@JT7 702475 wrote:
Jenzooka how was your birthday thing with your friend? Last party I went to was an Armin Van Buuren event. It was specifically a large crowd, it was supposed to be known for its ‘vibe’ but I found similar large parties near it where the atmosphere was alot better.
The Dutch have been commenting for some years about how any event AVB is at attracts fashion-victims; Eurohipsters etc (which is a shame as his music is genuinely good and he also comes across as a genuine person who puts a lot back into EDM and tries to give it a better reputation). I’ve noticed that he himself seems to be increasingly consumed with angst when he is DJ’ing these days (there is a difference between normal nervousness and angst, in the same way there is a difference between progressive house, deep house, soulful house and electro house).
The presence of the Russians and stuff like slowed down soulful house often with androgynous vocalists are not entirely unconnected – it just about gets past whatever rules the Communications Ministry impose on Russian terrestrial and online broadcasting and doesn’t obviously annoy the religious either (compared to lyrics with obvious swearing and people shouting out “bitch” all the time; TBH I am not that keen on music like that nowadays) so tends not to attract unwanted attention.
TBH this now applies to a lot of Europe – which is fast headed back to 1989 anyway so some of this sort of music isn’t anything I haven’t heard before. That said one thing the hipsters might not be aware of is there wasn’t as much division between genres back then as today. Until about 1991 all house and early rave was mixed together by DJs, especially on the pirate stations..
