Club Politics
I got to thinking last night that software start-up culture is starting to feel like dance club culture felt around 1999. It is well documented what happened in the following years. I think electronic music is all the better for club culture’s demise in that form. Toolroom records rose out of the ashes of that particular collapse and in 2009 label boss Mark Knight teamed up with Dan Diamond to release a poignant commentary on the froth that develops around a hot melting pot. The track itself is a tense tech-house affair. Knight’s sense of timing on this 12" is class, but its the lyrics that really make it a great production. I’ve typed it out as I hear it below.
I’m not much into politics.
Politics in music,
or whatever it is, you know,
it’s like the worst part.
No one wants to deal with that part because it’s just too much bullshit.
There’s even politics with having to look or act or dress a certain way.
When you walk into a night club…. the politics that are there with the promotors, the managers,
and all the other bullshit, you know.
It’s just politics.
Nobody even cares really about a good night to remember anymore,
it’s more about the politics that are involved, you know…
The money
… the promotions and all the other, you know type things going on at the club.
The same people I saw trying to come up the ladder are the same people I’m going to see going down
but yet people still want to shake your hand and act like, you know,
they like you.
When it’s just politics.
They don’t like me, they really don’t because they’re just playing the role, you know.
Maybe one day, you know like, you could meet more genuine people
but for now I’m not…
I understand what I’m in.
It’s just the politics -
I’m just having a hard time working on dealing with it.
Politics will never get to me though.
Not right now.
I can’t, you know, let it get to me.
I have a hard time dealing with it but it’s never going to take over who I am
‘cause I don’t forget what I went through, you know.
It’s just politics.
So for all the phoney people and the people that act like, you know, into the club life and all that bullshit — fuck politics.
I got enough problems, man.
I don’t need your politics.
