This is the first music post in a while that has really got me excited that im about to express my opinion and have it read by other people.
It is a beautiful thread and i want to thank hydra for creating it and everyone else for controbuting to it, for expressing the way they feel. Hey X it sounds like you do a great job
I only hope i can be as lucid - though i never have been in the past.
I remember when i lived in Italy, in Rome i found out about trance music - not popular there. None of my friends knew anything about it and i didnt know where to get it. But by using satellite tv i could tune into radio1 in the uk. Often I would stay up so that I could hear the essential mix at 2 am. I made tapes and recorded what i heard, i played it to my friends - i was listening to this music and feeling "i HAVE to spread this" - it was not a choise for me.
I got decks and a mixer.
2 and a half years later im no longer into trance, im into techno and drum and bass. But not as much - i dont listen to the songs i play and say "I need to make people here this". I still listen to electronic music for at least half the day, and time i can - but im no longer as excited as was. Basically, i live this music now, it is with me all the time, but a lot of the time its like ive been exposed to such an amount of it that ive become immune to it.
Im into techno because of carl cox. But it became more seeing Dave Clarke in Prague, i was there and it was the first time i had seen anyone like him, and the way he dj'd just blew mind, i started thinking people need to here this dj / or someone close. Thats been bad for me, i have been aspiring to become dave clarke rather than myself.
2/3 or days ago i started listening to papua nea guinea for the first time, and it was the first time in a while i felt other people "Had to hear this song". But its opened me up, i really can feel this way still, i feel a huge need to show other people this incredible music.
But i listen to so much different music (really, this is true) and i feel this way so rarely. It doesnt mean i should give up it means i should look and listen harder.
And only when I feel the way i have described above about every single song i play will i be a good dj.
I am sorry for such a long post but i do feel that all the background information needed to be in there as some people might start going on the same route ive gone and this might help.
This post in conjunction with a couple of mind blowing songs is reinspiring me.
THANK YOU very very much if youve read this post