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how did the smoking ban affect the music? curious now

chekov wrote:how did the smoking ban affect the music? curious now

Effects the amount of people going to events and if less people are going out then promoters aren't willing to push the scene as hard.

ah ok i thought people meant it affected the music itself more directly than that

i thought maybe more bro since people couldn't bun inside anymore..? lol

i do recall reading about how djs started playing either more aggro, either housier stuff to keep people from leaving the floor. don't remember where exactly i read that though

djs were finding themselves having to play harder / faster tunes so that people wouldnt pop out for a cigarette

ultraspatial wrote:i do recall reading about how djs started playing either more aggro, either housier stuff to keep people from leaving the floor. don't remember where exactly i read that though

krytikal wrote:djs were finding themselves having to play harder / faster tunes so that people wouldnt pop out for a cigarette

David Kennedy (Ramadanman/Pearson Sound) talked about that in his Red Bull Academy lecture. That it started with the smoking ban in London etc

It's funny how seemingly unrelated factors can influence a sound's development - like one particularly hot summer in Jamaica turning ska into reggae via rocksteady. Too hot to play that many skanks...

No bunning in a room to a set dropped the vibe a bit