Re: Red Devil "Substance" @ Knitting Factory

From: Olaf Molenveld (olaf@interactivelink.nl)
Date: Thu Sep 27 2001 - 13:00:58 CEST

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    in my experience you have 2 kinds of audiences:

    *people that appreciate good music

    *people that appreciate music they already know

    unfortunately the second group seems much bigger than the first...

    Olaf

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: leterel <leterel@yahoo.com>
    To: <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
    Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 11:26 AM
    Subject: Red Devil "Substance" @ Knitting Factory

    > I've wondered how receptive the drum n bass audience
    > would be to some of this broken beat material.
    > Obviously, a lot of drum n bass producers (especially
    > in the Reinforced camp) have gone on to make broken
    > beat.
    >
    > Tuesday night I went to Substance @ The Knitting
    > Factory, LA to see Red Devil spin. Most of the night
    > the djs were spinning drum n bass, and Red Devil ended
    > the night with a really nice broken beat set. I was a
    > little surprised that one of the guest djs started to
    > get an attitude in the first 5 seconds of Red Devil's
    > set, simply because he wasn't playing dnb. They
    > didn't even wait for the beats to kick in before they
    > went to their friends complaining it was house. That
    > first tune was by Domu and when the beats dropped that
    > very same dj proclaimed "oh my god I love these
    > beats". She probably felt like an idiot, because even
    > her friends seemed to loved what RD was playing. The
    > crowd gave a pretty mixed reaction. Obviously some of
    > the kiddies left because they wanted hard dark dnb,
    > but a lot of people stuck around and really dug it.
    > It was good to see all the positive reactions from the
    > crowd, and the applauds.
    >
    > Well sorry to bore you all...
    >
    > Cheers,
    >
    > -Will
    >
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