EDC has been going since 1997.Originally Posted by Cuchulainn
EDC has been going since 1997.
dance music has only just taken off over there. i'm aware it existed as a small subculture since the start. Seeing as how it was America that basically invented techno and house i still find it strange that the producers and DJs had to come here to make their money.
Well I don't know, man. It's weird how everyone knows about it now.
Not liking clubs doesn't automatically mean you're anti-social either, just to put that out there
It could be argued that the quiet pub kind of place is more social as you can hear well enough to hold a conversation
I don't go clubbing.
Because nobody wants to hear womp womp womp trout all night long. We seek out the wompers at festivals and make sure they have no power supply to play their horrid crap. And the dance house crap has been around forever it just isn't popular because well it's annoying.
Oh dear. Someone's suffering butthurt. It's clear many want to hear it kid, and ir's now thr most popular form of music in america. Ya may not like it, and you're free to be a miserable bastard all you want, but many many many many people love it.I don't go clubbing.
Because nobody wants to hear womp womp womp trout all night long. We seek out the wompers at festivals and make sure they have no power supply to play their horrid crap. And the dance house crap has been around forever it just isn't popular because well it's annoying.
I'm not butthurt. If people were blasting the Backstreet boys near my camp site I'd make sure they didn't have power either. Why get buthurt over troutty music when I can just cut your power and not have to listen to it?
Or be an adult and ignore it.
Kind of hard to when they're 20 feet from you with their system cranked as high as possible at 4 am.
House music is great to me. I don't know about it's popularity, but it has a huge following in New York City and a lot of DJs over here will only play that music. I think a large part of the reason why it's so big here is because of the breakdancing, but I find even outside of the East Coast a lot of clubs will play it instead of techno or trance. My mom's entire side of the family will only listen to House and dance in House-style at family reunions. I guess that's a large part of why I'm so comfortable with going to clubs that have this music.
I like how this thread is now about EDM. <3
Dance music is fun, when I'm out in a bar/club I don't want rock music I did the rock club scene a good few years back and most people there were moody smurfers. I want to go out and celebrate, have fun and if possible, get laid. I'm not interested in being moody when out drinking, if I wanted to be like that I could generally speaking stay at home and drink alone. And sure I get that I'm stereotyping the rock-scene in to a bunch of moody smurfers but compared to the people I tend to meet out on nights in dance clubs I do find that the average mood level is a lot higher than that in a rock club.
House music isnt my thing really. Too slow tempo and just..meh. I appreciate it but ib prefer drum & bass and old techno. Both house & techno are American inventions but unless you lived in Detriot, New York, Chicago and parts of SF, LA and mid West it was never popular at all beyond a base level. Until quite recently when somehow it's completely blown up.
And Bert if i was in the next tent and you cut my power I'd smack the smurf out of you and set fire to your tent.
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Speaking of loud music and quiet pubs, sadly our local has gone loud now.
Used to be great until a couple of months ago, constantly winning the local CAMRA pub of the year award year after year. Then a young loud partygoer type took over as manager.
In went a TV for sport
In went a jukebox
Jukebox is now quite consistently on MAXIMUM VOLUME playing absolute garbage so you can't hear yourself think let alone hold a conversation
Kind of run out of nice quiet venues for proper beer now in our town. There are basically 3 that have plenty of well-kept guest ales:
One is a foody pub with every table being a food table, so it's always packed to the rafters with people eating and nowhere to sit if you just want a drink (nowhere to stand either really, unless you want to be diving out of the way of hurried waitresses all the time)
The second one got turned into a sports bar (stereotypical nerd here, I hate sport) and the TV is always on and always blaring football or rugby of some sort
That left this one, which is now a party pub.
Gah.
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