Understanding Electronic

a simple mind statement........

For all you dance fanatics and electronic music addicts. House music is nothing that is unfamiliar to you, i believe. With playful tunes and joyful disco that will guarantee to daze your night. House music has seen the coming and goings of many great electronic artists (from as early as the Summer Dance Festival in 1989) to the massive Love Parade in German.

House music itself is divided into many subcultures that will guarantee to boast your intrigue knowledge to understand more about this music. Since 2003, Electro has become the new buzz of our city (Jakarta), okay, Indonesia, perhaps. Everyone plays Electro, every club we went to plays a distinguished electro music. Little did we know that one branch of house music that was rooted from Electro is evolving, and its evolving fast. Minimal Techno to some people, or just plain Minimal. 

With deep curios basslines and delicious vocal mashed together with eerie synth background, Minimal plays an important role on today's dance music. Minimal has become the biggest news around the world. 

But, why? oh why? 

our people seems to be having a hard time understanding this kind of music, all that they want to hear is another Electro, anything pumping. It's not that it's uncool, it's just unbelievable how hard it is to make Indonesian people like something new (and not tailing on the back) as we are led to believe.

for all you new to this kind of music, try downloading certain artists that might boasts your interest on this music

1. Gui Boratto

2. Oliver Lieb

3. Chris Liebing

4. Ame (played in Stadium in 2007, was a great success but poorly played a different set than he usually is)

5. Radioslave

Minimal may suck to some people, some people won't love it all. I fully understand that, but there was a day i went to a club and there's this guy standing out front asking to the bouncer "what kind of music they're playing inside?" and the bouncer answered "tonight is a night dedicated to minimal techno and minimal electro", the guy then fastly answered "what is that and will the DJ's play electro?" when the guy learns that no electro will be played tonight, he left, without even wanting to know what Minimal is.

i am not saying that Electro is lame, i am not saying that other genre is so "back-in-the-days", i am simply saying, why can't us (as proud Indonesian's) learn to love something new?

cheers,

-thebastardknowsdisco-

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I wonder why most people here won’t queue?

So I'm sure we've all experienced it one way or another. It happens to the best of us in public restrooms, at ATMs, at the banks, at restaurants, on the road… yes, pretty much everywhere. The intolerable people who refused to queue. But you wouldn't think that it would happen at an embassy? Because surely it's a place where order is very much the norm. Well, I beg to differ.

This morning my husband and I were at the Turkish embassy to apply for visas. As we got into the waiting room, I saw a man standing in front of the visa window and others were seated as they wait for their turn. Immediately I thought to myself "how do we do this? Is there a line? How do we know who's next? Do we have to take a number? Hmm…" I get tense at situations like this. But my husband calmed me down and assured me that we'll go after all the ones seated down have gone. Still, I didn't like it one bit.

So this lady comes in with another man and sat next to us. They were tour & travel people, you know, the ones coming into embassies with stacks and stacks of passports. I'm thinking "she better not cut us." and what do you know? Even before I finished my thoughts she told the other man to chuck the passports at the window, as my husband was standing there waiting for his turn. Unbelievable!!! And the man did so and I was so furious. I mean hello!!!!! We were there first!!! Can't you see woman that we've been waiting forever for our turn as well???? Luckily the visa lady told them in a rather sharp tone to sit her butt down. And she finally did with a stupid grin on her face.

The whole point of this is why would you wait for someone to tell you off in front of other people? Isn't it embarrassing? But I guess it all comes down to the fact that most people here are not familiar with the concept of queuing. You must give them a number or rope them or write in big letters to "please queue" or finally, if all fails, shout at them. My advice is don't wait to be told off!! Have the common courtesy to queue wherever you are. If you don't know how, well don't you think it's about bloody time you learned it?! - Gwen Winarno

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Quirk It, Anniversary Madness

Review... Swankglossy visited the Gig, Quirk It, on their Anniversary Madness last Saturday Night. One of a kind talented Leo shook the crib with a style that pleased the ear. No pretentious crowd, original ambiance, cool spin and nice crib... Swankglossy highly recommends for the fresh and free characters to come. And on top Swankglossy would certainly hangs there gladly.
To make it perfect, and we know that this is out of Quirk It control, (just as a peaceful input) the bar tending division needs some schooling to do. We could not believe that they messed up our order not only once or twice but three times; didn't know the difference between Greygoose and Absolute, gave us cranberry instead of tonic and completely forget one of our order.
Quirk It! Madness it is with a mojo.