Here is a Skype conversation between John 00 Fleming and Christopher Lawrence. I recorded this from youtube and put together the most important parts that had the most meaning. The original conversation was 10 minutes long, but I cut it down to just 3 minutes. It's kind of like a mini interview between the 2 of them on their thoughts about the change of the scene and how the music impacts them and the fans. Just 3 minutes of your time is all I ask, and I am sure there are some parts within this 3 minutes that many of you will agree with


http://soundcloud.com/roryjames/a-conversation-between

A Conversation between Christopher Lawrence & John 00 Fleming by RoryJames


Thoughts?

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^^ Is that sarcasm? because i agree with CL and joof

agree with them entirely. not sure if i can say the same for CL's sets recently

guys like this are a dying breed....I'm with them totally! its really sad what the scene has become.....at least the underground is alive and strong with techno .....I really dont think we have to worry about that getting commercialized ever....

there used to be so much emotion in the club......now there is cameras and texting on the dancefloor

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also alot of blame has to go to the internet....back when PVD,S&D etc were play'n twilo.....u would not know 80% of what they were play'n and to get a live set from the net back then was like GOLD....
now as we all know , they are more than enuf sets to encircle the globe, u know what your gonna for the most part and alot of surprise factor is gone....I remember reading this is why liebing doesn't let most of his sets get recorded...because he doesnt want to ruin the moment

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Originally posted by djtrinity also alot of blame has to go to the internet....back when PVD,S&D etc were play'n twilo.....u would not know 80% of what they were play'n and to get a live set from the net back then was like GOLD.... now as we all know , they are more than enuf sets to encircle the globe, u know what your gonna for the most part and alot of surprise factor is gone....I remember reading this is why liebing doesn't let most of his sets get recorded...because he doesnt want to ruin the moment

yea today everyone and their mother has some sort of radio show or podcast, so music is more exposed
top dj's can still be supriseing if they wanted to but they are too afriad of loseing their dj mag rank to take a chance and play some underground stuff, so they stick with the commercial stuff/sing a long tracks


def a good interview
joof,lawernce,dave ralph,matt hardwick,askew and a few other dj's have all said how the scene has changed its def not the same
thats why i venture out to more techno,prog and local dj partys now
cause i know i wont be disapointed and hear the same top 10 beatport tracks

but i do feel it's going to take someone bigger or alot more dj's to get the point across about how bad the trance scene has become
it's a shame knowing that if joof were to come to nyc probly only 50-100 people would show up but if arty or dash berlin were to come the club would be rammed

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Originally posted by AY STAR yea today everyone and their mother has some sort of radio show or podcast, so music is more exposed top dj's can still be supriseing if they wanted to but they are too afriad of loseing their dj mag rank to take a chance and play some underground stuff, so they stick with the commercial stuff/sing a long tracks def a good interview joof,lawernce,dave ralph,matt hardwick,askew and a few other dj's have all said how the scene has changed its def not the same thats why i venture out to more techno,prog and local dj partys now cause i know i wont be disapointed and hear the same top 10 beatport tracks but i do feel it's going to take someone bigger or alot more dj's to get the point across about how bad the trance scene has become it's a shame knowing that if joof were to come to nyc probly only 50-100 people would show up but if arty or dash berlin were to come the club would be rammed

I love how alot of these guys try to be 'politically correct' when discussing this stuff.....I dont think alot of big dj's care if it goes back to the way it was...alls they care about is being number one and fillin there pockets....I still for the life of me cant figure out why people continue to vote in these contests they should be boycotted!!! these guys are such egomaniacs! also alot of the younger generation doesn't even know how it used to be...so they think its great now, they dont even see anything wrong

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Originally posted by djtrinity also alot of the younger generation doesn't even know how it used to be...so they think its great now, they dont even see anything wrong

def a sign that were getting old ha ha

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Originally posted by AY STAR def a sign that were getting old ha ha

yeees unfortunately I'm gonna wind up being one of those 'creepy old guys' at the club soon ....if not already!!!!! LMAO

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A-fuckin'-men. I called this a very long time ago.

The scene is still well here in NY, people are a lot more educated about music than in most places in this country and support their locals and there are always a lot of possibilities every weekend for everyone.

You also have to consider that in this day and age, electronic music is everywhere now and it's commercialised, it's been taken to the masses and it can't be taken back at this point... The people that are in the scene for the right reasons still go out and go to the right places to hear good music, not to be seen and hear what's popular.

There are always true music people and there are always the trend followers (or as I like to call them as of late, "the bandwagon jumpers"), there seems to be a lot of them nowadays. Find yourself in the right side of that line and you'll get what you are looking for

lol sample it for the next rory james track

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