Comments on: The Highlife: Thank You America http://chiefboima.com/2008/11/06/thank-you-america/ Neo Electric African Diasporic Music & Thought Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:36:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Birdseed http://chiefboima.com/2008/11/06/thank-you-america/#comment-73 Fri, 07 Nov 2008 12:42:23 +0000 http://chiefboima.wordpress.com/?p=208#comment-73 I’m guessing a lot of “genres” start out that way. Rock’n'roll was a certain type of party night, as was surf, disco, garage, house…

]]> By: boima http://chiefboima.com/2008/11/06/thank-you-america/#comment-72 Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:06:09 +0000 http://chiefboima.wordpress.com/?p=208#comment-72 What can I say? The Marketing of this stuff on the street level has become somewhat… Difficult. I’m in an area where music nights are still pretty strictly bound by “traditional” genres categories, so when I hand someone a flyer they want to know right away,
“What kind of music?”
Which leads me to stutter out a couple of things like,
“African… based… new… from… around the world…”
And inevitably they say, “so like World Beat.”
And I say, “yeah… no… kind of, I play house and hip hop too.”

As a new “party promoter.” I’m finding I have to be much more (capitalist?) marketing saavy than just djing a weekly night where people know they’re gonna hear something they want. I actually think you would find that interesting. Playing at an “ethinc” club, and the difficulties of tryin to break out into the “scene.” I’ve heard similar things from other dj’s in the “Tropical” category.

]]> By: Birdseed http://chiefboima.com/2008/11/06/thank-you-america/#comment-71 Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:35:08 +0000 http://chiefboima.wordpress.com/?p=208#comment-71 Ah, nice, I see you’ve adopted the new “Tropical” moniker.

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