During lockdown I thought I'd start researching a book based on what I've written below. Like much of the gibberish that surfaces on these pages, this verbal diarrhoea hasn't really gone in any particular direction, except to stay on my hard drive. Anyway, as a way of reviewing and to some extend, making a fresh start, I am publishing the questionnaire I used, along with three anonymous interviews. Random skullduggery, but maybe interesting to some. This is the concept. Interviews to follow over the next few days.
Book Overview
The book, hereafter referred to as TB, will explore the scope of “underground” house and techno in a post clubbing environment. It will also analyse the relationships between those who either don’t go out much anymore, or not at all, and their passion for it. What will also be looked at is the difference between the music being made now, that was made at its inception and throughout the course of its history.
Techno particularly has always been regarded as the sound of the future, but this is full of contradictions.
Electro similarly.
How much has house music evolved over the last 35 years, or since the inception of disco?
Why are we always “looking back in order to go forward”?
Which other musical genres would, in the context of a club night, be playing tracks that were made 35 years apart and fusing them together with the only thing to possibly distinguish them being the quality of record pressings and/or an evolution in production values and techniques?
And if “house is a feeling” is the door always open to anything? (see Balearic).
The way we listen: mixes, track ids, (Villalobos’ elitism), (Internet) radio & its value
How much do drugs have to do with anything?
TB will be a mix of interviews conducted with DJs, artists and “punters”.
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