A) 9 out of 10 you get a female coming up to you asking for "good
music"..just answer: we are booked to play only bad music tonight
B) house is such a generic term that people often don't even know you're
playing house when you're playing the more soulfull vocal stuff...i guess
it's lack of education and the only solution i can think of: exposure and
word of mouth
Olaf
----- Original Message -----
From: Marco <freakymarco@yahoo.com>
To: steph99 <beleza@speakeasy.net>; t-bird <djtbird1@yahoo.com>
Cc: <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
Sent: Friday, August 23, 2002 12:53 AM
Subject: Re: people get ready (moRe: [acid-jazz] 21st century urban music
observation.)
> --- steph99 <beleza@speakeasy.net> wrote:
> >
> > I shudder to think that maybe it would be a good idea to
> > advertise as house, b/c
> > I really have a limited tolerence for the monotonous
> > beats (sorry, househeads)
> > but this phenomenon is something to consider. Agh,
> > marketing/promoting is the
> > most miserable job for so many of us music types.
> >
>
> I'm having the same problem, but I'm coming to the
> completely opposite conclusion. On one of my nights, my
> partner and I spin mostly deep, soulful, jazzy house, as
> well as dipping into funk, disco, broken beat, and anything
> else we happen to be digging at the moment -- Basically, a
> 'house' night. Problem is, round these parts, mention
> house and people usually get instantly turned off, thinking
> it's gonna be those 'monotonous beats', hard house, prog
> house, etc. -- unless of course, they're into that... In
> which case, they're probably not going to be too happy with
> what we're spinning. Whatever, I'm sick of discussing
> 'genres', it's all music, good or bad. Mind you, the other
> night, we were spinning a killer set (I thought) of soulful
> house, the dance floor was going off, and then someone came
> up to the booth and requested that we play in her words,
> some 'good music'. Just can't please everyone, I guess.
>
>
>
>
>
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