Digital
Underground (working title) has
been in production since 1990. It is a retrospective look at the
growth and development of electronic music, rave culture and club
culture; otherwise known as future music culture. Production
will stop as soon as electronic music evolves into something different,
something new. In the meantime, we have developed a series of micro-documentaries
about some of the people and places we've observed. The series is
called PANTON X and it can be seen in websites around the world.
We've
put two of the PANTON X micro-documentaries here for you to watch.
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Basque
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The
Basque, if one thing can be said about them, it's that they sure
know how to party. Forget about style. Fashion? Never heard of it.
Dance cool? Why bother! The Basque, when they go out, it's for one
thing... to party their asses off, plain and simple! At two in the
morning, when most of us are ready to call it a night, they're just
getting warmed up, and with headline acts that only start spinning
at seven in the morning, producing this episode of PANTON X was
an exercise in exhaustion. Virtually oblivious of all the glowing
decorations, the funky dance troupes and even the world-class DJs,
everyone at these parties that
of
throws keeps it real. They keep it so real that they don't even
KNOW they're keepin' it real! They're not there to "see and be seen."
They don't care if they look cool or not in their white surf t-shirts.
They're there to have fun, whether you like it or not! The walls
are literally dripping with sweat from all those bodies dancing
'til the break o' day. Isn't that the way it should be all the time?
So,
if you ever find yourself in the Basque Country, amid those rolling
green hills dotted with bleeting sheep and solid white homes with
slanted red roofs, with the Atlantic Ocean to one side of you and
the Pyrenees on the other, and you find your evenings a little too
calm, too often, drop
a line and find out when his next party's going down. Just remember,
the doors may open at ten, but don't get there until two!
Is
L.A. the city of the future? Raymond Roker thinks it is. He should
know. Roker's been part of the L.A. scene for over a decade. He's
been there since the beginning, some would say. With his magazine
URB and his weekly club, Science, Roker continues to shape the
face of West Coast future music culture. Focusing on L.A's Jungle
Music scene and Science, this episode of PANTON X is a look at
an L.A. subculture as well as one man's perception of L.A. So,
what do you think? IS L.A. THE city of the future?
Hawai'i's
premier rave and club promoter, G-Spot,
put Hawai'i on the map by bringing Carl Cox to spin at the 1999/2000
New Year's rave in Honolulu. Small and secluded, cut off from the
rest of the world, living in a limbo somewhere between a tropical
paradise and an urban jungle, Hawaiian ravers seem to enjoy themselves.
Check it out and decide for yourself.
