Quote Originally Posted by The Teknoist
thats because your going to 'raves' as opposed to different nights man.. no dutch styles in sight really. Maybe the odd one decent Enzyme... You gotta dig for decent nights aswell as tunes.
Dude, around here, there are no longer any hardcore nights. The last one that existed was a night myself and a couple other friends were involved with called "Fukkital." That was practically 2 years ago now. We lost the venue after too many childish dick waving matches. So, like I said, you guys should consider the glass half full because, over here in NYC at least, there isn't shit happening. It's dead as dead can be with the exception of one small breakcore party which is thrown in a palce that is more or less a small cafe with a liquor license. And that's on a weeknight.

Which is sort of good be honest. As for the polotics, all the main nights involved with promoting hardcore techno alongside other experimental genres really do work together. Your looking in the wrong places it seems :)
Nah, man. It really just doesn't exist out here. ADAM Management has monopolized the rave circuit. For private nights/parties, you deal with squabbling from too many DJs that fight with each other over timeslots. Shit, Lowtek was just visiting out here upuntil about a week ago. On the first friday he was here, a friend of mine, the people he was staying with, etc. knew a kid throwing a party at a spot that was hooked up by Satronica, one of the guys Garvin was staying with. The party included locals only. The kid wouldn't let Garvin play. Even when Tense offered up his timeslot, the kid said he would give it to a different local. Mind you, these were pretty much all locals with no records out, no exposure outside of our immediate friends and they had an option for international talent to play for free. It ended up in a bunch of us just hitting a bar instead of going to the party. Nobody is working together. Nobody is sharing. Everyone wants to take without giving. It really sucks the life out of things.