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views on todays clubbing generation

i seem to think that bout 8-10 years ago, where dance music came into play, a lot of ppl who go to the clubs enjoyed the music. But as years gone by with all the super clubs etc., its seperated into a market of superleague djs and ones who proper stand out. And it seems like the market has collapsed in terms of ppl these days will only go if a night hosts a very well known dj, and in a lot of cases, big names. Half the others times, ppl just can't be assed anymore. Really seems to be that way I think...

what are ppl's views here?

think i told you my view on it before, its true everything has just collapsed since the height of popularity into superclubs going as far as to jsut book the same dj's to garauntee crowds. big name dj's still wanting playing fees the same as before even though there is no market for it anymore, and even the crowds have jsut got ignorant, or how i put it, the americanisation syndrome, its all about one person and they cant be bothered with nobody else.

this isnt entirely true of course as goes for most people here but you knwo what i mean, the passes who give the clubs the cash to make them carry on.

It saddens me in a way that I started clubbing so late in my time as a trance addict .. around 4yrs now since I found the music I so love today .. that the people I have come to know now of this board are slowly growing tired of the clubbing experience and that organisations like gatecrasher seem to rely on money making events solely these days ..

Its a real shame how things have become .. where events are judged by the lineups and the price .. gone seems to be the atmosphere and atitude that can be looked back upon when trance kicked off properly b4 this "commercialism" took ahold of it in the later years .. id like to have a time machine to go back to the days where going out meant having a good time with ur friends .. and enjoying the music regardless of who was playing ..

I aint usually the type to take down tracklists at a club / festival etc (not that id remember anyhow) .. tbh Id much prefer to hear tracks ive never heard before .. perhaps thats where the problem lies these days .. too many ppl are able to keep upto date with the music? If you get what I mean here .. in that you know what you like and what you dont .. and should the dj play something you dont like .. well thats your night ruined .. dare you ever attend an event with him(her?) in the lineup again

But I suppose the flip side also exists .. hope that nights like pause motion etc can bring back what has been lost .. I guess thats why the subject for having a house party instead of going to a club is so popular amongst some ..

Anyhow this is getting a bit long and no1s gonna read it anyhow .. watched human traffic (dont know how i missed it) and that has opened my mind a bit on certain things ..

This post was written chemical-free ..

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Originally posted by Cru5ad3r It saddens me in a way that I started clubbing so late in my time as a trance addict .. around 4yrs now since I found the music I so love today .. that the people I have come to know now of this board are slowly growing tired of the clubbing experience and that organisations like gatecrasher seem to rely on money making events solely these days .. Its a real shame how things have become .. where events are judged by the lineups and the price .. gone seems to be the atmosphere and atitude that can be looked back upon when trance kicked off properly b4 this "commercialism" took ahold of it in the later years .. id like to have a time machine to go back to the days where going out meant having a good time with ur friends .. and enjoying the music regardless of who was playing .. I aint usually the type to take down tracklists at a club / festival etc (not that id remember anyhow) .. tbh Id much prefer to hear tracks ive never heard before .. perhaps thats where the problem lies these days .. too many ppl are able to keep upto date with the music? If you get what I mean here .. in that you know what you like and what you dont .. and should the dj play something you dont like .. well thats your night ruined .. dare you ever attend an event with him(her?) in the lineup again But I suppose the flip side also exists .. hope that nights like pause motion etc can bring back what has been lost .. I guess thats why the subject for having a house party instead of going to a club is so popular amongst some .. Anyhow this is getting a bit long and no1s gonna read it anyhow .. watched human traffic (dont know how i missed it) and that has opened my mind a bit on certain things .. This post was written chemical-free ..

i know what ya mean mate, i started in the end of 2001 which was basically when it all started to go tits up

it's all gone tits up because of the DJ's
having 5 or 6 DJ's on in a night is too many, it doesn't flow properly. The best nights I've been to is when it's been 2 or 3

is human traffic set in London?

i dunno, but way before i started going to 'super clubs' i used to go to small nights in London a lot and they were way more fun in some ways. i dont know if it is still the same but they only cost a few quid and were much more friendly and less up their own arse- with the average clubber being a bit older and with loads of australians just over here to have fun!

they weren't big name dj's (although some of them have gone on to become such) but i had a better time there.

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Originally posted by *HaRRy* is human traffic set in London?

Cardiff

It does seem to be more about the DJ rather than the music which is disappointing. Some people dont like the fact that all the big name DJ's arent in the country for new years and reckon the line-ups for the different places are shite. Last year i was at Garlands for new years eve, the music was funky house and was good, but i had such a good time cause i was out with all my m8s in one place having a gr8 time.

This could be a reason why its hard for new DJ's to break onto the scene.

People dont wanna see some new person play the same music as tiesto, they wanna see tiesto play that music regardless of the fact that he may be just as good.

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Originally posted by Matty V This could be a reason why its hard for new DJ's to break onto the scene. People dont wanna see some new person play the same music as tiesto, they wanna see tiesto play that music regardless of the fact that he may be just as good.

Hmm i dont know about that .. I just think the bigger name djs have a reputation .. imo theres a fear that a "new" dj wont be able to hold the crowd as well ..

At the end of the day .. looking back at gc 9th bday .. i didnt really get to see any of the djs playing since i was in the foyer .. but I had a good time and the music was good .. would it have mattered to me if it wasnt pvd or marcov on the decks? Not really ..

Human Traffic!
i got it for �3quid on dvd bargain "NICE ONE BRUVA"

geeeeeeeezzzzzaaaaa, how did u manage that u joker, was chuffed when I finally replaced by lost version on video for about 6 squid a couple of months ago....shoulda waited for the cheap as chips dvd sale by the sounds of it. What ever happened to human traffic two and those peeps who won the chance to be in it in those mixmag comps??

Agree with most of what Cru5ad3r says by the way. The Cult of the superstar dj was great when it was gathering force. Loads of exciting new djs suddenly getting famous all at once and not even just famous within clubland. Packed clubs with everyone wanting a piece of dance music and it going off all over the country. Think that cult got too big and whereas the mainstream started embracing clubbing at its peak that also took away from things to an extent.

Conciously or subconciously we all look for the dj name now when we first look at a flyer and feel this in itself will make it a worthy night and are reluctant to go to a night unless the dj has a reputation on a national or even international scale. I do it even though I've had some of the best nights of my life in at small nights or listening to a dj I did not know about or I didn't know was on that night. However, because of such reluctance the smaller nights all died and now the new energy and momentum is not coming through in the scene like it used to. Meanwhile some people are starting to get bored seeing the same superstar djs over and over but paying more and more to do so but have little else to fall back on. Club owners are starting to realise they can make more without paying inflated dj's fees and turning back to pop and selling more booze and less water. The legacy we have now is a tad depressing at times with the likes of Cream and Crasher a shadow of their former selves (even though still putting on occassional, very decent nights or festiees).

In a nut shell before I bore myself as well as anyone still reading this rant - acid house came to the uk and the dance seen got bigger and bigger and u were a part of something amazing; the trance sound arrived in earnest and the same was true again. Interest in the music got bigger and bigger and reached fever pitch but interest in individual djs (always has been that to an extent, right back to chicago days) started becoming more of a priority and then the djs names started becoming more of a priority than just what they did on the nights. It isn't their fault this became a problem and like footballers, if u felt u could demand more money most peeps probably would. It needs interest in the music to start spreading again throughout the country if things are gonna buck up and it is gonna take more than just one new superstar dj for that to happen.

It all runs in cirlces and I think trance, house etc will boom again but it is never as big as the first boom and the first real dance driven clubbing boom in the UK was fecking great (the bits I caught of it).

tobe
www.thisthingcalleddance.com

I guess in a way some of the current popularity of edm music has to die away before it can hope to return to a state it once was in the past .. if ppl start to attend smaller parties more and more then the bigger organisations will either go bankrupt or will have to seriously rethink their strategies ..

Do clubs really make that much money off bar sales here in the uk? Besides the initial purchase of water for the majority ..

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Originally posted by Grandmaster T Conciously or subconciously we all look for the dj name now when we first look at a flyer and feel this in itself will make it a worthy night and are reluctant to go to a night unless the dj has a reputation on a national or even international scale

True.

If Tiesto and Van Dyk are on the flyer u are guna assume better music, but also better crowd and better atmosphere cause u might reckon more people are gunna be there.

But usually u would find a good atmosphere and music in a smaller event with less known DJ's (and this is how every club started off as), its just people would rather go an event where they think will gaurentee them a good night.

I dont go clubbing every week as i used to, partly because of drugs (but i can go without them), but mostly cause most of my m8s dont wanna go all them time. When i do go out (once a month at most) we usually organise to go a big event where a wide range of DJ's are playin so we can see a wide range of styles.

If im clubbing once a month at most i wanna try and see a wide range of styles in that time that im out which is why i prefer things like the NEC or festivals. Also its a massive travel to any club (as my local place closed) so its a blag organising a weekly trip to a club. I still wanna go weekly events but money, lack of interest from friends and distance and travel to a club all play a huge roll in stopping that (think i might have gone off topic a bit)

Grandmaster T completely spot on.

Trance will come again just like house is enjoying its renaissance now.

& in the mean time those who follow trance will be going to smaller nights like Pause & Transitions as the larger clubs are in demise.

No you are right, there is either a very limited or non-existant, serious, local club scene in many regions in the UK and it is starting to get that way in some of the bigger cities too to an extent. That is why I agree with the post above that people are clubbing less regularly and saving themselves for the big festies and events which are still a quality crack more often than not.

Is that satisfactory though, I remember being able to afford to go clubbing to quite big events nearly every fortnight as well as some of the serious midweek nights and always having options for both that would nearly always be busy with like minded peeps. Because of what has happened with the scene though you can't have that confidence as much anymore and in many cases don't even have the options there anyway...hence you end up traveling somewhere once a month or couple of months and have nothing what-so-ever inbetween. That creates more pressure on yourself to enjoy it when you do travel to the big one-off kind of events. Unless the night goes awesome then you are deflated because you have to wait for and afford the next one that comes around. Hence slightly more bitchyness on forums in the wake of big events, criticising the superstar djs for not blowing their minds. When peeps could go more often it was more off the cuff and there was less pressure for it to be awesome evertime and, in turn it was easier to enjoy fully. That is just my opinion obviously and it is all starting to sound like it is all doom and gloom so I think I'm gonna go and get seshed over the next couple of nights out and stop worrying about what went before!

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