|
Electronic music in a Church?
|
View this Thread in Original format
| djrodimus |
Hey all I wanted to get your opinions on something... Recently, I was given the opportunity to run a weekly event at a local church. To give you a little background the church is quite large, several thousand attendees each Sunday and they have quite an impressive audio/video setup. I myself have been a Christian my entire life. Even though I do hold some slightly different views on some matters my core belief system is the same. In my life there are 5 top things that are above all else the most important things to me.
1. God
2. Family / Relationships
3. Electronic Music
4. Technology
5. Business
Over the last 10 years or so I've constantly tried to find a way to combine these otherwise different aspects in way that complements each one of their categories. To give you a little background on me in the late 90's I was heavily involved in the Detroit rave scene. Mostly, on the administrative end. I worked with different production companies and vendors to help aid in throwing some of the larger parties Detroit had seen. After the DEA started cracking down on the party scene and every single one of my friends got arrested (but me) I decided it was time to figure out something new. Over the last couple of years I've thrown a couple of parties at private venues and one or two churches. Each event pulled in a couple of hundred of people but I lost a ton of money every time. Now, I've been presented with an opportunity to run a weekly event with almost no overhead cost to my company where there would be a (nearly) guaranteed number of people attending...somewhere between 500-700. My goal is to bring this form of music that we love so much to an entirely different audience, one that has NO CLUE what real music sounds like.
Most of the kids in this area have been grown in a bubble never setting foot outside of their MTV, POP culture, world and I'm trying to get a feel for how receptive they will be to techno in general. Now, REGARDLESS of your own personal religious convictions, whatever they may be, I ask for your honest objective opinions to my situation. You don't have to agree with the way I believe, that’s not the point of this post.
The point is that I want to see how you all feel about trying to expand the music reaching a demographic of kids/adults that have never heard it before... |
|
|
| Rainborn |
| Congratulations, you've just won the prize for the worst formed sentence in the history of mankind. |
|
|
| djrodimus |
| sorry not following...? |
|
|
| Rainborn |
| But srsly, I don't think many people will read your post. Split up the text a tad. |
|
|
| Sykonee |
| I'm just wondering who's going to be the first to throw out a Faithless quote. |
|
|
| djrodimus |
| quote: | Originally posted by Sykonee
I'm just wondering who's going to be the first to throw out a Faithless quote. |
you mean like "God is a DJ"? lol |
|
|
| Nrg2Nfinit |
its going to be hard to introduce people to music that way. Im telling you flat out if you just play trance at a church everyone is probably going to leave. you'd have to start up with some christian rock breakbeats and work it into like cj bolland the prophet :p
well i dunno i just try to introduce my friends to hybrid genres first (Somtething they are familiar with) then get them into the more underground stuff |
|
|
| Omega_M |
do church and rave complement each other :conf:
| quote: | ...one that has NO CLUE what real music sounds like.
|
...ain't that pretty much subjective ? |
|
|
| djrodimus |
| quote: | Originally posted by Nrg2Nfinit
its going to be hard to introduce people to music that way. Im telling you flat out if you just play trance at a church everyone is probably going to leave. you'd have to start up with some christian rock breakbeats and work it into like cj bolland the prophet :p
well i dunno i just try to introduce my friends to hybrid genres first (Somtething they are familiar with) then get them into the more underground stuff |
GREAT INPUT! I will definitely keep that in mind. A year or so ago I started to put together a compilation that I was calling Sonlight Trancemissions comprised mostly of tracks that I would consider "church friendly". I got busy and kinda put that project on the side to work on my other mixes (now available) but I think I'll put sometime into reviving the project this weekend. I'm gonna try to find some non trance too...
Thanks for the FEEDBACK...oh and very nice avatar (-: |
|
|
| djrodimus |
| quote: | Originally posted by Omega_M
do church and rave complement each other :conf:
...ain't that pretty much subjective ? |
I think that they can complement each other. Minus the drugs of course. If a party is supposed to be all about the music why can't it be in a church setting if the church is open minded enough to allow dancing and rave/club style lighting, video, and sound...it just seems to me that the entire electronic music scene has devoloped a very negative reputation due to the way that the music is presented and also due to the fact that if you want to hear good techno you pretty much have to goto a club/bar. Which I have no problem with at all...I just think its time to create a more positive face to the industry. |
|
|
| paranoik0 |
| yes. this is the perfect way to introduce someone to electronic music, and to be known as a respectable family man. |
|
|
|
|
