update (lame title but hey)

ok so ive had a long weekend and dont want to pull anybody else out of a pool and pretend to rescue them while wearing a zillion heavy bits of scuba gear EVER AGAIN (well until next weekend at least)

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it seems a few people have posted comments on my blog. Great! now i need to read all the cool stuff they have suggested.. Raz led me to this awesome article about commercialisation etc of dance culture by Nicky Barth which starts all kinds of interesting things about dance culture and how its changed, and how we use it now, and who uses it, and where we go instead (of the family)and why we dont go there anymore etc. which is really interesting, but i think im; a) too tired right now to write non biased, vaguely academic posts and b)its not really to do with my topic so ill try to avoid spending the rest of my blog on it (which i would happily do, trust me. how can you hate and love the same club at the same time? and why do you still go there despite how much you know you dont like it?)ok im leaving this alone right now..!

secondly Jean pointed me in the direction of Som's blog who has some great research on amateur music creation and issues like creativity and exclusiveness, which definately has repercussions in terms of dance music being created at home. i think a related issue is that of originality, especially in terms of the sample, when used by amateur musicians. can anyone on their home PC sample a bunch of tracks, chuck them into some program they downloaded free off the net, push some buttons (much like making a banana smoothie) and create an original piece of music? (or an original smoothie for that matter?)

more on these when ive had some sleep.. mmm banana smoothie