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RE: electronica double standard?



At 3:50 PM -0800 3/15/98, Rev. Doubt-Goat wrote:
>93
>
>---Kim Flint <kflint@annihilist.com> wrote:
>Some of us here are
>> very interested in electronic dance music, and
>are heavily influenced by
>> various dj's and producers we've listened to,
>and that's why we started
>> exploring these ideas in our music.
>Personally, I would far rather be
>> talking about dj related loop ideas than tube
>amps!
>
>The implication I keep seeing here is that dj's
>only do dance music.  This is like saying that
>guitar players only do heavy metal.  The local
>dj's I've heard have NOT been doing dance music,
>but reggae, rock, jazz and experimental.

oh, sorry. I certainly know that and had no intention of implying that dj's
only do dance music. Just looking for ways to avoid using "electronica".
Your guitar analogy is dead on, and applies well to people using loopers
too.

>Looping is trans-stylistic.

Exactly.

kim

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