A friend's take on the house music discussion

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A friend's take on the house music discussion
Posted on: 23.06.2012 by Ira Alsadi
So a lot has been made of the current state of house music lately. I thought I would share a friend's take on it. He has been playing house music since the '80's and has seen artists/groups come and go. Interesting to see a less dramatic tone taken by someone who is truly "old school" compared to those who are not.


"Everyone needs to stop freaking out about Guetta, Calvin Harris, and the like killing "house" music. There has always been pop "house" that bubbled up from the underground. While we were digging 808 State, Derrick May, and A Guy Called Gerald back in the late 80's, the world was dancing to Technotronic "Pump Up The Jam" and Snap "Rhythm is a Dancer" -- and believeing it was house. There will always be producers, artists, and corporate types that will take what the cool kids like and water it down, make it simple and formulaic, and give it a pop make over for the masses. Over produced mega house with guest R&B / Hip Hop vocalist and recycled "underground" samples (Pit Bull, Aviccii) is just today's version of what has been happening in dance music for the last 30 years, folks. Frankly, I would rather the mainstream club goers be dancing to this than really bad radio hip-hop."
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Ara Tima
24.06.2012
Originally Posted by loverocket
the problem is nobody's dancing. except at gay clubs.
You're playing at the wrong clubs.

24.06.2012
Originally Posted by loverocket
the problem is nobody's dancing. except at gay clubs.
No mate, no one's dancing.

Lauretta Ehrhorn
24.06.2012
Originally Posted by hola amigos
i knew house music has been around since the 80's everybody was telling me no. it was early 2000.
Sorry to repeat but this comment has left me speechless.
Danial Sawn
23.06.2012
Originally Posted by loverocket
the problem is nobody's dancing. except at gay clubs.
This, especially at festivals. The crowd doesn't dance, it just stands there with its hands in the air....
Werner Bile
23.06.2012
Originally Posted by hola amigos
i knew house music has been around since the 80's everybody was telling me no. it was early 2000.
Are you being deliberately obtuse? No one told you that.
Roseanna Signorini
23.06.2012
Originally Posted by smittten
My Palms used to call all the time but then again I was a teenager and didn't have a girlfriend.
who you kidding, your palms still call....
Nedra Fresneda
23.06.2012
Originally Posted by smittten
My hairy Palms used to call all the time but then again I was a teenager and didn't have a girlfriend.
fixed
Len Lukawski
23.06.2012
Originally Posted by dj matt blaze
But I am quite sure that if the Palms called you and said...
My Palms used to call all the time but then again I was a teenager and didn't have a girlfriend.
Dorie Scelzo
23.06.2012
Originally Posted by loverocket
the problem is nobody's dancing. except at gay clubs.
And black clubs.

Oh wait………

Originally Posted by mfuchs19
But because we can beatmatch we know better than them?
No…because we have a different taste in music (that some might call more refined) and people who don't assume it's all the same and that Skrillex fits in with Techo, Deep House, and everything else because it's all just dubstep.

Still…a refreshing perspective.
Ara Tima
24.06.2012
Originally Posted by loverocket
the problem is nobody's dancing. except at gay clubs.
You're playing at the wrong clubs.
Dorie Scelzo
24.06.2012		That doesn't look like dancing to me.

24.06.2012
Originally Posted by loverocket
the problem is nobody's dancing. except at gay clubs.
No mate, no one's dancing.

Lauretta Ehrhorn
24.06.2012
Originally Posted by hola amigos
i knew house music has been around since the 80's everybody was telling me no. it was early 2000.
Sorry to repeat but this comment has left me speechless.
Danial Sawn
23.06.2012
Originally Posted by loverocket
the problem is nobody's dancing. except at gay clubs.
This, especially at festivals. The crowd doesn't dance, it just stands there with its hands in the air....
Werner Bile
23.06.2012
Originally Posted by hola amigos
i knew house music has been around since the 80's everybody was telling me no. it was early 2000.
Are you being deliberately obtuse? No one told you that.
Roseanna Signorini
23.06.2012
Originally Posted by smittten
My Palms used to call all the time but then again I was a teenager and didn't have a girlfriend.
who you kidding, your palms still call....
Nedra Fresneda
23.06.2012
Originally Posted by smittten
My hairy Palms used to call all the time but then again I was a teenager and didn't have a girlfriend.
fixed
Yukiko Beauvil
23.06.2012
Len Lukawski
23.06.2012
Originally Posted by dj matt blaze
But I am quite sure that if the Palms called you and said...
My Palms used to call all the time but then again I was a teenager and didn't have a girlfriend.
Dorie Scelzo
23.06.2012
Originally Posted by loverocket
the problem is nobody's dancing. except at gay clubs.
And black clubs.

Oh wait………

Originally Posted by mfuchs19
But because we can beatmatch we know better than them?
No…because we have a different taste in music (that some might call more refined) and people who don't assume it's all the same and that Skrillex fits in with Techo, Deep House, and everything else because it's all just dubstep.

Still…a refreshing perspective.
Roseanna Signorini
23.06.2012		DJ snobbery will always exisit and its the most prevelant on the community s. The funny thing is it usually comes the most from someone who has never played a gig outside of the 4 walls of their bedroom. The reason being is that they are such incredible Djs that they are too evolved for the masses and the masses of people just can't comprehend how great they are so it would be a waste of time to play outside of their bedroom. Shame on you to ever mention Guetta, Calvin Harris, Skillrex, they are sellouts bla bla bla. The truth is, there isn't 1 person that wouldn't trade places with either of them. Anyone who says they wouldn't is full of crap. Its really easy to sit in your bedroom and post on a community how you would rather stick pins in your eyes than to be like Guetta when there is zero chance it would ever happen. But I am quite sure that if the Palms called you and said we want to give you $25,000 a evening to play EDM top 40, or to have a premixed set playing while you play with the EQs and the filters, that anyone would jump at that in 1/2 a second, if you say you wouldn't you're a liar.
Jerica Salava
23.06.2012
Originally Posted by mfuchs19
But because we can beatmatch we know better than them? It's this kind of attitude, the kind flaunting a sense of superiority for whatever reason, that is causing all this useless debate and belittlement in the music, specifically EDM*, community.

*Waiting for someone to slam me for the use of 'EDM'
no it's because we know never to play Skrillex during happy hour.

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Romelia Stankard
23.06.2012
Originally Posted by hola amigos
i knew house music has been around since the 80's everybody was telling me no. it was early 2000.
This again?

People were only telling you that electro house has only been around since early 2000s because you kept saying electro house was invented in the early 90s.
Jerlene Jernegan
23.06.2012
Originally Posted by DJ Abide
Very well worded. The problem is these people come to the DJ like they know WTF they're talking about.
But because we can beatmatch we know better than them? It's this kind of attitude, the kind flaunting a sense of superiority for whatever reason, that is causing all this useless debate and belittlement in the music, specifically EDM*, community.

*Waiting for someone to slam me for the use of 'EDM'
Jerica Salava
23.06.2012		the problem is nobody's dancing. except at gay clubs.
Lashay Walchak
23.06.2012		Very well worded. The problem is these people come to the DJ like they know WTF they're talking about.
Georgina Schatzman
23.06.2012
Originally Posted by hola amigos
i knew house music has been around since the 80's everybody was telling me no. it was early 2000.

What?
Jolynn Schroyer
23.06.2012		i knew house music has been around since the 80's everybody was telling me no. it was early 2000.
Noriko Lebowitz
23.06.2012		10 people like this.

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