Ian Cassanova

I was quite lucky that I was able to enjoy the whole club scene (126BPM House) in England (London) when it first took off. Even before then we had warehouse parties up and down the Southbank and Wapping, East London, Kings Cross etc in old warehouses that were laying idle for years hosting near perfect nights for clubbers. There was no security/bouncers, No curfew when the music had to end, The DJ played pretty much what they wanted, No marketing machines just good old word of mouth and knowing which record shops held flyers for your taste in music. When it moved into underground clubs it wasn’t a bad thing as you did less driving around hunting for the locations and you knew which clubs you were going to that had your kind of music, your kind of girl or guy and where you could take our pharmacutical products and feel safe and in a comfortable enviroment were your choice of DJ played (for more than 60 minutes). The choice was also quite incredible, you could maybe have 5-10 big name DJs pretty much playing in the UK every weekend, You would have say Danny Tenaglia in Leeds, Roger Sanchez in Birmingham, Eric Morillo in London just to name a few. Now you would be lucky to have any three here in one year (I know peoples tastes of DJs have changed over time as well). I am personally not a great fan of Festivals, I think I went to a couple of Lovebox’s when they first started and I noticed ticket prices were hiked up, heavy security (like an airport), sound wasn’t great, less dancing and more people staring at the stage, drugs didn’t go down as well. For some people that might be great but it wasn’t for me & I have never been back to one since. Call me old fashioned but I just preferred getting wasted in the dark in an indoor space. I think this kind of music was designed for an indoor environment although I am imagine that the money is in the huge arenas. Thats probably the problem now “the money” that’s if you want to call it that. It’s such a commercial machine now, maybe the youth of today save up for the big events across the year or do the wine bars or high street commercial clubs that close at 2am?

Does all that money provide happiness? course it does..

There must be quite a lot of pressure to provide a certain level of entertainment with regards to what you spin. I doubt there is much room to be left field in your selection if your known as a commercial trance DJ. Would frustrate the hell out of me!

My main two uses for Spotify is 1. keep the OH (other half) and her friends happy for hours with the chart stuff and music I wouldn’t buy myself but happy to listen too and 2. which is more important, is to listen to stuff that has been released that I wouldn’t mind buying and to see how much I really like the track before I decide to buy the track, so great for filtering music out and stumbling across other stuff.