[Closed] PSA - How Clubbing Changed the World

Watching it - well, at least until my bedtime 😆

Need to get some pills in now 😥

Carl Cox looks well fed as usual 8)

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Sweet

David Guetta?

*i'm oot*

Have you seen that photo doing the rounds on FB of him and his decks aren't switched on. Lolz.

Jamie - Member
David Guetta?

*i'm oot*

I think they've got him out of the way early so we can enjoy the rest.

Why pull the other thread mods? Are we no longer allowed more than one discussion on the same topic?

Because it was identical?

exactley how many what tyre threads or what bikes threads hmmmmm

Why pull the other thread mods? Are we no longer allowed more than one discussion on the same topic?

I assume you will get an email explaining why the other thread got pulled. Be a bit harsh otherwise.

It was so good late 80's and then there was Cream/Ministry etc. Now it's all about meow meow and looking like you stepped out of Geordie Shore. Still a few good clubs but you have to seek them out.

Desi is where it's at IMO

I assume you will get an email explaining why the other thread got pulled. Be a bit harsh otherwise.

Nah.

Anyways, tis certainly a trip back in time 😯

One of the most emotive aspects of music IMO is the way it evokes feelings as opposed to [i]just[/i] memories. Puts you right back in the moment.

Carl Cox looks well fed as usual

I was knocked on my arse by his belly at a rave in a cowshed just outside Exeter.. he was quite apologetic and his entourage swept me up and popped me back on the floor the right way up in double quick time..

One of the most emotive aspects of music IMO is the way it evokes feelings as opposed to just memories.

Some TV comic was saying the other day how the funny thing about Ecstasy, is the tiny little bubble of it that stays in your brain forever, ready to give you a rush any time the correct hypnotic trigger gets played on a retrospective music show..

Some TV comic was saying the other day how the funny thing about Ecstasy, is the tiny little bubble of it that stays in your brain forever, ready to give you a rush any time the correct hypnotic trigger gets played on a retrospective music show..

Maybe ... runs deeper than that though. You don't need that sh1t to go 'back in time'.

yeah.. it was kind of a joke

Maybe ... runs deeper than that though. You don't need that sh1t to go 'back in time'.

We watched Human Traffic again not so long ago. Good times 😀

Best Friday night TV in a loooooooong time! 😀

Carl Cox looks well fed as usual

He's a big big man, but probably the nicest man in the industry by all accounts! My ex GF met him once back in about 98, and he was insistent on taking the time to chat to her and her mate, and posing for photos and all sorts... Hell of a talent too, especially on 3 decks in front of an enormous crowd!

For anyone wanting to go deeper into, check out the "Pump up the Volume" programs.

Just wondering for a minute: has today's generation missed out the underground thang? 'We' seemed to have it on a plate back in the 80s/90s. Doesn't seem to be that sort of 'movement' going on these days?

Sounds like they're about to start playing with a Roland TB-303!!! 😛

most of the underground kids I know are regularly heading to France, Croatia, Portugal and Hungary to get a similar vibe

Just wondering for a minute: has today's generation missed out the underground thang? 'We' seemed to have it on a plate back in the 80s/90s. Doesn't seem to be that sort of 'movement' going on these days?

Or just maybe, you aren't a part of it any more so don't hear about it? Think there's still quite a few outdoor raves/underground parties etc that go on - not on the same scale as in the 90s though.

Just wondering for a minute: has today's generation missed out the underground thang? 'We' seemed to have it on a plate back in the 80s/90s. Doesn't seem to be that sort of 'movement' going on these days?

Massively so

I know this cos at 32 I'm a bit young to have caught the whole of it myself, but I caught quite a lot of it. These days sadly mainstream culture is force fed to the kids, and there's only very small pockets of backlash. This is borne out by the fact that in the late 90's we'd queue for hours to get into a club (if it wasn't already full!) with non mainstream DJ's getting paid huge sums of money to play. These days, that doesn't happen, and it's the mainstream clubs playing a mix of (ironically House music influenced) various commercialist "paint by numbers" David Guetta-esque crap that have the queues outside... But it's cheap drinks that draw the crowds in, and orange girls in high heels, not top name DJ's!

🙁

EDIT: Should add I'm currently studying for a degree in Electronic Music, and I'm 10-12 years older than all my peers, and all of them pretty much without exception haven't experienced much in the way of an underground scene...

+1 Grum and Mboy. Nail. Head. Methinks.

EDIT: shut up David.. 😳

I think the underground just became incredibly accessible to the masses thanks to the efforts of the media for a few crazy years in the 80s and 90s
youth culture is a lot more fractured now anyway thanks to the internet.. you can pick and choose your niche and taylor it so specifically you'd be lucky to find another kindred spirit, let alone a whole generation..

So mboy, you don't think there was cheesy mainstream clubs playing commercial music in the 90s too?

and has there been a comparable musical evolution of late..?
acid and techno and all it's derivatives were as revolutionary as rock and roll no..?
or is that my misty eyed nostalgic view of it..?

Can't figure out what the Number 1 slot is going to go to ... was thinking along the lines of Hacienda, disco roots, Farley Jackmaster Funk et al ...

my son is named after Farley Jackmaster Funk.. 🙂

So mboy, you don't think there was cheesy mainstream clubs playing commercial music in the 90s too?

Yeah, but something tells me 'we' were romanced by the underground scene instead of the mainstream sh1t. Life was different then - less media BS and certainly less chavving up on cheap booze and sh1tty clubs. No idea if that happens now - I don't know enough teens/twentysomethings to comment.

my son is named after Farley Jackmaster Funk..

Funki Yunki? 😀

and has there been a comparable musical evolution of late..?

Some would argue dubstep - for me though that was the point where dance music started to lose it's interest. I used to DJ in clubs and at raves/outdoor parties quite a bit in the mid-2000s.

No idea if that happens now

I don't really either - I just think it's easy to put on the rose-tinted spectacles and get all grumpy old man 'the youth of today know nothing etc 🙂

Farley Jackmaster Funk..

You have a child named Jackmaster? Cool!

If we 'old heads' spent a little less time indulging in online pissing competitions and a little more time organising parties, maybe the youf dem would have some more positive role models..?

round my way there is definitely a healthy underground scene.. (not because of any hard work on my part I'm ashamed to say)

I'd be very surprised if there's not stuff going on where you are too..

dubstep

but that is still just a rehash of familiar sounds and sequences from jungle, house and techno..
there's nothing that sounds like aliens have just landed and created a massive ****ing hole in the universe that has got noise from another dimension pouring through it.. music that makes your teeth tingle and your bones glow, your muscles sing and your soul leave your body to make platonic love to everyone else in the room..

You have a child named Jackmaster? Cool!

8) 😆

too drunk to funk !!!!!!!!!!
seems like years ago i was leading that lifestyle, awesome times, lucky to grow up in the 90s . truly the best.............. 😀

thought it would last forever, now where is that time machine.....

This programme is ace..."Series of repetitive beats...".

F*** 'em and their law.

Thread marked so I remember to watch tomorrow on catchup.

top spot..

fair enough.. 😀 😆

Christ, look at the state of Mr C

I'm off to listen to this:

Easily one of the best (commercial or otherwise) mixes ever. Sends me into space every time 😯

Every time I flick back on, it's either bloody Guetta or that cockweasel, Skillrex.

I'm off to listen to this:

I'm off to bed. Nearly midnight and I'm old.

Too right spacemonkey

hittin the sack to charge the batteries, goin out tomo eve after watching that..............

Ah, the heady days of the early 90s. Dancing in a field before a misty sunrise.

Will.I.am. ****.right.off.
Apart from that, not a bad program!

Oh dear god. I've got work at 9am in the morning, and I'm sat watching the start of this 6hr music marathon!

REALLY REALLY worried I won't go to bed! 😳

Grandmaster Flash?

Bugger.

*opens beer*

Aye, should be in bed, but grandmaster flash just came on. Just one more stella, then bed!

So mboy, you don't think there was cheesy mainstream clubs playing commercial music in the 90s too?

Course there were mate

I was there too!

There was LOTS more underground clubs than there are now though, by some margin!

I can vouch for the fact I'm a fairly rare breed, as I was a clubber back in the mid/late 90's and I'm still one now... There's not many of us in that category!

That man is a legend. Glasgow QMU about 10 years ago, one of my best nights I reckon.

Grandmaster Flash?

Bugger.

*opens beer*

+1

+2

🙂

Brycey, did he use the line "this is history right here!!!"....did in london 😀

check out his watch!!!

Think he may well have!

Christ, I've got a lot to do tomorrow.

I remember nicking some of those industrial masks (from where I was working) back in the mid 90s. Jollied up with some glo-sticks we thought we were mustard.

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check out his watch!!!

/want

God...I gots to go bed. Reckon I will download the whole shebang tomorrow and just rip the audio. 6hr mix for the iPod 8)

good to see him loving the house vibe - he IS the Grand Master 😀

Enjoyed the programme and now enjoying the house party...however it would be so much better if there was a crowd rather than an empty studio!

Would like to see Eric Morillo, and Annie Mac but I'm fading fast.

God...I gots to go bed. Reckon I will download the whole shebang tomorrow and just rip the audio. 6hr mix for the iPod

If you can host it anywhere, or even just fileshare it, you'd be a mate for life!!! 😀

check out his watch!!!

A Technics SL1210... Quality!

Not digging him playing Avicii's Levels though...

Otherwise, very good so far!

true, he keeps wanting to see those hands in the air.....at least get some webcams going 😀

grand master smahing the audio bullies. rip those doors off

If you can host it anywhere, or even just fileshare it, you'd be a mate for life!!!

oooh yes please

David Guetta-esque crap that have the queues outside... But it's cheap drinks that draw the crowds in, and orange girls in high heels, not top name DJ's!

Nail on head.

My reaction upon entering a club is eurgh not that shit again, when it should be: Wow that sounds amazing, I've never heard something so amazing before...

There are a few house artists about, but the best music is in the past... My generation seldom get anything original, underground or revolutionary. Dubstep... crap just crap, can't even dance to it.

With no E, clubs are just like pubs with music.

Cheers your STW resident 18yo

I'm going to have to sack this or I'll be here until dawn.

Grandmaster Flash -

same as it ever was

word

Not feeling most of Flash's track selection...its all really obvious or crap commercial tripe.

Missus just popped her head into the man cave....

"We could be raving in the living room, what are you doing?"

"Bitching about it on the internet"

"Fair enough"

In other news my cat is chomping his way through several florets of broccoli.

its all really obvious or crap commercial tripe.

executed with no ****ing small degree of pinache though .. a rare ****ing commodity in this day and age..

especially on the telly box

good program, worth a watch i thought! makes you miss the good old days of clubbing, their are underground scenes still going but their not as big & widespread as they were, as odd as that sounds.

Interestingly a club in Liverpool that ran at the same time as cram through the 90's called club 051 has had x2 reunion parties this year in its old venue, both selling out & getting 2000+ clubbers in, I went to the first one, ame faces but all 30-40 now, same tunes, very odd but bring the great memories flooding back!

There are a few house artists about, but the best music is in the past... My generation seldom get anything original, underground or revolutionary. Dubstep... crap just crap, can't even dance to it.

You're just being defeatist now mate... Just cos the best music isn't in the same clubs as it used to be, and it's harder to find, doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

The Dubstep you're being exposed to isn't proper Dubstep as it would be known. It's essentially the pop-ified version required to shift lots of units, same as the "House" music you hear in most clubs these days is just David Guetta making the same olf formulaic tripe. There's plenty of quality music out there though, you just gotta search a bit harder than you used to have to.

Good music never dies, it just evloves and changes and finds new genres and sounds.

With no E, clubs are just like pubs with music.

WAY too much emphasis put on E by WAY too many people IMO. Yes, lots of people are/were taking it, but you'd also be surprised just how many people weren't. Most of the enduring names of the genres weren't taking drugs (some were of course, but most of them burnt out), and the drugs usually resulted in what I'd determine as "short term crowds". That is to say those that came, tried it, liked it for 2/3/4 years, then outgrew it and the scene and don't bother any more, cos for them going clubbing was about the drugs and not the music.

Then there's me, and a select few, I don't even drink much less take any drugs. Been clubbing now for the best part of 2 decades, and long may I continue to do so I hope! The difference is that for me, it's all about the music and getting lost in that, not drugs/drink/pretty girls etc.

mboy speaks wisdom

Biggie Smalls isnt your usual commercial tripe. Fair play tho' he's a bit vocal but he crams them in.

Missus just popped her head into the man cave....

"We could be raving in the living room, what are you doing?"

You are a VERY lucky man, hope you know that!

Now get in the living room and show her a good time, stop bitching on the internet! 😉

Interestingly a club in Liverpool that ran at the same time as cram through the 90's called club 051 has had x2 reunion parties this year in its old venue, both selling out & getting 2000+ clubbers in, I went to the first one, ame faces but all 30-40 now, same tunes, very odd but bring the great memories flooding back!

There's a night doing that locally down here now. Monthly get togethers for what was a regular night back in the mid 90's, just before my time. It's funny cos I've been to the last 2, mostly music from when I was just getting into DJing in about 98-00, mostly quality stuff, even a couple of big names have played from back in the day (John Kelly, Jon of the Pleased Wimmin) have played. But like you say, it's full of crusty old gurners! Some people that took waaaaaaaaay too many drugs in their youth, coming out for a reminisce and not many new faces. Enjoyable for sure, not pushing any boundaries though. Still, it's nice to feel young on a night out which doesn't really happen any more! 😉

Fair play tho' he's a bit vocal but he crams them in.

I'm proper buzzing just watching that heavy OG just LOVING his job.. 😀

lets clarify something here mboy, no dubstep shifts lots of units, its really doesnt sell well (in the UK)