What effect does EDM culture have on London clubland? Article

[guiltyblade]

Whats tough is that the community in the US sometimes gets spread thin. Before there were only a few awesome places, or people that throw parties, now everyone throws a "house music" party, and people get dragged to things that aren't really representative of the music or scene at all. Its a bummer but its the way it all goes.

[Timbo21]

I don't really see what all the fuss is about with questions like that of the article.

Big record companies started cashing in almost from the start of House Music. You had 2Unlimited's "No Limits". Big record companies were getting Junior Vasquez to do remixes of Elton John songs (Can't tell you how awful it was when I first heard that in around 1993).The record companies were chucking 50 grand to the likes of Todd Terry to do remixes of their latest pop artist.

Coming up to the Mid 90's you had the Super Clubs that had started from underground beginnings churning out naff commercial CD compilations. Great Dj's from the early scene started playing cheesy formula truancy-euro shite house to a new wave of uneducated beer boys. Hell, I remember when Ministry of Sound was an underground club. The bouncers were all American. We'd go at 4am after others had closed, on a Friday and Sarurday, and there'd be about 100-200 people in there; no queues, just walk in.

I remember Danny Rampling starting up a weekly West End club night with Tony Humphries after Glam closed, sort of 1993 time, and on the Flyers it showed it being sponsored by a high street drinks company. We were just so shocked. It was the first time we had seen that. The night wasn't a success, but it just gave us that feeling that the wonderful excitement of this mysterious underground scene was now passing.

House music has been in pop music for over the last 20 years, and been commercialised and naff in the mainstream soon after the beginning. Just because the U.S. has decided to get into it....??

[Nicky H]

Yeah I remember in the early 90's in the UK when every big pop group/star had a Brothers In Rhythm or C&C Music Factory remix.
There was a bit of fuss about it going commercial but it didn't have any effect on the underground clubs.

It's similar in the US now, dance has gone commercial but it still makes the best real house music - and I'm sure there are still great underground clubs like Twilo in the 90's.

Plus it's good to see the CNTRL tour Ean and co are doing - showing the frat boys that there's more to this culture than some twat in a Mickey Mouse hat.