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Djsneak: ''If you don't mind playing playing trance out you have no dignity.''
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| harriz |
Skrufff: Now that you’re so well established is it easier?
DJ Sneak: ‘People think that once you make it to a certain level you are like ‘Yeah, now I’m on top’. It’s hard to stay level. It’s hard to maintain people’s interest and attention. Everybody has short attention span these days. To keep people interested you have to work really hard at it and I can tell you I’m a work horse.’
Skrufff: I remember reading that you used to have a T shirt saying ‘Trance Sucks’, have you still got it?
DJ Sneak: ‘It didn’t say ‘trance sucks’, it said ‘ Trance’ and l still stand by it. There’s nothing about that style of supposedly music that I can even comprehend.’
Skrufff: Why do you think trance is so much more popular in America than house?
DJ Sneak: ‘It’s like comparing pop music and real music. You work really hard to get somewhere then you get some little Pop Idol dude coming up and doing his who gets everything that you are supposed to be getting if you work hard. Or somebody just gets it handed it on a plate because some executive or a manager has put this project together and said ‘hey this is where we going in New York’. Trance is commercial and anything commercial sells. If you are the cheesiest person in the world and you can play it out then you don’t mind because basically you have no dignity. I know some of these guys (pausing and shooting off on a tangent). . . I’m happy to say I’m thirty-five and I’ve never done a line of cocaine in my life. It wasn’t in me. It was around me all the time people were selling it, people were smoking it, but I never went there.’
Skrufff: Why not?
DJ Sneak: ‘I’ve just seen other people and they way they react on it, and that just turns me off. They have these TV shows in America on VH-1, where they focus on a band or an an artist about how they struggle and finally make it and become these superstars and then they always throw it all away for cocaine or heroin. They forget about why or how they got there, who helped them to get there, they just forget everything. Then they make music and try to convince people that they are still on top, but really they can’t because their brain has been shrunken by cocaine; Or other drugs. For me, I put trance and ecstasy and cocaine in the same category. To me, you have to be on cocaine for trance; cocaine or ecstasy or speed or crystal meth – all that stuff to try to even maybe feel like you are feeling something with the music. I don’t know. That’s the way I see it. It doesn’t make sense to me. I can relate more to Herbie Hanand James Brown music than trance. |
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| DJ RJT |
| Wow... this should thoroughly piss a few folks off. |
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| lücid |
| that guy sounds like an utter douche. |
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| RapidFire |
yay lets all jump on the bandwagon and diss trance..
how about some respect? if not for the rare good stuff that still comes out then at least for what it used to be..
not to mention this guy's a jackass. |
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| paranoik0 |
I can think of a couple trance tracks I'd play out without losing any dignity. Not a ton of them, but some.
This is the case of a old-fashioned way-too-stuck-up house-head who makes sweeping generalizations.. hadn't heard of one of these in a while. |
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| Aquadyne |
| I'm more outraged by his unabashed bashing of cocaine, than his bashing of trance. |
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| Sand Leaper |
Clever scandalist slanting in that headline.
| quote: | | Trance is commercial and anything commercial sells. If you are the cheesiest person in the world and you can play it out then you don’t mind because basically you have no dignity. |
Sneak isn't saying "if you play trance out, you have no dignity", period. He's saying that you have no dignity if you play commercial stuff out because you know it sells and works in that regard with whatever crowd you have. This certainly applies to trance, but you could easily say the same about any other genre that is commercial enough, such as house.
As for the rest, standard trance slating from the house heads that we've heard a thousand times already. Yawn. |
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| Ian |
| quote: | Originally posted by harriz
There’s nothing about that style of supposedly music that I can even comprehend.’
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Maybe he can learn to speak proper english before bashing music. Let's face it, you're an old washed up DJ, so how do you bring attention to yourself, You bash something you don't like, and suddenly everyone who likes that style is expected to retaliate, but it's a whole PR type move all of the time. Maybe this guy should lay off the crack a bit. |
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| Ishkur |
| quote: | Originally posted by Aquadyne
I'm more outraged by his unabashed bashing of cocaine, than his bashing of trance. |
Hah!
Beat me to it first. I was all like "hey there...come on. Trance is one thing, but what did cocaine ever do to you? That's not nice." |
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| lücid |
ok, i just listened to the clips on his MySpace page, and they're way more boring and generic sounding than any trance i've ever heard.
and yea his drug-bashing is funny... he should acquire a coke habit for a while, it might help him lose a few pounds...
:eek:
(ok maybe that was uncalled for... but whatever, he deserves it, right?) |
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| Sand Leaper |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ishkur
I was all like "hey there...come on. Trance is one thing, but what did cocaine ever do to you? That's not nice." |
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| Clovis86 |
| quote: | Originally posted by lücid
ok, i just listened to the clips on his MySpace page, and they're way more boring and generic sounding than any trance i've ever heard.
and yea his drug-bashing is funny... he should acquire a coke habit for a while, it might help him lose a few pounds...
:eek:
(ok maybe that was uncalled for... but whatever, he deserves it, right?) |
Usually the guys who say they've never done a line in their life are the ones cutting rocks as soon as the interview is over... ;) |
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