I guess all these faces look more or less familiar to many of you, although most of the people pictured here have probably reached the respectable age of being grandads & gmas ! As I guess you may have started having an idea as to what this edition of P.O.D.’s about : those famous Happy Days that each of us has known at a time or another whoever he/she is, wherever he/she is coming from and whatever he/she has been living. The latest being for much on what each of us is to become as far as years go. In other words what makes our own history, culture…

Although I do know how each of us has to make himself a living, I hardly see a culture – and as far as we’re concerned here the DJ culture – becoming predominant the way many of its actors tend to behave. And the reasons are quite simple. First because many people involved here are acting like soccer stars, asking for hudge amounts of money without providing us with the warranty of spending a nice moment. Second, because they tend to live on their own world, hardly allowing a reputedly outside comer to get in and I could keep on counting the reasons why it doesn’t work the way it should. This being quite ironical at the end of the day, having most of them using a super high standard technology as opposed to the vet whose souvenir is still alive some 20 to 30 years after !!!

I recently read a sort of spontaneous pool on some dedicated forum having a registered member asking who would be liked to be seen in Paris in terms of DJ’s and da funny thang is that almost none French name was quoted… I took part to this pool saying how suprised I was not to see any French name, adding that this wasn’t the way a better exposure could be given to the French scene to see it subsequently being used as a platform for foreign DJ’s to have themselves a better exposure then work on the basis of some exchange.

As a matter of fact, I’d be tempted to be even more realistic wondering why – although I’ve already been invited to spin myself on the US territory – why so many people would come here out of America when, as a sort of reverse, they don’t (or rarely do it) invite their French pals at their own gigs.

As so many times said here, I would tend to think that it’s a(nother) big mistake, seing those attitudes on both sides of the Atlantic. Simply because, we dcan’t have always the same taking benefit of a system when not ready themselves to invest on it as a (fair) return. But probably, is this coming from the fact that we ain’t been living the same ‘Happy Days’ from a side to another of the Pond, and if ever so, so differently.

This said, I remain somehow surprised even though havfing reached a respectable age. I remember those already ol’ times when I started spinning (some time by the mid 70’s) being surrounded by people who, not only had a true sense of business, but also aesthetics and being true to their words, as opposed to so many wankers around who simply have the obsession of short term profit and as my pal Romain said on the French edition of this editorial, I don’t think this is the way things work. At least not culturally speaking, as opposed to the way those still remembered people made the things go at places such as Paradise Garage, the Hacienda or Le Palace in Paris… This said and refering to a famous French expression : chacun voit midi à sa porte. In other words : Every Man sees midday from his own door !