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attn: 77002: Petition to get Above & Beyond in Houston! (pg. 4)
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| architect1803 |
| quote: | Originally posted by diggerz
stfu david (with a cherry on top)
now, the point progressivemojo is trying to convey here is that Texas needs more diversity in terms of electronic dance music. In other words, all the money is going to big trance djs instead of lesser-known djs or more eclectic performers.
Exhibit A.
You pay x amount of money to bring in AVB. You then get a warm up dj that has 'something to do' with the genre Armin is playing, right?
well, what about...
Use x amount of money to bring in Zip, Matthew Dear, Ivan Smagghe - instead of only investing in ONE big dj.
The problem - texas does not have an educated scene to know that Ivan Smagghe stands for Blackstrobe (Yes you can that nazi trance off) and/or that matthew dear is Audion/False (and from Texas).
So the big promoting companies work on the safe side and to their advantage, because in Texas the electronic business is focused on EDM (Trance) not european Techno.
However, it's surprising to see that Henry (Chow) has enough balls to throw down some pretty impressive parties in Austin with people like Agaric, now if only there were more people like him doing more stuff in Texas - we'd all be happy with our scene. But, we all have to live in one big room where there is no diversity IMO.
this wasn't a rant, just a cold and brief analysis (with cherries on top). |
And the winner is....Digz.
Right on le ing point! I'd like to see more of Sasha/Digweed (by the way, that right there is another thread I'll be making soon...hahah!), more bedrock artists, and at the same time different genre producers step foot in TX soil. I think if we collaberated with artists like these, the scene in here would widen alot more and we would have a much diverse range of people in our scene.
More techno, minimal, and even experimental artists would be bliss to this scene! But, keep the damn trance in TX and leave it alone. I do listen to trance still, but I listen more to different genres than just trance.
All I know, is that everyone on this forum can suck my feet. |
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| Zild |
| I blame the idiots who go to every show no matter if they really like the DJ or not because you have to 'support the scene'. LOL what ing scene? I'm too young to die laughing. But seriously it is all basic economics if a demand was created for better talent then it would be met, but as it stands everyone loves the crap they're being fed. |
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| diggerz |
| cherries are great. |
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| Rememberence_ |
lmao @ that epic tiesto interview, it never gets old.
lmfao @ ProgMojado
Elefant ftw |
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| jonas |
| quote: | Originally posted by Zild
I blame the idiots who go to every show no matter if they really like the DJ or not because you have to 'support the scene'. LOL what ing scene? I'm too young to die laughing. But seriously it is all basic economics if a demand was created for better talent then it would be met, but as it stands everyone loves the crap they're being fed. |
But in the Texas market, you do have to support it to a certain extent. The ty thing about the scene is that if the mainstream headliners don't draw, then the promoters usually will just start bringing less artist instead of different artists. |
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| Matthias |
| quote: | Originally posted by progressiveMOJO
instead how about focusing on finding
c) good opening DJs, instead of the usual garbage that leaves me wondering how the person got out of the bedroom.
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| Matthias |
| quote: | Originally posted by architect1803
Ok. What makes you think that an opener outplaying a headliner would be the coolest thing ever? Obviously, if something like that were to occur, do you think that headliner's agency would want to book them back at that same venue, knowing that their crowd would rather enjoy the opener than the headliner? No. I don't think it works like that. They would lose money because the people would probably leave as soon as the headliner hops on stage. YOU FAILED. |
I would respectfully disagree with this. When Dave Molina and I had the opportunity to open for the headliners we did in 2005/2006, we never based our mixing, set tempo or our track selections on being better then anyone else, we simply played to the crowd.
People here and there commented to us saying that they enjoyed our set more than said-headliners. Was it out fault a certain percentage liked our sets over the headliners? No. taste and preference might of played a part in it and I stuck with progressive house between 125-129bpm.... but in my opinion if I ever 'upstaged' anybody, perhaps they need to focus on the quality of their own sets. :conf:
I remember in March 2006 I opened for Ferry Corsten at Sky. The crowd was always pumped up from Dave Molina's set so I just kept it going. I just probably ever last hard hitting re-edit I had with me. When Ferry took over, he proceeded to rip the dancefloor a new one, afterward telling Dave and I he had enjoyed the sets. - My point is this... If an open happens to have the crowd jumping, there's really no reason the crowd should leave if they were there and paid money to see the headliner. Unless the opener is playing 134+bpm, anthems, etc etc.. there really shouldnt be any reason he should 'upstage' the headliner with more experience. If the headliner fails to deliver, that isn't the openers problem.
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| racing4hoes |
| quote: | Originally posted by architect1803
Same here. Got that vid from Ryan last week via MySpace. The girl the works next door said she could hear me laugh through the wall. |
Um I didnt give that video to you but will take credit for it:clown: |
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| racing4hoes |
Ya, if you wanna see talent, catch it at WMC when its there for el cheapo!
But in Texas, its the same rotation of djs every year at the same month almost to the same weekend for the past couple of years. Wish I had control would bring some fresh talent in to a small venue to have a nitty gritty night of tech!
And props for bringing down Gareth Emery to Austin and Dallas.
Now lets get Audion to mosey on down to Austin again!!! |
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| Lizandrooo |
| quote: | Originally posted by racing4hoes
Ya, if you wanna see talent, catch it at WMC when its there for el cheapo!
But in Texas, its the same rotation of djs every year at the same month almost to the same weekend for the past couple of years. Wish I had control would bring some fresh talent in to a small venue to have a nitty gritty night of tech! |
wmc ?! yea maybe a couple years ago. |
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| racing4hoes |
| guess you never go to the parties at the pawn shop? |
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