Look let's cut to the chase, it's pretty obviousto everyone what is going on. In order for Tidy to function it needs to branch out and maintain it's current followings. Right now there is a calling for Scouse House, following the whole Crazy Frog explosion of 2003.
The original Tidy segmented into different sub-labels and catered to different audiences/DJs.....Now the vinyl market has shrivelled up the only income has to be from Digi sales, compilations and event tickets.
What beggers belief is how you guys seem to have tainted you own product. Instead of trying to push a serious image for hard house and work it into major club nights or into some major clubs in a minor room, it's still being promoted as silly circus music. This also kills your Golden Geese (the die hards who keep scenes going)...
Anyone you mention hard house to, only knows about the bouncey crap, never about the quality stuff. I've played Dom's stuff to so many people and they say "Fuck I've never heard hard house like that", referring to the bouncy Wigan Pier stuff. People also say "I could listen to hh but not all night", yet there have been HH nights for 15 odd years now, proving that theory incorrect. But if their first experience with HH is bouncy scouse, why would they want to stand a whole night of it?
Just to add, 13-14 year old kids nowadays get into minimal/electro through deadmau5, dnb through Noisia etc.. Who does the biggest label in HH present as it's Saviour? Andy Whitby. Compared to other genres he's piss poor and the music isn't
COOL. It's
SILLY. Silly went out of fashion years ago. People call music they like "fucking heavy", "sick", "massive".... how would you describe the tracks on CD 2? They are just silly and not cool.
That said, only Captain Hindsight would have seen this coming...... Sam and co are out there doing it so at the end of the day good luck to everyone involved in Tidy. Can't be easy, especially nowadays!!!!
Post edited by owner 11/10/2011 14:26:43