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the trance/progressive genre bending title clearly goes to ... AGNELLI & NELSON If you look at some of their earlier work through current (including their blissful remix of "Summer Sun" by Afterburn), they have consistently made music that could easily work on a house or trance floor...

Finally..........I will get my hard house fix - Chicago style - during WMC.... -lolahotass maybe i misinterpreted the start.

Here we go again with the almighty genre discussions... Authnetic hard house is from the UK -- not from shy town. And probably the best collection is from Nukleus (i hope i spelled it right). Yes, it is comparable to trance. In fact, most people on a packed dance floor would gravitate towards hard house because of the relentless beats. A lot of the trance that has come recently has this formula: beat breakdown overwrought synth solo overwrought drum build blow up outro the only thing i don't like about hard house are the vocals. sometime they sound too high-picthed, or use utilize samples that are a little outdated or abused in various break beat tracks. big + ... most HH djs are female

acid house . . .

A while back there was some discussion about local CP members and their musical talents -- and possibly a jam session. Is there still interest? I think we'd have to get a rehersal space in north miami to accomodate people from Dade and Broward.... X-Mas wish list: 12 string Gibson Acoustic Triton LE 24 tracks to slide

yeah i saw him at what is now the avalon in nyc, and at the pepper in ft. lauderdale a few years back. i'm not so interested in his spoken word as i am in his band-work.

in south florida, Garfield is the only true showman. lighting decks, smashing records, giving commentaries over the music, wearing tailcoats, and even dressing as the joker one halloween (i'm looking for the pix to post), he definitely gets the crowd into the club where he is spinning. in a wave of subdued house music and downtempo hog-wash, it would be a massive comeback if Garfield were to stick to his trance guns and come out of retirement.

they need to start booking or organizing live electronic shows. i've seen the greatest DJs in the world preform right here in our city and they all had their heads pointed down; their noggen tilted to the side as to get their headphone closer to their brain for a louder cue sound; and basically trying to match two easily syncable beats. BORING. the bar has been raised. the most memorable shows in south florida in the last five years are the live electronic acts. hey people -- don't save up for those shiny new decks, buy a drum machine and a synth. "you make mixes, i make music."

i believe the guy who opened for acosta at maze on satuday night dropped that one. i vividly remember the laugh sample.

i'm heading out. what's up with the guestlist?! eddy guerra.... open the books.

that doesn't surprise me at all....

Metallica just filed a suit against a band in Canada over the musical use of chords E & F. What's next, Depeche Mode suing over the use of D Minor chords? Here is the link.... www.411mania.com-music-news-article.phpnews_id=3586

are you going to be performing any live material soon?

seeing more live electronic performances in Miami would raise my eyebrows and make me more excited about our music scene... other parts of this country (Tampa, NYC, DC, Chicago, Detroit, California, Texas, Seattle) have really taken electronic music to the level where it is embraced by their club communities as an art form. i think the last good PA show down here was infusion at nerve. there are great DJs down here, simply not enough electronic musicians. congrats to stryke, trip theory, and lespam (who mick jagger stoped by to check out at fucata last time the rolling stones performed in miami) for making music instead of mixes.

back in the late nineties when the only thing you would hear in a club was uptempo music (138+ BPM), Garfield was throwing some of the sweetest trance tracks north of countyline road. i remember club stereo would be so packed i thought the entire second floor would collapse like that club in tel aviv. and yes he does indeed have a following... a few weeks before club/restaurant entrepeneur chris pacello was arrested for (allegedly) racketering, and murder (a-hem!), he was getting his groove on to Garfield. On top of that, aside from Acosta, Garfield is the only DJ i know of down here who has wowed an audience of more than 50 thousand people in Europe. Garfield did God's Kitchen in the UK (it was a while back) and then of course Acosta did the Love Parade in Berlin, which they said had a record number of about 1 million people that year. i thought garfield retired? is he making a comeback.

space is over.

why do gay people listen to house music?

space is over... with NV rising, and Maze treating people right... who cares about space!

Pearl Jam will always be revered as a top-notch live band. Despite the feelings from many long-time fans that their studio work has become increasingly average (a la Riot Act), it is safe to say that PJ will be in the same stratosphere as the Doors, Grateful Dead, and Phish. A PJ perfomance is an event.

his new track featuring r. wilson is wicked. reminds me of Dave Gahan/DM work.

edgar v did do well. moreover he is a very down to earth person. my girlfriend and i were walking out to the crowd towards the end of darude's impressive set and we spotted edgar, who i believe was with his family. they were chilling enjoying the show as guests. his laminate was turned around as to conceal his name, i assume. everyone else in VIP was so flashy it made me want to puke. he is as humble as possible. what was up with people chucking stuff on stage during tiesto's performance? at one point, the MC excalimed: "stop trowing stuff on stage... if you guys throw one more thing on stage we're going to stop the show!" i only own one tiesto CD, and that was the first time i saw him perform, but i honestly didn't hear anything wrong with his set... what was up with that?

it's true... all these whack ass DJs on this board couldn't create a solid melody if their life depended on it. through the immortal words of tricky: "DJs should be abolished"

my friend joe is really into his writing and has a few of his books.

ha.. that's funny. i actually caught that tour at the infamous limelight in new york... henry rollins said to the light guy before they played their first riff... "turn up the house lights -- i want these people to see this shit!" wicked. did you ever notice he has like the back part of his head, gray?

how do you think he ranks compared to people like BT & Sammy? both have had highly sucessful albums without sacrifice.