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Last night I went to a hiphop party at an old industrial building. The club was called Dauhaus and the invite promised an explosion of something-or-other. It was a bizzarre experience in many ways but also, I think, very much representative of the state of Bulgarian hiphop at the moment: smokey, young, enthused, and in dire need of financing. I left the place taking one of the only TWO glasses at the club and today I feel like a total asshole, biting the hand that fed me.
These boys are good.
These boys are good.
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drs are more than good, especially in freestyle (; :thumbsup:
btw, collecting (just to name it like that, lol) glasses from certain places which i visit as the time goes by, is hobby, in which i participate with honourable enthusiasm two or three times per year ;D lol
hehehe. yeah, i hear that a lot of people do it. but maybe we shouldn't talk about it in public, huh? ;)
let's pretend that we're doing it in private ;P
:P
dauhaus @ Бъкстон, maybe? :)
third floor, guess so?
...it is primitive and also an inspiring place, as I may call it to the conscious state of no-sobriety-left-scenes.
vlad:
yes, same place. definitely an interesting venue. wish they'd invest in some AC or something. other than that, no complaints. i like clubs that make a point of not taking away the attention from the artists they host.
Daohause's got the nice atmosphere of a real untergrund venue:) yet, DRS+Nokaut caqn create it themselves, whenever they show up onstage. Loved NDoe's Cmotan MC project, when they were active...
Yet, about Nokaut - if only those boys were all a bit more organized and concentrated, by now they would have published a bunch of music on Def Jux - I played them to an R&D guy from the label and he kept asking for promos, but these guy never sent any... pitty:(
yet, they are still very good in their hip-hop, and as friends also:)
unIDfied:
completely agree with you on all counts. the venue is nothing but just that, a place.
as far as missing one of their big chances, that's exactly what i might have sensed when i said it appeared 'young' and 'of need of financing'. talent and good music is a given and nobody can take that away from them, but they definitely seemed to need a manager or...something. unless they are staying away from the music 'industry' on purpose, which i think is unlikely.
"staying away from the music industry", as mentioned here, should mean "not being a sell-out", I suppose. Otherwise, the civilized world can boast with several pretty interesting cases of music industry entities, serving as boostera and rocket-fuel supply for a myriad of underground/indie/alternative musicians of different origin/style, etc. Just take a look at K7!, Emperor Norton, Def Jux, Asphodel, Ninja Tunes/Big Dada... (I am not trying to argue or sound grown up and teaching - I'm just giving a finishing touch to what you started)...
Yet, staying in touch with what we call here "the music industry" fo several years, all I can share is total disappointment. And it's not only the DRS/Nokaut case... and the reasons for all of it go so deep... maybe to the amount of people, living in this state; and to the amount of people with interests, differing from the latest chalga, and with a monthly sallary enough for buying a copy of any CD:):):)
congratulations for all the insight and all the thoughts you invoked, petya... or thanx... I'd stopped thinking of this a long time ago...
so, what we are talking about here is the balance between keeping your artistic integrity and, basically, staying afloat financially.
for selfish reasons, i hope drs and nokaut remain raw and unpolished as long as possible. the promise on my part is to attend every event they are a part of. ;)
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