can hardly breath at 6 am, when you
suddenly stop and smile to yourself when you think of all the people
out
there who are spending this same moment sleeping away. no other
experience
can more acutely demonstrate so simply the new reality taht
coexisting
dimensions are continually interacting, and that the passage between
these
dimensions often disregards our conventional view of time. through
techno, body, mind and soul are all gently and directly taught
through
experience the divine nature of reality.
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