Otoh at one of the last Sunset Parties I went to I was with a DJ pal who kind of in the 'inner circle'. I was feeling the buzz and talking about how magical the parties were and he took that and ran with it, babbling about the 'magic' for weeks. I love the guy. In retrospect it's clear that 'magic' was mostly the result of heavy cocaine use from what I saw although I was never inducted into the inner circle. The 90's magic was definitely more straight MDMA which is a BLAST for the experience of communal bliss through dancing to hypnotic grooves.
― viborg, Saturday, 30 November 2019 03:03 (four years ago) link
have you all ever noticed that going back to the old school, doing it how we used to do it, getting back to the roots, etc is an evergreen trope in dance music? there are tracks from like 1990 talking about going back to the old school!
― djdirtbagstyle, Saturday, 30 November 2019 03:07 (four years ago) link
Right, in contrast with the obsession with "the future" in some of the music. I've literally heard wanker MC's just chant 'the future...the future' at d&b parties.
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Also the advent of smartphones, FB, etc drastically changed the scene starting in the early 00's. Just as the internet completely reshaped the music industry. Can you imagine getting rich off of one 12"?
― viborg, Saturday, 30 November 2019 03:12 (four years ago) link
yeah it’s an interesting dialectic
― djdirtbagstyle, Saturday, 30 November 2019 03:15 (four years ago) link
Anyway not sure about the geography represented here but there was just a decent list of top US rave anthems of the 90's on Mixmag that got me a little wistful.
― viborg, Saturday, 30 November 2019 03:18 (four years ago) link
the future and the old school are no substitutes for the genial!
― saer, Saturday, 30 November 2019 03:45 (four years ago) link
"Reckless" is 09 ~!
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Monday, 9 September 2019 05:12 (seven months ago) link
Which I guess raises the question why you're looking for "look right through" on this thread?
― Tim F, Monday, 9 September 2019 06:28 (seven months ago) link
ahh lol i posted in the wrong thread ... that initial message was a response to ppl's 2010s lists, too many tabs open
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Friday, 1 May 2020 04:53 (four years ago) link
I've literally heard wanker MC's just chant 'the future...the future' at d&b parties
Noise Factory to thread
― nashwan, Friday, 1 May 2020 09:13 (four years ago) link