All music scenes are loaded with journalists, yet I really can’t think of anyone else from inside the electronic scene other than Dom who actually made a lasting impression on me. Journalists are dog shit, and hurt scenes more than anything, but still Dom seemed to be a good egg and all of his writing was very positive and descriptive. I was reading his booklet notes 5-6 years before I was able to set foot in an actual nightclub. There was no YouTube or IG at the time, so all of my concepts of what clubbing was actually like came from Mixmag, Muzik, Dj, Jockeyslut, URB, ex… but nothing really stacked up to Dom’s “you could call it trance, but I call it magic” flowery pros. I absolutely lapped it up, and gen speaking it has aged well. If you read notes to releases like Nick Warren Amsterdam he was clearly spreading the last of the butter over 6 pieces of toast, but even so the B list releases got his full attention, which speaks to his character. Such afucking shame, especially when you factor in what he died doing. It’s not like he crashed his personal prop plane whilst being a wealthy shithead. Am very sad about this.
