[Dynagroove] tech house and flyers and no one going out

[Ben Annand]

>I know I am gonna get shit for this but here goes.  I also think the music
>has turned in a different direction.   Our biggest DJs used to be fun
>banging stuff that made everyone jolly and funloving.  But now a lot of
>stuff is getting darker (hence the tech house uprising).  I do think this
>has an impact on attendance.

OK, I'll give you a little shit for it since no one else has.  Whoever said 
that tech-house has to be dark?  I play tech-house and I wouldn't call any 
of it dark, I don't think Rithma plays dark music and lots of other people 
that play tech-house don't play dark either. No, I don't think tech-house is 
bringing the scene down...

Mostly it's the economy in my book.  The point about lack of big parties to 
bring in new people is interesting, hadn't really thought of it that way but 
it makes sense.

I still think promoters could do a lot better if they would step out of the 
box and promote places outside of the house scene, but I still see very 
little of that going on.  Jazzanova played here a couple weeks ago and I 
think I was the only one there promoting, I bet there were 20 people 
flyering outside Free Thinking that night.  Anyway, I'm trying to retire the 
flyers for Tropical, but I think it would be helpful if people flyering 
would be more creative about where they go.  If you want the house scene to 
grow you have to bring people in from outside it, you can't just pass flyers 
to the same 20 househeads every week and expect things to pick up...

Ben

>I know I am gonna get shit for this but here goes.  I also think the music
>has turned in a different direction.   Our biggest DJs used to be fun
>banging stuff that made everyone jolly and funloving.  But now a lot of
>stuff is getting darker (hence the tech house uprising).  I do think this
>has an impact on attendance.
>
>I also think the scene will always move in waves.  right now it is low
>tide.  give a couple years and it will be back to where it was.
>
>Cade

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