Balkanology 3,1

So now the flavour of the month(year?) is Balkan beats - bloody hell, has going out for a good time been reduced to theme dress up parties? (Face it, that's what goth became, eh?). Fuck the music, lets dress up as someone else in order to enjoy ourselves - c'maaan, who listens to Balkan music in the safety of their home (who ever listened/s to rave/trance/house/doeffuckingdoef ???). Next, Ford Cortinas belting out Gypsy rhythms on over subbed sound systems..

I'm not knocking 'Balkan' as such, there's some worthy stuff, from poignant folk to shitkicker punk. But face it, a couple o' zydeco's to a 4-on-the-floor dance beat does not a genre make....

Grinding on

Tap, tap, is this thing still on......

I was talking to a bloke last night (in real time, face to face!! *shock*horror*) about, well,music really, he's in the biz , as it were, releasing end product etc and he dj's a bit on the side. The subject of chat got around to remixes...

I hate remixes, loathe 'em, fcuk it, if you like the song you'll dance to it...that's my motto. The need these days to sugar-coat any piece of music so the kids'll dance to it is sickening. Reduce any bit of originality, spark, creativity into a samey doef-doef-fcuking-doef is an insult. Where did this come from? Chicken or the egg, was it the punter refusing to occupy dance-floor space unless he could shuffle his feet in semblance of enjoyment or was it the dj and the need to seamlessly segue each track into eachother for the perfect 'mix' in the ever puke rendering cult of the dj phenomena (get over it, you didn't create the piece in the first place, live with it), or was it the record label gagging to resell a song over and over to a gullible public .."Oooh, must have the Spondiferous Gurgle mix of that and have you heard the Orbital Wank version of it?"

Look, I realise that most of you clones out there have to listen to a single piece of music a trillion times on repeat before you get it, does the remix give that bit of break in the tedium?


As you were...