Well the problem is not that it's mainstream in the usual sense. It is dark Minimal Techno, you will hear nowhere else. The problem is only that it's not really imaginative anymore. And then there is also some scene "incest". A few names that play every weekend in one of the clubs and also are the headliners for some labels and seem involved with the fanzines. But they hang out with each other mostly and pat each other on the back how underground they are, but it's the same ol' same ol' and it's gotten boring a long time ago.shadx312 wrote:You could say the same thing here except some few clubs can have certain dj's not playing mainstream crap along with some inter/national artists but it's easier to go to loft and warehouse parties because that's where the selekta's and music lovers go for good stuff.
Oh, the area around Berlin/East Germany is awesome in summer. There are so many festivals with different themes that you sometimes have to choose, because there are several good ones on one weekend.Festivals, there's been more of them so apart from the big ones you can find a decent selection. Most of the one's I'd prefer to go to are in Europe though...Sonar always seems to be choice. I suppose you could say the Lollapaloozas here are the Glastonburys of the UK and I avoid those like the plague.
Sonar would be a bad comparison, because that is more like a fair/convention than a festival. And the headliners there are of course way more famous (I'd like to go one day too), but here it's more festivals between 1000 and 20 000. With the biggest Fusion reaching 80 000, but that is not purely electronic. (But it's an experience of a lifetime) Think Burning Man, in green fields.
If I were American and came to Europe for Festivals, (and would know about all this), I would actually have a hard time choosing between all those festivals and Sonar.
