What was the best dance record of the last decade, and why was it Ritmo Especial by Daniel Maloso?.

Big secret weapon of mine.

I’d kind of stopped posting on here but felt compelled to share that this is a fucking banger and I don’t care who agrees with me.

The people making music are fighting for their lives on Instagram & Tik Tok. The people making money out of music are posting about their successes on LinkedIn.

Deffo would come off as Bowie on a Pepsi challenge scenario.

Looking at the way Hollywood depicts Vikings now and feel certain in about 20 years they'll be depicting football hooligans as though they all had the physique of comic book strong men.

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Jean Sibelius sounds like Sting. Change my mind.

The fact that I’ll be secretly wounded if this doesn’t get acknowledgment just confirms to me how insidious this attention economy is. God knows what the answers are, but the start must surely be localised IRL activity, purposed for the people attending, not for the internet 7/7.

The irony of me sharing all this on a platform ran by an evil technocrat who literally wants to be the CEO of the whole world is not lost on me, but it’s just further proof that we’re all complicit even if we can see the bars of the cage. 6/6.

If there has been one positive of 0 effort AI music it’s that it’s proven that “Dance Music” holds no value without context. The idea of House or Techno without an underlying message is genuinely perverse, but the idea that it’s message is “spend more money” is worse. 5/5.

Brands are the new religions that inspire bland devotion from their iconography. They tap into the masses deep desire to be told what to do. Their only objective is shareholder value. To succeed within their structures doesn’t make you an artist, it makes you a product. 4/4.

So called “underground culture” comes from challenging the status quo. Commence takes that culture and turns it inside out until it becomes the status quo. Movements of resistance are warped into activities of conformity. Uniting behind a cause becomes buying into a brand 3/3.

Self expression in art, dress, opinion online all comes with a layer of seeking approval. Being “alternative” online sees people literally begging to be “liked”. Even I’m bored of saying “capitalism bad” but we need to all look at what it’s doing to the things we love 2/2.

Watching a DJ losing their shit for the camera while the crowd shuffle listlessly from foot to foot is another example how we’ve turned everything backwards. “Cool” used to mean not giving a fuck about anything, but that lacks the insecurity needed to drive consumption. 1/1.

It was unthinkable that I’d ever find a reason to unlock @realDonaldTrump and @elonmusk on twitter, but here I find myself. This is amaaaaaaaaaazing.

A funny outcome of doing a lot of DJ / Producer mentoring with you people is that I get a vantage point to observe how much of my own best advice I’m not following myself. It’s inexplicably liberating to be at a stage where commercial success or fame aren’t what I’m looking for.

A lot of the energy being expended to "revolutionise the events industry" via a new app would be far better spent by those people just turning up and paying for gigs and parties.