Read Alexander Payne’s thoughts on the “currency” of bootlegs and their role as forgettable party music. Personally, I believe there is a lot of experimental crap available but also a sizeable catalog of unbelievable work from folks like Go Home Productions.
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Well, there’s something to that idea of “forgettable dance party music”. Don’t forget how dub music came about – DJ’s in Jamaica coming in to a studio like King Tubby’s and getting him or someone like Scientist to make a dub of whatever popular single they’d recently recorded – mixing it live onto the platter that the DJ would be playing later that night. Each one was different, even though a number of DJ’s would all ask for the same track.
So at a party you want to play music that people know and respond to, but also gives you some satisfaction that you’re not just playing the same tunes as everyone else – you brought something that required a bit of digging (or mashing). And a few weeks later when the track that you mashed (a top ten smash at the time) has dropped out of the charts, well then it does become forgettable, until maybe a few years later when it acquires nostalgic value and you can play it again without it sounding like you’re not ‘up with the times’.
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