Concert Review: Way Out West at Shine, September 19

• mrmrmr, Thank you for your thoughts. Now allow me to retort: 1. I "chose to walk thru the door?" Yes, but it was in order to carry out my assignment, and my job as a blogger is to be opinionated and subjective in my thoughts, because there are no absolutes in music criticism, it all comes down to personal taste, doesn't it? 2. "nick and jody are pioneers far from commercial or mainstream." Let me quote you the part of my review (4th paragraph) where I give them due credit for being pioneers: "But to their credit, they did in fact help pioneer that flamboyant big-room vocal prog house sound that has come to embody the dance mainstream, and when they were pioneering it in the '90s, it presumably didn't sound like the dismal washed-out commercial dirge infecting the airwaves today, but rather like something fresh and relevant to that time." Are they far from being commercial or mainstream? Unfortunately, no. How they derive their sales, royalties and income from their music is hardly the point, what makes music mainstream has more to do with the musical form. I can think of plenty of electronic artists who have licensed their music for commercial uses but continue to push the envelope on the musical form, defying lowest common denominator standards of taste by evolving the possibilities of their sound. With that said, and going back to the previous point, Way Out West were pioneers who pushed the envelope in the '90s. The problem, which I address in my review, is that the evolution stopped there, and through no fault of their own, spawned the sort of sounds that now define big-room commercial house music. So my question in the review was how you can reconcile the greatness that Way Out West was in '90s, with the shitty derivative and banal music they unwittingly spawned in the 2000s? 3. I wasn't hating on their live methodology, I am far from being a vinyl purist. I was just making a statement of fact in the review regarding the technology they used, as far as I was able to tell from observation that night. 4. Yes the sound system at Shine sucks. Am I a hater for bringing it up? If a venue with modest revenues like the Electric Pickle can boast one of the most fantastic Dynacord sound systems, what's stopping a big upscale hotel nightclub like Shine, which incidentally hosts some of the biggest names in dance music, from investing in proper equipment? 5. "underground will never be the same in Miami". I don't know what the underground was like in the '90s, admittedly I have only been in Miami a few years, but let me tell you that the underground is alive and well in Miami. Every week we enjoy performances by top-notch underground artists, both local and from abroad, playing the latest sounds in house, minimal, techno, dubstep, bass, and more. I don't subscribe to worshipping relics from the past. You are only as good as the last record you made, and your last record better be pushing the sound light years into the future, because electronic music is the spaceship we are all riding into the future. 6. Lighten up, my friend. This review was 100% my opinions and we are all entitled to them. Peace.

• for your info oh clueless one u chose to walk thru the door!! nick and jody are pioneers far from commercial or mainstream ! like most of the crap being played in clubs all over!! they have licensed their tracks to tv and other mediums because that is how they earn income. publishing is not collected on radio play and u will rarely hear a track of theirs on any non net radio in the states so without that they write tracks and get paid for them their fees and then the music gets put out there and they get a mechanical royalty on album sales and mebe they collect a minimum amount for airplay on radio and other mediums from bmi or ascap or whoever they publish thru lesson 1. 2. gigging is the only way for these guys to present their new music on computer or not by the way they both mixed on pioneer cd decks and were using the computer to fly in stuff. it was all mixed live!! i have known nick for ten years he hates scrolling to pick tracks but unfortunately vinyl is dead and in order to present their new stuff they fly in stuff with the computers!! 3. jon cowan ,luis diaz ,carmel ophir, dade and bobby, groovejet. these are the men that helped bring this music that u hate to miami they are the reason for all including bringing these pioneers to wmc when it began !! as for the sound yes its loud n bassy in shine and yes it was hot as hell !! don't hate u walked thru the door it was your choice stay home next time or go see tiesto at that shitty place known as space where u can get the real commercial crap that u actually compare nick and jody to! underground will never be the same in miami and when a review like yours of legends of the progressive sound comes out people read it and take note. use your voice as a writer u don't have to kiss ass but just keep it real and maybe your opinion which has validity may make a difference !! write me back if u like just wanted to let u know what i thought.

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