Cliques in the community

firestar · #1 (**permalink**) Jun 05, 06

Discuss..

Are you a part of one? Do you wish you were? This scene is full of cliques. Are you an outsider? An Insider? Do you find it hard to meet people in your scene because the cliques are so deep? Want to fit in?

I'm sure this affects a large amount of people on here. I can pick out the cliques on this board crystal clear.

Like I said.. discuss.

Clayton. · #2 (**permalink**) Jun 05, 06

I go against the grain yo.

trance4life · #3 (**permalink**) Jun 05, 06

i might be?

firestar · #4 (**permalink**) Jun 05, 06

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Originally Posted by Ever666

I go against the grain yo.

So, your not part of any clique then? So then, if an outsider all of a sudden began hanging out with you and your crew all the time, you wouldn't be weirded out by that?

Cmon, that's a very vague statement :D

firestar · #5 (**permalink**) Jun 05, 06

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Originally Posted by trance4life

i might be?

Okay for instance, on this board.. do you have a crew you always PM, or talk to regarding parties.. do you hang out with the same people every time at a party?

Clayton. · #6 (**permalink**) Jun 05, 06

Why would i be weireded out by a new person? nothing wrong with making new friends.
And i don't always roll with the same crew.

mapleleaf4ever · #7 (**permalink**) Jun 05, 06

Cliqued to the max this place is.

I dunno, I consider myself a bit of an outsider to many circles. A little more so now that I've moved out of Vancouver. But I still have a small "clique" of people that I am still in contact with.

B-rizzo · #8 (**permalink**) Jun 05, 06

Cliques in my opinion arnt a good thing. I donno im new here, im not really sure who everyone is and everything, but so far people here have been nice. I'm just hoping this isnt like a one shot type deal, like if i piss the wrong person off the whole community is gonna be against me. Thats the only thing im concerned about.

r a m a z e · #9 (**permalink**) Jun 05, 06

i belong to a secret organization

all we ask is trust

clearist · #10 (**permalink**) Jun 05, 06

well i think we all have our friends. Im not too sure it is a matter of cliques as much as it is a matter of people you havn't met yet. Maybe it is just my view, but i love meeting new people and i will give anyone who wants it a chance to get to know me. On the flip side im not going to just go and randomly try and make best friends with the person standing next to me, if a friendship is meant to develope.... it will. And in saying that i also want to make it clear that just becasue i want to meet you, does not automatically mean i am going to like you. Its just the way it is.

So cliques, perhaps. But in my opinion its just people that know eachother a little better than they know other people. Or poeple that you prefer the company of. Cliques are too much of a closed circle for that word to be used to describe whats going on.

r a m a z e · #11 (**permalink**) Jun 05, 06

i dunno anyone on here yet though

clearist · #12 (**permalink**) Jun 05, 06

Outsider!!!!

Shun Him!!!!!!!!

Revolver · #13 (**permalink**) Jun 05, 06

lol...

yeah i guess i have a 'core' group of firends. but we'eve all been around sooo long that we all seem to cross polinate other cliques and form one large UBER clique comprising of little sub-cliques.

its actually an interesting social culture to be apart of.

but van's electronics scene, esp Drum and bass, is so small you always see the same 'core' faces at events and nights wich i really really like... i thnk its neat.

firestar · #14 (**permalink**) Jun 05, 06

Okay, fair enough.

But what about the music groups. I look at the drum n bass scene for example.. a very tight knit community. The house scene is the same, on here anyways (of what I can see).

So what do you think about that?

Clayton. · #15 (**permalink**) Jun 05, 06

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Originally Posted by firestar

Okay, fair enough.

But what about the music groups. I look at the drum n bass scene for example.. a very tight knit community. The house scene is the same, on here anyways (of what I can see).

So what do you think about that?

I like house, dnb, and trance.

So what do you think about that?

firestar · #16 (**permalink**) Jun 05, 06

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Originally Posted by Ever666

I like house, dnb, and trance.

So what do you think about that?

Well I think that's great! But do you consider yourself a part of the drum n bass community? Does that matter to you?

clearist · #17 (**permalink**) Jun 05, 06

interesting point because i love DnB to the ends of the earth but i dont really consider myself in the DnB community. I didnt even know there was an organised community! WHY HAVN'T YOU TOLD ME!?

mapleleaf4ever · #18 (**permalink**) Jun 05, 06

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Originally Posted by Revolver

but van's electronics scene, esp Drum and bass, is so small you always see the same 'core' faces at events and nights wich i really really like... i thnk its neat.

Yeah, that was one fun part of it. No matter what Show you go to, you know that you'll always have a couple Friends there.

Revolver · #19 (**permalink**) Jun 05, 06

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Originally Posted by firestar

Okay, fair enough.

But what about the music groups. I look at the drum n bass scene for example.. a very tight knit community. The house scene is the same, on here anyways (of what I can see).

So what do you think about that?

i think thats fine. nothing really wrong with it.

like id never go to one of the 'blue' nights that mchammard puts on. his name is winston yeah? i met him like once at a massive years ago only cause i was there to see dj rap when she still spined Dnb.

same with the breaks guys. I dont really know akeel at all but we'ed recongize each other, same with soma and prescise ect.

not so with drum and bass cause thats what im exclusively involved in and have been for so long.

its just the way it is.....and what music im keen on.

**sNyx** · #20 (**permalink**) Jun 05, 06

I are click.

Clayton. · #21 (**permalink**) Jun 05, 06

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Originally Posted by firestar

Well I think that's great! But do you consider yourself a part of the drum n bass community? Does that matter to you?

I like to make it out to some shows but i don't consider myself a part of the 'drum and bass community'. But i love house the most and i wouldn't really consider myself part of the house community eaither.

I also love going to punk rock shows and good hip hop shows but i wouldn't consider myself a part of those communities eaither.

I'm universal like that.

firestar · #22 (**permalink**) Jun 05, 06

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Originally Posted by Revolver

i think thats fine. nothing really wrong with it.

like id never go to one of the 'blue' nights that mchammard puts on. his name is winston yeah? i met him like once at a massive years ago only cause i was there to see dj rap when she still spined Dnb.

same with the breaks guys. I dont really know akeel at all but we'ed recongize each other, same with soma and prescise ect.

not so with drum and bass cause thats what im exclusively involved in and have been for so long.

its just the way it is.....and what music im keen on.

Yeah the d&b community is quite tight. Because so many of the people in that scene have been seeing the same people in the same places for so many years, would that make it hard for anyone else to kind of.. fit in though?

Great discussion so far though!

clearist · #23 (**permalink**) Jun 05, 06

I also find myself attending a variety of live shows.. for the simle fact that live shows are cool. I can respect anything that deserves it.

prozac · #24 (**permalink**) Jun 06, 06

meh...I'm an all-over person, but I definitely stick to my genre. If you don't go to dnb shows, I've probably never met you, it's been at least 4 years since I've gone to anything else.

thats not a hating thing, just the way it works out.

Revolver · #25 (**permalink**) Jun 06, 06

^hey! jessica i just noticed...thats lhasa tibet isnt it?

cool.