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<blockquote data-quote="LawrenceHill" data-source="post: 913549" data-attributes="member: 15940"><p>'Good' is entirely subjective. I was brought up in the most middle class area that exists in the city I'm from and I was one of the first people here to actually get into Dance Music in 87 because I was a regular singles buyer who was into bands like Pop Will Eat Itself, New Order and ACR, and would pick up other interesting electronic music vinyl I could get, often skipping school and traveling 75 miles to Belfast to get more obscure 12" singles, and was regularly persecuted for it by working class kids I went to school with. Most people then didn't understand it, but I had already been introduced to cannabis and psilocybin mushrooms by that stage and understood how potent a combination Electronic music and psychedelic drugs is.</p><p>They'd laugh at my taste in 'bleep bleep faggot music' labeling me a 'queer' for it while they wore pastel jumpers and listened to Erasure, ironically, ultra-camp songs about unrequited homosexual love set to Vince Clarke's jaunty Electro pop. As regards Hardcore, I loved that until it split in late 93. Before that you had Force Mass Motion, Stu Allan and Ramirez and so on, but in 93 it split into Happy Hardcore, Jungle and Gabba. Gabba was too fast, Happy Hardcore became horrible and formulaic and had those ridiculous pitched up samples from 70's Disco, ballads and soft rock and Jungle essentially became Ragga vocals over Amen breaks.</p><p>Don't really know where I'm going with this and I'm supposed to be working. Anyway... yeah, no.</p><p>I like all forms of Dance music, until it jumps the shark. It's a narrow enough genre as it is without limiting yourself to one tiny section of it like people often do because of their irrational nature and desire to be part of a particular tribe.</p><p>The rules are bullshit - "you can't like Sasha if you like Techno" and so on.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LawrenceHill, post: 913549, member: 15940"] 'Good' is entirely subjective. I was brought up in the most middle class area that exists in the city I'm from and I was one of the first people here to actually get into Dance Music in 87 because I was a regular singles buyer who was into bands like Pop Will Eat Itself, New Order and ACR, and would pick up other interesting electronic music vinyl I could get, often skipping school and traveling 75 miles to Belfast to get more obscure 12" singles, and was regularly persecuted for it by working class kids I went to school with. Most people then didn't understand it, but I had already been introduced to cannabis and psilocybin mushrooms by that stage and understood how potent a combination Electronic music and psychedelic drugs is. They'd laugh at my taste in 'bleep bleep faggot music' labeling me a 'queer' for it while they wore pastel jumpers and listened to Erasure, ironically, ultra-camp songs about unrequited homosexual love set to Vince Clarke's jaunty Electro pop. As regards Hardcore, I loved that until it split in late 93. Before that you had Force Mass Motion, Stu Allan and Ramirez and so on, but in 93 it split into Happy Hardcore, Jungle and Gabba. Gabba was too fast, Happy Hardcore became horrible and formulaic and had those ridiculous pitched up samples from 70's Disco, ballads and soft rock and Jungle essentially became Ragga vocals over Amen breaks. Don't really know where I'm going with this and I'm supposed to be working. Anyway... yeah, no. I like all forms of Dance music, until it jumps the shark. It's a narrow enough genre as it is without limiting yourself to one tiny section of it like people often do because of their irrational nature and desire to be part of a particular tribe. The rules are bullshit - "you can't like Sasha if you like Techno" and so on. [/QUOTE]
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