Can somebody summarise this for me. It’s sounds like high end Vicky pollard in Berlin.
Peggie Gou
Two people don’t like each other and decided to hash it out on the internet.
Hursty I actually have a mate called Dan Wang, but he lives in Liverpool and is a primary school teacher.
Bang into prog mind you, but not a DJ.
Wang is by far the most common Chinese surname - more common than Smith is in the Anglosphere.
Dan is very easy for Chinese to pronounce - they struggle with long words composed of multiple phonemes, so often choose names like ‘Dan’, ‘May’, ‘Anna’ for their ‘Western name’. No surprise that there are a few Dan Wangs. Hope this helps.
Chinese naming conventions have been doing my head in lately. Not their fault, mind, but when we’re trying to track COVID results they’ll identify as, say, Dan Shan. Their ID will have their real name so Xu Shan. But sometimes it’ll have another name, so Xu Shan Dong. The lab will return it with the last name hyphenated, Shan-Dong, which causes problems with our ELR matching sheet. And then there’s language barriers. The person might have said “June” but the nurse hears “2” so DOB goes down as 2/4/1933 instead of 6/4/1933.
There’s so many points where thing can go awry. It’s a real headache when trying to return results within 24 hours to a nursing facility in the midst of an outbreak with 500 Chinese residents.
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jonattonyeah They’re fucking bellends, most of their names are two or three characters, so Xu Shan would probably be something like 徐单. A lot of older systems in China only allow input of a limited number of characters, so people ask for my ID (passport) and then insist on trying to enter the full name to register me, which is 5 characters, space, 7 characters middle name, space, 7 characters surname. Then because there is a 15 character input limit, it chops my surname off almost completely.
jonattonyeah
Thats why branding was invented.
If you can’t uniquely disfigure them with a hot poker however, maybe tattoo a number on their head with a biro?
I had no idea overpowering perfume was a red alert for mental illness. Wang sounds like a proper wang.
Remarkably Daniel Wang has come out of this whole tawdry episode worse.
alistair the other sets he saw were Steve Aoiki and The Cuban Brothers
Has anyone here actually been to an EDM gig or EDM festival? And stayed for more than ten minutes?
Not sure if they’re much different than the likes of Creamfields of yesteryear. Just drugged out kids having a good time listening to bad music with some good music sprinkled in the smaller tents.
I don’t see many of the naff EDM jocks being much worse than Judge Jules at his pomp in 1999.
But that’s just my opinion.
What isn’t an opinion is that both eras have been a massive cash grab. The music is simply an accident.
1999 was a decent creamfields. The Gold tent was superb with some bugged out and metalheadz here in there. Happy days
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… I know I’m stating the obvious but the difference between then and now is the interence by shady suits in the background creating DJ “characters” who they make shit tons of money from, without any real care or interest in the scene. Maybe I’m ignorant but I don’t know if it was that bad during the Jules days. Maybe I’m wrong. At least it was a different EDM as the crowds were still off their heads on good pills and the clubs were indoor and better. The open air firework show EDM is very weird to me, I get it, but it just seems very rapey to me rather than genuine. People enjoy it though so who am I.
Amps I went to the first 3 Electric Zoos in NY back in like 07-10 when EDM was just getting going. Seems obvious that it blew up, in retrospect. I remember Afrojack and Skrillex drawing more than double the capacity of the tent they were in at the time. Crazy to think that Speedy J had a bigger tent and spot on the flyer. If you look at the most recent flyer for EZ now, you won’t know a single name.
zackster in retrospect. I remember Afrojack and Skrillex drawing more than double the capacity of the tent they were in at the time.
Yeah. Through work I have been to a few EDM festivals over the last few years, and I tip my hat to the crowds there, they go fuckin ape shit to all of it and the vibe is nearly always good. It’s not my music, but they are all havin a good time and getting their moneys worth, and having chatted to a few of the DJs, they genuinely love what they are playing, proper enthusiasm for it.
Yeah there were some questionable nights going on but they were still full of proper bang heads.