Is America killing dance music?

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Re: Is America killing dance music?

Did the stadium phenomenon begin with Delta Heavy? Trance parties like Sensation White are much bigger productions, I wouldn't lay it on Delta Heavy. The table thing is also very Asian, there're more tables than dance floor space in Asian clubs I skipped Digweed in SH knowing the kinda club he was playing in.

Wanted to go to Matthew Dear + Superpitcher for NYE until I found out it was playing in the kinda club with table bookings sold out.

[nelinho]

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Yeah I read that somewhere...will try & hunt it down.

The spin-offs of delta heavy...copycats.

i've finished the year well...i will be remembered for being the guy who accused sasha & digweed of destroying dance music.

When good times go bad.

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I think even if Sasha n Digweed did start the stadium thing, there's the good and the bad. It's easy to think of all the bad stuff now associated with EDM going mainstream but think of all the people hearing Sasha n Digweed for the very first time because of Delta Heavy. It's like the first pill, I'll never have that again.

[floridaorange]

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I think even if Sasha n Digweed did start the stadium thing

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^Dodger Stadium in LA.

[floridaorange]

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The Delta Heavy concept still revolved around the music though - just with added visuals and a decent sound system.

Heineken also did a big tour with Cox, Oakenfold and Cattaneo ... plus Diggers supported on Moby's area 2 tour.

Dance Festivals existed too ... and then started to get more live acts.

The tour concept has been around for ages ... and America has always liked a show .. so throwing cakes and arsing around in an inflatable canoe is just part of that.

Yep. And I was at Area 2 with Moby and Digweed and even Tiesto...

[feather]

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^Dodger Stadium in LA.

I dunno, I was continuing the topic by nelino. But you're right, this stadium thing was definitely around before Delta Heavy.

[simonr]

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^Dodger Stadium in LA.

Oakey was opening for U2 at the time of that photo.

[floridaorange]

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Oakey was opening for U2 at the time of that photo.

That's incredible and makes the photograph far less impactful .

[sbando]

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Oakey was opening for U2 at the time of that photo.

Who at Leeds were opening for somebody else.
Clash at Shea Stadium were again the opening act (for Who).

[unkle]

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How dare you compare the Oakenfold shows
with sasha and digweed the "Delta Heavy"
was epic and always will be remembered.
its all about the quality.

[floridaorange]

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^Are you crazy? I wasn't comparing them

I was at Delta Heavy in LA, which one did you go to?

[unkle]

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Was not a particular question for you. was in general.
anyway, is not necessary to be there to know how important
it can be a festival. anyway I think they are two different things.

[floridaorange]

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Lost my fucking camera that night... and part of my mind but in a good way

[foreks]

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http://www.mixmag.net/words/features/the-great-edm-debate

[Haziel]

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[QUOTE=tribalcho;1045170]''It’s been a turbulent couple of weeks for DJs in the US. Last Monday, plenty of feathers were ruffled when house hero Mark Farina alleged he’d been kicked off the decks by a “table service crowd”. Then just a few days later, Calvin Harris declared that he’d got the boot for declining to spin hip-hop and, uh, tween sensation Carly Rae Jepsen. Of course, those are just two – perhaps isolated – incidents. But considering them in the grander scheme of the EDM explosion in the States over the past few months, you’ve got to wonder: what is America doing to dance music?''


Honestly is the djs fault for accepting those fucking gigs .. i mean seriously who would fucking want to play in las vegas???? LOL