You'll go into a fancy hotel and you'll hear this track where someone has sampled 30 seconds of a really good song. Your ear picks it up and you get excited but then it goes into some monotone thing. The Buddha Bar stuff annoys me. I don't need to be on a beach and hear this stuff through little speakers, but people think it creates a "cool vibe".
Stephen DewaeleItโs a shame, but also for kids itโs so easy now for them to download it to their phone and listen to it everywhere. If you go to Lille Eurostar station there is music playing: Why? Whatโs the point? Itโs like showing someone a movie on a small crappy screen. It should be sounding good! Thereโs a lot of noise pollution, in that sense.
Stephen DewaeleYeah. When I was 14, my Dad had a radio show with really cool people from Ghent, our hometown, in it. The people who started the R&S techno label, they did a show, and a very well known Techno DJ called Frank de Wulf who was from around there, he did a show, and everybody could do what they wanted. They all started up there.
Stephen DewaeleItโs when we say that we donโt love something that people get surprised. โI thought you guys liked everything!โ The stuff I donโt like is the lounge-y muzak in restaurants, elevators and hotels. It really gets me angry, because itโs supposed to be in the background. Itโs not supposed to be something that people listen to.
Stephen DewaeleYou'll go into a fancy hotel and you'll hear this track where someone has sampled 30 seconds of a really good song. Your ear picks it up and you get excited but then it goes into some monotone thing. The Buddha Bar stuff annoys me. I don't need to be on a beach and hear this stuff through little speakers, but people think it creates a "cool vibe".
Stephen Dewaele