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> Sufficiently intoxicated people will dance to anything There's an urban legend saying Richard D James (Aphex Twin) threw a microphone in a kitchen blender at
by bzzzt 6y ago
> Sufficiently intoxicated people will dance to anything
There's an urban legend saying Richard D James (Aphex Twin) threw a microphone in a kitchen blender at a concert and people were dancing to that sound...
- sideshowb 6y agoI was once at a Plump DJs gig where the fire alarm went off and it took everyone a minute to realize it wasn't part of the tune. I've also heard of people dancing to a generator when the hardtek stopped. To be fair to the people concerned, both examples actually match the style of the music in question.
- PoachedSausage 6y agoReminds me of the hardcore raver Tyres from the sitcom Spaced (genius British comedy): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfSndZPynQk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfSndZPynQk Saying that I have had a similar thing with tracks that have police sirens in them when listening in the car, it takes a moment to realise it isn't an actual emergency vehicle.
- Mediterraneo10 6y agoThose people need not even be intoxicated, because noise music is its own genre, and some of the people enjoying RDJ will probably be responsive to it; RDJ has had a few moments when he approached the Japanese scene. Indeed, when artists like Merzbow perform at festivals, it is clear that the noise stimulates some people's dance reflexes.
- thinkingemote 6y agoI was at one of those gigs before several years ago. Possibly because the volume was too loud, or the music generally too discordant but about 85% of the crowd went upstairs to the chill out room for the majority of the set. I remember a distinct "nope" feeling. The artist himself was off stage twiddling his knobs too. Those who remained were selling merch, behind the bar, or stood at the back with arms folded.
- _joel 6y agoFanzatia NYE93, people outside dancing to a car alarm (quite a famous video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rYXcmVSeBU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rYXcmVSeBU
- yboris 6y agoThis is a classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WFsIskJ05I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WFsIskJ05I (20 seconds - worth a watch)
- samstave 6y agoWow - I was going to raves in SF during this period. I've seen these types of people before. Lots of stories from those days.
- _joel 6y agoThey caught up with the two people in this recently, they're still doing well (albeit not much raving nowadays :) )
- tweetle_beetle 6y agoAnd I'm sure there's an anecdote about the fire alarm at the Hacienda, and I've heard something similar from someone who worked at Fabric.
- stinos 6y agoSounds like a typical noise gig.
- polypodiopsi 6y agotheres a whole genre working with these methods of analog aleatory sound generation (harsh noise)