Dance music in the city vs Dance music in the suburbs

i take it to mean that Mayer will play Fabric but would never play Swindon's Brunel Rooms (does that club still exist under that name?)! whereas a DJ like Hype or Bryan Gee or Andy C will and do play every city in the country. Mind you they're British and that's undoubtedly a factor.

At least where i'm from, in the US, alot of the raver kids are (were) from the suburbs, although the promoters and djs tend to be kids from the city proper.

Maybe that's why I'm not getting it on the whole. There's the odd track I like but when I listen to dance I automatically imagine it in a dancefloor context i.e. "Would people be 'avin it to this track if I played it at a party/rave/club?". Maybe this is a side of dance I don't get and why I don't really get albums like "Homework" and "Advance"... Dunno, just a thought?

Also, Swindon is not a suburb, but a self contained city. What you are saying is 'in larger population areas, you are more likely to get a wider range of music', which seems pretty obvious to me.

surely that depends on what kind of party/rave/club it is and what the crowd are like? much of 'Homework' totally rocked big London clubs (probably not suburban ones tho ha). 'Advance' was never intended as a record for clubs on account of the majority of it is ambient home/travel listening. microhouse as a genre seems split between those two functions, for me - but then so was 'artcore'.

no it did

it's impossible, the price you'd have to pay for a DJ which nobody in Dublin would bother their ignorant ass going to see just prohibits certain gigs, of course you can have certain age old trusty DJs 5 times a year no worries.

The people I know who are into trance or d&b are into those styles almost exclusively. Maybe in the UK suburbs the scarcity of choice encourages an obsessive/focused approach to clubbing, whereas the sheer variety and choice of clubs in London would draw more people to that set of loosely related styles in the "center" of dance music (ie. house, techno and its related sub-genres). It's difficult to imagine someone being heavily into microhouse who wasn't also or previously into house and techno and so on, so it favours the "eclectic" listener as opposed to the monoscene firebrand.

This is the last mix I played at a house party in North Herts. I think if I'd played this at a party or club in London it would've been shut down. Last time I tried to drop any electro or microhouse at a house party, I was instantly asked to play hard and faster.

these sound like very crusty parties dude!

my friends are not hipsters but I am not always playing at parties where all the people are friends or known to me either, often they are just randomers, on NYE I think people were too fucked to ask to play harder or faster, though the Superpitcher MFA remix seemed to go down quite well.

My friends who are not into music sometimes say "something not so deep, please" and I then carve up their bodies and empty them off a cliff. Well, not really, I usually hand them the ipod and let them put on what they want.

I sometimes point out how they used to ask me to play old stuff before they got into the newer stuff they like aswell.