Proper DnB DJ's. Do they go to school for that? Is it like a 6 week course?
Noisia used to be pretty straight forward DnB. It was not until 2010 they really branched out. So did these proper DnB DJ's never play them, or only stop when they changed format and became more popular. That would make them proper hipster DnB DJ's I think.
I am just kidding Ornox. I get what you are saying. I think a good chunk of us have tried what you have suggested, "and instead grab a group of local friends/producers, throw some ideas around, try something new and interesting, put on some local shows, start a local CDR / MP3 / blog label and interbreed your ideas with one another, and boom that's a scene."
Which is how we got enveloped into this scene with delusions of granduer in the first place. Take a gander at discogs, see how many bands started on thier own label or self releases before they got eaten by a larger label. Personally I used to arrange and play at festivals in AZ with other industrial bands and even some rock/metal bands. I think a good portion of us know how scenes work so that is a bit of an assumtion on your part.
You my friend are big on people reading your post and having comprehension of it. I think you missed the OP's point: "There is so much brilliant dance music coming out that has a hard, aggressive tinge to it right now. Alot of it could sit well within our scenes' dj sets (if our djs would open up their pallete a bit.....cleared dance floors, for a song, while our scene gets acclimated to new stuff is not an assault on your ego!). Irregardless of stylistic labels, in fact can we please not try to classify our postings in this thread! Just post the music!"
The OP is saying we need to open up our ears basically and see music as music. Not music a specific styles. The more music that comes out independently, the more styles, scenes, and genres are going to be put in the dustbin. Crossover fuck you that's why is the new genre of choice :D
"All the big names in America are essentially pop stars who play festivals, whilst DJs attached to proper scenes play local clubs, release tracks and remixes regularly on that scene's format of choice"
If I am not completly mistaken, all the big names going through the US right now all started as simple DJ's within an insular scene and they gained popularity and branched out. Or gained popularity BECAUSE they branched out. So I do not see the seperation or classification that you are talking about. It seems to me, these "pop" bands are making really good music that does not sit inside of a box while these other DJ's you are referring to are more conservative.
Noisia, Deadmau5, Modeselektor, Skrillex, [who the hell is Pendulum?] -not one of them belong to a single scene-but are invariably EDM-except Noisia. I have no idea how one would dance to Noisia. Maybe it is a tongue in cheek joke like IDM.
Just post music. Introduce people to some new shit. I know you have heard some cutting edge new shit to share. So quite lecturing and get to the music :P
For example. I cannot get enough of Excision:
http://youtu.be/0qeZAL2Z-RM
http://youtu.be/uDiyTp_Zw0Y
`michael
