Stanton Warriors at Oxford (finally)

Fri, 13 Jun 2003 11:08:00 -0400
/misc

My ears are still ringing from last night. Stanton Warriors (rescheduled from 2 weeks ago) at Ponana here in Oxford. It was awesome, as expected.

A lot of criticism of dance music is focused at DJs as mere players of other peoples records. This misses the benefit of having a free market in music selection and compilation. Impartial and self-motivated, the DJ is a naturally emerging division of the labour required to produce a sequence of music to be danced to.

The music selection methods for other genres are less dynamic and flawed. Almost all breaking classical music in the UK has been featured in a TV advert, therefore the selectors are advertising agencies. Popular pop/rock has to first be chosen by a record company and then stamped with the approval of Radio/TV.