A global phenomenon?
I have been playing a lot of shows recently and have been spending a lot of time at Electronic club nights. Over the past few months I have been noticing that the nights are consistently getting busier and I have begun to wonder if this is the same around the world.
Because I am a DJ I get to hop around from club to club and will generally make the rounds to most of the good house nights here in Vancouver, Canada. In the past here it used to be that on a Friday or Saturday night there would be 5 or 6 big house music based club nights. On one of the given nights there would generally be one smoking busy night and the rest of the nights would be half or 3/4 full. However, in the past few weeks every one of these nights has been rammed busy! Its an exciting thing to see.
All of this has left me pondering the question of ‘has mainstream clubland finally begun to get bored of hip hop?’. It seems as though all of the cool kids in Vancouver have now started coming to the house nights and this is also where you will always find the best looking girls. It seems as though its only a matter of time until the general club going populace gets bored of the same old hip hop and looks for something else. My suspicion is that house music is the next in line.
I realize that in a lot of areas of the world electronic music is the biggest genre and can even be considered ‘mainstream’. I am curious to know weather other markets around the world are experiencing the same transition to becoming dance music friendly havens.
Is this happening in New York? LA? Miami? Berlin? Hong Kong? Sydney? London? Moscow? Bhaliwood?
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