[Dynagroove] Australia & Hawaii are in the HOUSE!

[Sal Gonza]

wow! australia really sounds promising. makes me want to plan my next vacation down under. but the only thing that concerns me is your (emily's) opinion on the hawaii scene. maybe there has been some big changes since august, when i was there. the maze on friday night was three rooms (spacious ones too), and there were other options. the difference was that it was a typical club setup (room1-hip hop; room2-trance; room3-house), and the house room was empty most of the night. now dont get me wrong, i had a great time in hawaii, but when it comes to the night life, hawaii doesnt even compare to LA. plus the house DJs/promoters i talked to didnt really give good advice. one DJ whos name i think was Lan (who happen to be a pretty fine female), told me to checkout a party that shed be spinning at. that turned out to be hawaiis version of orion. i guess thats what i get for trying to spit game at the DJ.
not to put anyone down or anything, i just thought id put my $0.02 in on this.   
personally, ive been wanting to visit australia and your (emily's) email just helped ignite that desire even more.  
later.
sal
----- Original Message -----
From: Emily Sinclair
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 7:18 AM
To: dynagroove at reelhouse.net
Subject: [Dynagroove] Australia & Hawaii are in the HOUSE!

Hey People,

This email is outrageously overdue, but I'm sending it anyway because I
doubt anything has changed since I got back.

Simply put, House music is ALIVE in Hawaii and Australia and the talent out
there is really quite surprising! I was on Oahu for a week and the selection
of house venues is unreal for such a small city/island. I hit up a club
called Maze on a Friday night and it rocked some juicy shit, and THREE rooms
of it, no less. And I had options of other places to go to as well. The
people out there said that house is really big out there. (But so is
bird-call-y R&B, which is disturbing for me.) But I was pleasantly surprised
to hear how respected house was out there.

And then I went to Australia and not only do they do everything a little
differently down there, they do everything a little differently down there!
HOUSE WAS EVERYWHERE! In the public restrooms, in the supermarkets, in
Mac'ers (McDonalds)! Everywhere! I cannot tell you how many times I heard
them play Tim Delux' "It Just Wont Do" and other dope tracks. And when I
busted out my CDs from my favorite LA, et all, DJs my friends (who are
Aussie locals) would scoff at how "old" a lot of the songs were. I'm not
going to name any names of who these artists/DJs are that I played, but
let's just say they're very respected within our house community!) There are
at least 3 house radio stations in the major cities and it's tough to name a
club that doesn't play house for at least two nights of the week. I know
that all the bars I went to which was all up and down from Melbourne to
Cairns had house playing. It was soo great. I never found myself getting
annoyed with crappy "techno" or more fucken disco. (Disclaimer: there is
nothing wrong with techno or disco, as long as it's in moderate doses.)

Oh, and the best part was that my last night in Surfer's Paradise
(Queensland) I wandered outside a club (amazingly resembling  Free Thinking)
and there was a freakin outdoor massive happening on the beach in the city!
In the city, in plain view of everyone and everything, People! Think Miami
beach with a massive on the main beach! There were a few cops, but for the
most part the rave was being put on by the city for the newly graduated
students! We're talkin loud bumpin system, laser show, free and open to all,
waters and red bulls sold everywhere and happy hardcore on the beach. (Yeah,
it's a rave remember?) And also keep in mind that the legal drinking age
there is 18, so there were kids partying, but in a cool, semi-responsible
manner. Could you imagine Venice High School putting on a rave on the beach
for their graduating class? Dare to dream.

It's a different world over there, and a beautiful one at that. I'm not
saying it's better than America overall, by far. I'm just letting you know
that if you head down under, your house music needs will be fulfilled
without fail. Kinda gives some perspective to the lame bust at Circus last
weekend.  

Cheers.
Emily




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