So: I decided to start this thread as a look into not-quite-canonical but nevertheless historically significant media and social trends. Feel free to chip in with your own questions.
In this thread one might, for instance, ask about the contemporaneous social impact surrounding a now-famous filmmaker ("They're revered now, but how did people react to Sam Fuller films upon their release?") or one might ask about a once-popular but now relatively esoteric band (Puddle of Mudd). Please try to avoid questions easily answered on wikipedia and please only respond if you experienced something firsthand; primary sources, however anecdotal, are the ideal here. This thread isn't about the given text so much as it is about the atmosphere that surrounded its creation and release.
I'll start:
2 Many DJs: So this is just Soulwax, right? Why was their first album "Volume 2" and did they really release like a dozen unofficial mix tapes following it? If so, why even bother to clear the samples on the first release to only release white labels thereafter? Also, why do people give a shit about Girl Talk when there's such an obvious and superior antecedent from like four years prior? I went to a party in England at which the DJ spun this and I was like "why haven't I heard this at my hipster school back in the states?"
In this thread one might, for instance, ask about the contemporaneous social impact surrounding a now-famous filmmaker ("They're revered now, but how did people react to Sam Fuller films upon their release?") or one might ask about a once-popular but now relatively esoteric band (Puddle of Mudd). Please try to avoid questions easily answered on wikipedia and please only respond if you experienced something firsthand; primary sources, however anecdotal, are the ideal here. This thread isn't about the given text so much as it is about the atmosphere that surrounded its creation and release.
I'll start:
2 Many DJs: So this is just Soulwax, right? Why was their first album "Volume 2" and did they really release like a dozen unofficial mix tapes following it? If so, why even bother to clear the samples on the first release to only release white labels thereafter? Also, why do people give a shit about Girl Talk when there's such an obvious and superior antecedent from like four years prior? I went to a party in England at which the DJ spun this and I was like "why haven't I heard this at my hipster school back in the states?"
