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The night was cool... met a few new faces from here and CJ. Unfortunately, my night ended early thanks to a drunken female stalker ... bah... why do so many chics have to be soooo "clingy"?

Last Thursday, there was a formal debate for all mayorial and commision candidates over at the Alexander on Collins. The debate was shown on live TV and was a good platform to reach the primary voters in the Miami Beach area (50+). Guerra was a no-show and the empty seat that was saved for him did more damage to his campaign in the eyes of the viewers than even the hokey red trolley flitting about beach... If you cannot convince the 50+ demo that you are a serious viable candidate in Miami Beach, you might as well spend your time pissing against the wind. I can see why he lost.

Bad Boy Bill went on just after 2am. He played his usual style of 2 beat looped hard house and rocked... It's a shame so many people allow themselves to be musically close minded. Some of the things BBB did last night during his set were different than anything I have seen from the locals. Any DJ who can go back to back on a 1 count riff in the middle of his set, then switch to half beats (usually hip hop DJs do this... and badly) before going in to a break is awesome. To do this without losing syncopation is even more awesome.. The crowd did not even know what he was up to. They thought it was just the record...ha.

I checked them out last weekend and true enuff, it was friggin dead. At 1:30-2am, it was just me and the two girls I was with on the dance floor... nobody else within sight.... sigh.

aka Artemis checking in... cya there.

<-- does one of those "uncle sam points" in memory or Rerun

I'm feeling most of this, but the Beltram track should not be in there with these tracks...

I heard these guys last WMC at the SFP night... wicked, tribal shit! I'm there....

I checked this out a couple Friday's back.. Excellent music Erik! Also been checking out your last mix cd in the car, good stuff. If you ever want to do some original tracks, give me a shout... I got the setup...

Just got back from Scumfrog.... it was alright. Also checked out Slak Lounge with Erik... of course nobody from this board even went out to support the guy... buncha miscreants!

Yeah... Timo was definately killing shit. On the downside, the PA was distorting bad at some points in the mid highs. Add to that the sound of the (annoying) air horn and uuugghh.. All in all though, Timo was well worth the visit...

IMO... Hip Hop has gone mainstream, prog house, tribal, breaks and the other dance subcultures are not. As long as people are force fed a specific genre as "pop culture", there will always be a larger market for it. For those of us who do not buy in to it, Hip Hop could be just downbeat music with bad singing (depending on your opinion). What is interesting is that electronic music and Hip Hop were as one until the early 80's or so (Arthur Baker, Bambaataa etc..). Since then, Hip Hop or specifically, the "rapper" developed on a seperate path in to a widely marketable product... at the cost of DJing, Graf writing and bboying.

I don't know if I'd be considered a "CPer" being new and all here, but I was there last night with some friends. While it was a bit light on peeps, it was still a good time. Good job stryke and folks!!

I was wondering if many people have found that over the years of clubbing, DJing, performing etc... they have developed a permanent ringing in their ears? Pete Townsend jokes aside, when I am in a quiet room, I hear ringing.... And if I listen close enough to it, even voices... Alright, maybe not voices, but the ringing can be annoying at times. Surely, I am not the only one who has some form of club induced tinnitus??

What bothers me about this whole situation is that the RIAA keeps stating that they are representing the artists. This is not entirely true. The RIAA is representing only artists that agree with their extremist view on copyright enforcement. What about those of us who are glad that our music is finding wider more diverse audiences thanks to P2P? Why are we still part of the RIAA "representation"? The RIAA would have you believe that they are generating lost revenue streams for starving artists, I beg to differ. Major labels pay a few points (cents) per record sale, Independants are usually much more generous. Now off a $15-$18 CD this is, and always has been a complete rape of the artist and a cash cow for the label. Granted, however miniscule this revenue was may now be disappearing, but artists make a much higher percentage off performing and merchandising; 2 revenue streams which P2P actually help increase. Perhaps an alternative "open source" style artistic license agreement might be of value to those artists willing to truly share their work...