Everything popular is wrong: Making it in electronic music

Post by MrMan » Fri, Apr 22, 2011, 12:57 AM UTC

sandGorgon wrote: post #24

JonnieCache wrote: post #4

The electronic music scene has always had lots of very unusual and interesting business models going on, right back to the late 80s. People in the early rave scene in london were doing stuff in the early 90s that looks modern today. Consider the idea that there have always been some records out there that DJs consider too good to even play, except at very particular and infrequent times and places. There are artists…

Please do - I have been following electronic music for a few years now (DI.fm subscriber, head-fi) and never knew about this stuff.

Post by karlzt » Fri, Apr 22, 2011, 3:29 AM UTC

sandGorgon wrote: post #24

JonnieCache wrote: post #4

The electronic music scene has always had lots of very unusual and interesting business models going on, right back to the late 80s. People in the early rave scene in london were doing stuff in the early 90s that looks modern today. Consider the idea that there have always been some records out there that DJs consider too good to even play, except at very particular and infrequent times and places. There are artists…

Please do - I have been following electronic music for a few years now (DI.fm subscriber, head-fi) and never knew about this stuff.

Post by jamesbritt » Fri, Apr 22, 2011, 10:22 PM UTC

leoc wrote: post #34

JonnieCache wrote: post #4

The electronic music scene has always had lots of very unusual and interesting business models going on, right back to the late 80s. People in the early rave scene in london were doing stuff in the early 90s that looks modern today. Consider the idea that there have always been some records out there that DJs consider too good to even play, except at very particular and infrequent times and places. There are artists…

Similar to the story about how DJ Kool Herc* discovered "Apache" (in the Michael Viner cover version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_6UEtFuDHY ) and adopted it as his secret weapon, managing to hide its identity for quite a while. * Or was it Grandmaster Flash? I wish I could find the TV documentary I remember this from.