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Being Underground (Optimistic View)
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ChoBo
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Posted : Apr 2, 2004 08:03
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This was from a book of mine published 5 years ago "Last Night A DJ Saved My Life" and I think its still relevant to explain the psyscene eventhough it doesnt suggest anything about Psy. It gives the optimistic view of the Global Underground which can be applied to PsyTrance. I agree a lot to the extent of what has been written, its a good read, check it out 
The Global Underground (Optimistic Conclusion)
In dance music there's always an underground. This is at its most creative just after things have gone horribly commercial. The mainstream picks up on something, burns it up, and declares it dead. But meanwhile, the pioneers have moved on and are free to push things further, to reclaim the momentum and come up with something new.
So rail about super-commercial club culture all you like. It's all true, every pessimistic word, but it doesnt matter because there's always an underground, always something fresh on the horizon.
For every cheesy commercial DJ who's happy to play what the record pluggers send him, who charts records he doesnt like just so he stays on the mailing list, who plays records he hastes because everyone else is playing them, and who has no problem with a club giving him "guidelines" on what and what not to play, there's another DJ who loves music, who searches out and buys records rather than just playing promotional freebies, who develops his own style, who throw his own parties, who generates his own following, who creates new music.
- See the picture?
There'll always be an underground and it will always be filled with people who love music, not as a job but as the centrepiece to their life - even if manipulative pop pap seems to rule the day and even if most clubs are clogged with DJs who have abandoned their missionary zeal for the safe job of musical waiter. The exceptions are where the energy lies.
- Don't we all just love our psy
The fragmentation of dance music into stores of specialised genres is another reason for excitement. This works directly against the idea of the superclub and the prostitute DJ, and can only encourage experimentation and creativity. You can bet that sooner or later, out of these devious little scene will come something interesting and inevitably something momentous. Thats how we got disco, hip hop, house and in recent years thats how jungle emerged and drum n bass, UK garage (speed garage), two step..
Whats next? Who knows - all that's certain is that something somewhere is busy evolving, just like its always done.
- Of course, our music PsyTrance!
And dance music is now trule international, and internationalist. Musical possibilities have become global. The established centres of our story have splintered so much that the next great record might just as likely come from Norway as from New York, And with words losing out to the universal beat, we all speak the same language. French people can finally make music that English people like!
-Isnt this true? Check TurboTrance and 3D vision and other french labels storming the scene.
Abetting this dramatic crashing of borders is the rise of the Internet as a force for musical distribution. If house music was the fulfilment of the DIY punk ethos, then netcasting and clever compression formats like MP3 take things even further. The means of music production have long been in the hands of the masses; now we have the means of distribution too, and record companies - who are merely banks stupid enough to lend money to musicians - are redundant . Any DJ can create a global community of listeners on the net. DJs in a club in New York can play to the dancefloor of a club in London. A DJ can make music in his own home, transmit it to another DJ across the world, who can press it himself onto a CD and play it when he goes on in a club in Singapore in a couple of hours.
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I hope you guys enjoy the mini section in the book. Although times have changed (written in 1999) it does reflect the good part of being a global underground. And although it refers to house and other music, i think we can safely apply this concept in our psytrance genre. Its great to be underground! |
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Trip-
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Posted : Apr 2, 2004 08:20
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Its great to be underground!
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amen.
 Crackling universes dive into their own neverending crackle...
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Stash
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Posted : Apr 2, 2004 11:11
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nice piece of info CHobo
sad scene happening with the commercialisation of the psy scene
go deeper deeper underground........
go away from civilization 
and have ure parties there
bom shiva!!
At the end there is a DOOR & waiting for you on the other side of that door is either HEAVEN or HELL |
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ChoBo
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Posted : Apr 2, 2004 15:57
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Acidhive
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Posted : Apr 2, 2004 16:34
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Forever Underground... hehehe 
"Subconscious unravels at the point of death, and all time it has known erupts into a moment. As death extinguishes us, so we become it."
[Esoteric: Subconscious Dissolution Into The Continuum] |
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