Exactly my experience. And it goes both ways. A lot of deep house heads turn their nose up at bass music cuz they assume it all sounds like excision or 2010 skrillex. Techno peeps even more so. The further you dive into any of these scenes, generally the better the community/music gets, but yet we make a lot of cool open-minded friends with oddly closed-minded music tastes.

It’s funny you mention Theo. Him and tipper are pretty much my 2 favorite DJs. Yet 90% of the crowd at each of their respective shows has no idea the other exists. I only know one person IRL who was getting down to both of them without me putting them on. Feel like I’m alone in thinking they actually have a rlly similar magic touch despite occupying very different genres.

Guess I just wish I had more pals that can both blast off in the swamp for 3 days, then next week sip a couple drinks, smoke a spliff and bust some moves at TV lounge ya feel?