After Hous

After Hours (various artists)
The Night Belongs To Us
©2009 Independent
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Another CD gets pushed across the table for review. This time thecannyshark slips this in my eager paw and I get down to business, Gosh, electronica/dance music that you can only acquire by attending Cornerstone 2009? Okay, thecannyshark was in attendance, I was home working and sleeping in my own bed with a hot shower and 3 square meals in the comfort of my own home.

I’m starting to wonder if the whole dance/electronica scene hasn’t just become a cottage industry with people cranking out mixes on their PC/Mac and hoping there’s an audience. Dance music in general is an odd duck. You’ve put an action to take place (people dancing) at the center of the construction of your “music.” The purpose is no longer to create music for the art of music but to get people to dance. Therefore, you’ve slipped out of art into formula. Oh sure, you can do things like look for obscure or interesting samples (Moby’s Play stills stands as a monument to this) or jump across musical genres/styles to raid some pan cultural beats but in the end you’re filling a prescription.
Technology has made all of this rather easy as well as, frankly, all a bit homogenized.
If this whole thing is a global as I’m lead to believe I guess that’s cool. Christians putting out stuff that people dance to, maybe not just at Cornerstone but around the world.
Some consolation I guess, but not enough to make me give it another spin. I’ll trade you a Roland TB-303 for a Les Paul and a Marshall stack any time.

5/10 kilts
DAA