DJ, please begin with some Trance, to set the mood.
DJ, please begin with some Trance, to set the mood. Then move to something obscure and German.
(Prince Charles)
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First to say it’s not funny…
I have to agree with you on that. What were the admins thinking?
C’mon. It’s Prince Charles rolling on E at a rave, what’s not to love?
OK, I’ll retract. When I posted that I just finished working on my wife’s computer and wasn’t in a funny mood. But looking at it a second time, yeah, it’s got a bit of the funny to it.
I laughed my ass off on this one. “It’s on like Donkey Kong” I can’t stop laughing, imagining Charlie saying that.
That’s what got me too. I like the obscure German thing too, because I listen to a lot of obscure German stuff. At least, it’s obscure in the states.
It’s on like Donkey Kong.
What sort of obscure German stuff?
Egads. Well, I guess it would be called “EBM” or “Industrial”, but much like “techno” it was so hard to keep up with what everyone called their music so I just call it “Electronic”.
So like, Leaetherstrip, Eco, X Marks the Pedwalk, Front 242, de/vision, And One, Steril. Then there’s the ones who aren’t really german but signed to (or were signed to) German labels (like the old Off Beat and Zoth Ommog labels) VNV Nation, Covenant, Apoptygma Berzerk so on and so forth.
Maybe “Obscure European Electronic Music”?
I’d say you’d be safer still calling it EBM/industrial. Electronic can be interpreted so VARY much broader.
(Me? Ebm/industrial/crossover fan. ;oP )
Well, I agree, but unless someone actually knows what those things are it doesn’t help any.
“What kind of music do you listen to?”
“Industrial and EBM”
“What?”
*sigh* “Electronic”
“Oh, like techno?”
*sigh* “Yes”
Now when talking to someone in the know:
“What kind of music do you like?”
“Industrial and EBM”
“Oh, like Skinny Puppy and 242? Or like Covenant?”
“Yes! I love you.”
Ah yeah. I do get your point. I got used to not doing that back when mentioning “electronic” would make people shine up and say “Oh yeah, like Depeche Mode, Duran Duran and A-ha and stuff like that?” or, alternatively, “Oh, so then you hate all forms of metal.”
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Some days I cba and just go “Bruckner”. It’s true too.
Obscure German stuff?? is he referring to his own family?? They’re all obscure Germans
Umm, I’m pretty sure you were talking to me on the first half.
Now, if we can talk Bluegrass and CeltCore, I may have something to say!
Um.. *completely not in the know on CeltCore or Bluegrass*
Could you recommend something? I’d like to listen to it. Then we can talk =o)
Not so much into bluegrass, but if he means what I think he means by CeltCore, you might try:
Seven Nations (early, they kind of sold out later)
Boiled in Lead
Flogging Molly
Black 47 (edging into Celtic Ska but close)
Dropkick Murphys
The Reel McKenzies
and of course
Calley McGrane and the Exiles. ;^D
Slan knows his CeltCore (I don’t know some of his bands even) though I’d also add The Pogues as the prototype for the genre, and Shane MacGowan’s solo career as an interesting sidebar (how about some Irish/Punk/Country music? Anybody? Anybody?)
Bluegrass: I guess I’m not really familiar with the old, classic artists, but I’m entertained by the new bands doing a modern take on Bluegrass. Try Leftover Salmon (their first two albums especially). Actually, they refer to their style as “PolyEthnic Cajun SlamGrass”, so they may not be technically Bluegrass!
All the other Bluegrass bands I’ve enjoyed are local three or four piece combos playing in bars. No way for you to hear them, I guess.
I listen to punk.. Not so much nowadays but I was a little punk rocker for quite a while.
Not Irish Country Punk though, no. ;o)
Wait wait wait.
Dropkick Murphy’s? Flogging Molly? Is that what CeltCore is? I know who they are. I have a couple of their CDs.
Maybe I’m just too old to keep up with all this crazy newfangled categorization.
@Mark: See if you can find some old Bluegrass stuff from Kentucky with Berl Hopkins as either the banjo player or on guitar. I never knew his instrument of choice while he was in the band, but that’s my grandpa
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No nepotism allowed!
Bluegrass begins with Mr. Monroe, carries through Mr. Stanley, Mr. Scruggs and ends with Mr. Skaggs and Ms. Krauss. Everything else is not bluegrass.
My $0.02 have been spent!
Charro – FM and the Murphys are skirting the hairy edge between CeltCore and punk, to the point that they frequently get tossed in with the pumk bands at places like Hot Topic. Which has been good for them and the genre; Flogging Molly has gotten great exposure in the same festival scene with acts like Alkaline Trio, AFI and their ilk. Their crossover appeal hasn’t spread all that deep into the genre though, more’s the pity.
Xavier – the hell you say, I will definitely plug my own band! Shamelessly! :^D
very.
PS: Front 242 are Belgian, like so many other great EBM bands.
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Oh right. Damnit I always forget that. They just sing in German.
Oh, so you mean not remotely obscure at all then? Seriously, VNV nation, Apoptigma, And One and other such artists arn’t even remotely obscure, I know loads of high school kids into that stuff. Go take a real dig in the crates for once and then we’ll start talking.
FYI, I’m not even into Industrial and EBM, I’m an Electro-House sort of girl
And where are you from? Because I have a hard time finding people who know who these bands are. Hence my assumption that in the U.S. they are obscure.
You know, upon some consideration, this is a really rude thing for you to be saying.
It obviously didn’t occur to you that I named the artists I know are more popular, in the hopes someone would recognize them. It also obviously doesn’t occur to you that the popularity of a band is going to vary by location. KMFDM? Hugely popular in Chicago. Why? Wax Trax was based here. KMFDM popular in South Dakota? Probably not so much. Though, I bet the same proportion of people in Chicago know who the Beatles are as the amount of people in South Dakota.
I’ve traveled around the U.S. and like I said, I have a hard time finding people who know who these “not even remotely obscure bands” are. In Germany, finding people who know these bands was very simple.
Your elitist attitude really pisses me off. You’re like those people in high school “Oh I listened to them waaaay before they were popular, that makes me better than you”.
I saw Covenant in San Diego in 1998 and there were less than 100 people there. So they’re popular now? Big f’ing deal. Were they always that way? No. Do I hear them on the radio all the time? No. Are they all over MTV? No. Do I go to as many concerts nowadays as when I was younger? No. Hell even Nine Inch Nails had to release 3 albums before they were hugely un-obscure.
Don’t be such a spoiled elitist brat. Come dig through my crates and tell me how many bands you recognize.
(Good. I thought I was over sensitive, I thought about the same thing about AM’s comment.)
I really hate people who listen to “obscure” music because it is obscure. I listen to what I listen to because I LIKE it, not because I like to tell people I listen to stuff they’ve never heard of. I also listen to lots of classic rock, which is completely mainstream. I love Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin.
Whether or not every single CD I own is “popular” somewhere, I still have a difficult time finding people to converse with about my favourite bands.
And thanks Dan I feel better now.
I think it’s more important while you’re still younger, to be SPESHUL like that. Once you get past the idea that more obscure == better, the record collection is no longer sufficient for the “my something is bigger than yours”!
(Where “something” means “penis”, but I bet that will make a post disappear.)
Oooer! *faints*
penis penis penis penis
lol Ultimate WIN!!!
Seriously? I don’t give a damn if an artist is popular or not. For the record I live in Denver which is half nothing and half EDM obsessed. You can’t swing a dead cat without hitting a club, DJ, the Beatport offices, or the Dance room at Twist&Shout records. Practically everyone within the metro area is in the EDM scene. I’ve seen people at death metal and grindcore shows wearing kandi. Our emo scene is actually “emotronica” with bands like 3Oh!3 and Breathe Carolina simply adding a screaming dude and a vocoder to some trance or progressive house.
As for one-upmanship, please pardon my tendency towards this, I spend far too much time around DJs since my best friend and a couple other close friends of mine are all club DJs and I’m used to the whole exclusivity and obscurity game. I like some mainstream stuff (Christopher Lawrence, Joop, Gabriel & Dresden, Sander Van Doorn, etc.) but the fun is in chasing down the next big thing.
I appreciate the well thought out response.
I’ve been to Denver, but that was only once and that was in.. 1999? Anyway.. From what I know of the whole “Denver area”, I can see that.
Could be worse. You could be from Cincinnati (since escaped) where it’s “all Jungle all the time”. I used to do sound for parties in the Cleveland area, where they at least know what Trance is…
I thought it was pretty funny…got to be thinking of his voice saying it course.
Sean Connery would be funnier, if we’re doing voice substitution. “When I crock the glow shticksh, it’sh on like donkey kong.”
Thanks, you made tears coming out of my eyes. O man, I can’t stop laughing.
Tears COME out of my eyes, damn I should learn to proofread…
“Oh, Come on Dad!”
“Daddy is not coming on anything!” LOL
I laughed imagining him actually dancing to this stuff! HA! And Camilla!!
you should be the first to say “it’s not funny to me”
Oh come on… we all know Prince Charles is into that hard-core gangsta sh*t.
But he’s into hard core tampon rap!
(“My luck to be chucked down the lavatory and go on and on forever
swirling round on the top, never going down”).
That’s bloody ridiculous.
Rafiq FTW!!!
rafiq is periodically hillarious
His wit goes in cycles, but when it works he really does us a cervix.
hey slan? sometimes uterine me on *blush*
I’m just glad his humor doesn’t fallopian deaf ears!!!
Ovary nice of you to say so!
He is a bit egg-centric…
*standing ovulation*
But could he make it as a travelling menstrual?
This thread wins…. period.
I was absorbed by it.
Indeed, its leaving me flushed…..
Aaaaaaaand full circle…
with no nasty residue!
And let’s have a rousing round of applause from the Wings
I have to say, as somebody who knows a couple of DJ’s and who has been to quite a few raves in my former life, I chortled.
Not a full on belly laugh, not a LOL or a Lulz, but a nice chortle.
Agreed.
Same here. The mental picture of the Royals hosting a rave a Buckingham Palace was good for a laugh.
I smiled. And, yeah, you have to read it to yourself in Prince Charles’ voice.
Agreed. It was a bit wordy, but still amusing.
OMIGOSH. I would love to go to a rave at Buckingham Palace. I went to my first one a couple of weeks ago, and it was amazing. <3
The Queen Mother: “Can I get a whoop-whoop?!”…priceless…You know there’d be laughing gas pumped through the smoke machine…Just not sure if I’d wanna see Camilla in dayglo body-paint, but you know you’d have a good time!!!
my reaction as I read your post
…XD………D:
Now i can’t get the image of camila in body paint out of my mind
Glad to make your day a bit sunnier!! How about putting the palace guards in “Rainbow” versions of the big, furry, black hats!!!
OK, now imagine her like that doing jumpstyle…
I chuckled, myself.
This was definitely worth a LOL. I agree with Raf.
For me it was more of a raising of the eyebrow.
COULD have been funny, but mainly it was just too long and confused.
Seriously?!? I thought this was HILARIOUS! Got some of that dry English humor in it, and I’m a fan of nothing as much as a good dry wit. Love it, Muzz000!!!!
Unlikely to be bona fide english.
I’m having quite a lot of trouble imagining that as dry wit, but i’m biased with churchhill and you know, the sorts that can quip a line without so much as a smirk.
Seriously?!? I thought this was HILARIOUS! Got some of that dry English humor in it, and I’m a fan of nothing as much as a good dry wit. Love it, Muzz000!!!!
good one, made me chuckle
i thought this was fairly funny. one question, is hard dance and trance big in america? is drum n bass for that matter? im having a mental block of american artists of those genres…
I think it depends on how old you are…
It also depends on what part of the country you are in.
Well, drum n bass was born in the UK, but we’ve got some artists here. Deiselboy ring a bell? Kevin Saunderson has a record label out of Chicago, KMS, that puts out some good stuff. Raves were big here in the 80s and 90s, not so much now. Hip hop and house music are generally bigger genres over here.
Raves are pretty big still in the southwest.
Ah.. I should say AZ and CA. That’s really what I know for sure. Earthdance is still a huge event and it’s been in AZ for a while. There’s also Nocturnal Wonderland in CA which is huge too.
*sigh* I miss AZ.
I miss my days doing audio for big parties — now that I am out in CA I ought to go track some of these down, nice to know there’s still a scene out here. It all died off in Ohio and Pennsylvania when the raids picked up. It was mostly trance and techno in the Cleveland and Pittsburgh areas, and Jungle in Cincinnati and Dayton.
Yeah see the nice thing about the desert is people will lease their properties to promoters. So all you need is a permit and the thing is legal. I don’t think they throw illegal parties (very much) in the desert anymore. Too many raids. Security is pretty high.. but people still find a way to get high too.
Every summer there’s a big rave in Hawaii called Love Fest. They usually shut down the Hawaiian Adventures Water Park for a sold 24 hours to prep and host the rave. I think they used to have one called Children of the Corn too where they would host a rave out in the middle of a corn/pineapple field.
Kevin Saunderson is one of the Original Detroit Three with Derrick May and Juan Atkins. Certifiably Detroit Techno, not DNB.
Anybody know who the DJ in the pic is?
It’s DJ Big-Bob spinning a hardstyle masterclass and munching more pills than Pac-Man!
Not where I’m at. Hard core fiddlin’ is the win here.
It’s not “big” per se. There are a few nationally known DJ’s and producers. The scene depends mostly on local DJ’s and producers, and the events are much much smaller. There aren’t many massives these days. When the big name DJ’s come through it’s more like a concert than a party. Digweed, Oakenjoke. Dieselboy etc etc.
Apperently you’ve never been to california. XD
Checkout Electric Daisy Carnival, Nocturnal Wonderland, How Sweet It Is, Giant New Years Eve and Together As One sometime. Great events. 30k or more.
Not really. People are still calling it all “techno”. People are vaguely aware of the extremely mainstream stuff like Darude and Cascada and most people have HEARD D&B but couldn’t identify it. Hard dance is the only thing that hasn’t really made much of a dent.
Most of my fave trance djs/artists are European (Armin, Tiesto, PVD), though there’s a couple Americans I’m familiar with over here: Micro and Christopher Lawrence. Yeah, not big names, so most of what we get are imports, and I’m actually pretty fine with that. I’m not really into the rave scene anyway.
As far as DnB goes, I think we have some good ones. Dieselboy has been mentioned already, but also Evol Intent and Hive & Gridlok. DJ Dara as well.
BT writes some great trance/electronica.
I need to start listening to di.fm again — I couldn’t tell you who they spin on the Eurotrance channel, but I know I liked it.
If this catches on, the royals can make a guest appearance on “Dancing with Dieter”.
Touch my monkey! Okay, now iz ze time for dancing.
OOOOOH!!! Shprockets!!!!
That’s probably the funniest thing I’ve seen all week. That’s pretty darned good. I lol’d at obscure and german the most though, lol.
Also, Last Electric Daisy Carnival in Los Angeles at the LA Colosseum and brought about 75,000 ravers.
I’d call that big. Gets bigger every year. For the past 10 years.
<3
That’s the other one I couldn’t think of! EDC – my sister was there this year.
Denver had an EDC too that was pretty freakin epic from what I heard. I didn’t manage to go, but all my friends who went said it was OSSUM.
Yeah, so I’ve heard, Insomniac’s been through some pretty gnarly parties for the past decade or so. I’ve been to every EDC for the past 4 years XD
I’m sorry but this is HILAROUS! BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
I concur.
I’m going to have this printed out, stick it up in my cubicle at work, and giggle the whole day long…
WEMF is another big north american festival – 14th (and last) edition held this past summer. there are lots of smaller parties and festivals going on… not sure what you mean by “trance” – i’m more aware of the goa/psytrance scene, which is small but thriving. if you mean progressive trance, or club/euro-trance – can’t help you, no real knowledge.
Your offering pleases the technoprince.
I’m thinking this is funnier to:
a) those with a British (or Oz/Kiwi) sense of humour
b) peeps who are over 35 and not so precious about their “scene” and the need to prove they know more than anyone else about it;
c) easy going, accepting, members of the cheez-net who just like to *rofl* or *snorgle* or *WHATEVERTHEF**KISMAKIN’LIFEGOODYAY”
In summary: “oh get over yourselves. laugh at fun stuff, snipe at no-one, live life happily.”
This was absolutely hilaires! Loved it!
come on, you know charles would totally be into hhc ^^;