Weirdly enough, I actually went to ye olde EBM club last night, and marvelled at something I didn't really notice before: as much as my Doom Patrol complains about hearing the same tired out songs at our prefered club, at least IT has variety to the music. All night the EBM club had the same bass line, and it was only the treble and vocals that changed every couple minutes.
As I understand it, the EBM club has a bit of financial stress going on, and it's no suprize considering the music. I can take it once in a while (we only went because it was the only place open for the going away party for a friend of ours who is off on vacation as of today), but it starts to get a little irritating after a bit. And the DJs are trapped because even if they wanted to mix in some variety, they'd risk alienating the regulars who are unaccustomed to any music that doesn't go "thumpa thumpa thumpa woot woot". But then, that's their thing I guess, and they're entitled to it.
As I said, our only problem with our prefered club is that it's always the same songs. It's got great variety as far as genres is concerned, but it's always the same Goth songs, same EBM songs, same Brit songs, same Electroclash songs... This might be a function of peoples' habit of not dancing to songs they're unfamiliar with. But I know that I would dance to Deathrock or Goth I didn't know just to support the effort of playing new stuff (I wouldn't have a hope in hell of them playing any of my Ethnic Fusion garbage though ^_^ ). We are getting a new DJ though, and he's really eager to learn new stuff and get familiar with "dark music"... Hopefully we'll be able to train him up well!
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Date: 2004-02-13 06:06 am (UTC)From:As I understand it, the EBM club has a bit of financial stress going on, and it's no suprize considering the music. I can take it once in a while (we only went because it was the only place open for the going away party for a friend of ours who is off on vacation as of today), but it starts to get a little irritating after a bit. And the DJs are trapped because even if they wanted to mix in some variety, they'd risk alienating the regulars who are unaccustomed to any music that doesn't go "thumpa thumpa thumpa woot woot". But then, that's their thing I guess, and they're entitled to it.
As I said, our only problem with our prefered club is that it's always the same songs. It's got great variety as far as genres is concerned, but it's always the same Goth songs, same EBM songs, same Brit songs, same Electroclash songs... This might be a function of peoples' habit of not dancing to songs they're unfamiliar with. But I know that I would dance to Deathrock or Goth I didn't know just to support the effort of playing new stuff (I wouldn't have a hope in hell of them playing any of my Ethnic Fusion garbage though ^_^ ). We are getting a new DJ though, and he's really eager to learn new stuff and get familiar with "dark music"... Hopefully we'll be able to train him up well!