conclusions!

HOUSE

House culture is not really a culture that you can witness on the streets. The house fans are not really a group with a political statement or different lifestyle except for the fact that they go to parties often. At these parties, the music is of course the main event. House music is composed and processed in studios. Mostly by only one artist. At the parties there is no live music as opposed to the rock parties. On a house party there is one DJ that plays all the music, mostly only about one to two minutes of every track. Of course there is drug and drink use on these parties but it’s not mandatory. People decide for themselves and the drugs are never the main subject of the party.

Mostly the people who go to these festivals and parties to house are young people who often like to dress scarcely. Not really a definition for a fashion style but it is really the only thing all their clothes have in common.

House has evolved through the years and became more and more expanded. The music became more full, gained more quality and the separate tracks became more and more different from each other. Now the quality is pretty much comparable to real life instruments.

The DJ uses a turntable for the playing of the music. This is a deck with two to six CD players or record players and one mixer in the middle to arrange which of the players are actually producing sound and are being heard by the audience. Nowadays they also often have effects like reverbs and loops on them and the DJ’s now have the possibility to use different parts from different songs to create one ongoing beat.

House has really influenced parties nowadays, the lights, large speakers and dj turntables are all very much improved or introduced to the public by the house scene.

The main reason house is so successful in The Netherlands is because the biggest DJ’s in the world originate from there. Therefore it’s cheap to go to one of their parties as they won’t have to be flown to the party and more people can get access to these great artists.

BALKAN

Balkan music originates from the southern Europe formally known as Balkan. Slovenia isn’t listed as Balkan countries, but there is seen a large influence of Balkan in Slovenian culture. There are many people that listen to Balkan music and as a result they dress, act and live their lives under the influence of Balkan. They are known for their aggression and for speaking their mind out loud. But that isn’t always the situation there are a lot of people that love Balkan and they aren’t so influenced by it. In the end we Slovenian people could be recognised as Balkan people not by geographic and religious reasons but by the youth culture.