Friday, January 30, 2009

Baptazia yourself


Now, I laughed a lot when I first watched this little video promoting a drum and bass night called Baptazia, but the thing that really struck me was how exemplary this was of how banded together and homogeneous the human animal really is. It's amazing to me that, whether you are a suburban kid that grew up in Oregon in the 1980's or an old man from Spain in the 1700's, every human brain is essentially "wired" the same and has been since we crawled from the primordial soup. Anyway, you get what I'm saying. We love organization, rhythm and repetition. Since the caveman began banging bone to skull, he realized that organizing the resulting sound into a rhythm or pattern made his cavewoman's butt shake to the beat. It's no surprise there are so many references to the church in rave and club culture. Minus most (but not entirely all) religious aspects, and you pretty much have the same thing going on. Whenever the human mind wants to, oh I don't know, get outside of itself, enjoy itself, "spiritualize" itself, music is usually involved...and sometimes drugs. And yes, as RNOV8TR points out in the comments section, the jump off officially takes place at 2:43.

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