renewing my resolve

A lot of things lately are making me want to really tear some shit up. In a good way, at least.

The main driving force here is that I want to actually have people rock the fuck out to my music. I played Burt's on tuesday with the Booty Green and RAP, and while people did _kinda_ get down to my stuff (which was backed by the brilliant VJ styles of Steen), they just were not really being too supportive... but I can't figure out why. I know that my music is not fucking DJ Sasha or something - but my production value and my ability to make dance tracks that are not combichrist ripoffs are still quite high. I'm not talking shit here - to each their own. But people seem to be really into the minimalist synth sound, which I enjoy in it's own ways, but I can't really see how my music, in the essence of being there to make people dance, is any different. No, I don't play the Keytar, but I do live vocals all the time, I change songs up, I work my f'ing ass off to get people to dance, but sometimes all you get is a blank stare. I think that maybe people just don't know what to do to my music sometimes. I guess it's too complex, which is inane to me, as I don't consider my music complex in almost any way. There's still 4/4 bass kicks, repetitive synth and bass lines, and general dance music progression.

I think that it is time for a Renaissance. You've all heard me rant about pop music - well, I think that what I often say is more true now than ever. It seems like music in general is getting more and more dumbed down, dried out and boring. Justin Timberlake's "sexyback" is nothing but one repeating pattern. ONE. That's it. People love it because it's so simple a blind monkey with no arms could have programmed it, and for some reason they choose to dance to it in that case. I just can't, nor won't, believe that this kind of bullshit is going to continue being the hot shit forever, and I can't and won't believe that artists like myself that have been doing this shit locally for so damn long will be overlooked so easily for projects that people so readily consider "the new hot shit". It is time to hand some people their asses.

Speaking of which, you should vote me best band in burque at http://alibi.com/index.php?scn=bob_vote , I want to make a damn mark on this thing this year. I have like two weeks to campaign for it, and I'm going to. I'm sick and tired of being overlooked - not in an angry way, but in a way that makes me want to strengthen my resolve and kick some serious asses.